Indiana University Football travels to Rutgers
Back on the road, the Indiana football program will venture east for an afternoon contest at SHI Stadium against homestanding Rutgers. The Hoosiers and Scarlet Knights will face off at Noon on the Big Ten Network on Saturday. The Hoosiers are 5-3 all-time against the Scarlet Knights, including a 3-1 record in Piscataway, New Jersey. Each meeting in the series has been as Big Ten foes. The longest winning streak in the series is a five-game stretch for Indiana from 2016-20, before RU won last season in Bloomington. Indiana lost at home to Maryland 38-33 last week while Rutgers had the week off.
Indiana is 3-4 overall and 1-3 in the Big Ten. The Hoosiers need a win this week for a chance to keep their bowl hopes alive as they need six wins on the season to be considered for a bowl game. Connor Bazelak has thrown for 1,889 yards and 12 touchdowns. The Missouri Transfer has been sacked 22 times and thrown 8 interceptions. Shaun Shivers has 402 of the teams 581 rushing yards along with 4 of the 8 rushing touchdowns. Cam Camper has caught 41 passes for 526 yards and 2 touchdowns. Aaron Casey posted his second career double-digit tackle game against Maryland with 10 stops. With 55 tackles, Casey has eclipsed his career total entering the season (45). Running back Josh Henderson has scored at least one touchdown in five of the last six games for Indiana. He has rushed for three and caught three passing touchdowns, including one of each versus Maryland for his first career multi-touchdown game. Place kicker Charles Campbell continues to move up the career field goals made and scoring charts at IU, sitting among the top 10 in field goals made (36) and top 20 in career scoring (170).
Rutgers is 3-3 overall and 0-3 in the Big Ten. The Scarlet Knights have used three quarterbacks this season with Evan Simon, Noah Vedral and Gavin Wimsatt. Combined they have thrown for 990 Yards, 5 Touchdowns, 8 Interceptions and been sacked 12 times. Tight End Johnny Langan has thrown 2 passes for 43 yards and a touchdown and caught one touchdown pass on the season. Wide Receiver Aaron Cruickshank has thrown 1 pass for 6 years and is the team leader with 243 yards receiving and 2 touchdowns. Samuel Brown V is the top rusher with 273 yards and 2 touchdowns. On defense Deion Jennings is the team leader in tackles with 46 and Christian Braswell has 2 interceptions.
IU Men’s Basketball Player Trayce Jackson-Davis earns Preseason All-American Honor from CBS Sports
Indiana senior forward Trayce Jackson-Davis was named to the 2022-23 CBS Sports Preseason All-America Second Team, it was announced on Thursday afternoon. He was previously honored as a Preseason All-American by the Blue-Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook, College Hoops Today and The Almanac. Jackson-Davis was also named Preseason Big Ten Player of the Year. Jackson-Davis enters the year ranked 15th all-time at IU in scoring (1,565), 19th in scoring average (16.9), ninth in rebounds (797), seventh in blocked shots (178), and seventh in field goal percentage (55.8%). He was named a third-team All-American as a sophomore, has earned all-district honors each of the last two seasons, and has been a third team, first-team and second-team All-Big Ten choice in his first three campaigns with the Hoosiers.
The former Mr. Basketball winner ranked among the Big Ten leaders in points per game (18.3; 6th in the Big Ten), rebounds per game (8.1; 6th), field goal percentage (58.9%; 4th), free throws made (147; 5th), free throws attempted (218; 2nd), and total blocked shots (81, t-1st) in 35 starts for the Hoosiers in his third season on campus. Jackson-Davis anchored a Hoosier defense that was ranked as the most efficient in the league by KenPom (24th in the nation) and held opponents to a league-low 39.6% shooting from the floor. Jackson-Davis has recorded 32 double-doubles and two 30-point/10-rebound performances in his career. During the 2022 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament, he averaged 25.3 points and 8.3 rebounds per contest on 34-of-51 shooting (66.7%) from the floor. Jackson-Davis broke five program records during the tournament run, including single-game points (31), single-game made field goals (15), total points (76), total made shots (34), and total rebounds (25). He was named all-tournament for his efforts. Indiana opens the season with an exhibition matchup against Marian at 3 p.m. ET on Saturday, Oct. 29, at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.
Edgewood travels to East Central for IHSAA Football Sectionals
Edgewood will make the 2-hour trip to East Central HS in St Leon Indiana for the start of the IHSAA Class 4A Football Sectional tonight at 7pm. Edgewood finished the regular season 2-7 and will be the third straight losing season for the Mustangs. Edgewood is averaging 14.1 points on offense and giving up 40.2 points on defense. Edgewood has given up 40 or more points in six games, 50 or more points in four games and 60 points to South Putnam in week 5.
