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Former Indiana head coach Mike Davis reportedly hired at Mississippi Valley State
Former Indiana men’s basketball head coach Mike Davis is reportedly set to lead a program once again after a brief stop as an assistant at Memphis, his first assistant role since his time in Bloomington. Davis is set to be named the head coach at Mississippi Valley State University in Itta Bena, Mississippi, per reporting […]
Will Billy Donovan’s Chicago Bulls departure have a ripple effect for college basketball?
Every time a top college basketball coaching position opens, one name from the NBA ranks seems to light up the message boards, Twitter and wherever else fans talk about the sport as a “make him say no” candidate. You know who I’m talking about. That’s right. Bra- *dragged offstage by vaudeville hook* Okay, alright, not […]
Indiana DC Bryant Haines is just doing what he does best: finding motivation
Indiana football defensive coordinator Bryant Haines has done several things at a high level since arriving in Bloomington in 2024, but two things in particular stick out. Haines was named the winner of this past season’s Broyles Award as the top assistant coach in college football after coordinating smothering performances throughout the regular season and […]
Monday Headlines: Indiana’s Bryant Haines vs Alabama football, Ty Simpson
Indiana football is in the news once again with a new spat with Alabama months after the Hoosiers’ 38-3 demolition of the Crimson Tide in the Rose Bowl Game. Former Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson appeared on a podcast in the leadup to the NFL Draft this week and was asked about the Tide’s performance against […]
Indiana women’s basketball lands commitment from Iowa State transfer Kenzie Hare
Indiana women’s basketball landed its third transfer portal commitment of the offseason and second from Iowa State when former Cyclone Kenzie Hare announced her intentions to join the Hoosiers for the 2026-27 season via social media. Hare has spent the past two seasons with Iowa State after spending the first two seasons of her career […]
Staff Roundtable: If you could retain 2 players from last season’s roster, who would they be?
Indiana men’s basketball is set to have an almost entirely new roster ahead of the 2026-27 season with Trent Sisley being the only Hoosier who received minutes in 2025-26 to return. Darian DeVries, Ryan Carr and the rest of Indiana’s staff have been putting in work in the transfer portal to reload, with six commitments […]
Friday Headlines: Portal movement for basketball, spring practice continues for football
Indiana Athetics has had a pretty busy week between even more transfer portal commitments for the men’s basketball program, the women’s basketball roster taking greater shape and spring practice carrying onward for the football program. Here’s what you need to know about the Hoosiers today: What they’re saying about the Hoosiers ICYMI on The Crimson […]
What’s going on down there: Louisville, Kentucky veer in opposite directions
Indiana men’s basketball is naturally going to be compared, contrasted and measured against fellow Big Ten programs, but carries the additional wrinkle of the same being true for Louisville and Kentucky given the region the program occupies. This is especially true right now with each program having hired a new head coach in the past […]
WATCH: Indiana football safety Preston Zachman speaks with the media at spring practice
Indiana football safety Preston Zachman addressed the media on Wednesday following the Hoosiers’ ninth spring practice. Zachman, who transferred in from Wisconsin this past offseason, brings plenty of experience to the Hoosiers’ secondary and helps fill a void left by departures from stars like Louis Moore and Devan Boykin. A graduate transfer, Zachman spent the […]
WATCH: Indiana football safety Amare Ferrell speaks with the media at spring practice
Indiana football safety Amare Ferrell addressed the media on Wednesday following the Hoosiers’ ninth spring practice. Ferrell is a senior entering his fourth season with the program after signing on as a recruit out of Columbia High School in Florida under Tom Allen. He saw minimal playing time as a true freshman in 2023 before […]
Why Indiana bringing its football trophies around the state really, really matters
Indiana fans filled stadiums in Indianapolis, Pasadena, Atlanta and Miami this past season during the football program’s run through the College Football Playoff. Hoosier fans met the moment and then some, giving the team an extra jolt of crowd energy throughout its run up to the championship game, where the cream and crimson clad faithful […]
Fishers set to host first ever Big Ten Volleyball Tournament in November
Yet another sporting event is coming to the Indianapolis area this year. The Big Ten is set to introduce the first ever conference volleyball tournament this season with the event taking place November 20-25, 2026, at the Fishers Event Center in Fishers, Indiana, per an official release. “For the first time in its history, the […]
What else does Indiana men’s basketball need from the transfer portal?
