Indiana
Poor shooting and sloppy turnovers doom Minnesota against Indiana
Minnesota lost 74-62 to Indiana at Assembly Hall. The Gophers dropped to 3-2 in Big Ten play and 12-4 on the season. Pharrel Payne led all scorers with 17 points.
The trouble with supporting a team that is in fact not that good yet is watching inconsistency. During the seven game win streak, the Gophers did a good job mitigating obviously silly mistakes. Sadly, those mistakes returned with a vengeance against Indiana. The Gophers had 14 turnovers overall, but five of them were in the first 8 minutes. Dawson Garcia picked up two early fouls and had to sit for large portions of the first half. Elijah Hawkins, who has played so well over the last seven games, made several mistakes that we have not seen since early in non-conference play.
Second to the foul trouble and turnovers was cold shooting. Basketball remains a simple game and if a team cannot shoot then there is not much to say otherwise. The numbers from distance tell the story. The Gophers were just 2-6 in the first half and 11-29 from the field. In the second half, they “improved” their overall field goal percentage to 40%, but were just 1-14 from distance. 3-20 from three point range will rarely if ever win a basketball game. A decent number of those looks were good looks within the offense, but a fair few of them were rushed or settled shots. Credit to Indiana for disrupting the Gophers primary actions.
The lone bright spot was Pharrel Payne, who was 7-8 from the field and finished with 10 rebounds. He was aggressive on drives and getting position on the low block. About the only weakness in the sophomore’s game are free throws (3-8 from the line).
So let’s take stock of where the Gophers are five games in the conference season. Indiana struck me as a good test for evaluating Minnesota. The Hoosiers and Minnesota have played nearly identical conference schedules and have roughly equivalent metrics. I did not get the sense from watching the game that the Gophers were six possessions worse than Indiana. Assuming the Gophers develop appropriately over the season, I’ll make the prediction now that they win by six when this matchup returns to the Barn.
What was confirmed is that the Gophers right now are not good enough to have sort of off-night, even against mid level Big Ten competition.
The Gophers next take on Iowa on January 15th at Williams Arena.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The ‘Big Boy’ Locomotive is making its way back west from Philadelphia, and is in the area on Wednesday and Thursday.
It has a 30-minute stop tomorrow morning at 11:30 in Continental, Ohio, about an hour east of downtown Fort Wayne. Then, it will travel into New Haven from the east.
Recommended viewing spots are along Dawkins Road near Webster Road at Jefferson Township Park or in town at the New Haven City Hall parking lot.
Train officials remind spectators they should remain more than 25 feet away from the tracks to avoid trespassing and to stay safe.
After an overnight stay in New Haven, which is not open to the public, it will travel through downtown Fort Wayne around 9 am Thursday.
It will then make a 30-minute stop in Knox, Indiana, about 2 hours west of Fort Wayne, near South Bend and Valparaiso, which is open to the public at N. Main St. and W. Bender St. from 12:30 to 1p Central Time.
Crowds have been very large and officials suggest arriving early.
In June, Big Boy stopped here on its way to Philadelphia for the Fourth of July as part of the historic coast-to-coast tour in celebration of the United States of America’s 250th birthday.
Union Pacific’s ‘Big Boy’ No. 4014 is the world’s largest operating steam engine, weighing in at a whopping 1.2 million pounds. Twenty-five Big Boys were commissioned for Union Pacific, the first being delivered in 1941, where they were used to haul equipment in support of the war at the time.
You can track the historic locomotive through a live map of the train’s location, here.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WSBT) — New standards are now in place for Indiana schools to request four day school week waivers.
Operation Education told you about the pilot program at Vinton Elementary near Lafayette back in 2024.
Operation Education: Indiana elementary pilots 4-day school week
That pilot program ends next spring.
It is the only school in Indiana operating on a four day week schedule.
The state’s new standards mean schools have to earn an “A” grade to be considered.
They also have to offer transportation for students who choose to attend a school on a five day schedule, pay teachers at least $45,000 a year, and offer enrichment and remediation at no cost to parents on the fifth day.
The State Board of Education would then decide if the school can move to a four day week.
More than 800 schools nationwide now operate on that schedule.
MONROE COUNTY, Ind. – The ACLU of Indiana filed a lawsuit over what it calls “unconstitutional conditions” at the Monroe County Jail.
This comes after the advocacy group previously suggested it would take legal action to resolve a lengthy dispute over the facility’s safety.
The federal lawsuit was filed on behalf of two individuals currently incarcerated at the jail. It cites chronic overcrowding, deteriorating infrastructure, unsafe living conditions and the county’s inability to remedy the problems.
The dispute originally flared in 2008, when the ACLU of Indiana filed a lawsuit challenging conditions at the jail. That led to a 2009 settlement in which county officials promised a long-term solution. Over the years, the deadline for improvements has been extended multiple times.
While the county appeared to embrace a brand-new justice complex near I-69 and State Road 46, those plans stalled when the county council voted down the project due to cost concerns.
The ACLU said the settlement has expired and the original lawsuit has been dismissed, necessitating the filing of a new one. The lawsuit claims conditions at the jail violate the 14th Amendment rights of people awaiting trial and 8th Amendment rights of people held after conviction.
The lawsuit names the Monroe County Council, Monroe County commissioners and Monroe County sheriff as defendants.
In a news release, the ACLU cited several problems at the jail, ranging from overcrowding to “extreme temperatures, broken plumbing, mold, crumbling walls, limited disability access, and failures to safely separate people with different medical and security needs.”
Ken Falk, legal director for the ACLU of Indiana, said officials have had long enough to fix the numerous issues.
“They have had nearly two decades to find a lasting solution, yet people are still being held in unconstitutional conditions that threaten their health and safety,” Falk said in a statement. “Studies have documented that the jail is dangerous and inadequate, and the sheriff has been candid about its many problems. However, the sheriff’s role under Indiana law is limited, and the county officials who could solve this problem have not listened.”
The ACLU is asking the court to certify the case as a class action and seeks a permanent injunction “requiring defendants to take all steps necessary to ensure that the conditions of confinement at the Monroe County Jail comply with the United States Constitution,” among other relief.
FOX59/CBS4 reached out to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office regarding this lawsuit. Officials with the office stated that they are “declining to comment on pending litigation.”
Read the full complaint here.
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