The IUPUI women’s basketball team concluded their season last Tuesday, March 9, finishing second in the Horizon League tournament with a season record of 15-5. On Monday, March 8, head coach Austin Parkinson notched his 200th win in his 11th year, which took the team back to the Horizon League Conference ...
IUPUI guard Sydney Roule is playing the best basketball of her career this season in front of empty bleachers due to the ongoing pandemic that has kept fans out of gyms. Syndey Roule, a 5-foot-11 guard out of Amherst, Ohio, is enjoying her best year from behind the arc shooting 44.7% from beyond ...
The Hoosiers traveled to Tallahassee for a matchup with the No. 20 Florida State Seminoles in the ACC-Big Ten challenge. It was a rematch from last season, where Indiana won 80-64 in Bloomington. The game was a tough, grinder of a matchup that could be defined in one word. Physical. It was a back ...
College basketball tipped off Wednesday, November 25th under a cloud of uncertainty. The rising Covid-19 cases have taken a toll on the country and could jeopardize the upcoming season. Iona coach Rick Pitino has said that he wants the season to be pushed back so a vaccine can be administered to lower ...
The IUPUI Lady Jaguars were a dominant team throughout the course of the season. They finished the regular season with a 21-8 record, and only lost three times in Horizon League play. They additionally outscored their conference opponents by 18.7 points per game, and took that dominance to the conference ...
The IUPUI Lady Jags were crowned the 2020 Horizon League champions on Tuesday. It came on a 51-37 victory over the Green Bay Phoenix, an effort spearheaded by senior Holly Hoopingarner, who led the Lady Jags with 16 points. The victory gave the Lady Jags their first Horizon League championship. It ...
On March 10, one women’s basketball team will remain standing in the 2020 Horizon League Tournament. The tournament will resume play with the semifinal round on March 9. The tournament began on March 3, with Wright State, Northern Kentucky, Cleveland State, and Milwaukee all moving on to the second ...
As the Indiana Hoosiers are concluding their regular season, the question with this team is simple: will they get to the NCAA Tournament? Fortunately for the Hoosiers, they have two more games to prove it but both games are at home against Minnesota and Wisconsin. They should be winnable and for the ...
On January 26, Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash that claimed the lives of eight others, including his daughter, Gigi Bryant, in Calabasas, California. For someone like Holly Hoopingarner, who grew up watching Bryant dominate the game, this news came as a shock, almost as something unreal. “My ...
Freshman point guard Mike DePersia has been making the most of his opportunities here at IUPUI. Realizing he’s achieved his dream of playing basketball at a Division I program, DePersia has become one of the hardest workers on the team and was rewarded with a starting role in the third game of the ...
Practice starts for the IUPUI men's basketball team, with one voice heard above the others, offering encouragement, leadership, and compliments to the other players. This voice belongs to Grant Weatherford. Weatherford is a leader for the team. He has been on the team the longest out of all the players. ...
The Indiana Hoosiers are one young team, and the “cupcake” games show that they are blowing teams out. However, I think the expectations and what we have seen from Indiana need to take a pause. Justin Smith has been dominating in his first couple of games. His energy, hustle and discipline helped ...
As Destiny Perkins dribbles down the court, the ring of a whistle echoes throughout The Jungle. With 39 fouls during the game, there was a foul called about every 58 seconds. Even with a lack of momentum due to stoppages, Coach Austin Parkinson and his squad were able to pull out a 81-78 win against ...
The Butler Bulldogs routed the IUPUI Jaguars 80-47 in both teams’ first game of the season. The deficit for the Jags was 10 at halftime, but Butler pulled away, outscoring IUPUI 44-21. Butler senior Sean McDermott shot 10-11 from the field on his way to 26 points, pacing the Bulldogs. The first half ...
For the state of Indiana, schools are looking to return to once great heights. Purdue finished with an Elite Eight appearance, Indiana fought through a talented team but could not figure it out, Notre Dame battled the injury bug, and Butler had a season of ups and downs. Despite the fact that it seems ...
IUPUI Women’s Basketball has had a very successful era with head coach Austin Parkinson at the helm of the team. Heading into his tenth season as coach, Parkinson and the Lady Jaguars look to finally get over the hump and claim their first Horizon League title and make the NCAA Tournament. The Lady ...
The Purdue Boilermakers are coming off an Elite Eight appearance and they are losing star players Carsen Edwards and Ryan Cline. Yet, I don’t care about that--I believe Purdue will be right at the top of the Big Ten conference once again. Obviously, losing Cline and Edwards hurts Purdue. However, ...
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