The team will travel to Champaign on Friday to take on Illinois at 1 p.m. The Illini have been ranked in the top 15 teams all year in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association poll.
Ball State will be in action Friday against George Mason University followed by another road match at Rutgers-Newark University on Saturday.
Ball State will face another highly-ranked opponent this weekend when it travels to No. 10 University of Louisville (15-1).
But the Cardinals (15-5), travels to Columbia, Mo., to start the DeMarini Invitational. Ball State will start the tournament with host University of Missouri, ranked third in the nation and winners of 16 straight.
Mid-American Conference champions Ohio University scored the biggest upset of the NCAA Tournament's first day, knocking off No. 3 seed Georgetown University 97-83 in Providence, R.I.
The 2010 class of the Ball State University gymnastics team will say goodbye to Cardinal fans and Worthen Arena on Sunday. Ball State will face Eastern Michigan University at 1 p.m. in the seniors' final home meet.
Each week, The Ball State Daily News sports staff picks its PPQ — the player, play and quote of the week. And, with the help of our online readers, the weekly fan choice is also featured. To vote in next week's poll, be sure to visit Monday's online edition of The Ball State Daily News.
Coach Greg Beals said Benbow's experience has allowed him to take advantage of the good hitting situations he finds himself in. Benbow is a four-year starter for the Cardinals, something he says has helped him succeed this year.
The Cardinals (15-5) return to action Friday in the DeMarini Invitational in Columbia, Miss., as they take on the No. 3 University of Missouri (16-2) and Northwestern University (9-10), which received one vote in this week's ESPN.com/USA Today Poll.
The Ball State women's volleyball coaching position became vacant March 3 when former coach Dave Boos resigned to become an assistant coach with the University of Florida. Boos was officially hired by Florida yesterday.
Junior Brittany Kelly of the women's golf team was named the Mid-American Conference Player of the Week on Monday for her performance in the team's two tournaments over Spring Break.
Burris girl's volleyball coach Steve Shondell was rumored to meet with Ball State athletics director Tom Collins Tuesday morning to discuss the opening, but Collins said Tuesday afternoon that those reports were just that: rumors.
With the most arduous part of Ball State University's schedule behind it, coach Greg Beals wants to turn the focus to doing the little things better.
Former Ball State University women's volleyball coach Dave Boos was announced as an assistant coach for the University of Florida on Monday, almost two weeks after resigning at Ball State.
Ball State scored 22 runs in their first two games of the weekend against the University of Michigan and Lipscomb University, including a nine-run sixth inning that propelled Ball State to victory against Lipscomb. But Ball State (5-11) sputtered Sunday, scoring just three runs in a loss to the University of Illinois.
Nothing crazy happened to the Ball State University's men's volleyball team over Spring Break, as the Cardinals won the match they were favored in and lost their two matches going in as the underdogs.
Ball State has struggled lately, losing a close match 5-4 at DePauw University on Tuesday. This was followed by being blown out 7-0 by the University of St. Louis on Thursday.
Maddox is a 2005 graduate of Old Dominion University, where she was a four-year field hockey letterwinner. She scored seven goals and had two assists in 77 career games, as Maddox and the Monarchs won the National Championship in 2000.
Eleven of Ball State's 19 intercollegiate varsity team's competed over Spring Break. Some excelled, while others struggled and some even saw their seasons come to a close.
Sports Editor Teddy Cahill provides news and notes from the MAC Tournament taking place in Cleveland this weekend.