Indiana men’s basketball is having as hot of an offseason as anyone in college basketball with six transfer portal commitments just eight days into the portal window. Add in Trent Sisley and a trio of freshman signees and that makes ten spots spoken for on the 2026-27 roster. Darian DeVries and the rest of the […]
Indiana men’s basketball debuts in Jon Rothstein’s offseason top-45 on Thursday
Indiana men’s basketball made its debut in CBS college basketball insider Jon Rothstein’s top-45 programs of the offseason on Thursday. Rothstein ranks men’s college basketball’s teams who have a minimum of eight players committed and updates the ranking each day. The Hoosiers debut at No. 15 in Rothstein’s ranking, which lists projected starters and a […]
Former Indiana forward Josh Harris transfers to Florida Atlantic
Former Indiana forward Josh Harris became the first of the program’s several transfer portal entries to find a new home on Thursday morning, committing to Florida Atlantic: Harris missed the entirety of the 2025-26 season, his lone year with the Hoosiers, due to injury after transferring in from North Florida alongside fellow portalee Jasai Miles […]
Colorado forward Sebastian Rancik cancels Indiana visit, schedules Kentucky
Indiana men’s basketball was originally set to host another transfer portal visitor this week, but that changed as the Hoosiers’ roster did. Sebastian Rancik, a rising junior forward at Colorado, was originally meant to take a visit to Bloomington this week but ended up cancelling that visit just a day later. Rancik will now visit […]
Indiana has six portal commitments. Does it already have a starting lineup?
Unless you’ve been able to live online to keep up with the blistering pace of the transfer portal, you may have missed the fact that Indiana men’s basketball now has six (6!) commitments from the transfer portal, less than a week after it officially opened. So far, Darian DeVries has landed commitments from: Class standing […]
Darian DeVries said he’d change his approach to the portal. So far, he’s done that
After falling short of the NCAA Tournament in year one, Indiana men’s basketball head coach Darian DeVries knew that he’d have to make some adjustments. One of the major issues with last year’s roster is that DeVries recruited too many guys from the lower levels of the sport, many of whom struggled to produce at […]
Indiana lands commitment from Villanova transfer guard Bryce Lindsay
Indiana men’s basketball landed their second transfer portal commitment of the day and sixth overall on Wednesday evening when former Villanova guard Bryce Lindsay announced his intention to join the Hoosiers for the 2026-27 season via social media. Lindsay, a rising redshirt junior, spent this past season at Villanova in former Maryland head coach Kevin […]
Indiana lands commitment from Alabama transfer forward Aiden Sherrell
Indiana men’s basketball landed its fifth transfer portal commitment of the offseason and second in the frontcourt on Wednesday when former Alabama forward Aiden Sherrell signaled his intentions to join the Hoosiers for the 2025-26 season, per reporting from Joe Tipton of On3. Sherrell is a rising junior who spent the first two seasons of […]
Indiana men’s basketball lands commitment from SMU transfer center Samet Yigitoglu
Indiana men’s basketball landed its fourth commitment out of the transfer portal and first in the frontcourt on Tuesday afternoon when former SMU center Samet Yigitoglu pledged to join the Hoosiers for the 2026-27 season, per reporting from Jonathon Givony. Yigitoglu has spent the first two seasons of his college career with the Mustangs, starting […]
Indiana men’s basketball lands a trio of transfer portal guards on Monday
Indiana men’s basketball is undergoing its second near total roster rebuild in as many years under Darian DeVries with only one contributor, rising sophomore forward Trent Sisley, electing to return to the Hoosiers. That rebuild got a big boost on Monday when the program landed three commitments. Here’s what to know about the three new […]
Indiana men’s basketball ‘the favorite’ to land Alabama transfer Aiden Sherrell
Indiana men’s basketball got some early good news on Monday when a trio of transfer portal guards committed to join the Hoosiers ahead of the 2026-27 season. Apparently, there could be even more good news on the way for the program. Indiana is the favorite to land Alabama transfer forward Aiden Sherrell, who was in […]
Indiana lands commitment from Nebraska transfer forward Jessica Petrie
Indiana women’s basketball landed its second commitment out of the transfer portal when Jessica Petrie, a forward out of Nebraska. Petrie, a rising senior, committed to the Hoosiers after visiting the program on Monday. The name should be fresh in Indiana fans’ memories after Petrie’s 10 point, 10 rebound double double performance in a losing […]
Indiana lands commitment from Notre Dame transfer guard Markus Burton
Indiana men’s basketball landed its third transfer portal commitment of the day and the offseason overall when Markus Burton, a guard out of Notre Dame, announced his intention to join the Hoosiers for the 2026-27 season via social media on Thursday afternoon. Burton has spent the last three seasons with Notre Dame after committing to […]