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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 […]
Indiana lands commitment from Duke transfer guard Darren Harris
Indiana men’s basketball landed its second commitment of the day this afternoon when Duke transfer guard Darren Harris announced his intentions to join the Hoosiers via social media: Harris, a rising junior, has spent the first two seasons of his college career coming off the bench for the Blue Devils at shooting guard. Minutes were […]
Indiana lands commitment from Georgia Tech transfer guard Jaeden Mustaf
Indiana men’s basketball landed its first transfer portal commitment of the 2026 offseason on Monday afternoon when Georgia Tech transfer guard Jaeden Mustaf announced his intentions to join the Hoosiers for the 2026-27 season via social media. Mustaf, a rising junior, has spent the past two seasons playing a prominent role for the Yellow Jackets […]
Indiana fans want to see both basketball programs prioritize centers in the transfer portal
It’s transfer portal season for college basketball and both of Indiana’s basketball programs, men’s and women’s, will be making moves in the coming weeks to rebuild their rosters. Neither program received a bid to play in the NCAA Tournament this past March and both will be entering the offseason looking to flip that in 2027. […]
Indiana men’s basketball to host Duke transfer guard Darren Harris for a visit
Indiana men’s basketball is set to host yet another high major backcourt prospect out of the transfer portal for a visit this weekend, per reporting from Sam Kayser of League Ready. Darren Harris, a rising junior guard out of Duke, will be in Bloomington for an official visit starting on Saturday. After that, he has […]
Indiana men’s basketball to host Georgia Tech transfer wing Jaeden Mustaf for a visit
Indiana men’s basketball is set to host its first transfer portal visitor of the 2026 offseason this weekend, per reporting from On3. Jaeden Mustaf, a rising junior wing out of Georgia Tech, will be in Bloomington for an official visit with the program. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because he was an Indiana recruiting […]
The Slate is officially Blank, Again
Before the Trent Sisley loyalists get on me, let me note that he was an exception to Darian DeVries’ original blank slate rework of the program, being a Mike Woodson recruit who stuck around for the new regime. Andrej Acimovic is a second hold over, but having entered zero games last season, he has a […]
5 more transfer portal guards Indiana men’s basketball could target
Well, we’re a few more days into the transfer portal being open and there’s a few more players in it than there were previously. We already listed five transfer portal guards Indiana men’s basketball could target at the beginning of the week, so why not take a look at five more? We wanted to avoid […]
Indiana men’s basketball transfer portal target: Tennessee forward J.P. Estrella
Indiana men’s basketball is going to need plenty of additions through the transfer portal this offseason as head coach Darian DeVries launches his second roster reload in as many seasons in Bloomington. We’ll be looking to get ahead of some targets here with brief profiles if there’s an established connection to Indiana, DeVries or his […]