Points were hard to come by in Ball State’s season opener at Bradley on Friday, Nov 13. The Cardinals made 20 field goals on 55 attempts, good for a 36.4 percent from the field.
The Ball State women’s basketball team dropped its season opener in Charlotte, N.C., 72-66, marking the ninth straight season-opening loss for the Cardinals.
Ball State football has had several ups and downs this season, and the team sits at 3-7 overall and 2-4 in the Mid-American Conference. One area the team has excelled at offensively is the low amount of penalties they give up. Head coach Pete Lembo attributes the low number to the high expectations he set for the team. “If you set the standards and expectations and expect your guys to live up to those every day then you have a much better chance of going out there and not committing foolish turnovers, foolish penalties,” Lembo said.
For the first time since 2009, the Ball State gymnastics team will host the Mid-American Conference Championships at Worthen Arena on March 19. Ball State has hosted the tournament five other times in its history and will once again hold home-court advantage.
Upgrades and renovations of Ball State athletics facilities have been in process this school year because of donations from friends and family to the Cardinal Commitment campaign. The campaign rose $20.6 million for facility improvements for Ball State athletics across the board.
The Cardinals' women's basketball team managed to sign three new prep players to national letters of intent for the 2016-17 season.
Former Ball State softball player and current assistant coach Jenny Gilbert signed a two-year professional contract with the Akron Racers on Nov. 3.
One year removed from winning the Mid-American Conference West Division women’s basketball title with a 13-5 conference record (17-14 overall), Ball State was picked to finish second in the division in the MAC coaches’ preseason poll.
The men’s basketball program has the tools to compete for a Mid-American Conference championship this year.
The warm Hawaiian sun was not enough to distract men's golfer Johnny Watts from a dominant performance at the Ka'anapali Collegiate Classic. Watts finished third out of 102 golfers, topping nine of the 10 top-100 players coming into the tournament. Though Watts finished third, he was just two strokes behind individual medalist Zach Healy out of Georgia. The Sophomore out of Fishers earned his place after posting a career-best 54-hole score of six under par 207 after going 69, 68 and 70 respectively. This is the fourth top 20 and second top ten finish for last spring's MAC individual champion.
First-year Ball State field hockey coach Sally Northcroft announced her resignation on Nov. 9 to pursue opportunities outside of the United States.
There have been 12 quarterbacks who have played for the Ball State football team since the new millennium; six of them have been freshman starters.
Ball State locked up a guaranteed seed in the Mid-American Conference women's volleyball tournament this weekend, even if it wasn't how they wanted to earn it.
Recently the Ball State men’s golf team traveled to Lahaina, Hawaii for the Ka’anapali Collegiate Classic. While the team finished in 12th place overall, one Cardinal stood out above the rest, finishing third in the entire tournament.
Since the Homecoming game against Toledo, Ball State's offense has slowed down its production. During that timeframe, the team has dropped four games and has struggled moving the ball in its sole win over the University of Massachusetts on Halloween day.
Ball State fans are used to watching their quarterback, Riley Neal, on Saturday afternoons at Scheumann Stadium. Whether he’s breaking freshman passing records or carving up defenses with his feet, Neal has quickly become a fan favorite. But this Saturday, the Cardinal faithful have a chance to see another member of the Neal family shine in a different sport.
Ball State officially lost postseason bowl eligibility after suffering a 54-7 loss to Western Michigan on Thursday. It's the second consecutive season that the Cardinals won't compete in the postseason. The Broncos gained 711 yards on the Cardinals, including 300-plus yard performances through the air and on the ground.
Ball State won the toss and deferred, then committed a facemask penalty on the ensuing kickoff. Western Michigan got the ball at their own 29-yard line to start the game.
This weekend may be distracting for the Ball State men's golf team, with warm sand under their toes and the North Pacific ocean crashing waves onto the beach right next to them during their back swing.
Ball State will travel to Western Michigan University in a must-win game if it hopes to keep its bowl eligibility alive.
