Quest for Nine Report: MLS SuperDraft
On this edition of the Quest for Nine Report, Griffin Dorsey and Rece Buckmaster get selected in the first round of the MLS SuperDraft. Hear from Dorsey, Buckmaster and IU head coach Todd Yeagley.
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On this edition of the Quest for Nine Report, Griffin Dorsey and Rece Buckmaster get selected in the first round of the MLS SuperDraft. Hear from Dorsey, Buckmaster and IU head coach Todd Yeagley.
CHICAGO -- When Griffin Dorsey was selected with the sixth pick of the 2019 MLS SuperDraft, the story quickly moved away from him and to a kid named Caleb. When Dorsey was selected, he gave a short speech on stage. He started off with referencing the movie ‘Miracle’ and USA coach Herb Brooks. Then the attention shifted to Caleb, saying, “I play for you, Caleb.” Caleb was around the Indiana soccer program for much of the 2019 season and accompanied Dorsey through media responsibilities. He has provided inspiration for not just Dorsey, but the entire Indiana soccer program. Caleb wanted to be at the draft with Dorsey and Dorsey wanted Caleb there too. “Caleb has been an inspiration to me over this past year,” Dorsey said in his speech. “He’s a fighter and has shown me how to stay positive and energetic even during tough times.”
After appearing in the rankings for the first time since November of 2016, the No. 25 Hoosiers will most likely be exiting the rankings again after a 55-50 loss at Ohio State. The Hoosiers hadn’t beaten the Buckeyes in its previous 12 chances, but Thursday was as good a night as ever to break that skid. The Hoosiers raced out to a nine-point lead after the first quarter and held Ohio State to its season low first quarter point total of five. But in the fourth quarter, the Buckeyes started on an 8-0 run and outscored Indiana 25-14 en route to their first Big Ten win of the season and just their fifth win overall. Without further adieu, here are three takeaways from Indiana’s loss.
With the offseason in full swing now, plenty of Hoosiers are starting to find their way in the pro ranks. We break down all of the rumors with our reporting and talk about each departing senior and underclassman who has a chance at a pro contract. Josh, Eddie and Michael break it down.
The Indiana women's basketball team is off to a perfect start in Big Ten play after a big win over Michigan State. Now the Hoosiers hit the road for two road games looking to start the season 5-0. Austin, Josh and Connor break down the holiday period and look at the bigger picture in the Big Ten.
We're finally back with another podcast breaking down the holiday break for the Hoosiers. Indiana has been looking good as of late, but there are a few potential flaws for this team. Zain and Josh break it all down.
Indiana and Michigan State sure have a case for the dramatic, and that was the case once again Sunday. The last time the Hoosiers and the Spartans faced off, it took four overtimes before a winner prevailed. Then in East Lansing last January, it was IU who prevailed and held off a ferocious Spartans comeback. And in that game, it was then-freshman Jaelynn Penn hitting a three-pointer to seal the win for the Hoosiers. Once again Sunday, it was Penn hitting the deciding shot from behind the arc to push Indiana to a 68-64 win and a 3-0 start in the Big Ten. [embed]https://twitter.com/TheHoosierNet/status/1082056755008495616[/embed] “She’s a kid that’s going to knock down (some shots), she’s going to miss a few, but she doesn’t lose her confidence,” IU coach Teri Moren said of Penn. “That three was, right now, from UCLA to today’s shot, she’s had two pretty big ones here early for us.” When the Hoosiers have needed a big bucket, it’s been Penn who they have turned to. In December’s win at UCLA, it was once again Penn providing the heroics. She contributed a game-high 17 points on 7-of-12 shooting, including two makes from behind the arc. But Sunday’s win was much more than just Penn. She provided some big moments, but it was truly a team win. It also happened to be Indiana’s first win over a ranked opponent in nearly two seasons and first of this season. Winning a game like Sunday’s could go very far for the Hoosiers as the season comes down the stretch. “It was like a heavyweight boxing match,” Moren said. “Everybody was taking their best punches at each other.”
