An Indiana Statesman columnist claims colleges and universities are making moves between conferences for the money.
http://www.indianastatesman.com/sports/football-conferences-will-never-be-the-same-1.2672387
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Photo of Kylie's pole breaking at Billy Hayes
Here is a photo of Kylie's vault milliseconds after the pole broke:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30609833&id=1560933572#!
4 MVC runners (2 men, 2 women) will be running at the NCAA Cross Country championship meet in Terre Haute on Monday, if you're near TH and can take the meet in it truly is a spectacular event.
Indiana State's Scott Keeney is running, it is his first NCAA championship race, he is a junior at...
no info posted on the ISU site, but ISU's cross country teams run in the NCAA Great Lakes Regional meet tomorrow at Purdue in an attempt to qualify for the NCAA meet at ISU on the 24th.
ISU would have to run a phenomenal race to make it, but who knows, they nearly won the MVC meet over a...
WOW, incredible stat here:
"Elgin said Drake's last-second loss to Western Kentucky in the tournament cost the conference $2 million over the next six years. Conferences earn "units" from the NCAA for each game played and each victory."
article link
http://www.kansas.com/250/story/590507.html
really should come as no surprise, but ISU ranks last or near last in many NCAA stats after the first 5 games.
they're dead last in scoring offense and scoring defense, which of course, makes sense.
http://web1.ncaa.org/football/exec/rankingSummary?org=305&year=2008&week=6
ISU was awarded the 2009 NCAA championship meet for Cross Country today. As many of you know ISU has hosted this meet for quite a while now and does an outstanding job (one reason they keep hosting the meet).
I know most people know very little and don't care too much about cross country, but...
the ISU women placed in the top 5 once again for the women's BB GPA. Congrats girls! released today.
MVC teams in bold
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1. S. Dakta St. - 3.669
2. Kansas State - 3.652
3. Indiana State - 3.591
4. Eastern Washington - 3.584
5. Western Carolina - 3.543
6. Northern Iowa -...
four ISU athletes start competition in the NCAA track meet in Des Moines on Wednesday. All 4 have a realistic shot to be all americans. Erica Moore, Kylie Hutson, Steve Daniel and Lauren Martin will all be there for ISU. 20 MVC athletes qualified for the meet, so the MVC will be well represented...
Erica Moore took second place Saturday in the finals of the 400-meter hurdles in the NCAA Mideast Regional to secure an automatic spot in the NCAA championships.
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The 2008 outdoor track season has been one in which Indiana State sophomore Kylie Hutson has re-written ISU and Missouri Valley Conference all-time records in the pole vault.
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The Sycamores played five opponents in the field this year:
W - L
Arizona 0-3
Wichita St . 1-2
Missouri 0-3
Mississippi 0-3
and surprising Eastern Illinois 2-0
9 ISU athletes are competing in the NCAA track regional this weekend at Arkansas. They'll need top 5 finishes to qualify for the NCAA championship meet.
the 9 competing are:
Sean Wright who will compete in both the 200 and 400 meter dashes over the weekend. He will be joined by fellow junior...
With few exceptions, the Indiana State women?s tennis team got the first punch in against Vanderbilt in the singles and doubles matches at Friday?s NCAA tennis regional.
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During a Tuesday practice at Duane Klueh Tennis Complex, Indiana State women?s tennis coach Malik Tabet said that ISU tennis players Jennifer Migan and Joanne Schickerling came over to the United States on the same boat.
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The Indiana State women?s tennis will not have to go very far to play in their first ever NCAA Tournament in two weeks as the No. 70-ranked Sycamores (13-6) were paired with No. 11 Vanderbilt in the first round of the tournament.
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updated on April 27th, the most glaring stat for ISU:
walks allowed per 9 inning game - 5.28, ranking them 264th of 286 teams, ugh!
to see all the updated stats click on the red link here:
http://web1.ncaa.org/stats/StatsSrv/rankings?sportCode=MBA&rpt=wkly
The women's tennis team will play Vanderbilt in the NCAA tourney next Friday.
Details:
http://www.gosycamores.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=15200&ATCLID=1450081
So who's everyone pulling for now that Purdue,IU,Drake and Notre Dame are out? I'm pulling big time for our friends from Butler. Should be a amazing game today with Tennessee!