IU outmatched by Tennessee
After a loss a team can say they lost because they didn't play well, they struggled or just didn't get the job done. But in most cases like Saturday's match at No. 11 ranked Tennessee (7-2), the better team wins.
After a loss a team can say they lost because they didn't play well, they struggled or just didn't get the job done. But in most cases like Saturday's match at No. 11 ranked Tennessee (7-2), the better team wins.
IU ended its regular season on a high note this weekend with a sweep of Robert Morris College. The wins were the Hoosiers' last home games of the season before leaving for Anaheim, Calif., this week to compete in the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division-II National Championship tournament.
IU ended its regular season on a high note this weekend with a sweep of Robert Morris College. The wins were the Hoosiers' last home games of the season before leaving for Anaheim, Calif., this week to compete in the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division-II National Championship tournament.
Coming off of four straight losses in only two days, the Hoosier softball team had a big hill to climb for Sunday's game. Luckily the "hill" was the 0-5 Radford Highlanders.
A crowd of nearly 500 people, the largest crowd of the season, arrived at University Gym for the IU wrestling team's final home meet of the year on Friday night. The raucous group loudly cheered every Hoosier point, but even the largest crowd of the season could not stop IU from going 0-2 against Iowa and Minnesota this weekend.
Saturday the No. 11 men's track and field team competed in the Hoosier Hills as their final tune-up before the indoor Big Ten Championship meet, which takes place next weekend at the University of Illinois.
With the Big Ten Championship meet just a week away, the IU women's track and field team showed that they're on the right track Saturday at the Hoosier Hills Open.
The hottest team on the IU campus last fall might have been the women's golf team. The only thing that could have cooled the squad off was the three month break due to winter. The team finished the fall season with a sweep at the Mission Inn Classic in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla., winning the team competition and the first, second and third individual finishes. IU toppled the 17-team field while junior Karen Dennison won her third medalist title of the fall.
The No. 39 IU men's tennis team dropped their first match of the season to the No. 26 Vanderbilt Commodores 7-0. The Hoosiers (7-1) were forced to face one of the best one-two combinations in the country on Saturday as the Commodores have two of the top fifteen singles players in the nation. In No. 1 singles action, junior Bobby Reynolds (No. 8 in the nation) defeated IU's junior Jakub Praibis in straight sets 6-1, 6-2. In the No. 2 singles match, the Commodores used their other star, sophomore Chad Harris (No. 14 in the nation) to knock off IU freshman Viktor Libal 6-3, 6-2.
Coach Kathi Bennett had been looking for someone on her team to step up this season. No one was really showing leadership or showing that they would give it their all an entire game.
Despite a good fight and over 20 points from an IU senior, the IU women's basketball team dropped a 75-64 decision to Michigan on Sunday at Assembly Hall. The contest set the single-season attendance record for women's basketball at 23,449 fans, which was set in 11 games. The previous record was set in 16 games in 1997-1998.
At last year's Big Ten Swimming and Diving Championships, all that separated the Hoosiers from a Big Ten title was the loss of the last event in a disqualification. This year, the IU women's swimming and diving team wrapped up a Big Ten Conference Championship before the last event was even held, beating Wisconsin and the rest of the Big Ten by 34 points.
Last year, the IU women's swimming and diving team came within one event of winning the conference championship. Saturday night, the team wrapped up a title before the last event was even held. The team won the 2003 Big Ten Women's Swimming and Diving Championship 595-561.
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Kevin Millar agreed to a $5.3 million, two-year contract with the Boston Red Sox on Thursday, ending complicated offseason negotiations that nearly took him to Japan.
After the IU women's basketball team defeated Wisconsin on Sunday in Madison, Wis., it earned its first road conference victory of the season, but the Hoosiers could not duplicate that feat Thursday night. In a low-scoring, close contest, IU lost to the Northwestern Wildcats 50-46 on Thursday in Evanston, Ill. It snapped the Hoosiers brief two-game winning streak, which began against Iowa Feb. 13. IU coach Kathi Bennett was critical of her team's play. "We have no consistency," she said in a statement. "We can have someone show up one game, and not show up for the next." IU shot a dismal 25.9 percent from the field for the game, failing to connect on some key shots in the second half.
Starting this Saturday, the No. 14 men's track and field team hosts the Hoosier Hills meet as a tune-up for the conference meet, which takes place March 1 and 2 in Champaign, Ill. Teams from across the country will travel to Gladstein Fieldhouse for the meet, which starts at noon. As the team will work to beat the competition, the focus will be on the Big Ten Championship.
The No. 52 IU women's tennis team (5-5 overall, 0-2 Big Ten) looks to rebound from a three game skid when it takes on the No. 12 ranked Tennessee Volunteers (6-2) at 7 a.m. this Saturday in Knoxville, Tenn.
IU women's track and field coach Randy Heisler said he is looking for big performances from all of his athletes this Saturday as the team hosts the Hoosier Hills Open.
The men's tennis team will look to add to a season- opening eight game winning streak this weekend when they travel to Nashville, Tenn., to battle Vanderbilt. The Hoosiers are trying to keep their confidence up before they walk onto the court to play against a team ranked No. 28.
As the regular season winds down, the IU wrestling team will face a weekend of tough competition followed by a 13-day break to prepare for the Big Ten Championships, March 8 and 9 in Madison, Wisc.