After a 2-0 start to Big Ten play dating back to the beginning part of December, the Hoosiers have put themselves in a good spot with conference play restarting Thursday. Indiana has accumulated five top-50 KenPom wins and has lost just two games overall, both on the road. While there have been obstacles (injuries most notably), getting to its 11-2 mark is an impressive feat for a team that has shown flashes of being a great team, and parts of being a team that is a work in progress. Maybe both of those statements are factual. Yet, getting those 11 wins and five against top-50 teams, including Butler, Marquette and Louisville will help this team down the road and it’s something that can’t be taken away from this team no matter where they may lie in March.. A big reason why the Hoosiers have been so successful is due to the play of senior forward Juwan Morgan. He says this stretch of basketball is among the best stretches he’s ever played. “I really think I just try to get better from month to month, just keep trying to stack good games and good practices and just get better and better,” Morgan said. “So I don't think it will be my best ever, but I think it's up there.”
In the 2017-18 season, IU forward Kym Royster was one of the most improved players in, if not the country, then at least the Big Ten conference. Royster started all 37 games, averaged 10.2 points per game, an even six rebounds per game and was a key cog in IU winning the WNIT averaging just over 28 minutes per game. Her points per game more than doubled from her sophomore season and her rebounding nearly tripled. You could combine her first two seasons and it wouldn’t have matched her averages in her junior season. But when looking at her numbers to start the 2018-19 season, there has been a regression, of sorts. She is hitting shots at a near 60 percent clip, but nearly every other statistic is down from last season. After three more games in three days for Royster and the Hoosiers, it was a similar script for the senior out of Newark, Ohio. In IU’s win over Loyola Marymount, Royster played just 16 minutes, accounting for two points and one rebound. In IU’s loss to Grambling State Thursday, Royster played 18 minutes scoring five points and grabbing six rebounds. But Friday in the win vs. South Dakota, she had a solid 11 points and nine rebounds in 24 minutes. She has only scored in double figures three so far this season and hasn’t played more than 28 minutes. While added frontcourt depth may be a factor in her potential regression, it isn’t the same Royster we saw last season. “We need Kym to play better,” IU coach Teri Moren said. “Kym’s been steady. She had a quiet double-double vs. Missouri State, but we’re looking for Kym to be more of a threat on the low block.” What Indiana has to be looking for is what she did last season when she had 21 double figure scoring games, including scoring in double figures in eight of the first 10 games. Those first eight games included two of her three double-doubles for the season. But a big reason for her improvement last season was her work with assistant coach Rhet Wierzba.
Indiana’s depth will no doubt be on display this week when the Hoosiers put their nation leading 15-game win streak on the line for three games in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. At times last season, IU coach Teri Moren looked at her bench and saw players who weren’t ready to play, couldn’t play and/or were injured. The rotation was about seven players. But now in 2018, Moren looks at her bench and sees multiple players who can enter the lineup at any point. The Hoosiers will play three games this week, two against quality opponents in the top 70 of the RPI rankings in Loyola Marymount and South Dakota. Grambling is the third game a team in the 200’s. Nonetheless, the three games in three days will be a testament to the options the Hoosiers have, depth-wise. “Last year we didn’t have the depth and Tyra (Buss) and (Amanda Cahill) were playing a bunch of minutes,” Moren said. “We feel we can go pretty deep into our bench and that’s exactly what you want when you’re looking at a three game tournament like this, not really a tournament, but a three game series, that you can rely on different pieces and your bench and there’s no question that we’re going to have to do that because we have three really good opponents.” The depth will improve with the return of freshman forward Aleksa Gulbe who has missed the last two games with an ankle sprain suffered in practice prior to the Butler game. Moren said she expects Gulbe to be close to 100 percent come Wednesday after having about two weeks off. With three games in three days, Gulbe’s addition will be welcomed. There’s also the thought of having to prepare for three games in succession like the Hoosiers will have to do. Moren says it can help her team down the road. “We’ve always taken the one game at a time approach with this group,” Moren said. “We’re looking at it as a tune up as what the Big Ten Tournament is going to look like. We have to be able to play three games in a row, take them one game at a time.”
