Indiana Women’s Basketball will host North Carolina In ACC/Big Ten Challenge
Indiana women’s basketball will face North Carolina in the 2022 ACC/Big Ten Challenge. The game will be played inside Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall on December 1, 2022. It will be the first meeting between the two schools in over three decades, as they have met twice before in program history. North Carolina leads the series 2-0 and have not met since the 1988-89 season. The matchup also marks the first ever meeting between the two teams in Bloomington. Indiana is 8-6 all-time in the annual conference series and are meeting UNC for the first time.
All-Americans and All-Big Ten selections Grace Berger and Mackenzie Holmes highlight IU’s roster for the upcoming 2022-23 season, as it is coming off a Sweet Sixteen appearance last season. IU completed its seventh-straight 20-win season under then eighth year head coach Teri Moren. It welcomed seven new players in the offseason, including a trio of transfers and four freshmen. The Tar Heels are coming off a 25-7 overall and 13-5 ACC campaign where it appeared in its first Sweet Sixteen since 2015. They return four of their starting five from last season including leading scorer and All-American honorable mention and first team All-ACC selection Deja Kelly.
Season ticket deposits are now being accepted through the IU Ticket Office by clicking here or calling 866-IUSPORTS.
Indiana University Baseball Player Carter Mathison earns fourth Freshman All American Honor
After a record-setting first year on campus, Indiana baseball outfielder Carter Mathison brought home his fourth Freshman All-America honor, as D1Baseball honored the left-handed hitter with second-team honors on the publications list. Along with the honors from D1Baseball, Mathison earned Freshman All-American laurels from Perfect Game and joined Josh Pyne on the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Assocation Team. The duo joined teammate Brock Tibbits on the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Freshman All American Team.
Mathison set or tied two IU freshman records and was the first freshman since Sam Travis in 2012 to lead the team in home runs. His 19 long balls rank No. 2 all-time in Big Ten history among freshmen (21 – Brad Carlson, Iowa; 1999), passed Alex Dickerson’s IU freshman mark of 14 (2009) and finished tied for No. 5 on Indiana’s single-season charts. The 19 home runs helped the left-handed hitter produce 58 RBIs on the season, which tied the IU freshman record set by Phil Dauphin in 1988. The 58 RBIs ranked No. 2 among Power 5 freshmen nationally and led all Big Ten rookies. Along with his team-leading 19 home runs, he also paced the team with 55 runs scored and was second on the team in RBIs.
Former Indiana University Baseball Player Kyle Schwarber earns National League All Star spot
Former Indiana Hoosier slugger and current Philadelphia Phillies’ left fielder Kyle Schwarber will play in the 2022 MLB All-Star game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, on Tuesday, July 19. Despite leading the National League with 28 home runs, Schwarber made the team as a reserve. He missed out on a starting spot behind Atlanta’s Ronald Acuña Jr., Los Angeles’ Mookie Betts and San Francisco’s Joc Pederson. Fellow Philadelphia power hitter Bryce Harper was named the starting designated hitter for the National League, but he will be replaced by Atlanta’s William Contreras due to injury. Schwarber hit a whopping 12 home runs in the month of June, and he already has five long balls in July thanks to back-to-back two-home run games on July 5 and 6. He is batting .222 this season with a .336 on-base percentage and a .531 slugging percentage. Schwarber also leads the National League with 61 runs scored.
The Phillies’ left fielder has been specifically hot over the last two seasons since leaving the Chicago Cubs. Before the 2021 season, Schwarber signed with the Washington Nationals, where he hit 25 home runs in across 72 games. With the Nationals in rebuilding mode, they traded Schwarber to Boston, where he batted .291 with seven home runs in 41 games. Schwarber continued this impressive stretch into the 2022 season after signing a four-year, $79 million contract with the Phillies. He has 60 home runs and 128 RBI in 197 games since the start of the 2021 season, en route to two consecutive All-Star game appearances. Despite career-high home run numbers, Schwarber is also pacing record-breaking strikeout totals. In 84 games this season, he has struck out 106 times. His over-200 strikeout pace in 2022 would fly past his career-high mark in 2019 of 156. Still, his league-high home run numbers and .867 OPS – tied for 13th in the NL – make him one of the top power hitters in baseball.
