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Indiana football: Charlie Becker’s emergence proves critical down the stretch
Indiana football’s offense is considerably different than it was a year ago. What made the Hoosiers so difficult to defend in 2024 was the fact that any one of five targets was capable of receiving the football and picking up yards after doing so. Kurtis Rourke was excellent at getting the ball to an array […]
IU men’s basketball: How to keep scoring on cold shooting nights
Indiana men’s basketball survived an early season scare on Sunday night, narrowly beating Incarnate Word 69-61 at home despite a remarkably poor 3-point shooting performance. Coming into the matchup with the best shooting numbers the program has seen in years, the Hoosiers ended up hitting just 20.8% of their attempts from distance. That’s the kind […]
#HeisMendoza: Indiana football launches Heisman campaign for Fernando Mendoza
Indiana’s coaching staff went into 2025 knowing that it’d likely need to turn to the transfer portal for a new quarterback. Kurtis Rourke, who led the offense in Curt Cignetti’s debut season, was out of eligibility and off to the NFL. One option quickly emerged over the others: California’s Fernando Mendoza, the older brother of […]
Indiana football recruiting: 4-star UCLA safety commit visits
Indiana football hosted its final home game of the 2025 regular season this past weekend, a 31-7 win over Wisconsin. With it being the Hoosiers’ last chance to get visitors in front of a full, raucous Memorial Stadium crowd, Indiana did its best to capitalize. Indiana hosted multiple prospects in upcoming classes and two currently […]
Indiana football recruiting: 4-star Penn State RB commit visits
Indiana football’s 31-7 win over Wisconsin on Saturday was a pretty substantial recruiting opportunity. With it being the last home game, it was perhaps the Hoosiers’ final shot at getting prospects into a packed Memorial Stadium for gameday. Indiana made sure to take advantage of this in hosting Messiah Mickens, a 4-star running back out […]
Coaching carousel: Need a Curt Cignetti? Good luck recreating Indiana
No. 2 Indiana football is 11-0 in 2025 after going 11-1 in 2024. It’s an unprecedented run of success for one of college football’s historically worst programs and it was all sparked by one consequential hire: Curt Cignetti. Indiana’s athletics department, keenly aware of football’s ever-rising importance in the collegiate landscape, made the decision to […]
NFL Mock Drafts: Where could Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza get picked?
Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza, currently favored to win the 2025 Heisman Trophy, is also likely to be a first round pick in next Spring’s NFL Draft. He attracted plenty of attention at Cal, but rocketed up draft boards this past offseason and throughout the Hoosiers’ 11-0 start. Mendoza fits the typical NFL mold. He’s tall, […]
Darian DeVries after Incarnate Word win: ‘You’re going to have off shooting nights.‘
Indiana men’s basketball head coach Darian DeVries addressed the media following his team’s narrow 69-61 win over Incarnate Word on Sunday night at Assembly Hall. The Hoosiers, who hadn’t scored less than 90 points before Sunday and shot the ball as well as anyone in the country, struggled mightily from deep. Indiana made just 20.8% […]
Shooting variance came for Indiana against Incarnate Word, is it cause for worry?
Indiana men’s basketball got off to a blistering start to the 2025-26 season, Darian DeVries’ debut as head coach. For the first time in nearly a decade, the 3-point shot was an integral part of the Hoosiers’ offense. Indiana was taking, and making, plenty of 3s en route to a 3-0 start that never saw […]
Indiana beats Incarnate Word 69-61: 5 things we learned
Indiana men’s basketball escaped an upset attempt from Incarnate Word in a 69-61 win on Sunday night at Assembly Hall. It wasn’t a pretty basketball game and was the first time we’ve seen the Hoosiers struggle under Darian DeVries. Much of that can be attributed to the fact that Indiana’s 3s just weren’t going down, […]
Three takeaways from Indiana’s 69-61 win over Incarnate Word
Indiana men’s basketball faced real adversity for the first time all season, struggling to put away an Incarnate Word team that the Hoosiers were supposed to handle by 20-plus points. The shots weren’t falling, the Hoosier’s (lack of) size looked to be hurting them, and then the Cardinals just refused to miss for a period […]
Indiana beats Florida State 76-72: 5 things we learned about the Hoosiers
Indiana women’s basketball emerged with a solid 76-72 road win over Florida State on Sunday night in its biggest challenge of the season up to this point. There were some questions as to how the Hoosiers would handle playing on the road after a pretty mistake-laden outing at home against Marshall, but Indiana stuck together […]
Indiana beats Incarnate Word 69-61: Quick reaction