East Central is 7-2 on the season averaging 36.9 points on offense and giving up 11.2 on defense. Coach Jake Meiners is 36-9 in his fourth season and has not a losing season and won the sectional title last season. East Central has won 20 Sectional Titles, 8 Regional Titles, 4 Semi State Titles and Two Class 4A State Championships in 1994 and 2017. East Central beat Edgewood November 2, 2017, in Ellettsville 57-22 for the Class 4A Sectional Championship.
Indiana University Athletics celebrates naming of Deborah Tobias Field as home of IU Field Hockey
IU Vice President and Director of Athletics Scott Dolson was joined by benefactors Deborah and Randall Tobias, members of the IU Field Hockey program, and other athletic department officials Thursday to officially celebrate the naming of Deborah Tobias Field as the home of IU Field Hockey.
Deborah Tobias Field is named in recognition of two of IU Athletics most loyal and generous supporters. Among other things, the couple’s recent gift was utilized for a series of renovations to IU Field Hockey’s home facility, including the installation of the new Hockey Gold system playing surface. It is also a signature gift toward IU Athletics’ Women’s Excellence Initiative, an effort announced by Dolson in 2021 which goes exclusively to supporting IU’s 13 women’s sports programs and enhancing the student-athlete experience for IU’s 300-plus varsity female student-athletes. Located immediately southwest of Bill Armstrong Stadium, Deborah Tobias Field has been the home of IU Field Hockey since 2007. In addition to the new certified Category 3 playing surface made possible by the Tobias gift, the venue is also equipped with a Nelson Water Cannon system that enables the playing surface to be watered for play in less than 30 minutes. The facility also includes the Ireland Family Fieldhouse, which houses the IU team’s locker room, meeting room and storage space.
Deborah Tobias Field is just the more recent of a long line of IU Athletics capital projects that the Tobiases have played a significant role in making a reality. Among their other philanthropic efforts in support of IU Athletics are:
- Tobias Nutrition Center – a state-of-the-art, 14,743-square foot dining and nutrition facility housed in the Excellence Academy building. In addition to fulfilling the nutritional needs of IU’s 600-plus student-athletes, the Tobias Nutrition Center also serves as a hospitality area for the IU Varsity Club’s Hoosier Hundred, Athlete, Scholar, and Champion donors on IU Football gamedays.
- Tobias Champions Locker Room – a new premiere hospitality area residing on the court level in the southwest tunnel of Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.
- Randall L. Tobias Basketball Scholarship – endowed scholarship for a member of the IU Men’s Basketball program
- Randall Tobias Men’s Basketball Locker Room in Cook Hall – dedicated locker room space located inside IU’s indoor basketball practice facility.
A 2020 IU Bicentennial medal recipient, Deborah retired from professional life in 2001, after a successful career ranging from teaching high school English to serving as the Director of European Sales Operations for Juniper Networks. Along with her husband, she founded the Randall L. and Deborah F. Tobias Center for Innovation in International Development at the School of Global and International Studies in 2017. She’s a member of the Board of Trustees at her alma mater, the University of Dayton, and a member of the Board of the IU Health Foundation.
A former member and chair of the IU Board of Trustees, Randall is retired chairman and CEO of Eli Lilly and Company. Prior to his work at Lilly, he was vice chairman of AT&T and chairman and CEO of its subsidiaries, AT&T Communications and AT&T International. Following his corporate career, Randall was appointed the nation’s first United States Global AIDS Coordinator with the rank of Ambassador. Later, he became the first Director of United States Foreign Assistance and Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with the rank of Deputy Secretary of State. Randall has served on the boards of a number of global companies including AT&T and Eli Lilly and Company, as well as ConocoPhillips, Kimberly-Clark, Knight-Ridder, Agilent Technologies and Chemical Bank of New York. He also served as the chairman of the board of the Indianapolis Airport Authority.
Kyle Schwarber drives in run as San Diego Pardes even up NLCS
Former Indiana University Baseball Player Kyle Schwarber drove in a run as the Philadelphia Phillies lost to the San Diego Padres 8-5 in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series at Petco Park in San Diego Wednesday Afternoon as the series is tied 1-1. Schwarber was 0-3 at the plate with a walk and drove in a run. He grounded out to the first while the runners on third was able to score a run in the top of the second inning.
Schwarber is 3-26 in the postseason with 3 runs, 4 runs batted in, and a monster home run he hit in Game 1 of the NLCS. Schwarber has walked 5 times and struck out 9. Game 3 is tonight in Philadelphia at 7:37pm on Fox Sports 1, Game 4 tomorrow at 7:45pm on Fox and Game 5 is Sunday at 2:37pm on Fox Sports 1.
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