Indiana University Women’s Golf Aine Donegan begins NCAA Regional Play
Indiana University Freshman Aine Donegan competes in the 2022 NCAA Ann Arbor Regional at the U-M Golf Course today through Wednesday for the right to advance to the NCAA Championship later in the month. Donegan will begin the tournament at 9:50 this morning off the first tee box. She will be paired with Jana Melichova of Old Dominion and Chloe Schiavone of Notre Dame. Her tee time will be 8:55am on both Tomorrow and Wednesday. Donegan is one of six individuals competing in the regional along with Jana Melichova of Old Dominion, Chloe Schiavone of Notre Dame, Ragnhildur Kristinsdottir of Eastern Kentucky, Jasmine Ly of Northern Illinois, and Katherine Lemke of Creighton and the tournament will consist of 54 holes with single rounds played daily.
The 12 teams competing in the Regional are San Jose State, Virginia, Michigan, Arkansas, UCF, Virginia Tech, North Carolina, Washington, Ohio State, Pepperdine, Xavier, and Oakland. The low four teams and the low two individuals, not on one of those teams, will advance to the NCAA Championships to be played from May 20-25 at the Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona.
During her debut season at Indiana, Donegan is on pace to set the Indiana University single-season and freshman stroke average (72.92). She played in all 27 rounds for the Hoosiers this season and finished as the low-scoring IU player in all nine events the program competed in. The Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, native placed inside the top-10 in four events and was twice a top-5 finisher, including her first collegiate victory came in the Courtney Cole Invitational. Donegan currently ranks as the 129th-best player in the country according to GolfStat and the 19th-best player in the Ann Arbor Regional.
Indiana Men’s Basketball to play Arizona December 10th in Las Vegas
Per CBSSports’ Jon Rothstein, Indiana is nearing an agreement for a December neutral site game against the Arizona Wildcats at MGM Grand Arena is Las Vegas, Nevada. This game is slated to take place a week before the Hoosiers will meet the Kansas Jayhawks in Allen Fieldhouse on December 17th.
Indiana also has the ACC/Big Ten Challenge and Gavitt Games (Big East/Big Ten) which should both give the Hoosiers tough opponents. This is one of a few high-profile games that will now replace Indiana’s spot in the Crossroads Classic that went on since 2011.
Arizona put together a near-flawless 2021-2022 season, posting a 33-4 record, 18-2 in the Pac-12. Tommy Lloyd’s squad was led by guard Benedict Mathurin who averaged 17.7 points per game throughout last year’s march to the big dance. After a stellar season, Arizona would grab a No. 1 seed after winning the Pac-12. They would fall to Houston in the Sweet 16, 72-60. Lloyd’s success in taking over a controversial Arizona program has been widely praised, and it looks like he has this Wildcats going in the right direction finally.
Mike Woodson on the other hand, after putting together a subpar, at best, 2021 non-conference schedule for Indiana, whose most difficult non-Big Ten game was likely on the road at Syracuse, is loading up on the tough competition. Arizona and Kansas in back-to-back weeks will prepare his guys for a Big Ten schedule better than anyone else possibly could.
Indiana University Men’s Basketball player Trayce Jackson-Davis invited to NBA Draft Combine
The 2022 NBA Draft Combine is set to take place from May 16-22 and Trayce Jackson-Davis from Indiana University will be a participant in the event. Averaging 18.3 points, 8.1 rebounds and shooting 58.9% from the floor as a junior this past season, Jackson-Davis emerged as the star on Mike Woodson’s team in Bloomington. Named a McDonald’s All-American and Indiana Mr. Basketball out of Center Grove High School in Greenwood, Jackson-Davis has been an All-Big Ten selection the last three years.
It is important to note that he has not “officially” declared for the NBA Draft and will still maintain his college eligibility, even by participating in front of all 30 NBA franchises at the combine. Every year, about 60 draft prospects, give or take, are invited to participate in this pre-draft showcase and invitees are determined by NBA front-offices and executives. Many were anticipating the Indiana standout to receive an invitation to the combine, but his draft status seems very up-in-the-air right now, as most draft projections have him anywhere from a mid-to-late second-round pick, some even having Jackson-Davis being undrafted.
The son of Dale Davis, a former Indiana Pacers forward that spent 16 total years in the league, Jackson-Davis will look to prove at the NBA Draft Combine that he has what it takes to play in the NBA. Trayce Jackson-Davis has until June 1 to decide whether or not he is keeping his name in the 2022 NBA Draft.
Ball State Men’s Volleyball falls to Hawai’i in Final Four
Despite a valiant effort, the Ball State men’s volleyball team saw its 2022 season come to an end with a 3-2 (28-26, 19-25, 20-25, 25-20, 15-11) setback to No. 1 Hawai’i in the semifinals of the 2022 NCAA Men’s Volleyball Championship inside UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles California. Battling the top-ranked Rainbow Warriors (26-5) for a third time this season, the championship’s second-seeded Cardinals (23-4) fell just shy of the program’s first-ever berth into the national championship match.
After winning the first two meetings between the programs, both of which were played in Worthen Arena in late January, Ball State found itself down 12-5 early in the opening set. The Cardinals would battle back, however, tying the score at 24 before reaching set point on a service ace from Nick Martiniski. Hawai’i was able to escape with the set victory, however, which proved crucial in the match. Ball State would go on to take sets two and three, only to see the Rainbow Warriors win the final two frames to continue its bid for back-to-back national championships which they accomplished beat Long Beach State 3-0 to win the National Championship Saturday night
Kaleb Jenness led the Cardinals with 18 kills in the match, while Angelos Mandilaris was right behind with 15. Overall, Quinn Issacson guided the Ball State attack to a .262 rate of success, dishing out 40 assists to go along with a pair of kills of his own. The Cardinals defense also held a decisive advantage at the net, tallying 19 total blocks to 10 from Hawai’i. Felix Egharevba led the way with nine total blocks, while Mandilaris and Vanis Buckholz added seven apiece.
Indianapolis Indians Coverage
Indians Drop Series Finale 5-1
The Indianapolis Indians lost two of three games this weekend to the Louisville Bats to lose the series 4-1. The Indians game Friday night was rained out and will be made up on August 3rd, Thursday’s game that was suspended in the top of the ninth inning tied 3-3 was completed Saturday Evening with Louisville winning 7-5. The Indians won Saturday’s scheduled game 8-3 and Louisville won Sunday afternoon 5-1. Indianapolis is 14-14 on the season and travels to Charlotte tomorrow night to begin a six-game series with first pitch scheduled for 6:35om, tomorrow night.
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