UE returns home Wednesday for Senior Day against SIU

 Trailing by ten points with four minutes remaining, the University of Evansville men’s basketball team got within one tally in the final minute, but Bradley was able to escape with a 63-61 win on Saturday inside Carver Arena.

“Our guys did not give up, they made some good plays and kept on battling,” UE head coach Walter McCarty said.  “We lost that game in the last two minutes of the first half; we sent them to the line too much.  If we keep them off the line, we win this game.”

“It was fun to see how we kept on fighting, we did a lot of good things today.”

K.J. Riley was the Aces’ (10-19, 4-12 MVC) leading scorer with 13 points.  He was 5-for-11 from the floor.  Local native Shea Feehan recorded 11 points on the day.  He hit two triples and three free throws.  Darrell Brown was the top scorer in the game, finishing with 19 points while hitting nine free throws for the Braves (16-13, 8-8 MVC).

A quick start saw the Aces jump out to an 8-0 lead just over two minutes in.  K.J. Riley hit a floater to get the scoring started before Marty Hill and Evan Kuhlman posted triples to give UE the lead just over two minutes in.

Bradley responded with a 10 stretch while holding UE to 1-of-7 shooting over the next five minutes.  Noah Frederking ended the stretch with a steal and runout to tie the game before Kuhlman’s second triple completed a 5-0 spurt.  The Braves rallied to tie it up at 13-13 before Noah Frederking knocked down a triple to put Evansville back in front.  The Aces extended their edge to 25-19 on a Riley layup with 3:14 remaining.

Over the final three minutes of the half, the Braves took control, scoring 11 in a row to take a 30-25 lead into halftime.  BU hit three of its final four attempts while holding UE to 1-for-8 to wrap up the first 20 minutes.  Evansville attempted 21 triples in the first half.

After a Bradley bucket extended its run to 13-0 in the opening possession of the second half, John Hall hit his first from long range to make it a 32-28 game.  The Braves came right back, scoring eight in a row to push the lead to a game-high 40-28.

Peoria native Shea Feehan got Evansville right back into the contest.  He connected from long range before getting fouled on another attempt from outside as the Aces cut the Bradley lead to two points – 44-42 – midway through the second half.  The Braves were able to rebound and push their lead back to 61-51 with four minutes left in the game.  Riley helped UE get closer as his layup and free throws, coupled with a Kuhlman three, cut the BU lead to 61-58 with one minute left.

Another Riley bucket made it a 61-60 game with 29 ticks on the clock.  Following a free throw make, the Aces had the ball down two.  A missed triple gave the ball back to Bradley as they were able to hang on for the 63-61 victory.

Evansville outshot Bradley by a 38.6%-32.7% margin, but the Braves had a 41-35 rebounding edge.  Kuhlman, Frederking and Dainius Chatkevicius had solid outings for UE.  Kuhlman tallied nine points, all coming via the long ball.  Frederking notched eight points while Chatkevicius had eight points and four rebounds.

On Wednesday, the Aces will play their final home game of the season against Southern Illinois with tip set for 6 p.m.  It will mark Senior Day when the program recognizes its class of Marty Hill, Dainius Chatkevicius. Shea Feehan and Jared Chestnut.

The No. 17-ranked Indiana University women’s swimming and diving team captured the program’s sixth Big Ten Championship on Saturday night at the Counsilman Billingsley Aquatic Center in Bloomington, Ind.

Indiana captured the team’s first league crown for the first time in 2011 with a total score of 1,386.5 points. No. 2-ranked Michigan finished second with 1,302.5 points, while No. 22 Ohio State was third with a total of 1,162.5. The 1,386.5 points are the most for the Hoosiers in Big Ten Championships history.

Over the course of the 2019 Big Ten Women’s Championships, the Hoosiers won a total of 14 medals – seven gold, one silver and six bronze. Earning First-Team All-Big Ten honors for the Hoosiers were Bailey Andison, Christine Jensen, Lilly King, Shelby Koontz, Jessica Parratto and Morgan Scott.

Indiana’s Lilly King made even more history on Saturday night, becoming the first woman in conference history to win the Big Ten title in the 200 breaststroke four-straight seasons, winning with a NCAA A cut time of 2:05.14.

King, who won four titles this week with the Hoosiers, finishes her Big Ten career as a 16-time conference champion and is the only woman in league history to win eight breaststroke titles.

Also in the Championship Final, freshman Noelle Peplowski had a career-best performance, winning bronze with a PR of 2:07.75. Senior Bailey Andison was sixth with a personal-best time of 2:08.04, while classmate Laura Morley was eighth in 2:09.45.

Bailey Kovac led four Hoosiers in the B Final of the 200 breast, winning with a time of 2:10.66. Abby Kirkpatrick was fourth with a career-best time of 2:11.59, while Mackenzie Atencio was seventh with a PR of 2:12.30. Freshman Mackenzie Looze was eighth in a time of 2:13.33.

 The Big Ten Diver of the Championships, Jessica Parratto made the most of her final home meet, winning her fourth league title in the platform dive with a CBAC pool record score of 394.40. Parratto was incredible throughout her list, scoring 84.80 on each of her final dives and no less than 72.00 on any other.

Parratto is a five-time Big Ten champion after winning gold in the 1-meter dive on Thursday. The Dover, N.H. native also took bronze in the 3-meter on Friday.

Earlier in the B Final, Taylor Carter placed seventh with a score of 249.00. Carter was a great asset for the Hoosiers this week, scoring in all three events.

 In the 400 freestyle relay, the Indiana team of Morgan Scott, Christine Jensen, Shelby Koontz and Bailey Andison won the bronze with a school record and NCAA A cut time of 3:14.32.

Cassy Jernberg led a quartet of Hoosier distance swimmers in the 1,650 freestyle, winning bronze with a time of 15:57.25.

Freshman Maggie Wallace cut nearly 11 seconds off her previous career-best to take sixth place with a time of 16:08.32, while Josie Grote just missed the podium, taking ninth in a personal-best time of 16:07.10. Christin Rockway placed 12^th overall with a time of 16:24.43.

 Once again, freshman Morgan Scott had a clutch swim for the Hoosiers, placing fourth overall in the Championship Final of the 100 freestyle with a career-best time of 48.84.

In the B Final, Julia Wolf placed third with a personal-best mark of 49.35, while Laurel Eiber was sixth in 49.92. In the C Final, Grace Haskett was second with a time of 49.77, while Maria Paula Heitmann was eighth in 50.59.

Shelby Koontz led the Hoosiers in the 200 butterfly, placing sixth in the Championship Final with a time of 1:57.54. In the B Final, senior Christine Jensen was fifth with a mark of 1:58.37.

Over the course of the Big Ten Championships, the Hoosiers recorded some impressive accolades. Indiana broke one American record, one NCAA record, one Big Ten record, four school records, six pool records and two Big Ten Meet records.

IU also amassed nine NCAA A cuts, 85 NCAA B cuts and had 67 career-best performances.