Ten days before No. 11 Ball State plays its first match, the college men's volleyball regular season will officially begin Tuesday. The defending NCAA championships No. 2 UC Irvine will play host to Cal Baptist at 10 p.m. in Irvine, Calif.
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Ball State has now earned three consecutive wins for the first time under coach Billy Taylor and for the first time since the 2004-05 season.
The loss for the Cardinals put them at 5-7 as the program now will defend a MAC title for the first time in program history. Ball State begins league play on Wednesday at home against Western Michigan University.
Ball State was ranked No. 11 in the preseason top 15 coaches poll released Tuesday night — its highest preseason ranking in seven years. The Cardinals were one of three MIVA teams ranked in the preseason poll. Ohio State finished ahead of Ball State at No. 10, and Lewis tied with UC Santa Barbara at No. 14.
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Ball State President Jo Ann Gora's contract was extended by two years. This will extend her tenure at Ball State to June 30, 2014.
George Clooney stars in his third film released in two months – "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" and "The Men Who Stare at Goats" being the others – as Ryan Bingham in "Up in the Air." Ryan travels the country as a consultant in charge of firing other companies' employees. Spending the majority of the year in hotels and racking up frequent flyer miles isn't exactly a glamorous job by any means. He enjoys and lives for traveling, but eventually he faces the changing economic climate.
Ball State plays the final game of its three-game homestand Thursday as it plays host to Division III Manchester College at 4 p.m. in Worthen Arena. The Cardinals then travel to the University of Dayton on Jan. 5 before beginning MAC play by playing host to Northern Illinois University on Jan. 13.
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Jones had a double-double in the Cardinals' (4-5) 59-45 win over North Carolina Central Dec. 21, scoring 16 points and collecting 10 rebounds. The double-double was Jones' fifth in his career and second in his past three games.
After finishing one of most successful men's basketball season in Ball State history and with a 30-year-old athletics logo unable to be registered for profit, the university decided to make a change to the visual representation of an entire athletics department. Twenty years later, off the heels of the most successful football season in school history, few doubt that Ball State is not regretting that decision to go out with the old, and in with the new.
Randy Howard, vice president for Business Affairs, said it's too early to say exactly what will be cut from within Ball State after the Indiana Commission for Higher Education announced $15.2 million in funding cuts to the university.Howard said administrators would make sure to not impact two specific areas: the educational experience of students and the university's Strategic Plan, which champions immersive learning opportunities.
After winning 11 consecutive conference championships, Penn State University is once again expected to win the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association. Penn State received five of the six first-place votes to finish in first place in the EIVA Tait Division Preseason Poll released Tuesday.
Ball State junior Kolbrin Vitek was named second-team preseason All-American by Collegiate Baseball newspaper, despite switching to the position for this season.
The Hernesmans will be handed a Northwestern State program with lots to improve. The Demons finished last season with a 3-21 overall record, including a 2-14 mark in the Southland Conference, missing the league's postseason tournament for the first time in five seasons.
Maggert scored a career-high 25 points on Saturday in the Cardinals' 71-62 win on the road at Duquesne. She also notched her sixth double-double of the season and eighth career overall by grabbing 15 rebounds against the Dukes.
The Cardinals (3-5) are fresh off their 69-49 loss to No. 4 Purdue University in the John R. Wooden Tradition at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Coach Billy Taylor said he was happy with the effort against a possible Final Four team, but the urgency must continue tonight to end his team's two-game losing streak.
Malik Perry scored 12 first-half points in his first non-start of the season, and anchored a dominating frontcourt performance as Ball State defeated North Carolina Central 59-45 in front of 2,873 fans at Worthen Arena.
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