Hoosiers end season with pair of losses
In the last week, the IU women’s volleyball team lost to both No. 8 Purdue on Wednesday at home and No. 19 Minnesota on the road Friday.
In the last week, the IU women’s volleyball team lost to both No. 8 Purdue on Wednesday at home and No. 19 Minnesota on the road Friday.
The IU wrestling team won all three rounds of the Hoosier Duals with a combined score of 80-34.
Senior defender Chris Estridge and the IU men’s soccer team had top seed North Carolina scoreless for 96 minutes, but one misstep did them in.
Bragging rights aside, this loss isn’t such a bad thing for IU Coach Kevin Wilson and the Hoosiers.
Saturday was Senior Day, but as IU fought to a 33-25 loss to rival Purdue, it was largely the team’s underclassmen playing in their first Bucket Game that kept the Hoosiers in contention.
The 20 players not returning next season, along with the rest of the Hoosiers, didn’t win the Bucket on Saturday, allowing the Boilermakers (6-6, 4-4) 508 yards of total offense and a chance at a bowl game.
But it was all too much, as the Hoosiers dropped the game 1-0 in overtime, and the Tar Heels knocked Indiana out of the third round of the NCAA Tournament for the second time in three years.
Facing its toughest test to date, the IU men’s basketball team (6-0) withstood numerous punches from the Butler Bulldogs (3-3) Sunday in a 75-59 victory at Assembly Hall.
Join the IDS basketball writers in the live chat starting at 6:45 p.m. here. The Hoosiers are scheduled to tip off against Butler at 7 p.m. on the Big Ten Network.
While IU (5-0) and Butler (3-2) have had different paths in the past two years, their paths will collide at 7 p.m. on Sunday night at Assembly Hall in the Hoosier Invitational finale.
Four of Butler’s five opponents this season have also played IU, with far different results. While the Hoosiers steamrolled over Evansville, Chattanooga, Savannah State and Gardner-Webb, Brad Stevens’ squad fell to the Purple Aces in a controversial overtime loss and recently escaped the Runnin’ Bulldogs by just two.
In the 87th battle between IU and Purdue for the Old Oaken Bucket, the old rivals stayed close for most of the game, but in the end, the Boilermakers reclaimed the Bucket with a 33-25 victory.
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IU women's basketball fell at home to the Toledo Rockets on Friday night by a score of 69-58.
In addition to the traditional trappings that come with IU’s annual contest against Purdue, Saturday’s game will mark the end for 20 players—the end of their careers and the end of the first season under the Kevin Wilson regime.
Since the trophy was first awarded in 1925, Purdue leads the series with a 56-27- 3 record, but the Hoosiers (1-10, 0-7) have won two of the last four Bucket games, including last season. If they were to beat the Boilermakers Saturday, it would be the first back-to-back Hoosier victories since 1993-1994.
This season, after both teams won their second-round matches, they find themselves matched up again, as No. 16 seeded Indiana will travel to Chapel Hill once again, hoping to revenge their loss and will another step in their way to an eighth national title.
The jovial atmosphere and team chemistry surrounding the IU basketball program right now is evident on the court, as well as off it.
IU forward Derek Elston ignited the IU offense on Monday night with ten points and nine rebounds.
As the IU men’s basketball team heads into a five-day break from competition, the streak of consecutive minutes without trailing keeps growing.