
Indiana University Women’s Basketball wins the outright Big Ten Regular season title After winning a share of the Big Ten Regular season title with 80-63 win over Purdue in the final regular season home game. The Hoosiers watched Tuesday Night as # 6 Iowa lost to #7 Maryland 96-68 Tuesday Night in College Park to give IU the outright Big Ten Title with 1 game left to play which is Sunday at Iowa. Indiana is 16-1 while Iowa falls to 14-3 as the Hoosiers and Hawkeyes will meet Sunday in Iowa City at 2 pm on ESPN. Maryland is 14-3 and plays at Ohio State Friday Night. Indiana will be the number 1 seed for the Big Ten Tournament in Minneapolis Minnesota and will play a week from Friday. The Tournament will kick off next Wednesday. The Hoosiers are Regular season Big Ten Champions for the 2nd time in school history and first since 1983. The Hoosiers only Big Ten Tournament title came in 2002.
#17 Indiana Men’s Basketball falls at Michigan State The # 17 Indiana Men’s Basketball team lost at Michigan State 80-65 Tuesday Night. Indiana falls to 19-9 and 10-7 in the Big Ten with a road trip to archrival Purdue Saturday Night. Trayce Jackson-Davis led IU with 19 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists. Jalen Hood Schifino added 16 points and Trey Galloway chipped in 11 points. Michigan State who was playing its first game at home since the tragic mass shooting on campus February 13th that took the lives of three students improved to 17-10 in the overall and 9-7 in the Big Ten. The Spartans were led in scoring by Tyson Walker 23 Pts along with 22 from A.J. Hoggard, Malik Hall and Joey Hauser added 10 points each. Michigan State led 35-29 at half and outscored the Hoosiers 45-36 in the second half.
Indiana University Men’s Swimming and Diving competes at the Big Ten Championships Reigning conference champion and No. 6-ranked Indiana men’s swimming and diving returns for the 2023 Big Ten Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships, a four-day event spanning tonight through Saturday inside Canham Natatorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Hoosiers are the highest ranked team in their conference at No. 6 according to the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA). Ohio State (8), Michigan (17), Wisconsin (23) and Minnesota (25) are also ranked. The event begins this evening with the first set of finals in the 200-yard medley relay and 800-yard freestyle relay. The following three days will consist of two sessions, with preliminaries in the morning to determine finals in the evening. All seven sessions can be streamed on the Big Ten Plus digital platform.
Indiana won its 28th men’s Big Ten Championship last season which came as its fourth in six years. IU scored 1,499.5 points and won nine events to outgain runner-up Ohio State (1,406.5 points). Brendan Burns was named the Big Ten Swimmer of the Championships after winning all five events he swam. Andrew Capobianco was similarly dominant as the Big Ten Diver of the Championships, becoming the first Big Ten athlete to sweep the diving events at the conference meet. Both athletes have won their respective awards in each of the last two championships.
Indiana has won 28 Big Ten Championships including four of the last six and five since the beginning of head swimming coach Ray Looze’s tenure. The Hoosiers have also managed 12 consecutive top-three finishes going back to 2011. Indiana has won 304 Big Ten individual titles, counting swimming and diving combined, as well as 71 relay titles.
Indiana University Volleyball sends Four to compete in 2023 Women’s National Team open program The Indiana Volleyball team will send four players to the 2023 USA Volleyball Women’s National Team Open Program from Feb. 24-26 to compete against some of the nation’s best athletes. The program, set to take place in Colorado Springs, Colo., allows America’s top-eligible volleyball players to compete against each other in front of the National Team coaches. It is used in consideration for selection to both the Women’s National Team and the Women’s Collegiate National Team. The USA Women’s National Team will compete in events including the Paris Olympic Qualifier and the Pan American Cup while the Collegiate National Team will train alongside them in Anaheim, Calif. this summer. Athletes born in 2003 or younger will be eligible for selection to the U21 National Team, set to contest the 2023 FIVB U21 World Championship. Sophomore setter Camryn Haworth, junior outside hitter Morgan Geddes junior middle blocker Savannah Kjolhede and senior middle blocker Kaley Rammeslberg will be IU’s representatives in Colorado Springs.
The quartet of athletes competed at the event in 2022 and enjoyed successful seasons this past fall, helping IU to a 16-16 season and nine wins in the Big Ten Conference. Haworth earned First Team All-Big Ten laurels after taking over the reins at setter for the Hoosiers, dishing out 1,111 assists in her sophomore campaign. She recorded the program’s first triple-double in 21 years with 37 assists, 11 digs and 10 kills in a victory over Northwestern. Kjolhede compiled 215 kills and a team-best 118 blocks in 32 matches during her junior season. Her .308 hitting percentage was the ninth-best single season mark in program history. She went errorless with a 12-0-22 line against Purdue and tallied another 12 kills on a .588 clip in a victory at Maryland. Despite missing 10 games with injury, Rammelsberg tallied 150 kills and 63 blocks including double-digit kills on four occasions. She will return in 2023 for her fifth year, made possible by the NCAA’s COVID-19 waiver. Geddes added 266 kills, 44 blocks and 15 service aces in 2022. She was second on the team in kills and reached double digits in 13 matches. She moonlighted at middle blocker during the middle of the season due to injuries but returned to the outside late in the year, recording 16 kills on a .314 clip in a win over Illinois. The four Hoosiers will compete in drills and matches against other top athletes born between 1998 and 2004 at the Olympic and Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
Indiana University Wrestling Volunteer assistant coach CJ Red inducted into the Indiana HS Wrestling Coaches Hall of Fame Indiana Wrestling volunteer assistant coach CJ Red was inducted into the Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Hall of Fame over the weekend. The Wrestling Hall of Fame had their annual induction ceremony on Sunday where Red and 16 other individuals were honored. New inductees included former Indiana high school wrestlers, coaches and special contributors.
In high school, Red had a perfect, 183-0 record, and was a four-time state champion at New Palestine. Red would go on to compete for the University of Nebraska and had an outstanding collegiate career there. Red was a three-time All-American and five-time NCAA qualifier for the Cornhuskers during his time in Lincoln from 2016-2022. Red’s father, Chad Red Sr., was also inducted into the hall of fame over the weekend for his outstanding coaching career at New Palestine and Lawrence Central.
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