IU men's tennis splits matches at home to end regular season
Apr 19, 2015 11:09 pmIU beat Michigan 5-2 and lost against Michigan State 5-2.
IU beat Michigan 5-2 and lost against Michigan State 5-2.
It is the final weekend of the regular season.
Purdue has yet to win a Big Ten match this season.
It is Kylczek's second career award.
The Hoosiers will welcome the No. 26 Wildcats to Bloomington.
IU defeated St. Mary's and No. 48 Washington on Saturday.
He was an All-American playing at Ohio State.
IU will look to start its 2015 season strong this weekend when it hosts the IU Winter Invitational.
First and Second All-Big Ten teams were announced Thursday at the Big Ten Tournament banquet. IU sophomore Samuel Monette was IU’s only player on either team, making Second Team All-Big Ten.
The No. 22 Hoosiers will have their first home tennis match at 1 p.m. today in the Indoor Tennis Center against No. 9 Kentucky, and will follow it up against Wright State at 6 p.m.
The No. 49 Hoosiers hosted No. 52 Missouri, Marquette and Bowling Green over the weekend in a tournament that was organized into seven singles flights and one doubles flight.
The Hoosiers will seek to peg back a University of Notre Dame team rolling into Bloomington on a wave of momentum today as the two squads reprise their intrastate rivalry. The teams are scheduled to face each other at 2 p.m. at the IU Tennis Center.
For the Hoosiers, the third road match in a month against a top-20 opponent proved almost as insurmountable as the first two.
Despite being competitive in its first two road matches, IU returned home empty-handed in both cases, failing to register a single point at Kentucky or Ohio State. This weekend, the team will travel to the Sooner State in search of its first away victory in a Sunday showdown with No. 19 Oklahoma.
The Hoosiers, who debuted at No. 29 — one spot above last year’s final
standing — in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association national team
rankings released Tuesday, have gone 21-8 thus far at the event, with
wins against opponents representing Louisville, Radford and Alabama.
Forty-eight long years have elapsed since the team won a Big Ten Championship, but players and coaches are brimming with confidence and optimism ahead of the upcoming season, fully convinced they are capable of bringing the conference title to Bloomington.
The Hoosiers participated in the Western Michigan Invitational in Kalamazoo, Mich. The team finished with five wins in singles play.
Senior Will Kendall joined junior Josh MacTaggart, who was the top overall seed in the tournament, in the last eight of singles action.
Both were defeated while vying for a spot in the semifinals.
The IU men’s tennis team travels to Iowa City, Iowa, for the Big Ten
Men’s Indoor Tennis Championships, hoping to muster another strong
showing and continue to build on its early momentum.
The tournament starts Friday and lasts through Monday.
The Big Ten Conference named Josh MacTaggart the conference’s Men’s Tennis Player of the Week for Oct. 17 to 23.
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