IU loses close one to Navy
Despite leading by nine points with under six minutes remaining in the outing, the Hoosiers (2-5, 0-3) were unable to hold on, losing to Navy (4-3) 31-30.
Despite leading by nine points with under six minutes remaining in the outing, the Hoosiers (2-5, 0-3) were unable to hold on, losing to Navy (4-3) 31-30.
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Despite allowing a pick-six late in the second quarter, IU has gained a 20-14 lead over the Navy Midshipmen at halftime in Annapolis, Md.
With only an intrasquad meet under their belt, the IU swim club is set to take on its first true opponent of the season in the second annual “Water Bucket” meet against Purdue Saturday at the IU Natatorium on the campus of IU-Purdue University Indianapolis.
Saturday evening, Hoosier basketball fans throughout IU’s campus, Bloomington and the country will have a chance to see the men’s and women’s basketball teams in-person.
IU kicks off the weekend 5 p.m. Friday against Minnesota, a team with a current 4-3-1 record in the Big Ten. The weekend will then continue with a Sunday match against Wisconsin, presently 3-4-1 in conference play.
Very few teams in the country run the triple option attack as their primary form of offense. When they do, the teams they face struggle to stop it.
The IU women’s golf team will compete this weekend in the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown, the team’s final tournament of the fall season.
IU has won the only two meetings (1985 and 1986) in the series. However, this is the first time the Hoosiers will play the Midshipmen in Annapolis, Md.
IU will attempt to do something Friday it hasn’t in two years: win back-to-back Big Ten games. Their most recent victory, Tuesday night against No. 17 Purdue, gave the Hoosiers their first conference win of the season.
The IU swimming team will travel to Lexington, Ky., for a dual meet against Kentucky and Tennessee.
After a 2-0 win against in-state rival Butler, the Hoosiers were back on the pitch Wednesday afternoon to ready themselves for their conference matchup against Michigan at home Friday.
IU will travel south Friday to Windermere, Fla., for the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational. The tournament will take place Oct. 21-23 at the Isleworth Golf Club.
The IU field hockey team will be back in action this weekend, defending its home field with two games in Bloomington. This Friday the Hoosiers are hosts to their in-conference rival the No. 15 Michigan Wolverines. Then, on Sunday, IU will face the Villanova Wildcats.
IDS football columnist Connor Killoren explains what makes playing Navy so special.
For IU women’s basketball senior forward Aulani Sinclair, the free-throw mechanics have long been locked in. But as a junior last season, Sinclair shot 90.7 percent from the line, a nearly 20 percent increase from the year before.
This past summer, IU women's golf senior Pamela Burneski spent three weeks traveling Asia, playing among a group of the NCAA's All-Star Golf Team, as the 10 student-athletes played some of the most exclusive courses in Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong.
Although the team returns only nine players and has a first-year head coach, the IU women's club soccer team has found success this year with students who gave up on a career in college soccer, but still had desire to play the game.
This year, the IU men's golf team returns three starters who have played a combined 280 rounds of golf for the Hoosiers, and the team hopes that the experience from these two seniors and junior can help ensure success.
For the first time since 1993, IU is No. 1 in the USA Today Coaches Poll.