Author: Seth Tow

That’s more like it for IU men’s basketball. Friday’s version of the Hoosiers looked more like the ideal vision for this team. They thoroughly dismantled Rutgers on the road for an 82-59 win, at a building the program hadn’t won in since 2018. And for a team coming off a four-game losing streak, with three by double digits, any win — particularly away from home — is valuable. “Road wins are hard,” IU head coach Darian DeVries said after the game. “To be able to come in and pretty much lead from start to finish, I think it says a…

Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza has made official what most expected after the 2025-26 season: he’s entering the 2026 NFL Draft. Mendoza announced his decision on Instagram on Friday morning, in the middle of a media tour in New York City. He made a brief appearance on NBC’s “The Tonight Show” on Thursday, and he’s set to join “CBS Mornings” on Friday. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DT2jcuRAJud/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== After transferring to IU from California in December 2024, Mendoza turned in the greatest individual season in Indiana football history. He brought home the program’s first-ever Heisman Trophy, and led the Hoosiers to a historic 16-0 campaign that…

After more than week since its last game, Indiana women’s basketball entered Thursday’s contest at No. 12 Ohio State well-rested. But the time off didn’t prevent the Hoosiers from seeing a very familiar script play out on the court. Indiana led by 15 points in the first quarter, but let it slip away. The Buckeyes came back and handed Teri Moren’s team an 81-67 defeat, its seventh in a row. IU (11-9, 0-8 Big Ten) didn’t maintain its cushion at The Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio for long. Ohio State (18-2, 7-1) cut the 19-4 deficit with 4:32 left in…

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Don Fischer has seen a lot in his 53 years with Indiana Athletics. IU’s legendary radio voice has called IU football and men’s basketball since 1973. He’s been on the microphone for all three of Bob Knight’s NCAA championships in 1976, 1981, and 1987. He’s broadcasted legendary moments along the way, like Keith Smart’s shot to clinch that final title, Christian Watford’s buzzer-beater against No. 1 Kentucky, Trayce Jackson-Davis heroics, and more. But this Indiana football national championship run was something new, unlike anything else he’d experienced with the Hoosiers over the years. “It is different, because…

It’s party time for Indiana football fans. The Hoosiers completed a historic 16-0 season Monday night with a 27-21 win over Miami, bringing home their first-ever national championship. IU announced early plans for a championship celebration on Saturday, Jan. 24 at 1 p.m. Further details are in the graphic below. For complete coverage of IU football, GO HERE. The Daily Hoosier –“Where Indiana fans assemble when they’re not at Assembly” Find us on Instagram, X, and Facebook Seven ways to support completely free IU coverage at no cost to you.

Less than 24 hours after Indiana football captured its first-ever national championship, the program saw two notable departures. Per reports, redshirt freshman quarterback Alberto Mendoza entered the transfer portal Tuesday morning. And director of athletic performance Derek Owings is leaving IU for a similar position at Tennessee. The Volunteers officially announced Owings’ hire Tuesday afternoon. Mendoza served as Indiana’s primary backup quarterback this season, behind his older brother, Fernando. The younger Mendoza entered nine games this season, primarily in mop-up duty. He flashed potential in some games, particularly with his 65-yard run at Purdue. But after the Hoosiers added TCU…

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — As Bray Lynch witnessed the culmination of one of the greatest sports stories ever told, he couldn’t contain his emotion any longer. Indiana football — yes, that Indiana football — captured a national championship. The Hoosiers completed a perfect 16-0 season, becoming the first team to do so since the 1890s. Head coach Curt Cignetti hoisted the College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy to deafening roars from the Indiana contingent at Hard Rock Stadium. Several of this immaculate team’s star players surrounded him while doing so: linebacker Aiden Fisher, wide receivers Elijah Sarratt and Charlie Becker, quarterback…

MIAMI — Indiana football has done it. Curt Cignetti has pulled off the unthinkable. The Hoosiers spent decade after decade toiling away on the football field, with very fleeting positive moments providing respite from — until November — the most losses in college football history. But on Jan. 19, 2026, that same program has reached the mountaintop. IU football captured its first-ever national championship, defeating Miami 27-21 in the title game at Hard Rock Stadium. The Hoosiers cap off a perfect 16-0 season that will go down among the best in the modern history of the sport. IU had to…

MIAMI — When Curt Cignetti, his coaching staff, and his army of James Madison transfers arrived in Bloomington to begin one of the greatest turnarounds in sports history in December 2023, it put Indiana football’s existing players in difficult positions. The JMU players who followed Cignetti to IU couldn’t know what the jump to Big Ten football would look like, but they knew what Cignetti and his staff were all about. Those players worked with most of the same coaches for extensive time in Harrisonburg, Va. And that group, with players like Elijah Sarratt, Kaelon Black, Mikail Kamara, Aiden Fisher,…

MIAMI — Throughout Indiana football’s historic 2025-26 season, Amare Ferrell took a meaningful moment before running out on the field for each game. After the safety put his jersey and pads on, he hung up a different jersey in his locker, whether at Memorial Stadium or on the road. The custom IU jersey has his No. 1 on both the front, with “Tawanna J.” on the back. That jersey has hung in Ferrell’s locker during every Indiana game this season. The junior hugs and kisses it before putting it up, and then runs out on the field. The jersey is…