30th-ranked Hoosiers heading to National Championships after earning at-large bid
A strong showing at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional Championships has gotten IU to the promise land.
A strong showing at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional Championships has gotten IU to the promise land.
Last Wednesday, the IU volleyball team faced off against rival Purdue for the second time this season. After tQaking the first game 30-16, the Hoosiers dropped the match by losing three straight games, 23-30, 26-30, 24-30, respectively. Although IU dropped to 15-14 after the match, they gave Purdue the worst one-game loss the Boilermakers have suffered since 2002.
The late Jerry Garcia once sang, “What a long, strange trip it’s been.” Truer words couldn’t be spoken about the four years the 16 seniors on the IU football team have experienced. Their journey wearing the cream and crimson comes to an end at Memorial Stadium on Saturday when the Hoosiers host rival Purdue with the Old Oaken Bucket at stake.
IU is down by one point. One-and-two-tenths seconds remain in overtime. Junior forward DeAndre Thomas is on the line about to shoot two free throws. After a couple of dribbles, Thomas calmly sinks the first free throw. One shot remains to give the Hoosiers the victory.
Jake Peavy has been one of the best pitchers in the National League for years. This season, he pulled away from the pack.
With its season on the line, the IU women’s soccer team will battle the University of Toledo on Friday in the Hoosiers’ first NCAA Tournament game since 1998. The Hoosiers travel to West Lafayette to take on the Rockets at 11 a.m. The winner of Friday’s match and the winner of the Purdue-Oakland contest will face each other Sunday. The winner of that game will travel to College Station, Texas, and continue in the tournament.
The year was 1967. Already up 13-7 against Purdue, Hoosier running back Terry Cole sprinted 48 yards up the middle to give IU a commanding 19-7 lead, ultimately culminating in the program’s only Rose Bowl berth.
Barry Bonds was indicted Thursday on perjury and obstruction of justice charges, culminating a four-year federal investigation into whether he lied under oath to a grand jury looking into steroid use by elite athletes.
The IU swimming and diving team experienced mixed results last season. The men garnered a fourth place conference finish and Top-20 NCAA ranking, while the women won their first Big Ten conference title since 2003. IU coach Ray Looze thinks the women’s impressive finish needs to become commonplace on both teams.
Four recruits signed to play for IU coach Kelvin Sampson and the Hoosiers on Wednesday, National Letter of Intent Signing Day. Forwards Devin Ebanks and Tom Pritchard and guards Terrell Holloway and Matt Roth comprise Sampson’s second IU recruiting class.
Dwight Freeney’s season is over, and now Simeon Rice has a chance to start anew in Indianapolis.
Bob Melvin and Eric Wedge barely made a ripple as players. Backup catchers, they both batted a pedestrian .233 in the big leagues. All that time spent pondering on the bench paid off. Far more successful in the dugout than on the field, they were honored Wednesday as managers of the year.
After a summer of lawsuits and tabloid headlines, the New York Knicks wanted to get back to basketball. So much for that plan. The team fined Stephon Marbury more than $180,000 after he blew off Tuesday night’s game against Phoenix, the latest clash between the disgruntled point guard and coach Isiah Thomas.
The IU swimming and diving team will play host to the Hoosierland Open at the Counsilman/Billingsley Aquatic Center beginning today and continuing through Saturday. The competition will be fierce, and some of the nation’s top programs will be in action, including UC-Berkeley, Tennessee, Penn State and Kentucky.
The pieces are in place. The potential is there. The hype and hot air is enough to make steam pour out of Dick Vitale’s ears.
Mix six college freshmen, six pounds of sugar and a basketball together.
There might not be enough words in the English language to describe Felisha Legette-Jack. But that doesn’t stop people from trying.
One’s a senior. The other, a freshman.
With the headlines concerning freshman guard Eric Gordon’s recruitment all over the media, the last-minute commitment of freshman guard Jordan Crawford likely did not register on the radar of most Hoosier fans last November.
The expectations have been set high for sophomore guard Armon Bassett.