Schwarber began his MLB career as the 4th overall pick in the 2014 MLB Draft by the Chicago Cubs. He rose quickly through the minor leagues, debuting in the big leagues in 2015 when he played 69 games. Schwarber hit 16 home runs as a rookie, but his career took a pause just two games into the 2016 season when he tore his ACL in an outfield collision. The Cubs assumed Schwarber would miss the rest of the season, but he miraculously returned for game one of the 2016 World Series. And without Schwarber, it’s possible the Cubs would still be searching for their first World Series ring in over 100 years. After not playing in an MLB game for over six months, Schwarber posted a .412 batting average and a .917 OPS to propel the Cubs to a World Series victory. Schwarber would go on to spend the next four years of his career in Chicago, hitting 105 home runs in 480 games during that span. But after a .188 batting average in 59 games during a 2020 season shortened by COVID-19, the Cubs’ front office decided that Schwarber wasn’t worth keeping for the long haul.
Before his professional career, Schwarber blasted 18 home runs with a .366 batting average at Indiana University in 2013, leading the Hoosiers to their most recent College World Series appearance. As a junior in 2014, Schwarber was a Baseball America first-team All-American, as well as a finalist for the Johnny Bench Award for his work as a catcher. He posted a career 1.044 OPS in three seasons at Indiana before becoming the fourth overall pick by the Chicago Cubs in the 2014 MLB Draft, which is the highest pick in Indiana baseball history. Schwarber ranks ranks fifth in slugging percentage (.607), sixth in home runs (40), eighth in hits (238) and tied for eighth in triples (12) and runs (182). Schwarber was mic’d up during the Phillies game on July 4 and had some high praise for his alma mater. “Going to Indiana was the best thing that ever happened to me,” Schwarber said.
Indiana University Women’s Basketball Freshman Yarden Garzon Scores 16 as Israel routs Armenia
Indiana University Women’s Basketball Incoming Freshman Yarden Garzon scored 16 points as Israel rolled over Armenia 102-40 in Group B Play in the European Women’s Under 20 Division B Championships in Skopje North Macedonia Monday. Israel is 2-0 and will face Georgia in the final group game on Wednesday at 4:30 pm Local time which is 10:30 am Bloomington time. Garzon started and played 20 minutes going a perfect 7-7 from the field including 2-2 from beyond the arc. Garzon dished out 7 assists, 2 rebounds and 2 steals. In two games Garzon has played 60 minutes scoring 33 points, 14-20 from the field and 4-5 from three-point range, 10 Rebounds, 9 Assists, 4 Steals and 1 Block.
Two More IU Women’s Basketball Players are playing in the European Under 20 Women’s Division A Championships in Sopron Hungary as Round Of 16 starts today. Sophomore Mona Zaric and Serbia will take on Lithuania, 7:30am. Incoming Freshman Henna Sandvik and Finland will take on the Host Nation Hungary at Noon.
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Indians Travel to Columbus to Start Six Game Series
The Indianapolis Indians begins a six-game series at Huntington Park in Columbus Ohio against the Columbus Clippers at 7:05 pm this evening. The Indians are 40-42 on the season and split a six game home series with the Iowa Cubs. Columbus is 47-37 on the season and has lost the last five out six games beating Nashville Sunday 5-3 at home.
Indianapolis and Columbus Played in Indianapolis April 19-24 with the teams splitting 3-3. The Teams last played in Indianapolis June 7-12th with Indianapolis taking four out six as the Indians lead the season series 7-5. Indianapolis will make one more trip to Columbus in Late September to close out the season. The Teams will play 7:05pm on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. 12:05pm is first pitch on Thursday and 4:05pm on Sunday.
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