IU falls short to opponents on glass
The IU women's basketball team got beat on the boards by a much taller Florida State team in their 82-74 loss Thursday.
The IU women's basketball team got beat on the boards by a much taller Florida State team in their 82-74 loss Thursday.
The Hoosiers were able to go nearly shot-for-shot with No. 12 Florida State until the last few minutes of the second half of their 82-74 loss to the Seminoles.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Evan Turner had 25 points and 13 rebounds and Jon Diebler added 22 points to lead No. 15 Ohio State past No. 21 Florida State 77-64 on Wednesday night, clinching the Big Ten’s first victory in 11 years of its annual series with the ACC.
The Hoosiers hope to finish the school’s involvement with the Big Ten/Atlantic Coast Conference challenge with a win when they take on ranked Florida State at 6:30 p.m. today.
Statistics can measure the attendance level – 17,039 fans. They can measure points – IU’s 68 to Maryland’s 80. But if they could measure decibels, Tuesday’s crowd against Maryland would have hit a season-high.
The Hoosiers were tied with the Terrapins at 54-54 in the second half, before Maryland reeled off a 24-9 run that lasted up until the final minute. The loss had the feel of many IU contests from a season ago. More than anything, it proved that there is still growing to be done in Bloomington.
When Maryland coach Gary Williams and IU coach Tom Crean sat down for their postgame press conferences, the coaches told two different stories.
A lot can change in a year, but IU’s 80-68 loss against Maryland proved that not much is different in Assembly Hall.
When junior guard Jeremiah Rivers drives or begins a half-court set, his vision is rarely impaired. At 6-foot-5, he has faced opponents who usually stand about five inches shorter.
As a 12-year-old, Maurice Creek watched the 2002 NCAA championship game, which IU played in, and he cheered on his hometown team – the Maryland Terrapins.
Whether or not we ask for it, not a press conference goes by in which IU coach Tom Crean fails to mention the home crowd.
Saturday marked the Hoosiers’ highest point total this season, fueled by 48.1 percent field goal shooting.
Jori Davis and Jamie Braun led IU to a 72-61 win against Charlotte on Friday. The two combined to score 45 points and lifted IU to the third-place slot of the Junkanoo Jam in Freeport, Bahamas.
As freshman Derek Elston went to the bench with 8:06 left in the second half, the 11,128 fans in attendance Saturday gave the 6-foot-9 forward more than just a polite golf clap for his efforts.
In IU’s 90-72 win against Northwestern State on Saturday at Assembly Hall, freshman guard Maurice Creek looked like the player that would step up and lead the squad in the first half.
Northwestern State, considered by the team as a critical team to beat following IU’s losses in Puerto Rico and considering the upcoming contests against Maryland, Pittsburgh and Kentucky, was about what Crean has been stressing in practice since the beginning – a defensive mindset and the little things.
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