INDIANAPOLIS -- When the Hoosiers needed someone to bail them out Saturday, they turned to Juwan Morgan. But when Morgan stepped up most wasn’t with the game tied and the clock ticking down. No, it came in the first half. Because if it wasn’t for Morgan’s first half performance where he had over 50 percent of Indiana's points, the Hoosiers may not have been in a situation to win the ballgame at the buzzer. He scored 34 points in last year’s Crossroads Classic win over Notre Dame in overtime. After last year’s heroics, Morgan apparently wanted more. Morgan didn’t miss a two-point field goal, scored a career high 35 points and willed the Hoosiers to a 71-68 win over the Butler Bulldogs.
One of the first times IU freshman guard Robert Phinisee played at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis was in the 2016 4A Indiana State Championship game. It was Phinisee’s McCutcheon Mavericks vs. now-IU teammate Romeo Langford’s New Albany Bulldogs. While it turned out to be a 62-59 win for Langford and New Albany, Phinisee got the chance to play at one of the premier basketball venues in the state of Indiana: Bankers Life Fieldhouse. When Phinisee walks out on the court Saturday in Indianapolis for IU’s game vs. the Butler Bulldogs, it will be just the second time since that day in 2016 that he plays in Indiana’s NBA arena. The Hoosiers played there for a closed scrimmage prior to this season against Loyola Chicago. But this time around, the stands will be packed with fans from four different in-state universities.
Indiana women's basketball is still rolling as we hit finals week in Bloomington. After two more home wins, the Hoosiers are still undefeated and have 10 days off before going to Puerto Rico for three games. Can they stay undefeated through non-conference play? Austin, Connor and Josh discuss.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – As the final whistle sounded on the 2018 Indiana soccer season, IU senior defender Andrew Gutman stood with his hands on his hips inside Indiana’s attacking 18-yard box. It was almost as if he didn’t know what to do. The MAC Hermann trophy finalist had finished his final collegiate game and the Hoosiers fell short of their third and ultimate goal of the 2018 season. Many other players sunk to their knees or fell to the ground. After coming up short last season in the title match, 2018 was a shot at redemption. It just wasn’t meant to be. In a season where many bounces went Indiana’s way, Friday was a night where that was the opposite. The Terrapins put two goals in the back of the net and ended Indiana’s season in stunning fashion with a 2-0 defeat in the College Cup semifinals. “We created a lot of good chances,” IU defender Andrew Gutman said. “The ball just didn’t bounce our way a couple of times. We weren’t that sharp in the chances we did create. At the end of the day, their defense made a lot of clean interceptions at that pivotal moment.” Coming into Friday’s match, both Maryland and Indiana had yet to allow a goal in the NCAA Tournament. Indiana’s last goal allowed was to the Terrapins in the Big Ten Tournament semifinals. Ben Di Rosa scored that goal, while Friday’s goal came from Ben’s brother, Matt. One of the biggest takeaways was Indiana’s inability to finish in the final third. Indiana outshot the Terrapins 15-10. When Maryland scored its first goal in the 37th minute, there was still confidence within the Hoosiers that a goal would come. Yet it didn’t. “It’s not like we haven’t given up a goal all year,” Gutman said. “The main thing, for me as a leader on this team, is I try to get everyone together real quick after a goal and make sure everyone keeps their head on straight. That’s what we did. When they scored, no one panicked. We were still calm and confident we would create chances, and we did, but we couldn’t put them away.”
Indiana's season came to an abrupt end Friday night, as the Hoosiers bowed out of the College Cup with a 2-0 loss to Maryland. Eddie and Josh recorded this podcast in Santa Barbara and break down the loss along with looking back on the season as a whole.
On this edition of the Quest for Nine Report, the Indiana Hoosiers have their season end at the hands of the Maryland Terrapins. Hear from Todd Yeagley, Austin Panchot and Andrew Gutman.