For the first time in Darian Devries’ very brief tenure as Indiana head coach, his team was tested for forty minutes today. The Hoosiers passed the test, though, surviving an upset scare to beat Incarnate Word 69-61 to move to 4-0 on the season . Signs of the offensive struggle that was to come were […]
Indiana football recruiting: 3-star 2026 wide receiver Lavar Keys commits
Lavar Keys, a 3-star wide receiver in the class of 2026 out of DeMatha Catholic High School in Landover, Maryland, announced his commitment to Indiana on Sunday: Keys was originally committed to Penn State but decommitted and reopened his recruitment after the Nittany Lions parted ways with longtime head coach James Franklin after a disappointing […]
Indiana men’s basketball: Injury report vs Incarnate word
Indiana men’s basketball is set to take on Incarnate Word at 5:30 p.m. at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana. The Hoosiers haven’t been without their injury issues early on this season, but Sunday’s availability report came without any surprises. Jason Drake, Aleksa Ristic and Josh Harris remain out, with walk-on Jordan Rayford being […]
Indiana basketball recruiting: 4-star SF Jack Kohnen visits
Jack Kohnen, a 4-star small forward in the class of 2027 out of Slinger High School in Slinger, Wisconsin, took an unofficial visit to Indiana men’s basketball in Bloomington this past weekend, according to a post from his Instagram. Kohnen, who was recently offered by the Hoosiers, ranks in as the 19th highest-rated small forward […]
Indiana basketball recruiting: 4-star PG Josh Lindsay visiting
Josh Lindsay, a 4-star point guard in the class of 2028 out of St. Xavier High School in Louisville, Kentucky, is in Bloomington for an unofficial visit during Indiana men’s basketball’s game against Incarnate Word. Lindsay currently ranks in as the 8th highest-rated point guard and 33rd highest-rated prospect overall in the Rivals Industry ranking. […]
Curt Cignetti doesn’t like to yell at halftime. Here’s what he does instead
Few things in sports are as mythologized as halftime. There’s the Hollywood-esque speeches, big time adjustments made over whiteboards, screaming from coaches or players and all sorts of other things. Sure, some of that definitely happens, enough recorded halftime moments have dropped to tell you as much. But that’s not really Curt Cignetti’s style. When […]
Curt Cignetti after win over Wisconsin: ‘We’ve got to get some guys back’
No. 2 Indiana football head coach Curt Cignetti addressed the media on Saturday following his team’s 31-7 win over Wisconsin to move to 11-0 in 2025. With the Hoosiers entering a bye week after six straight Saturdays of football, Cignetti noted it’ll be time for the team to rest up and, ideally, get some players […]
Second half surge lifts No. 2 Indiana over Wisconsin
Indiana football is 11-0 in 2025 following Saturday’s 31-7 win over Wisconsin on Saturday at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. The final score is certainly what we’ve come to expect from the Hoosiers, but the first half was a far cry from the final result. Wisconsin found some early success playing its game of keeping […]
3 takeaways from Indiana’s 31-7 win over Wisconsin
Coming off an emotional, taxing win in Happy Valley, No. 2 Indiana didn’t look fully ready to play for the first two quarters against Wisconsin. The offensive line was struggling, the defense gave up another big play for a touchdown, and the Hoosiers led by just three at the half. Then Indiana came out of […]
5 things we learned about the Hoosiers in win over Wisconsin: Fernando Mendoza’s poise
No. 2 Indiana moved to 11-0 on the 2025 season following a 31-7 home win over Wisconsin on Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. This one was a bit of a mixed bag. The Hoosiers ran into several issues on both sides of the ball in the first half as Wisconsin looked to […]
Quick Reaction: Indiana beats Wisconsin 31-7
Indiana football (11-0, 8-0), hoping to preserve an undefeated season and a shot at a College Football Playoff bye, hosted Wisconsin (3-7, 1-6) today, a team coming off its best win of the year. For the second straight week, Indiana’s offense got off to a slow start. The Hoosiers had just one possession in the […]
3-star 2026 wide receiver Lavar Keys, Penn State decommit, to announce college decision
Lavar Keys, a 3-star wide receiver in the class of 2026 out of DeMatha Catholic High School in Landover, Maryland, is set to announce his college decision on Sunday, November 16. Keys was originally committed to Penn State but decommitted and reopened his recruitment after the Nittany Lions parted ways with longtime head coach James […]
3 things to know ahead of Indiana women’s basketball vs Florida State
Indiana is set to take on Florida State on Sunday in a road matchup in Tallahassee, Florida. The Hoosiers sit at 3-0, but got out to an interesting start to the season with two hotly-contested games against inferior competition at Assembly Hall. It’s almost an entirely new roster for head coach Teri Moren, so it’s […]
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