Indiana University Women’s Basketball makes the NCAA Tournament and will Face Utah on Friday Indiana women’s basketball has reached its sixth consecutive NCAA Tournament. The Hoosiers have earned a No. 9 seed and will play No. 8 seed Utah in Columbia, S.C. The winner of IU’s game takes on either No. 1 seed South Carolina or No. 16 seed Tennessee Tech. Indiana (19-12) ranks No. 27 in Torvik and No. 35 in the NET, while Utah (22-8) is No. 31 on Torvik and 26 in the NET. IU’s biggest wins of the season came over Iowa on the road and at home against Ohio State. The Hoosiers entered the Big Ten Tournament with some uncertainty lingering over their bubble positioning, but their win over Oregon in Indianapolis seemingly removed all doubts.
The Utes faced two Big Ten teams this season they lost to Northwestern in mid-November, and they defeated Washington a month later. Utah went 13-5 in the Big 12, and dropped its first conference tournament game against Texas Tech. The team’s best wins this season came against Notre Dame in the Cayman Islands Classic, Iowa State on the road, and Princeton at home. Utah is No. 32 in the nation in scoring offense with 76.7 points per game, while IU is No. 168 in scoring defense at 64.1 points per game allowed. Indiana ranks 88th in the country in scoring offense with 70.3 points per game, while Utah gives up 63.1 points per game, good for No. 142 in the nation.
Indiana University Men’s Basketball left out of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament The Mike Woodson era is over. The NCAA Tournament bracket was announced on Sunday evening, and Indiana was left out of the field. The Hoosiers (19-13) were the second highest graded team left out of the field, the CBS broadcast crew revealed. The Hoosiers had been projected by the majority of bracketologists to make the field. But North Carolina, Texas and Xavier all got the nod over IU. And West Virginia was the first team out, one spot ahead of the Indiana. The news came as a surprise to many. “I gotta say Indiana is the one (team left out) that sticks out to me,” Seth Davis said on the CBS broadcast. “They had a win at Michigan State, at home against Purdue. (They were) 4-13 in Quad-1, so more (Quad-1 wins) than North Carolina, and unlike North Carolina, who had a Quad-3 loss at home to Stanford, Indiana did not have any losses outside of Quad-1, so I’m curious to hear the (Committee’s) reasoning.”
Indiana will not play in the NIT or any other postseason tournaments; a source confirms with The South-Central Indiana News Network. A late season surge that saw IU win five of their final seven regular season games including wins over Michigan State and Purdue was not enough to put Indiana in the field. Indiana suffered multiple double-digit losses during the season that hurt their profile, including to Louisville, Gonzaga, Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. Indiana made the field in each of Woodson’s first two seasons as head coach but missed each of his last two years. His retirement was announced last month. AD Scott Dolson will now turn his full attention to finding a replacement for Woodson.
Michigan uses 11-2 Run to Win the Big Ten Tournament Championship over Wisconsin The #3 seed Michigan Wolverines used an 11-2 run to beat the #5 seed Wisconsin Badgers 59-53 Sunday Afternoon to win the Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament Championship presented by TIAA at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Michigan is 25-9 and the number 5 seed in the South Region for the NCAA Tournament and will face UC San Diego on Thursday at 10 PM on TBS in the first round in Denver, Colorado. This is Michigan’s 4th Big Ten Tournament Title to go when 1998 along with 2017 and 2018. The 1998 title was later vacated due to NCAA Rules Violations. Vlad Goldin Becomes the third Michigan Player to win the Most Outstanding Player Award joining Robert Traylor in 1998 and Moritz Wagner in 2018. Goldin scored ,11 points and pulled down 5 rebounds. Danny Wolf who was named to the all-tournament team scored 8 points and pulled down 8 rebounds and Tre Donaldson added 11 points for the Wolverines. Michigan finished 19-59 from the field for 32 percent, 9-33 from three-point range for 27 percent and ,12-13 from the free throw line. Michigan pulled down 40 rebounds, 14 assists, 3 steals, 2 blocks and committed 8 turnovers.
