Indiana University Men’s Basketball wins fourth straight game The Indiana Hoosiers Men’s Basketball team has won four straight games winning at Minnesota 61-57 Wednesday Night at Williams Arena in Minneapolis. The Hoosiers are 14-6 overall and 5-4 in the Big Ten and host Ohio State Saturday night at 8 pm. Indiana Head Coach Mike Woodson did not coach the game as he was recovering from COVID. Associate Head Coach Yasir Rosemond took over the head coaching duties. Trayce Jackson-Davis had 25 points along with 21 rebounds and 6 block shots. Jackson-Davis became the school’s all-time leader in Block Shots after he tied Jeff Newton with 277 career blocks during the Michigan State game Sunday. Miller Kopp added 11 points and Mailk Reneau had 10 points off the bench. Race Thompson who hails from Plymouth Minnesota scored 4 points and got the start for the Hoosiers. Indiana finished 23-56 from the field for 41 %, 4-14 from three-point range for 28% and 11-18 from the free throw line for 61%. The Hoosiers pulled down 45 rebounds, dished out 17 assists, 10 blocks, 2 steals and committed 10 turnovers.
Minnesota was without leading scorer Dawson Garcia and Pharrell Payne due to injury adding to a depleted Golden Gopher team. Garcia has a bone bruise in his right foot, an injury that came late in the game Sunday at Michigan. Payne was placed in the concussion protocol. There is no timetable for their return, the team said. Backup guard Braeden Carrington will be out at least another three weeks because of a stress reaction in his right leg. Forwards Parker Fox and Isaiah Ihnen had season-ending ACL injuries in summer workouts. Garcia is averaging team-highs of 14.9 points and 6.3 rebounds in his first season with his home state team after transferring from North Carolina. Payne is averaging 7.2 points and 4.7 rebounds as a freshman. The latest injuries left Minnesota with seven available scholarship players. Jamison Battle scored 20 points to lead the Gophers who fall to 7-12 overall and 1-8 in the Big Ten.
#6 Indiana Women’s Basketball host #2 Ohio State in huge Big Ten Showdown A battle for the top spot in the league is up for grabs on Tonight when No. 6 Indiana hosts No. 2/5 Ohio State. Game time is slated for 8:30pm inside Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall and will be televised on the Big Ten Network. The Hoosiers are fresh off a win at No. 13/16 Michigan, 92-83, on Monday night. Senior forward Mackenize Holmes led the way with her ninth double-double of the season with 25 points and 10 rebounds while senior guard Sara Scalia added 19 points off the bench by going 7-for-10 from the floor.
Holmes is one of four players averaging double figures for IU this season, followed by freshman guard Yarden Garzon (12.3 ppg.), junior guard Sydney Parrish (12.3 ppg.) and graduate student guard Grace Berger (11.6 ppg.). One of the most accurate teams as well, Indiana shoots the nation’s second-best clip from the field, averaging 50.3 percent per game and averaging 81.8 points. Head Coach Teri Moren has won 190 games in 9 seasons as IU head coach and lost 90. Moren is 389-220 her 20th season as a head coach.
Tonight’s contest against No. 2/5 Ohio State will be the Hoosiers its sixth ranked meeting of the season against foes in the Top 25. It’s also the third of four ranked matchups in five games as they picked up their fifth ranked win of the season at No. 13/16 Michigan on Monday night. IU has also posted back-to-back season with five Top 25 wins for the first time in school history. Indiana secured its best start with the win at No. 13 Michigan on Monday night. The Hoosiers improved to 18-1, the best start since the inaugural season in 1971-72 when the team finished 17-2. Indiana won both meetings in the series in the 2021-22 season where it met once in the regular season in Columbus on Dec. 12, 2021, in an 86-66 victory and picked up the upset of the top seeded Buckeyes in a 70-62 win in the Big Ten Tournament semifinals on March 5, 2022. It was the first three-straight wins in the series since 2001-03 as Ohio State leads the all-time series 60-24.
Ohio State is coming off its first loss to No. 10 Iowa at home on Monday night. Graduate student guard Taylor Mikesell leads the way with 18.2 points per game while shooting 38.9 percent from the arc and 63 made triples. Three others average double figures in senior forward Rebeka Mikulashikova (14.3 ppg., 5.2 rpg.) and freshman guard Cotie McMahon with 13.0 points per game. OSU is averaging a league second-best 85.6 points per game. The Buckeyes are without Guards Jacy Sheldon and Madison Greene due to injury. Greene tore her ACL for the second straight season and is out of the rest of the season. Sheldon has missed the last 15 games with a foot injury and has not played since the Buckeyes beat Tennessee at home November 30, 2022. Head Coach Kevin McGuff is in his 10th season at Ohio State with a 163-71 record and overall, he is 418-192 in his 21st season as a head coach with stops at Xavier and Washington with 9 NCAA Tournament Appearances and 6 Postseason WNIT Appearances.
