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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: NEWS AND NOTES Double vertime Mingo Ready To Go KCharters@GoldandBlack.com BY KYLE CHARTERS Drey Mingo will take the floor makers teammates, as they play Indiana State in a closed scrim- mage in Mackey Arena. It will bring back harsh mem- on Sunday with her Boiler- ories. It was a year ago that Mingo tore her right ACL in a scrimmage No. Name 4 10 15 20 21 22 23 24 25 32 42 43 50 Torrie Thornton Hayden Hamby Courtney Moses Dee Dee Williams Joslyn Massey KK Houser Liza Clemons Drey Mingo April Wilson Sam Ostarello Camille Redmon Chantel Poston Taylor Manuel 52 Whitney Bays against the Sycamores, forcing her out for the season. Still, Mingo says she will play Sunday. "I'm looking forward to beat- ing up on other people, other than ourselves because we've been kind of giving each other a hard time, forward said. "It will be fun to play against other people. Carmel, Ind. (Carmel) " the sixth-year senior " percent on the eve of the season, but Purdue is trying to take it easy on her during practices. She's rotating days off occa- sionally but hasn't experienced any soreness in her knee. "We limited her here or there," Coach Sharon Versyp said Mingo says she's feeling 100 at Purdue's media day on Mon- day. "… We give her a day off or an extra day off, but other than that she's gone two full days in a row, then a day off. But there's no limitations whatsoever. Mingo says. "I sort of feel bad for Camille (Redmon) because she gets a lot But the breaks have helped, " Drey Mingo is expecting to play in a closed scrimmage Sunday vs. Indiana State, as she returns from a knee injury. PURDUE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL ROSTER El./Cl. Pos. Ht. Hometown (High School/Previous School) So./So. G 6-0 Fr./Fr. Jr./Jr. Jr./Jr. Fr./Fr. Jr./Sr. G 5-7 G 5-7 G 6-0 F So./So. Sr./Sr. (6) F Fr./Fr. Sr./Sr. So./Jr. Trinity, Ala. (West Morgan) Sweetser, Ind. (Oak Hill) Indianapolis (Ben Davis) G 5-6 F 6-0 Detroit (John Glenn) 6-2 G 5-7 F 6-2 Sr./Sr. (5) G 5-10 Milan, Tenn. (Milan) Fr./Fr. Jr./Jr. F/C 6-4 F F 6-2 6-2 Lincoln, Neb. (Southeast) Fort Wayne, Ind. (Snider/Elmhurst) 6-2 Atlanta, Ga. (Marist/Maryland) Louisville, Ky. (Manual) Fort Pierre, S.D. (Stanley County) Grand Prairie, Texas (Mansfield Timberview/Grayson County College) St. Louis (Incarnate Word Academy) Huntington, W. Va. (Huntington/Maryland) Tom Campbell Mingo said. "My schedule was crazy because of grad school, so I kind of had to condition on my own a lot, which was tough. But I think it definitely helped me pre- pare for the season." It's been since the beginning of the 2010-11 season since she's been healthy, first battling the ef- fects of bacterial meningitis, then the knee injury. It's made her ready to hit the court. "I'm incredibly excited to be back," she said. of reps," Mingo said, "because they really are being proactive with the number of reps I get so my knees don't get too worn out. But my teammates have had my back, so I'm not too concerned about it. the offseason to return to the kind of shape she was in before the injury. She says she's lost about 30 Mingo has worked hard in " pounds from her peak during last season, when the injury kept her from being as active as she'd like. "I had a really good pre- season, as far as conditioning, pushed the Indiana Fever to the franchise's first-ever WNBA title Sunday night, and many of the current Boilermakers were on hand in Bankers Life Fieldhouse to watch. Coach Lin Dunn, assis- Three former Boilermakers BOILERS, FEVER WIN TITLE " tant Stephanie White and star player Katie Douglas will each get championship rings. Doug- las, the Fever's second-leading scorer, was unable to play in the Finals after severely injuring her ankle during the Eastern Confer- ence Finals. But the 12-year vet- eran was on the floor in the final three seconds of Indiana's Game 4 victory Sunday night. GOLDANDBLACK EXPRESS • VOLUME 23, EXPRESS 8 • 38