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Indiana football transfer target: North Texas QB Drew Mestemaker

Indiana football may be in the market for a quarterback this coming offseason. The Hoosiers have enjoyed great success at the position through two seasons under head coach Curt Cignetti, with Kurtis Rourke guiding the offense to a 11-2 finish in 2024 and Fernando Mendoza winning the 2025 Heisman Trophy on top of the Big […]

Indiana football transfer target: Missouri QB Beau Pribula

Indiana football may be in the market for a quarterback this coming offseason. The Hoosiers have enjoyed great success at the position through two seasons under head coach Curt Cignetti, with Kurtis Rourke guiding the offense to a 11-2 finish in 2024 and Fernando Mendoza winning the 2025 Heisman Trophy on top of the Big […]

Indiana football transfer target: Nebraska QB Dylan Raiola

Indiana football may be in the market for a quarterback this coming offseason. The Hoosiers have enjoyed great success at the position through two seasons under head coach Curt Cignetti, with Kurtis Rourke guiding the offense to a 11-2 finish in 2024 and Fernando Mendoza winning the 2025 Heisman Trophy on top of the Big […]

Indiana football transfer target: TCU QB Josh Hoover

Indiana football may be in the market for a quarterback this coming offseason. The Hoosiers have enjoyed great success at the position through two seasons under head coach Curt Cignetti, with Kurtis Rourke guiding the offense to a 11-2 finish in 2024 and Fernando Mendoza winning the 2025 Heisman Trophy on top of the Big […]

Indiana football transfer target: Cincinnati QB Brendan Sorsby

Indiana football may be in the market for a quarterback this coming offseason. The Hoosiers have enjoyed great success at the position through two seasons under head coach Curt Cignetti, with Kurtis Rourke guiding the offense to a 11-2 finish in 2024 and Fernando Mendoza winning the 2025 Heisman Trophy on top of the Big […]

Indiana football: 5 Stats to know about Alabama

After an opening round bye, No. 1-seed Indiana football is back in action this Thursday against the No. 9-seed Alabama Crimson Tide in the Rose Bowl. Curt Cignetti, Fernando Mendoza, and the rest of the team will have an opportunity to extend the dream season and continue writing program history. Standing in their way will […]

Indiana should be a top destination for transfer portal quarterbacks

When Indiana football enters the 2026 season, it’ll almost certainly do so without quarterback Fernando Mendoza. Mendoza, the 2025 Heisman Trophy winner, is projected as an early first round selection in this coming spring’s NFL Draft. He’s led the Hoosiers to the best regular season in program history and their first Big Ten championship in […]

Should Indiana men’s basketball add a midseason signing?

More and more college basketball programs are making midseason moves to strengthen rosters. Some of these signings look to be moves for the sake of adding depth. Others seem to be swings at players with real upside as starters. Either way, the practice has generated plenty of controversy around the sport, which has absorbed several […]

Indiana football: 2026 offseason transfer portal tracker

Indiana football will enter the offseason looking to reload through the transfer portal ahead of the 2025 season with a handful of positional needs. The Hoosiers still intend to build primarily through the high school route and this offseason could yield less movement than the first two under head coach Curt Cignetti, but there’s always […]

Indiana football transfer portal target: JMU RB Wayne Knight

Indiana football is set to have a few openings in the offensive backfield. Roman Hemby and Kaelon Black, who’ve gotten the majority of carries in 2025, are both set to run out of eligibility. Lee Beebe Jr., who suffered a season ending injury against Indiana State after transferring in from UAB last offseason, could return […]

Indiana men’s basketball beats Siena 81-60: 5 things we learned

Indiana men’s basketball moved to 10-3 on the season with an up-and-down 81-60 win over Siena on Monday evening in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. The Hoosiers build a substantial cushion with an outstanding performance in the first half before a lackluster showing in the second kept them from turning this into another 100-point outing. There’s […]

Indiana fans express confidence in defense ahead of Rose Bowl, Alabama

When Indiana football’s defense takes the field for the Rose Bowl, it’ll be shorthanded. Stephen Daley, one of the Hoosiers’ top edge rushers this season, will be out with an injury suffered during the aftermath of the Big Ten Football Championship game win over Ohio State. He was one of Indiana’s most productive defenders on […]

Indiana football opens as favorite over Alabama in the Rose Bowl

Indiana opened as the betting favorite over Alabama in the 2026 Rose Bowl Game, which doubles as a College Football Playoff quarterfinal, with FanDuel Sportsbook giving it a 6.5-point edge. The over/under is set at 48.5 points. The No. 1-seed Hoosiers are set to face off against the No. 9-seed Crimson Tide after the latter […]

Racehorse named for Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza, the Heisman Trophy winner

Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza has been a lot of things this year. The Hoosiers’ leader on offense, the single-season touchdown pass record holder, the Big Ten Football Championship game MVP and the Heisman Trophy winner. Now he’s another: the namesake of a Bob Baffert horse. Mendoza, a yearling born from two Hall of Fame Thoroughbred […]

Indiana, offensive coordinator Mike Shanahan reportedly agree to extension

Indiana and Mike Shanahan, the program’s second year offensive coordinator, have agreed to terms on a 3-year contract extension, according to reporting from Michael Niziolek from the Bloomington Herald-Times. The Hoosiers have now moved to extend both their offensive and defensive coordinators, with Bryant Haines inking a new contract days ago. Indiana sits at No. […]

No, it’s not time to worry about Indiana men’s basketball. Mostly.

It’s December. I cannot emphasize this enough: it is December. Year one. Darian DeVries has really just gotten started as Indiana’s head coach. Unlike his two predecessors, he didn’t have any strong returning talent to build around, he had to assemble his first roster entirely through the transfer portal. Which, very honestly, isn’t an all-you-can-eat […]

This is Darian DeVries’ basketball team, and nobody else’s

Indiana men’s basketball suffered arguably its most painful loss of the season this past Saturday, blowing a seven-point halftime lead to fall to a Kentucky team that’s had its own share of struggles throughout the season. As we reach the holiday break, head coach Darian DeVries’ first season has already seen its ups and downs. […]