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Who’s heading to Indianapolis? College basketball fans weigh in on regional winners
Indiana men’s basketball has spent over two decades now longing to return to the stage it once frequently occupied: the Final Four. The Hoosiers last reached the sport’s grandest stage in 2002, falling to Maryland in the national championship. What stings even more for Hoosier fans? The Final Four is a mainstay in Indianapolis, a […]
Indiana’s Curt Cignetti chides WR Nick Marsh for wearing gold cleats to practice
Indiana football head coach Curt Cignetti has become known for a few things through two full seasons in Bloomington: winning and viral press conference quotes. He delivered another such quote on Thursday during his first media availability of the 2026 spring football season. Nick Marsh, a junior wide receiver for the Hoosiers, is in his […]
Curt Cignetti on driving Indy 500 pace car: ‘I’m going to put the pedal to the metal’
Indiana football head coach Curt Cignetti, coming off of winning his first national championship, is set to take the wheel of the pace car this May in the 110th running of the Indianapolis 500. Will it be the fastest he’s ever driven a car? Maybe. He bought a new Audi SQ8 during his first summer […]
Why Curt Cignetti believes this Indiana team will need more work than his first two
Indiana football’s first two teams under head coach Curt Cignetti were afforded the tremendous luxury of several upperclassmen who had experience with his programs either at James Madison or in his first season in Bloomington. That’s less true for this group, something Cignetti has been mindful of as the Hoosiers get started with spring practices. […]
Indiana men’s basketball season in review: Tayton Conerway
Indiana men’s basketball’s first season under Darian DeVries came to an end when the Hoosiers didn’t receive a bid for the 2026 NCAA Tournament. The Hoosiers finished 18-14 overall and 9-11 in Big Ten play, with a late collapse ending their March Madness hopes. We’ll be recapping and analyzing DeVries’ first season in a few […]
Indiana men’s basketball season in review: Lamar Wilkerson
Indiana men’s basketball’s first season under Darian DeVries came to an end when the Hoosiers didn’t receive a bid for the 2026 NCAA Tournament. The Hoosiers finished 18-14 overall and 9-11 in Big Ten play, with a late collapse ending their March Madness hopes. We’ll be recapping and analyzing DeVries’ first season in a few […]
Indiana men’s basketball season in review: Tucker DeVries
Indiana men’s basketball’s first season under Darian DeVries came to an end when the Hoosiers didn’t receive a bid for the 2026 NCAA Tournament. The Hoosiers finished 18-14 overall and 9-11 in Big Ten play, with a late collapse ending their March Madness hopes. We’ll be recapping and analyzing DeVries’ first season in a few […]
Indiana men’s basketball season in review: Trent Sisley
Indiana men’s basketball’s first season under Darian DeVries came to an end when the Hoosiers didn’t receive a bid for the 2026 NCAA Tournament. The Hoosiers finished 18-14 overall and 9-11 in Big Ten play, with a late collapse ending their March Madness hopes. We’ll be recapping and analyzing DeVries’ first season in a few […]
Indiana Hoosiers News: Spring football set to start, Orlovsky on Mendoza
It’s shaping up to be a decently eventful week for Indiana with spring football set to begin as the aftermath of both basketball seasons begins to settle with weeks to go before the transfer portal officially opens. Here’s what to know about the Hoosiers today: What they’re saying about the Hoosiers ICYMI Around SB Nation
Indiana football spring position preview: Quarterbacks
Indiana football’s 2026 spring practices are set to begin this week with the program looking to build off of its national championship run in 2025. We’re looking to break down where the Hoosiers’ spring roster stands at various positions as the 2026 team takes greater shape over the course of the next few weeks ahead […]
ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky runs out of another endzone with Fernando Mendoza-Ty Simpson take
On October 12, 2008, then-Detroit Lions quarterback Dan Orlovsky made one of the most memorable blunders in NFL history when he, facing pressure from Vikings defensive end Jared Allen, ran out of the back of the Lions’ own endzone for a safety. On Tuesday, now-ESPN NFL analyst Orlovsky made a similar blunder when he, facing […]
There are 6 Big Ten teams in the Sweet 16. Here’s how Indiana did against them
If this year’s Sweet 16 feels extra tough to watch, it’s probably because there are a lot of familiar faces. Six of the Big Ten’s 18 teams made it to the second weekend of this year’s March Madness, a testament to just how much talent there was at the top of the league this year. […]
It’s been a decade since Indiana men’s basketball made a Sweet 16. How did we get here?
