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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A 3-point play from Emily Maggert put the Cardinals up 23-21 at the 6:07 mark of the first half, and Ball State wouldn't give up the lead the rest of the way.Though Duquesne did come within two points at 55-53 with 6:12 to play in the game — off the heels of an 11-0 run by the Dukes — Ball State slowly built back its lead, beginning with three Audrey McDonald free throws thereafter, and a free throw battle eventually pushed the game out of reach.
INDIANAPOLIS — Ball State was no match for No. 4 Purdue, losing 69-49 in Conseco Fieldhouse. Center Jarrod Jones led the Cardinals with 16 points and eight rebounds.
Leading the way for Ball State (3-5) was sophomore center Jarrod Jones with 16 points and eight rebounds. Senior forward Terrence Watson (12 points) and freshman guard Jauwan Scaife (10) also reached double-digits for the Cardinals.
Ball State received 43 votes to finish in second place and one vote behind first-place Ohio State in the MIVA preseason poll released Wednesday.
Defense will be the key for Ball State to hang with No. 4 Purdue.
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At the 2001 Maui Invitational, the Ball State University men's basketball team knocked off two top-five schools to reach the tournament final.
The Ball State University football team rose to No. 12 in the country before falling in the MAC Championship game.
In a decade of struggles, frustrations and racial conflict, the 2001 Maui Invitational represented the lone bright spot this decade for Ball State's men's basketball program. Defeating a pair of top-five opponents in consecutive nights, Petie Jackson, Theron Smith and coach Tim Buckley put the Cardinals program back on the national map. Read to remember how it all went down.
In September 2007, Talk show host David Letterman visited Ball State University's campus for the dedication of the newly constructed David Letterman Communication and Media Building.About 5,000 people gathered outside Letterman Building on Sept. 7 to see the ceremony. The crowd stretched to Shafer Tower and down McKinley Avenue.
The BorgWarner plant sits empty between Muncie and Yorktown on Kilgore Avenue, a former symbol of greater economic and industrial times. The million-square-foot factory once housed up to 6,000 employees, making parts for World War II Jeeps, Corvettes and Ford F-150s, to name a few. It closed in April, eliminating 780 jobs and ending more than 100 years of union industry in Muncie.
A Ball State University student was shot and killed by University Police Officer Robert Duplain in November 2003.Toxicology reports later showed that the student, Michael McKinney, had a blood alcohol content of .343 at the time he was shot. Now, members of the Ball State community affected by the incident remember the five-year ordeal.
