Indiana University Women’s Soccer announces 2023 Schedule
Indiana University head women’s soccer coach Erwin van Bennekom announced the team’s 2023 schedule. “We are very excited about our 2023 season,” van Bennekom said. “Our schedule is challenging, and we have some top-level games in and out of conference play, at home and on the road.” Indiana will start the season with two exhibition matches against Ball State on Aug. 6 and Bellarmine on Aug. 9.
The Hoosiers welcome three opponents to Bill Armstrong Stadium as they begin their non-conference slate. They host Illinois State (Aug. 17), Virginia Tech (Aug. 20) and Morehead State (Aug. 24). IU will travel to Evansville, Ind. (Aug. 27) for a match against the Aces before heading to Knoxville, Tenn., to take on the Tennessee Volunteers. The Hoosiers will return home to close out the non-conference schedule with NIU (Sept. 3), Louisville (Sept. 7) and Hanover (Sept. 10).
Big Ten play begins with Rutgers (Sept. 17) in Bloomington before their first B1G road trip to Illinois (Sept. 21). IU returns to Bloomington to host Northwestern (Sept. 24) before closing out the week at Ohio State. The squad kicks off October as they welcome the Golden Gophers (Oct. 1) with the rivalry game against Purdue (Oct. 8) at the end of the week. It’s a border battle as the Hoosiers welcome Michigan State (Oct. 12) and Michigan (Oct. 15) to Bloomington for the final home matches of the season. They head to the east coast for a pair of matches at Penn State (Oct. 19) and Maryland (Oct. 22) to close out the regular season. The Big Ten Tournament Quarterfinals is set for Sunday, Oct. 29.
Indiana University Men’s Golf selected for the NCAA Tournament Auburn Regional
The Indiana men’s golf team has earned a bid to the 2023 NCAA Auburn Regional played at the Auburn University Club, the NCAA announced on Wednesday via a selection show on The Golf Channel. After making the 2021 NCAA Tallahassee Regional and the 2022 NCAA Palm Beach Gardens Regional, Indiana has made three-straight regional appearances as a team for the first time since making six-consecutive NCAA events from 2008-13. In total, the Hoosiers have made it to 12 NCAA Regionals under head coach Mike Mayer. “We are thrilled to be back in the NCAA Regional for a third-straight season,” Mayer said. “We feel really good about where we are as a team right now. We are getting closer to peaking, and this is the right time of year to feel that way. This is a strong field, so we are going to have to play great golf if we want to reach our goal of qualifying for the NCAA Championship.”
The 2023 NCAA Regionals will be held May 15-17 at one of six sites across the country: Auburn University Club (Auburn, Ala.), The Cliffs at Keowee Falls (Salem, S.C.), Eagle Eye Golf Club (East Lansing, Mich.), Bear’s Best Las Vegas (Las Vegas, Nev.), Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club (Norman, Okla.), and The Institute Golf Club (Morgan Hill, Calif.). Three of the regional sites will have 13 teams and 10 individuals competing, while three will have 14 teams and five individuals. The top five teams (30 teams total) and the low individual not on an advancing team from each regional site (six individuals total) will advance to the NCAA Championships, set for May 26-31 at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Indiana University Baseball announces Schedule Change
The Indiana baseball program has announced a change to its schedule, as the team will now travel to Xavier for a non-conference contest on Wednesday (May 10) at 3pm. The Hoosiers (31-14, 9-6 B1G) game with Southern Indiana originally scheduled for Tuesday (May 9) at Bart Kaufman Field will not be played. Anyone holding a ticket for the May 9 contest can redeem that for a ticket to any of the remaining home games at Bart Kaufman Field. Anyone with questions can contact the ticket office at (812) 855-4006. Indiana will travel to the Chicagoland area for a three-game series with Northwestern this weekend. First pitch of the series opener will be thrown at 4pm tomorrow.
Indiana University Men’s Golfer Drew Salyers named first team All-Big Ten
Indiana junior Drew Salyers was named All-Big Ten First Team, while fifth-year senior Mitch Davis was voted to the All-Big Ten Second Team, the league announced on Wednesday morning. Salyers is the first Hoosier men’s golfer to earn First Team recognition sinceClay Merchent in 2021. Salyers averaged a career-low 71.59 strokes per round to lead Indiana while playing in all 32 rounds throughout the season. He was a mainstay at the top of the leaderboards and earned nine-straight top-20 finishes to open the season. Five times he finished inside the top-10 with victories at the Quail Valley Collegiate Invitational (Oct. 16-17) and the Williams Cup (Oct. 21-23). His weekend at Quail Valley proved to be historic as he matched the 36-hole school record (130) and became the second Hoosier ever to record a sub-200 (199) scorecard during a 54-hole tournament. He was named the Big Ten Men’s Golder of the Week on Oct. 19.
Davis played in all 32 rounds for the Hoosiers across 11 tournaments. He posted a season stroke average of 72.44, the lowest figure of his career. He finished inside the top-20 of seven tournaments, including the top-10 outings. Davis produced 12 rounds at or under par this season, the second-highest amount of any Hoosier. Fifth-year senior Thomas Hursey was named Indiana’s recipient of the 2023 Big Ten Sportsmanship Honoree. The Ferris State transfer has played in 23 rounds with a stroke average of 74.00 in his debut season with the Cream and Crimson. He has finished inside the top-15 in each of his last three events, including a second-place effort at the Hoosier Collegiate Invitational.
Indiana University Men’s Basketball adds Ian Stephens as a walk on
Indiana has added in-state forward Ian Stephens as a walk-on in the program as he announced his commitment Wednesday Morning via Twitter. The 6-foot-6 Stephens averaged 15.2 points, and 7.9 rebounds while leading New Palestine H.S. (New Palestine, Ind.) to a school best 23 wins during his 2022-23 senior season. He was named Associated Press Honorable Mention All-State, All-Hoosier Heritage Conference and All-Hancock County First Team.
Stephens is a good athlete and was very good player at New Palestine. When it comes to walk-ons, he looks to be in the mold of recently departed forward Nathan Childress, as perhaps the first walk-on off the bench and someone who could play in an emergency. Stephens played for the JH1 AAU program that is connected to IU recruiting director Jordan Hulls. He had college offers including Indiana Tech and IU South Bend.
Indiana Fever waive Guard/Forward Rennia Davis
The Indiana Fever announced Wednesday the team has waived guard/forward Rennia Davis. Davis was selected 9th Overall in the First Round of the 2021 WNBA Draft by the Minnesota Lynx. She became the 43rd Tennessee women’s basketball player to be drafted into the WNBA, the 14th taken in the top 10, and the highest since Diamond DeShields in 2018. The 24-year-old is from Jacksonville Florida and was a McDonalds All American out of Ribault HS before going playing at the University of Tennessee from 2017-2021.
Davis was injured in May 2021 when a stress fracture in her foot put her out indefinitely. Davis was waived from the Lynx training camp in 2022, but later returned on a hardship contract. She appeared in 1 game and scored her first career WNBA points against the Indiana Fever playing just 3 minutes of action . On May 12, 2022, Davis was released from her hardship contract. Davis Signed with the Indiana Fever on July 15, 2022, and played in 7 games averaging 1.1 points and 5.7 minutes per game.
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