IU fans ashamed after 33-14 loss
The conversations in the bleachers, concourses and parking lots Saturday night all ended the same way: “That was so embarrassing.”
The conversations in the bleachers, concourses and parking lots Saturday night all ended the same way: “That was so embarrassing.”
When IU coach Bill Lynch said that his team has never faced a player like Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor, he wasn’t kidding.
IU football coach Bill Lynch said the Hoosiers' biggest challenge Saturday will be No. 9 Ohio State’s dual-threat sophomore quarterback Terrelle Pryor, the preseason Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year.
The Hoosiers are coming off 13th and 15th place finishes at the Olympia Fields Invitational and the Ping/Golfweek Invitational, respectively, which are two of the biggest college tournaments of the fall season.
IU coach Randy Bloemendaal tried time and again to explain to his players that they could compete with any team or athlete in the nation before last weekend’s UVA Ranked Plus One tournament.
After thrashing the competition the past few meets, the IU cross country teams are met with their biggest test in their young season Friday in Bethlehem. Pa. The Paul Short Invitational brings in several ranked opponents for the Hoosiers.
IU goes to Iowa City, Iowa, to play the Hawkeyes for its second Big Ten game on Friday and will see the Golden Bears on Saturday.
After experiencing a minor speed bump in their strong start to the season last weekend, the Hoosiers (8-3-0) return home this weekend to play No. 20 Michigan State on Friday and Illinois on Sunday.
Now three games into the Big Ten season, each conference opponent the IU volleyball team has faced has been ranked at some point in 2009.
Two ranked opponents in one week with a nine-hour flight in between is not what IU coach Mike Freitag wanted for his No. 9 team.
Ignorance is bliss for the Hoosiers. While Thomas Gray certainly didn’t have the IU football team on his mind when he wrote his much-referenced poem in 1742, his words ring true in the Hoosiers’ 2009 Big Ten season.
In 1987, the 3-1 Hoosiers traveled to Columbus, Ohio, to face the Buckeyes. While this year’s game is in Bloomington, the current Hoosiers can only hope the game result is the same.
The Hoosiers’ 36-33 loss to Michigan last week in Ann Arbor was watched in nearly 2.1 million households, the second-most ever among Big Ten football telecast on ESPN 2.
Despite increasing student seating from 8,100 to 11,000, nearly a third of the normal seating, all seats for the student body for IU's Saturday matchup against No. 9 Ohio State have been sold out as of Thursday morning, according to an IU Athletics press release.
The Hoosiers (13-4, 2-1) won the third straight five-set match against the Boilermakers (9-5, 1-2) to earn IU’s first victory over Purdue in any sport in the 2009-10 academic year.
IU is 4-0 against unranked schools this season but has struggled against the nation’s top-25 teams, posting a 1-2-1 record despite a 4-3 goal advantage in scoring against those teams.
IU senior midfielder Meg O’Connell and junior midfielder Kelsey Kiper have field hockey ties that extend beyond the team. The bond flows in their blood.
IU volleyball coach Sherry Dunbar said her team would have to be ready for a five-set match against Purdue given the rivalry’s recent history. That recent history repeated itself Wednesday, but this time the end result favored IU.
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