Indiana University Diver Carson Tyler named Big Ten Diver of the week Indiana swimming and diving sophomore Carson Tyler earned his first Big Ten Diver of the Week award this season after his showing in IU’s win over Purdue, the conference office announced on Wednesday. The honor marks Tyler’s fourth-career weekly honor as he was named diver of the week twice and freshman of the week once during his debut season in 2021-22. Tyler is the third different IU men’s diver to earn the award this season, following redshirt senior Andrew Capobianco last week and fellow sophomore Quinn Henninger twice previously. Between swimming and diving, the Hoosiers have totaled 12 Big Ten weekly awards over four different cycles.
Tyler won the men’s platform diving competition on Saturday as IU divers won three of four events contested in men’s and women’s team dual meet victories at Purdue. The sophomore showed consistency in his performance with all six dives earning at least 60 points, including four dives worth at least 70 points. His six-dive total score of 423.80 sits as the best mark in the country this season. His teammate, Henninger, holds the second-best mark at 416.55, scored at the Ohio State Invitational. Tyler also placed fourth on the 1-meter springboard, scoring 342.95 points. Tyler and IU swimming and diving will compete in their final regular season meet on Friday traveling to face No. 16/7 Louisville. The dual meet is set to begin at 2pm and can be streamed on ACC Network+.
Bloomington North Girls Basketball dominates Edgewood Bloomington North’s competitive spirit was fine-tuned while punishing Edgewood 59-27 during this girl’s high school basketball game at Edgewood High School Tuesday Night in Ellettsville. Bloomington North opened with a 13-7 advantage over Edgewood through the first quarter. The Cougars fought to a 32-13 halftime margin at the Mustangs’ expense. Bloomington North roared to a 51-21 lead heading into the fourth quarter. The Cougars got the better of the final-quarter scoring, finishing the game in style with an 8-6 edge.
Mia Robbennolt led Bloomington North with 14 points and 9 rebounds. Mallory Barrow scored 12 points hitting 4 three-pointers while Kenli Sullivan scored 6 points and pulled down 10 rebounds and Avery Patterson added 8 points. Bloomington North improves to 16-6 on the season and host Terre Haute North in the regular season finale tonight at 7:30pm. Edgewood was led in scoring by Macy Crider who scored 13 points and pulled down 8 rebounds and Madi Bland added 7 points for the Mustangs who fall to 3-17 on the season and will wrap up the regular season tonight at Danville at 7:30pm.
Indiana Pacers beat the Chicago Bulls 116-100 Bennedict Mathurin looked at the Indiana Pacers’ 21-point first-half deficit and saw an opportunity. He kept urging his teammates to play hard, to follow the game plan and insisted they eventually could come back. Again. Then the 20-year-old rookie made sure of it. Mathurin and Myles Turner each scored 26 points and Mathurin broke free for the decisive basket with 29.1 seconds left to give the Pacers a 116-110 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Tuesday night at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
Indiana snapped a season-worst seven-game losing streak by rallying from a double-digit deficit to win for the 11th time this season two of those after trailing by 20 points or more and barely stayed ahead of 10th-place Chicago in the Eastern Conference. The Pacers played again without injured point guard Tyrese Haliburton and this time without his replacement, Andrew Nembhard, who was sick. T.J. McConnell had 20 points and 10 assists for the Pacers. But without Turner’s big third quarter and Mathurin playing the role of closer, Indiana wouldn’t have completed the rally.
Mathurin certainly caused headaches for the Bulls, who had a three-game winning streak end. DeMar DeRozan scored 33 points to lead Chicago and Nikola Vucevic added 20 points, eight rebounds and five assists as his streak of 11 consecutive double-doubles also ended. While the game was physical and sometimes ugly, the Bulls seized control by quickly building a 20-5 lead and extending the margin to 62-41 late in the first half. But on the second night of a back-to-back, the Bulls wore down in the second half as the Pacers became the aggressors. With McConnell, Turner and Mathurin leading the charge, the Pacers finally responded. They cut the deficit to 87-80 after three quarters and continued rallying in the fourth, finally taking their first lead of the game, 102-100, on McConnell’s reverse layup with 4:27 to go. The teams traded leads four times after that and were tied three times until Mathurin’s layup gave Indiana a 112-110 lead. The Pacers forced turnovers on each of the Bulls’ next two possessions and made four straight free throws to seal it.
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