As the opening weekend of March Madness wraps up, Indiana men’s basketball finds itself watching the Sweet 16 from home, just like it has every year since Tom Crean last brought the Hoosiers there in 2015-16. For a program with the material resources and fan support that Indiana has, not to mention its storied history […]
Indiana men’s basketball season in review: Reed Bailey
Indiana men’s basketball’s first season under Darian DeVries came to an end when the Hoosiers didn’t receive a bid for the 2026 NCAA Tournament. The Hoosiers finished 18-14 overall and 9-11 in Big Ten play, with a late collapse ending their March Madness hopes. We’ll be recapping and analyzing DeVries’ first season in a few […]
Indiana men’s basketball season in review: Sam Alexis
Indiana men’s basketball’s first season under Darian DeVries came to an end when the Hoosiers didn’t receive a bid for the 2026 NCAA Tournament. The Hoosiers finished 18-14 overall and 9-11 in Big Ten play, with a late collapse ending their March Madness hopes. We’ll be recapping and analyzing DeVries’ first season in a few […]
Breaking down Indiana men’s basketball’s transfer portal needs and wants
Indiana men’s basketball will enter the 2026 offseason in need of… quite a bit in the transfer portal. The Hoosiers will be replacing every starter from their final matchup, with Reed Bailey having supplanted Nick Dorn as head coach Darian DeVries’ short term answer for more size in the frontcourt. Now DeVries’ attention turns to […]
Indiana fans express lack of confidence in men’s basketball program with offseason looming
Indiana men’s basketball’s 2025-26 season, the first under head coach Darian DeVries, doesn’t seem to have given Hoosiers fans confidence heading into DeVries’ first full offseason. At least, that’s what the results of a recent survey we ran seem to indicate. Just under half of fans surveyed, or 49%, indicated that they weren’t very confident […]
How Indiana fans grade Darian DeVries’ first season as head coach
We asked you, Indiana fans, to grade Darian DeVries’ first season as the Hoosiers’ head men’s basketball coach last week. Those results are in and the response was neither overwhelmingly positive or negative, but definitely skewed toward the latter. Just 10% of those surveyed viewed DeVries’ first season as anything resembling a success at A […]
Indiana Hoosiers News: Curt Cignetti at the Indy 500, baseball snaps losing streak
It’s been an eventful week for the Hoosiers in both good and less good ways. Both the men’s and women’s basketball seasons came to an end with neither receiving a bid to play in the NCAA Tournament, Curt Cignetti was named the driver of the pace car in this year’s Indy 500 and baseball won […]
Indiana football’s Curt Cignetti named 2026 Indy 500 pace car driver
In January, Indiana football head coach Curt Cignetti led the Hoosiers onto the field at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens en route to the program’s first national championship. In May, he’ll lead the field of 33 drivers in the 110th running of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Cignetti was named the driver […]
Indiana Reacts Survey: Grading Darian DeVries’ first season, offseason confidence
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NCAA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Indiana fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Indiana men’s basketball’s first season under head coach Darian DeVries came to a close with the […]
March Madness 2026: Start time, TV schedule and streaming for Selection Sunday
This is March and Indiana men’s basketball is, well, technically still on the NCAA Tournament bubble if on the wrong side of it with the Hoosiers losing position every day. The Hoosiers entered the middle of February projected to land one of the last few byes after a stretch of wins over teams like Purdue […]
Is Indiana in? Fans predict results of the 2026 men’s NCAA Tournament bubble
Are you tired of talking about the NCAA Tournament bubble? I certainly am. Unfortunately for us Indiana men’s basketball is still on it and there’s probably a universe in which the Hoosiers do, in fact, receive a bid. Will that happen? Almost certainly not. Indiana collapsed nearly as badly as it could’ve to (likely) close […]
Staff Roundtable: Which members of Mike Woodson’s last team could’ve helped Darian DeVries?
Indiana men’s basketball has ended the 2025-26 season, the first under Darian DeVries, in almost exactly the same way it ended the 2024-25 season, the last under Mike Woodson. When the Woodson-DeVries transition first took place, there were questions about which members of the 24-25 roster may elect to remain with the program. The answer […]
Indiana Hoosiers News: Women’s basketball transfer portal, football recruiting
It’s been a very, very eventful week around Indiana Athletics and we’re here to help you stay caught up on everything. The football program lost a high school commitment, the men’s basketball team bowed out of the Big Ten Tournament while the women’s basketball team saw some early portal movement. Here’s what you need to […]
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