Author: Seth Tow

With football season approaching, we’re going through Indiana’s roster to look at each position group going into fall camp. First up in our IU football position preview series is defensive line, a group that ranked among the most consistently solid on Curt Cignetti’s team last year. Pat Kuntz and Buddha Williams did an excellent job with Indiana’s defensive line in 2024, and the Hoosiers did well in addressing vacancies in the room in the offseason. The Hoosiers have a lot of reason for optimism on the defensive front in 2025, anchored by one of the best players in the Big…

INDIANAPOLIS — Assembly Ball, Indiana’s alumni team competing in The Basketball Tournament, is going home early. The team with 11 former Hoosiers on the roster saw its game against Fail Harder slip away in the second half, ending in an 89-76 defeat at Butler’s Hinkle Fieldhouse on Saturday. Assembly Ball led for most of the first half, largely because of a big foul disparity — AB took a 12-2 edge in free-throw attempts into halftime. But once that started to even out in the second half, Assembly Ball’s poor shooting numbers and Fail Harder’s strong clips proved the difference. AB…

Aleksa Ristic started playing basketball at 10 years old, and began competing against professionals just six years later. Ristic, like many kids in Serbia, played soccer early on. But his dad helped him get into basketball and eventually start training with his neighbor in Niš, and the game grew quickly on him. He competed in junior leagues in Belgrade, and worked his way up to the Basketball League of Serbia at age 16. He still remembers what that first game against the pros felt like; it was intimidating. “It was pretty hard,” Ristic told The Daily Hoosier in a phone interview.…

With the college football season starting to creep up, we’re running down Indiana’s schedule to preview all 12 opponents for 2025. Indiana’s second bye week comes with just one game remaining in the regular season. The Hoosiers then wrap up, as usual, with the Old Oaken Bucket on the line at Purdue. Curt Cignetti’s debut in the rivalry game was historic, as IU demolished the Boilermakers 66-0 at a snowy Memorial Stadium. That result may have sealed Ryan Walters’ fate, as Purdue fired him and hired UNLV’s Barry Odom as its new head coach. Odom’s team ranks last in the…

Indiana men’s basketball has officially signed Serbian guard Aleksa Ristic, the program announced in a press release Tuesday. Ristic initially committed to the Hoosiers in June. He becomes the 12th scholarship player on IU’s roster for the 2025-26 season. “Aleksa is a versatile guard that can play on and off the ball,” IU head coach Darian DeVries said in the release. “He is a competitive kid that has high-level experience playing in FIBA events. We think he has the ability to handle the basketball and make plays out of the pick-and-roll while also being an efficient shooter that will add…

With the college football season starting to creep up, we’re running down Indiana’s schedule to preview all 12 opponents for 2025. Indiana’s penultimate game of the 2025 regular season comes at home against Wisconsin, the teams’ third meeting in the last eight years. IU has won both of those other two games — 14-6 in Madison, Wis. in 2020, and 20-14 in Bloomington in 2023. Luke Fickell will face some pressure to get the Badgers rolling this year, and Curt Cignetti’s team will be one of their biggest challenges. Opponent: Wisconsin Date/Time/TV: Saturday, November 15, time TBD Location: Memorial Stadium,…

With college football season starting to creep up, we’re running down Indiana’s schedule to preview all 12 opponents for 2025. The second of Indiana’s two biggest games of the regular season comes on Nov. 8, in a road test at Penn State. James Franklin’s team made a deep postseason run in 2024, reaching the semifinals and coming up painfully short against Notre Dame. This will be Curt Cignetti’s first matchup against the Nittany Lions, and it looks like a potential matchup of two of the Big Ten’s best teams. Opponent: Penn State Date/Time/TV: Saturday, November 8, time TBD Location: Beaver…

With college football season starting to creep up, we’re running down Indiana’s schedule to preview all 12 opponents for 2025. IU starts off November with a road game at Maryland. The last time these two teams played in College Park, in 2023, Indiana fired offensive coordinator Walt Bell the next day after a brutal performance. But the two programs went opposite directions in 2024; Curt Cignetti took the Hoosiers to the College Football Playoff, while Mike Locksley’s Terps suffered their worst season in four years. Opponent: Maryland Date/Time/TV: Saturday, November 1, time TBD Location: SECU Stadium, College Park, Md. 2024…

With college football season starting to creep up, we’re running down Indiana’s schedule to preview all 12 opponents for 2025. Indiana welcomes UCLA to Bloomington in October for the first time. The programs faced off in Los Angeles last season in their first-ever matchup, which became a blowout IU victory. Head coach DeShaun Foster, in year two leading the Bruins, will hope to improve on last year’s up-and-down season and get the program rolling. Opponent: UCLA Date/Time/TV: Saturday, October 25, time TBD Location: Memorial Stadium, Bloomington, Ind. 2024 record/postseason result: 5-7, 3-6 Big Ten Returning production, offense: 54 percent (per…

With college football season starting to creep up, we’re running down Indiana’s schedule to preview all 12 opponents for 2025. Indiana will go nearly a full month between home games this fall, with two road games sandwiching a bye week. The Hoosiers return to Bloomington for their homecoming game in mid-October against Michigan State, with the Old Brass Spittoon up for grabs. The Spartans made IU sweat a little last season, giving Curt Cignetti his first deficit of the season in the first quarter, before the Hoosiers dominated the rest of the game. MSU has a lot of returning production…