6-0 at home, IU ready for 2 home games
After experiencing a minor speed bump in their strong start to the season last weekend, the Hoosiers (8-3-0) return home this weekend to play No. 20 Michigan State on Friday and Illinois on Sunday.
After experiencing a minor speed bump in their strong start to the season last weekend, the Hoosiers (8-3-0) return home this weekend to play No. 20 Michigan State on Friday and Illinois on Sunday.
Now three games into the Big Ten season, each conference opponent the IU volleyball team has faced has been ranked at some point in 2009.
Two ranked opponents in one week with a nine-hour flight in between is not what IU coach Mike Freitag wanted for his No. 9 team.
Ignorance is bliss for the Hoosiers. While Thomas Gray certainly didn’t have the IU football team on his mind when he wrote his much-referenced poem in 1742, his words ring true in the Hoosiers’ 2009 Big Ten season.
In 1987, the 3-1 Hoosiers traveled to Columbus, Ohio, to face the Buckeyes. While this year’s game is in Bloomington, the current Hoosiers can only hope the game result is the same.
The Hoosiers’ 36-33 loss to Michigan last week in Ann Arbor was watched in nearly 2.1 million households, the second-most ever among Big Ten football telecast on ESPN 2.
Despite increasing student seating from 8,100 to 11,000, nearly a third of the normal seating, all seats for the student body for IU's Saturday matchup against No. 9 Ohio State have been sold out as of Thursday morning, according to an IU Athletics press release.
The Hoosiers (13-4, 2-1) won the third straight five-set match against the Boilermakers (9-5, 1-2) to earn IU’s first victory over Purdue in any sport in the 2009-10 academic year.
IU is 4-0 against unranked schools this season but has struggled against the nation’s top-25 teams, posting a 1-2-1 record despite a 4-3 goal advantage in scoring against those teams.
IU senior midfielder Meg O’Connell and junior midfielder Kelsey Kiper have field hockey ties that extend beyond the team. The bond flows in their blood.
IU volleyball coach Sherry Dunbar said her team would have to be ready for a five-set match against Purdue given the rivalry’s recent history. That recent history repeated itself Wednesday, but this time the end result favored IU.
The IDS will have a Live Chat at 8 p.m. tonight to discuss all things related to IU men's basketball.
Sporting an 8-1 record, the best start in women's soccer history heading into Big Ten play, the Hoosiers looked poised to compete for the Big Ten Championship in the coming year.
IU volleyball coach Sherry Dunbar said she knows what it will take for her young squad to compete in and win matches in such a challenging conference.
Compared to the 125 years of football or 108 years of basketball, the University’s volleyball program is still in its early childhood. However, IU volleyball has slowly but surely displayed signs of emergence among its fellow university sports teams as it enters its 34th season.
IU has once again taken its yearly position among the Big Ten’s best. And the Hoosiers, ranked No. 13 nationally, are ready to defend their title as the top-ranked team in the conference.
Field hockey is the second-newest sport to IU’s varsity sports, behind rowing. IU coach Amy Robertson took over the team in 2000. Her previous job was as assistant coach at Wake Forest from 1997 to 1999.
Since cross country was introduced to IU in 1910, the Hoosiers have run a clean, storied program over the last 99 years.
Todd Yeagley, son of former IU men’s soccer coach Jerry Yeagley, may not wear cream and crimson as the coach of Wisconsin men’s soccer, but he said his time spent as a Hoosier has affected his life forever.