The No. 37 IU women’s tennis team used wins at the bottom of its singles lineup to notch a 4-3 win at Kentucky on Saturday.
COLUMBUS, Ohio --- Freshman DeShaun Thomas scored 22 points, two points less than his career high, and No. 2 Ohio State cruised past IU 82-61 on Sunday at Value City Arena.
The road trip up to Minneapolis, Minn., for the Big Ten Championships didn’t seem to adversely affect the IU men swimmers, as they started the meet off in record-breaking fashion Wednesday.
IU coach Tom Crean said his team’s loss to No. 8 Purdue on Wednesday night was largely based on the inability to stop potential All-Americans E’Twaun Moore and JaJuan Johnson.
With two of the top-10 Western Conference players headed to the East, the question on everyone’s mind is: Will the league’s dynamic change with fewer stars in the West?
For the IU women’s basketball team, Sunday’s 2 p.m. game against Iowa represents the chance to end a 9-18 season on a high note. It will be the Hoosiers’ final regular season game before they travel up to Indianapolis for the Big Ten Tournament on March 3.
The Hoosiers enter the match at 9-2 and have jumped 10 spots in the latest national rankings to No. 37.
The No. 44 Hoosiers (9-3) will travel to Nashville, Tenn., to face No. 25 Vanderbilt, a team that features the nation’s No. 57 singles player, Ryan Lipman, and two top-40 doubles teams.
The Hoosiers will take their battle-tested record out west to Santa Clara, Calif., this weekend where they will take on Pacific, Cal State-Monterey Bay and Santa Clara.
For the IU track and field squad, the whole season was based on not only winning, but also going to Nationals and bringing a championship to IU.
IU coach Tracy Smith and his hitters said a second round of games at the Kleberg Bank College Classic in Corpus Christi, Texas, should see an improved effort at the plate.
James Brewer earned praise when he reportedly dominated the competition at the Senior Bowl last month. Sports Illustrated said he “established himself as the best blocker at the event.” Now he is in Indianapolis for the NFL Draft Combine.
The former IU receiver will be competing at the NFL Draft Combine this weekend in Indianapolis, along with 45 other college wideouts all hoping to boost their draft stock.
Following the Hoosiers’ loss at Purdue earlier this month, IU coach Tom Crean pined for the day when he wouldn’t have to face senior Boilermakers JaJuan Johnson and E’Twaun Moore.
After going into the final 18 holes of competition Tuesday in the Central District Invitational in 13th place, the IU women’s golf team held suit and defended its position, finishing 13th with a final round score of 299, the team’s best single-round total this spring.
The IU softball team will travel to Palm Springs, Calif., to play in the Cathedral City Classic today.
It was a theme seen many times throughout the season: trail early on, fight back and come up short in the end. And similar to games in the past, it happened again for IU on Wednesday.
Sometimes the final score doesn’t tell the whole story.
JaJuan Johnson scored 20 points and grabbed 9 rebounds and Purdue shot 50 percent from the field to top IU 72-61 Wednesday at Assembly Hall.Purdue led by 10 points at halftime, and IU narrowed the deficit to three points twice, but never took the lead. Christian Watford led the Hoosiers with 18 points, but he did it on 4-for-13 shooting.
After going into the final 18 holes of competition Tuesday in the Central District Invitational in 13th place, the IU women’s golf team held suit and defended its position, finishing 13th with a final round score of 299, the team’s best single-round total this spring.
