The North Daviess Cougars are making final preparations this week for their trip to the Seymour Regional tomorrow. WAMW fed the team pizza after practice last night, and had a chance to catch up to the coach for a quick visit. Brent Dalrymple is in his 22nd season leading the Cougars and told they have been hard at it this week getting ready.
The coach went on to size up his opponent for tomorrow’s Class A semistate against Jac-Cen Del…
The Cougars head to Seymour with a record of 25 and 3, while Jac-Cen-Del comes in at 22 and 5. Tip off is set for 4:00 pm tomorrow afternoon. A community send-off is set for tomorrow in downtown Odon to send them team on their way. The team will leave the school at 11:00 am tomorrow morning and make a trip down Main Street in Odon. Fans and businesses on Main are encouraged to line up the street in black and orange, and decorate your store front to support the team. In the second game at Seymour tomorrow, Eastern Hancock will face off with Providence at 6:00 pm.
At the Hatchet House in Washington, the 3A and 4A semi state match ups are set. In game one at 1:00 pm, Sullivan will take on Beech Grove, while the 4A game at 3:00 pm pits Indianapolis Cathedral against Bloomington North.
The Indiana Hoosiers’ March Madness run came to an end last night. The Hoosiers fell to St. Mary’s 82-53 in the round of sixty-four. Indiana struggled from the field and defensively, going 0-10 to start the second half. IU’s season was not one to write off though. They made the NCAA tournament for the first time in six years, ended their nine game losing streak against Purdue and upset two favored teams in the Big 10 Tournament. Under first year head coach Mike Woodson, IU compiled a 21-15 record and went 9-11 in the Big 10. Junior Forward Trayce Jackson-Davis saw improvements in his shooting percentage, assist, and point totals compared to last season.
In the first truly shocking upset of March Madness 2022, a Kentucky Wildcats team that many bracket-fillers and national observers had pegged for a Final Four appearance (at a minimum) fell to the 15th-seeded Saint Peter’s Peacocks 85-79 in overtime on Thursday in Indianapolis.
Upsetting teams in the NCAA tournament is nothing new for the twelfth-seeded Richmond Spiders, who knocked off the fifth-seeded Iowa Hawkeyes 67-63 on Thursday in this year’s first big upset. It was Richmond’s ninth victory as a No. 12 seed or worse since seeding began in 1979.
