Author: Seth Tow

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…

With college football season starting to creep up, we’re running down Indiana’s schedule to preview all 12 opponents for 2025. Indiana’s first bye week of the season comes in week six. Curt Cignetti and his team will face one of its toughest challenges of the season coming out of that off-week: a road test at Oregon. The Ducks were one of the best teams in the country last season, completing an undefeated regular season and winning the Big Ten championship. This will be the fourth-ever matchup between IU and UO, and the first meeting since 2004, when the Hoosiers earned…

With college football season starting to creep up, we’re running down Indiana’s schedule to preview all 12 opponents for 2025. The last time Indiana football played against Iowa created a haunting memory. The Hawkeyes dominated a ranked IU team in the first game of the 2021 season, setting the tone for a disappointing season that began with high expectations. The Hoosiers will return to Iowa City this season in week five, for the first time since that 34-6 beatdown. Iowa has been extremely consistent under Kirk Ferentz, with 12 consecutive winning seasons and 16 in the last 17 years. Opponent:…