Author: Mike Schumann

Wisconsin transfer safety Preston Zachman is headed to Indiana according to multiple Sunday reports. The 6-foot-1 and 212-pound Zachman will be entering his seventh and final season of college football in 2026. He has played in 35 career games (20 starts, nearly 1,500 snaps), all with Wisconsin, and has 130 tackles and seven interceptions. Zachman will help fill the void to be left by starters Louis Moore and Devan Boykin. In 2025 Zachman played in three games and had 12 tackles and two interceptions. He missed the final nine games of 2025 due to a leg injury. Both of the…

Indiana has an opportunity to remain strong in the wide receiver room in 2026. Texas transfer wideout Parker Livingstone has been reported by multiple outlets to be a visitor this weekend at IU.  He’s also reportedly visiting Oklahoma. Indiana also had Michigan State transfer receiver Nick Marsh on campus this weekend. A 6-foot-4 and 191-pound redshirt freshman, Livingstone played in 13 games this season and caught 29 passes for 516 yards and six touchdowns.  He also threw a touchdown pass. As a true freshman in 2024, he appeared in four games and did not record any statistics. A product of…

The transfer portal is moving quickly. A day after the portal formally opened, Indiana is a finalist for Penn State redshirt freshman transfer defensive tackle Xavier Gilliam. On3 is reporting Gilliam is down to Indiana, Notre Dame, and Tennessee, and he’ll visit all three schools before making a final decision. Along the interior of the defensive line, Indiana will lose rotation regulars Hosea Wheeler and Dominique Ratcliff following the 2025 season. The 6-foot-2 and 300-pound Gilliam has spent the past two seasons at Penn State. He appeared in five games as a true freshman in 2024 before appearing in all…

Below we take a look at Pro Football Focus (PFF) notes and snap counts from Indiana’s Rose Bowl and CFP quarterfinal win vs. Alabama.  The Hoosiers won 38-3 to secure the program’s first bowl win since 1991. IU is No. 1 overall at PFF through 14 games.  They have the No. 1 offense in the nation, the No. 2 defense behind Texas Tech, and the No. 7 special teams. No. 1 Indiana (14-0) will face No. 5 Oregon (13-1) in the CFP national semifinals Friday at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta. OFFENSIVE STANDOUTS The top overall offensive grade went to…

Indiana will have a familiar face on campus for a visit this weekend. The transfer portal formally opened today, and according to multiple reports, Michigan State transfer wide receiver Nick Marsh will be in Bloomington Saturday and Sunday. Marsh scored touchdowns against Indiana in each of the last two seasons.  He had seven catches for 64 yards and a score in Bloomington this season, and five catches for 78 yards and a score a season ago in East Lansing. The 6-foot-3 and 203-pound sophomore has two years of eligibility remaining. In 2025 Marsh had 59 catches for 662 yards and…

How rare is it for an offensive lineman to win the offensive most valuable player award in a game the magnitude of the Rose Bowl? Indiana’s winner suspects it has never happened. As ESPN’s Rece Davis was about to announce the offensive MVP on the field after IU’s 38-3 destruction of Alabama, Indiana wide receiver Elijah Sarratt started pointing at quarterback Fernando Mendoza while jumping up and down.  Sarratt was genuinely excited for what was a worthy performance by Mendoza, who had more touchdown passes than incompletions on the day. It’s so rare that the winner, IU center Pat Coogan,…

PASADENA, Calif. — Indiana defeated Alabama in the CFP quarterfinals at the Rose Bowl by a final score of 38-3. The Hoosiers won their first bowl game since 1991, and advanced to the CFP national semifinals where they’ll face Oregon at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta. Below are three quick reasons why the Hoosiers won, along with highlights and final stats. This story will be updated.  Stay tuned for more coverage of the game from The Daily Hoosier. —————————————————— Three quick reasons why Indiana won 1. Indiana runs it down Alabama’s throat.  Could Indiana run the football against Alabama’s size and…

Indiana women’s basketball opened the new year with another Big Ten loss. The Hoosiers (11-4) fell at home 80-60 to No. 24 Michigan State.  IU has started league play 0-3. The Spartans led 40-35 at halftime and used a 21-12 third quarter to pull away. Indiana had 16 turnovers for the game and shot just 40.7% from the field including 27.3% from three. IU was led in the game by Shay Ciezki’s 16 points, but she turned it over five times.  Lenee Beaumont added 14 points, seven rebounds and four assists. Things won’t get any easier in the near term. …

The long waits are over. It’s been 58 years since Indiana’s last trip to the Rose Bowl, and 25 days since the Hoosiers beat Ohio State in the Big Ten Championship game.  Up next — the biggest game in program history. Waiting in Pasadena is traditional power Alabama, with a spot in the national semifinals on the line. Here’s everything you need to know about Indiana’s CFP quarterfinal opponent and the Rose Bowl. No. 1 INDIANA (13-0) vs. No. 9 ALABAMA (11-3) Kickoff:  4:00 p.m. ET, Thursday Location:  Rose Bowl Stadium (89,702, natural grass) Television:  ESPN — Chris Fowler (pbp),…

Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer is a legend in Sioux Falls, S.D. Indiana coach Curt Cignetti and his father are household names in Indiana, Pa. It was from relatively humble beginnings in those towns that Thursday’s Rose Bowl head coaches learned how to grind. DeBoer starred as a receiver on the University of Sioux Falls football team before he later became its head coach.  He went 67-3 at the NAIA school and won four straight national titles from 2005-09. Cignetti saw his father, Frank, Sr., build a College Football Hall of Fame coaching career at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.  Curt left…