IU loses 10th-straight game at Iowa, 73-57
For just the third time in school history, the IU men's basketball team has lost 10 consecutive Big Ten games after a 73-57 loss Sunday night — the longest conference losing streak since 1943-44.
For just the third time in school history, the IU men's basketball team has lost 10 consecutive Big Ten games after a 73-57 loss Sunday night — the longest conference losing streak since 1943-44.
IU was 9-9 before Iowa. It now sits stagnant at 9-18, approaching a conference-loss record that dates back to the 1943-44 season. Not since that year has IU been defeated in 10 straight Big Ten games.
IU coach Tom Crean and his players went through tape in preparation for Sunday’s 6 p.m. game against Iowa. Judging from the results of IU’s past nine games, one could guess it wasn’t pretty.
IU coach Felisha Legette-Jack placed a premium on this final stretch of games before the Big Ten Tournament. Five straight losses weren’t exactly what she had in mind.
IU coach Felisha Legette-Jack placed a premium on this final stretch of games before the Big Ten Tournament.
Too much went wrong, too soon. Like so many previous losses, this one happened quickly. Thursday’s 78-46 loss to Wisconsin marked IU’s worst loss in Assembly Hall, a stretch of 39 years.
After losing the second of two matches against No. 19 Wisconsin, the Hoosiers travel to Iowa on Sunday to take on the second-worst team in the Big Ten.
Three used to be the magic number. Then there was IU coach Tom Crean.
Fans chanted IU coach Tom Crean’s name as he walked off the court and into the north-side exit Thursday after he was ejected for two technical fouls. But the Hoosiers lost to Wisconsin 78-46, the largest IU defeat ever at Assembly Hall.
The No. 7 IU track and field team, the highest rank team in the conference, will compete this weekend at the Big Ten Indoor Championships in Minneapolis. The No. 18 women’s team will also compete this weekend at Penn State.
Walk into Gladstein Fieldhouse, the home of IU track and field, during a competition and you will see a team.
The Hoosiers were looking for a streak-stopper, but after a lackluster performance against the Badgers, their historically-long losing streak has reached nine games after a 78-46 loss.
During the 2010 season’s first four games, the IU baseball team’s starting pitching staff averaged less than three innings of work per game. That number has to change, IU head coach Tracy Smith said, in time for the Hoosiers’ three-game trip this weekend for the Big Ten/Big East Challenge.
Many of you are probably upset with how the Hoosiers are playing, especially of late. You might be frustrated with the players. You might be frustrated with Crean. But if anyone expected a quick fix in Crean’s attempt to right the S.S. Hoosier ship through these “uncharted waters,” then you’ve gone off the deep end.
His six assistants stand at different baskets spread out in the Bloomington High School South gym. With a small group of players in front of them, they relay the head coach’s message on how to properly execute the fundamentals. For J.R. Holmes — the head coach of the No. 1 team in Indiana and 2009 State Champions — continued success is built at practice.
IU is missing lots of weapons — a sharpshooter, a big man and a leader. Even coach Tom Crean, who said his eyesight has deteriorated since joining the Hoosiers, can see that. But the team is missing something bigger than one individual: depth.
The last time IU was preparing to face Iowa, it had started Feb. undefeated. Now that the team is getting ready to face the Hawkeyes again, it’s quite a different story.
No one has ever condemned Wisconsin for playing too fast. The most methodical of any team in the conference, the Badgers make the extra pass, avoid mistakes and rebound the ball well.
With all the players added this season and progress made earlier in the year, IU has the same problems it had in 2008-09. In fact, it is coming dangerously close to the longest losing streak of last season within conference.