Hoosiers travel north to meet conference rivals
After coming off of a loss against Iowa last Friday, the team is looking to improve its team record to 8-2 while gaining more experience with highly ranked competitors.
After coming off of a loss against Iowa last Friday, the team is looking to improve its team record to 8-2 while gaining more experience with highly ranked competitors.
After upsetting the Buckeyes 74-70 on Dec. 31 in Bloomington, IU will face a much tougher task facing Ohio State on the road.
Missed layups and 23 turnovers would make it hard for any team to win a basketball game. And for an IU women’s basketball team (5-13, 0-5) that traveled to Michigan State (12-5, 4-0) Thursday night searching for its first Big Ten Conference win of the season, it proved too much.
While the men’s and women’s track squads may not find much excitement during the indoor season, they will Saturday when the Purdue Boilermakers roll into Bloomington for a dual-meet showdown.
The IU women’s tennis team will take the court for the first time in five weeks to participate in the adidas Winter Invitational from Saturday to Monday in Bloomington.
A pair of former IU men’s soccer defenders, Tommy Meyer and Chris Estridge, will both continue their soccer careers at the professional level after learning Thursday afternoon that they were selected in the first and second rounds, respectively, of the 2012 MLS Super Draft.
It’s no secret that the matchup of IU freshman forward Cody Zeller and Ohio State sophomore forward Jared Sullinger has garnered some headlines. Sullinger was named the 2011 Big Ten Freshman of the Year, while Zeller has already won the Big Ten Freshman of the Week award five times this season.
In the Hoosiers’ first test as a top ten team, they failed. The IU men’s basketball team suffered its first loss at Assembly Hall this season, as they fell to unranked Minnesota 77-74 Thursday night.
He has brought instant offense all season long off the bench and after missing five straight games with an ankle injury, sophomore guard Will Sheehey looked like his old self on Thursday evening.
The Gophers handed the IU men's basketball team its second loss of the season Thursday night in Assembly Hall.
With IU playing their first game since moving into the Associated Press top ten, the Hoosiers were down nine points to a Minnesota team that came in 0-4 in conference play. But an 8-0 IU rally got the Hoosiers back in it as they now trail 37-34 at halftime.
The Hoosiers take on the Golden Gophers of Minnesota at 8 p.m. Follow along with the IDS basketball reporters as they discuss the game here.
The men's basketball team will take on the Minnesota Golden Gophers today in the first home game of the semester.The Hoosiers (15-1, 3-1) will try to make it three straight wins against the Gophers (12-5, 0-4) on Thursday in their first home game since returning from winter break.
It wasn’t the typical way for Matt Roth to get going. Roth got an open look from 3-point range, the place he had scored 82 percent of his points. But instead of pulling the trigger, Roth saw Penn State guard Nick Colella closing out on him and pump-faked. He got Colella in the air, drew the foul and knocked down three free throws for a five-point lead at halftime.
Most years, I eagerly anticipate the start of the NBA season. This year, though, thanks to the lockout, early November came and went with no NBA action, and I hardly noticed or cared. The lockout brought out the worst in a lot of people. Empty threats were bandied about by two sides, both already wealthy, squabbling about money.
The Golden Gophers almost had me fooled. Sporting a 12-1 record entering Big Ten season, Minnesota seemed like it could actually be a contender.
The 2011 Indiana Hoosiers baseball team lost eight players from last season. Two were selected in June’s 2011 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft.
Thursday night, IU Coach Felisha Legette-Jack and her players will travel to East Lansing, Mich., to try to end their conference losing streak against the team that started it.
This new year brings the opportunity to discover the other sports IU has to offer. It’s time to bring back the tradition of winning at IU.
After a loss Sunday at home to conference foe Northwestern, the IU women’s basketball team now stands at 5-12, including a 0-4 start in the Big Ten. But even with only two wins thus far in Assembly Hall, the Hoosiers do seem to show an advantage when playing on Branch McCracken Court. They’ve won by almost six more points when in Bloomington, and their losses have been much closer as they lose by seven points fewer on average. Here’s a look at the IU women’s basketball team’s home court advantage so far in the 2011-12 campaign.