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High school basketball sees rule changes ahead of 2024-25 season
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) — High school boys and girls basketball will see some changes to the game starting next season. The NFHS met to discuss and vote on several rule changes. One of the biggest changes that we’ll see this year has to do with ‘flopping.’
Delphi, West Lafayette, Faith Christian vie for Journal & Courier Athletes of the Week
LAFAYETTE — Four baseball, track and field, golf and softball stars from Delphi, West Lafayette and Faith Christian are jockeying for the Journal and Courier Athletes of the Week award. Their nominations were recommended by coaches and fans along with J&C sports reporters covering the various high school athletic...
Injury provided opportunity for Purdue baseball's Luke Gaffney, who is smashing records
WEST LAFAYETTE — Purdue baseball coach Greg Goff constantly relays the message to his players to be ready because you never know when your opportunity will come. Now, Goff has evidence. And his name is Luke Gaffney. In the fall, the redshirt freshman first baseman was behind Breck Nowik on the depth chart. ...
Big Ten releases men's basketball conference opponents for 2024-25 season
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (PURDUE SPORTS) – The Big Ten Conference has announced the single-play and home-and-away conference opponents for the 2024-25 men's basketball season. For the seventh straight season, the league will play a 20-game league schedule and with the addition of the four West Coast teams, teams will play just three home-and-away contests during the upcoming season. Over the previous six years with the 20-game schedule, Purdue owns the league's best record with an 84-35 (.706) record, the Big Ten's best mark by eight-and-a-half games (Illinois – 76-44).
Student suing Purdue over Mackey Arena stampede during basketball ticket sales
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A student is suing Purdue University after alleging that she was injured in a stampede of people outside Mackey Arena during basketball ticket sales last year. In a lawsuit filed last Friday in Tippecanoe County Court, Purdue student Alanna R. Nash claims that the university...
Thousands of miles from home, Purdue's Connor Caskenette, Jo Stevens bonded by baseball
WEST LAFAYETTE — Connor Caskenette clobbered a moon shot off the Purdue baseball video board during the first inning Wednesday night. Not to be outdone, Jo Stevens promptly parked one over the fence, too. It was the third straight game both have homered. "He hit the home run and...
Isaac Loechle picks up reigns at Legacy Courts left behind by late friend Dustin Harvey
LAFAYETTE — The passion for coaching and training basketball players caught Isaac Loechle long before taking a youth athletics leadership role in Lafayette. Loechle was introduced as the Legacy Courts director of player development and youth basketball last Monday after carving a path through the amateur and collegiate coaching and training ranks. Loechle's most notable stint was becoming an assistant coach at IUPUI from 2018-21.
Third-ranked McCutcheon baseball piling up short-term goals for long-term success
LAFAYETTE — Tristan McIntyre knew the talent his McCutcheon baseball team had. Enough where the Mavericks could aim their goals high. To achieve all those championships McCutcheon dreams of, and is talented enough to accomplish, McIntyre had to break it down into much smaller goals. After beating Lafayette Jeff...
Winner's mindset: Lafayette Jeff 3-sport athlete Jade Wiese picks herself up after injury
LAFAYETTE — The eyes of Lafayette Jeff senior Jade Wiese closed as she began to chop her legs up and down at Schuemann Stadium. The IUPUI-signed jumper leaped with all the power she could generate into the soft sand pit during the Lafayette City County Track Meet on Tuesday afternoon.
Lafayette Jeff, Harrison and McCutcheon relish in IHSAA addition of boys volleyball
LAFAYETTE — Lafayette Jeff boys volleyball coach Gayle Gripe couldn't wait to share the news with her son J.T. over the phone and deliver what the Indiana Boys Volleyball Coaches Association had been chasing for 30 years. After all, it was J.T. that inspired Gripe to take up the mantle and become one...
Purdue women's basketball adds two-time NAIA Player of the Year Ella Collier
WEST LAFAYETTE — Purdue women's basketball dug deep into the transfer portal and made an addition, one that head coach Katie Gearlds is familiar with. A player who predates her head coaching status at Purdue and back to the humble grounds of Marian University. Purdue women's basketball added guard...
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