John Blackwell led Wisconsin with 18 points and was named to the all-tournament team. Max Klesmit added 11 points and John Tonje who was named to the all-tournament team scored 9 points and pulled down 7 rebounds. Maryland’s Derik Queen rounded out the all-tournament team. Wisconsin is 26-9 and will open up the NCAA Tournament on Thursday in Denver Colorado as a #3 seed in the East Region against #14 Seed Montana at 1:30 PM on TNT. Wisconsin finished 15-68 from the field for 22 percent, 7-39 from three range and 16-18 from the free throw line. The Badgers pulled down 46 rebounds, 8 assists, 3 steals, 2 blocks and committed 6 turnovers. Wisconsin led 23-21 at halftime and Michigan outscored Wisconsin 38-30 in the second half. There were 6 lead changes and 7 ties. Wisconsin led by 11 with 13:11 to go but Michigan fought back and used ,11-2 run at the end of the game to win the game by six points which was their largest lead of the game
This is the 14th time that the Big Ten Tournament has been played in Indianapolis. The Circle City hates in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008-2012, 2014, 2016, 2020, 2021 and 2022. Chicago who will host the tournament next year hosted from 1998 through 2001, 2003, 2007, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 2023.Washington DC hosted in 2017, and New York City hosted in 2018. In 2024 Minneapolis Minnesota hosted the tournament at the Target Center. Indianapolis will get the Big Ten Tournament in 2027 before it heads West to Las Vegas and T-Mobile Arena. ,13,824 fans showed up for the championship and the attendance all week has been way better than a year when the tournament was in Minneapolis and Indianapolis makes a strong case that the tournament should be Indianapolis every year.
Six different schools have won the Big Ten Tournament. Michigan State has won six titles, Ohio State five, Illinois four, Michigan four, Wisconsin three, Iowa three and Purdue two in the Tournaments 28 Year History as the 2020 Tournament was canceled after the opening round due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. For the first time in Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament History threw teams were left out as Nebraska, Penn State and Washington finished in the bottom three in the Big Ten Conference standings and were left out of the conference tournament as the conference expands to 18 teams. 8 teams made the NCAA with Michigan State, Purdue, UCLA, Oregon, Illinois and Maryland in addition to Michigan and Wisconsin. The Big Ten Women’s conference tournament was held in Indianapolis last week and there were 51,799 that filled Gainbridge Fieldhouse for seven sessions. The Men’s Tournament has always had strong crowds Indianapolis and of course with the conference now Coast to Coast you will see different location but there is no better place to host a conference basketball tournament than Indianapolis Indiana.
Bloomington North Girls Gymnastics Finishes 9th at the State Finals The Bloomington North Cougars Finished 9th with a team score of 104.250 at the IHSAA Girls Gymnastics State Finals Saturday at Worthen Arena on the Ball State University Campus in Muncie. Bloomington North made their fourth state finals appearance in a row after a third-place finish in the Regional advanced the Cougars to the State Finals. Sofia Garcia finished Tied for 4th place in the Beam and tied for 4th place in the floor exercise, Garcia finished in 11th place in the Bars and 12th in the All-Around. The one event Garcia struggled in was the Vault where she finished 40th.
Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger won the State Title with a team score of 112.975 and Valparaiso finished second with a team score of 111.700. It’s the sixth State Title for Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger and the first since 2012. Kobi Johnson of Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger won the Floor Exercise. Megan Garibay of Valparaiso won the Vault. Jillian Creager of Homestead and Avery Ziembo of Carroll (Fort Wayne) shared the individual title on the bars as they both scored a 9.675. Samantha Bolster of Chesterton won the Beam and Jillian Creager of Homestead won the All-Around.
Ball State and Notre Dame Make the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Ball State, who secured an automatic bid by virtue of winning the MAC Tournament, was seeded twelfth in the Spokane Regional and will play fifth-seed Ole Miss on Friday, in Waco, Texas. The Cardinals made the big dance for just the second time in program history and the first time since 2009. in the Birmingham Regional will be third-seeded Notre Dame, who will play Stephen F. Austin, a 14-seed, on March 21 on their home court in South Bend. The Irish lost in the ACC tournament but held the best overall record in the conference with one less loss than NC State. The times for the games have not yet been released.
Purdue Men’s Basketball is the Lone Representee from the State of Indiana in the NCAA Tournament There will be just one team representing Indiana in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Purdue, coming off a 22-11 regular season, was selected as a 4-seed and will play 13-seed High Point (29-5) in the Midwest Region’s first round on Thursday in Providence, Rhode Island. If Purdue wins that game, they will play the winner of Clemson vs. McNeese in the second round. The game is scheduled for 12:40 p.m. and will be aired on TruTV.