For most of last season, all forward Justin Rennicks could do was sit and watch. He did just that from the beginning of the season until mid-October, when he made his debut. Because he was a freshman, it was almost a myth of the type of players he was going to be for the Hoosiers. Rennicks had yet to play for IU. But as the season progressed, the Hoosiers kept winning. They won so much that they advanced to the College Cup. At that point, Rennicks had played a handful of matches. Then when the Hoosiers arrived in Philadelphia, Indiana was happy to use its then-freshman striker, at least partly since he wasn’t at full fitness. “I was hurt until the Big Ten Tournament,” Rennicks said. “Got some minutes against Ohio State and some against Michigan State on the way to Philadelphia, but I mean, it’s crazy. I was told I played pretty well in the tournament last year, for not playing so much all year.” Rennicks played about half of the national semifinal against North Carolina and got some time against Stanford in the title match too. He said he was told he played well, and that was the case. The Hamilton, Massachusetts native gave Indiana a much-needed spark in the attack, which only built up the hype coming into 2018. “We knew we would need him,” IU coach Todd Yeagley said after the North Carolina match last season. “We said you’ve got to be ready and he didn’t shy from the moment. He played arguably his best minutes of the year and was super productive for us.” But that was last year when Rennicks wasn’t at full fitness. Throughout the entirety of last season, Rennicks played in nine matches tallying one assist and only one shot, which came in the North Carolina match.
After a 1-0 win over Notre Dame, Indiana is off to its second straight College Cup in Santa Barbara. We break down the path to the College Cup and look ahead to Indiana's match vs. Maryland. Joe Catapano, Maryland beat reporter from The Diamondback, also joins Eddie to preview the Terrapins. Can Indiana bring home its ninth national title? Josh, Eddie and Michael discuss.
Indiana moved to 7-0 on the season after a 67-65 road victory over the UCLA Bruins in Los Angeles, California. Pauley Pavilion has not been an easy place to play for opponents. Sunday's loss by the Bruins was just the fourth home loss since the 2015-16 season. But for Indiana, it closes a road trip that took them from Winston-Salem, North Carolina on Wednesday all the way to Westwood for Sunday's matchup. The Hoosiers now head home for two games against Butler and Missouri State this week before going to Puerto Rico for three games starting December 19. Now to the three takeaways from Sunday's win in Westwood for the Hoosiers.
It took late game heroics, but Indiana earned its first Big Ten win of the season, holding off Northwestern, 68-66. Any Big Ten win is important and this could be a crucial victory for the Hoosiers come March. Now to the three takeaways. Carrying the load It was once again Juwan Morgan and Romeo Langford leading the way for Indiana. Both were fairly efficient from the field and hit big buckets when IU needed them. When Morgan exited with 3:30 left to play, he had 17 points and 12 rebounds. Morgan finished eight-of-13 from the field. As for Langford, he had a nice bounce back game after a rough night at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Tuesday. He finished with 20 points on eight-of-13 shooting. These two carrying the load is becoming a familiar sight for the Hoosiers. It isn't surprising, but especially when Morgan leaves the game, it would be nice for Indiana to have a third scorer to turn to when a bucket is needed. Losing Juwan Morgan? At the under-four media timeout, Juwan Morgan was down on the ground being tended to by the Indiana training staff. For a team that has already been very hurt this season, losing Morgan would be an even bigger loss for the Hoosiers moving forward. Because he stayed out of foul trouble Saturday, he was able to be a much bigger part of what Indiana wanted to do. Immediately after the game, it is unsure how severe the injury to Morgan is. The Hoosiers would have to rely much more on a guy like De'Ron Davis should Morgan be forced to miss time. That could be an issue for the Hoosiers as Davis is still getting back to full fitness after tearing his Achilles last season. Late game execution This was the second time this season where Indiana was tested all the way down to the final buzzer. The Hoosiers didn't past their first test at Arkansas, losing 73-72, and Langford's bucket with 40 seconds left was big. Without Morgan on the floor, Langford stepped up as the go-to scorer for the Hoosiers, and he delivered. When Indiana needed a stop, down the stretch, they got one. Langford deflected a pass that then hit Northwestern's Vic Law on the way out of bounds with 32.2 seconds left. Then it was Rob Phinisee finding Justin Smith for a dunk to put IU up four. Then it was Phinisee to put the game on ice with a free throw. It was a hard earned win, but a Big Ten win is a Big Ten win.