Author: Seth Tow

After an offseason defined by roster upheaval, Indiana women’s basketball will look a lot different for the 2025-26 season. The Hoosiers have just five players returning from last year, including Lenée Beaumont and Sydney Fenn, who both missed the entire season. They lost Chloe Moore-McNeil, Sydney Parrish, and Karoline Striplin to graduation, and then saw six players enter the transfer portal. Head coach Teri Moren didn’t anticipate all of those pieces leaving her program; she wasn’t looking to hit a reset button. But in rebuilding a very new roster around those five returnees and two incoming freshmen, she had an…

Football is a weird game with an abnormally shaped ball — but even by those standards, Indiana’s game against Iowa ended in bizarre fashion. The Hoosiers stopped Iowa on fourth down with 16 seconds left, and took over near midfield. Iowa still had three timeouts remaining, but still needed a miracle. IU went into victory formation, but ran what head coach Curt Cignetti called ‘victory delay,’ as quarterback Fernando Mendoza attempted to stand around in the backfield to kill off a few extra seconds before kneeling down. Indiana was able to run off five seconds on first down, and then…

IOWA CITY, Iowa — After a big hit near the sideline at the end of the third quarter between No. 11 Indiana football and Iowa gave way to officiating confusion, IU center Pat Coogan took over the moment. The entire Hoosiers roster convened in front of their sideline after quarterback Fernando Mendoza took a big hit from Iowa safety Xavier Nwankpa, and as head coach Curt Cignetti discussed the situation with the officials. But their attention soon shifted away from Cignetti’s argument, when Coogan emerged in the middle of the huddle giving an impassioned message to his teammates. The Notre…

IU football hits the road for the first time in 2025 on Saturday. No. 11 Indiana is set for a big challenge at Iowa in week five, kicking off at 3:30 p.m. ET. The Hoosiers are off to a strong 4-0 start, but they haven’t beaten the Hawkeyes since 2012, and they haven’t won at Kinnick Stadium since 2007. This will be Curt Cignetti’s first time facing Iowa since he took over as IU’s head coach ahead of last season. Here are three key matchups to watch for on Saturday. Indiana defensive line vs. Iowa offensive line Iowa’s offensive line…

As Fernando Mendoza’s stock continues rising, his performance is also elevating. Indiana’s quarterback is now the betting favorite to win the Heisman Trophy, following the Hoosiers’ blowout win over Illinois and an injury to Oklahoma quarterback John Mateer. Mendoza’s played well for IU through four games. His 76.8 completion percentage is the second-best rate in the country, and he leads the country with 14 touchdown passes — in addition to being one of nine quarterbacks to play four games so far this year without throwing an interception. The Cal transfer has an 89.3 PFF grade, tied for ninth in the…

IU women’s basketball has landed a commitment from class of 2026 guard Gigi Battle, she announced Wednesday. Battle, standing 5-foot-11, is ranked No. 42 in ESPN’s Top 100 players for the class of 2026. Recent Indiana commit Addison Nyemchek is right behind her at No. 43, and guard Ashlinn James checks in at No. 60. Australian center Zoe Jackson is the unranked fourth member of IU’s recruiting class. Battle took an official visit to IU on August 28. She’s taken other visits to Rutgers, Stanford, Illinois, Michigan, Georgia Tech, Ohio State, Iowa, NC State, and Georgia. The Daytona Beach, Fla.…

BLOOMINGTON — As No. 19 Indiana football racked up score after score against No. 9 Illinois on Saturday, the Hoosiers broke the Fighting Illini’s will. Everyone at Merchants Bank Field at Memorial Stadium could sense it. The sellout crowd roared all night, at times as loud as the 65-year-old stadium has ever been. And once things went from bad to worse for Bret Bielema’s team, there was no turning back. Indiana continually steamrolled Illinois until the game ended in a 63-10 win. IU finally put together a dominant performance against a ranked team. This is who the Hoosiers have been for…

When Myles Price and Ke’Shawn Williams exhausted their eligibility after 2024, Indiana football had a hole at slot receiver. The Hoosiers initially addressed that need in the transfer portal, adding Tyler Morris from Michigan. But Morris suffered a knee injury in spring football, and IU faced the same issue. Head coach Curt Cignetti and his staff brought in Jonathan Brady from Cal during the post-spring portal window, but the program already had its solution on the roster. Omar Cooper Jr. and Elijah Sarratt spent spring ball focusing on versatility, to be able to move around the different wide receiver spots.…

Indiana football’s showdown against Illinois has plenty at stake. This is a tone-setter for both teams to start off Big Ten play. This top-20 matchup in Bloomington on Saturday will see one team affirm its ranking and its standing amongst the top teams in the conference, and the other will be left with work to do. The winner should get a nice boost for a potential College Football Playoff résumé. Both No. 9 Illinois and No. 19 Indiana are good teams. Fine margins can often decide games like that. So for this game, specifically, what could make the difference? Here…

Indiana football will be tested on Saturday. The Hoosiers, up to No. 19 in the AP Top 25, have No. 9 Illinois coming to Bloomington for a week four showdown. It’s a game with College Football Playoff implications early in the season at Memorial Stadium, in one of the more significant matchups in series history. IU head coach Curt Cignetti met with local media Monday to discuss the Fighting Illini, along with his Hoosiers. He had some unfortunate news to share: running back Lee Beebe Jr. is out for the season after suffering a non-contact knee injury against Indiana State.…