IU looks to shut down top offenses, heads out west
The IU softball team will see some of its toughest action of the season as the team heads to California for a week-long trip that will match the Hoosiers against some of the nation's top teams.
The IU softball team will see some of its toughest action of the season as the team heads to California for a week-long trip that will match the Hoosiers against some of the nation's top teams.
Despite a slow start to the spring campaign, the Hoosiers will head west to Las Vegas to make their University of Nevada-Las Vegas Spring Invitational debut with not only their golf clubs, but also a positive attitude and optimistic outlook for the tournament.
While awaiting a contingent of IU divers for the NCAA Championships, the other half of the 13th best team in the country might be the biggest cheerleaders this weekend. No squad in the nation understands the importance of its springboard counterparts than the IU swimmers.
If one is the loneliest number, then Jessica Gall is the loneliest athlete. The junior distance runner will be IU's only representative at the 2005 edition of the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships today at the University of Arkansas. And she's pumped.
I know the No. 2 Tar Heels should be the obvious pick here, but I like the No. 3 Demon Deacons' chances. Wake Forest will be without their star point guard Chris Paul today, while he serves his one game suspension for punching N.C. State's Julius Hodge in the groin Sunday.
Everett Dean, say thank you. Mike Davis, say thank you, too. Branch McCracken, say thanks. Oh, and Bob Knight, you too. Say thank you to Amos Alonzo Stagg for bringing basketball to the Big Ten. The same Stagg who is better known for his excellence in football at the University of Chicago and started that school playing basketball in 1894 -- 11 years before the Big Ten conference began its basketball league.
It has been more than a week since IU was scheduled to face Butler. That game, along with Tuesday's versus Xavier, was cancelled because of inclement weather.
Golfers say players "drive for show and putt for dough." If that is the case, the No. 35 IU men's golf team came home to Bloomington with empty pockets after finishing fourth in the Hyatt Plantation Intercollegiate Tournament in Puerto Rico this week.
The IU men's tennis team suffered an away loss Wednesday in Lexington, Ky., when it fell to the No. 28 Wildcats, 4-3.
A win in today's 3 p.m. match against No. 20 Texas Christian University would let the No. 27 Hoosiers do two things. It would send them walking out of the IU Varsity Tennis Center with their first win out of six matches against top-20 ranked opponents this spring. It also would be a good way to close out one of the hardest non conference schedules in the country.
The amateur version of "March Madness" officially began this week as the intramural basketball championships took place Monday and Tuesday at Assembly Hall. After three regular season games and several rounds of tournament play, 16 teams competed for the right to be called RecSports champions in eight different divisions. (Editor's note: The Indiana Daily Student was unable to report on men's and women's division I intramural championships at press time Tuesday.)
The IU men's tennis team gets to take a break Wednesday. This break doesn't include days off, however. The Hoosiers simply get a break from Big Ten action, as they travel to Lexington, Ky., to face the Top 15-ranked Wildcats at the Boone Tennis Center.
He's your typical IU point guard. He's 6-feet-2-inches tall, about 195 pounds, has the quickness of a jaguar and the hands of a surgeon. With his mind constantly working, thinking two steps ahead of everyone else, his smile can electrify a crowd. And that's only in the biology lab. For Marshall Strickland, the basketball court isn't the only place he's able to showcase his skills.
Freshman center D.J. White was named Big Ten Freshman of the Year Tuesday, headlining a trio of Hoosiers honored by the conference. Junior guard Bracey Wright was named First Team Big Ten by the media and second team by the coaches, and freshman Robert Vaden joined White on the All-Freshmen team.
In the end, "We Aren't Gonna Lose" lost, "Super Awesome" wasn't, "The Answer" couldn't find one in the win column and "Team Forfeit Win" forfeited all their games. "Godzilla" bested "Artest's Army," "Big Scary Dinosaurs" couldn't take down the "No Names," and "I Don't Know" faced off against "Bo Doesn't Know" in what was surely a contest of who didn't know more. "We Love Mike Davis" never did get a chance to play "Bring Bobby Back," and "We're Dating Your Sister" -- at the advice of an opponent -- treated her well.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue coach Gene Keady hugged some of his players and thanked many of his friends for their help during his 25 seasons with the Boilermakers. But Keady also admitted during the team's annual banquet Monday that he had some regrets amid what are likely his final coaching days.
ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- Kenoy Kennedy made it as far as the gate at Detroit Metropolitan Airport Monday to board a flight to Miami to continue his free-agent tour, but then had second thoughts.
Heading into the first tournament of the spring season, the men's golf team wanted to avoid any rustiness from a three-month break in tournament play.
In the eight games played so far this year, the Hoosier baseball team has only touched Sembower Field once for a home game. The team members have already made lengthy road trips to Millington, Tenn., as well as Shreveport, La., and found success in both places. After more than 12 hours of driving Sunday into early Monday morning, the team is finally home.
The IU club hockey team ended its run for the team's first-ever national championship with a 3-2 loss to host Oakland University Friday night. The team finished 1-2 in a round-robin tournament in the American Collegiate Hockey Association Div. II National Championship in Rochester, Mich. last weekend, failing to qualify for the semifinals round.