Author: Seth Tow

With college football season starting to creep up, we’re running down Indiana’s schedule to preview all 12 opponents for 2024. The Hoosiers take on Western Illinois in an early-season Friday night game in Bloomington. The FCS Leathernecks are IU’s only opponent outside of FBS. WIU is coming off two straight winless seasons, and the team has won only three games over the last four seasons. The Leathernecks are hoping a coaching change and a conference move — from the Missouri Valley to the Ohio Valley — will bring a change in fortunes. Opponent: Western Illinois Date/Time/TV: Friday, September 6, 7…

With college football season starting to creep up, we’re running down Indiana’s schedule to preview all 12 opponents for 2024. Indiana will host Florida International on August 31 in the first game of the Curt Cignetti era. The Panthers went 4-8 last season for the second consecutive year under Mike McIntyre. FIU has a solid amount of returning talent to work with this year to try and improve, but the team has some major weak spots to address. Opponent: Florida International Date/Time/TV: Saturday, August 31, 3:30 p.m. ET, Big Ten Network Location: Memorial Stadium, Bloomington, Ind. 2023 record/postseason result: 4-8,…

Byron Baldwin wasn’t expecting his sudden rating increase. The class of 2025 defensive back was rated a three-star prospect by Rivals when he committed to Indiana football in April. 247Sports didn’t have him in its rankings. That changed in May, after Baldwin excelled at the Under Armour Next Camp and caught scouts’ eyes. 247Sports not only added him to the list, but bumped him up to a four-star recruit. Baldwin also plays running back at St. Frances (Md.) Academy, and he told The Daily Hoosier he always thought he’d get his fourth star when people saw what he could do on offense.…

The amount of Indiana Hoosiers history radiating off it is eclipsed only by its sheer size. Photos don’t do it justice. The old scoreboard acquired by The Upstairs Pub as part of its renovations will help turn the new section of its space into a more traditional sports bar with an IU flair. It stands seven feet tall and 18 feet wide — so imagine 16 or 17 Kel’el Wares lined up shoulder to shoulder. The scoreboard hung in Assembly Hall until 2004, and it moved to Mellencamp Pavilion after that. Upstairs owner Steve Engel heard that the scoreboard would…

Indiana women’s basketball forward Sharnecce Currie-Jelks missed most of the 2023-24 season while tending to an undisclosed personal issue. She shed more light on that situation on social media this week, posting photos with a baby on Instagram. A source confirmed to The Daily Hoosier that the baby is Currie-Jelks’, and the personal matter she dealt with last season was her pregnancy. https://www.instagram.com/p/C8AvzsxvYsU/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== The source added that Currie-Jelks is planning to return to the court in August, and that her mother, Stephanie, is moving to Bloomington to help care for the baby. IU head coach Teri Moren stated in late January…

Indiana men’s basketball had a busy offseason in the transfer portal. The Hoosiers, because of a big group of departures to graduation and outbound transfers, needed to rebuild around half of their roster. And they thrived in doing so, bringing in the No. 2 transfer portal class in the country, per 247Sports. That group includes the top player in the transfer portal this year in big man Oumar Ballo, outside shooting in Kanaan Carlyle and Luke Goode, playmaking in Myles Rice, and frontcourt depth in Langdon Hatton. IU still has one scholarship open, but it’s unclear if and how it could…

Sean Cuono was simply following directions. When the running back first started playing football at age six, he lined up at defensive end to start his first game. The recent Indiana commit didn’t know what he was doing, but his coach told him to tackle whoever got the ball. Cuono recalled coming off the edge after the quarterback took the snap, and he made the tackle. At first, he wasn’t sure how to react. “I didn’t even know it was good until they started jumping up and down, that I got a sack. So that was pretty cool,” Cuono said.…

Class of 2025 defensive lineman Jhrevious Hall has committed to Indiana football, as he announced Tuesday on social media. The Columbia, Tenn. native was part of the large group of recruits who visited Bloomington over the weekend. He chose the Hoosiers over other Power Four offers from Auburn, Duke, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Missouri, and Tennessee. On his X page, Hall reported 82 tackles, 13 sacks, 4 forced fumbles and a defensive touchdown for his 2023 junior season.  Playing for Columbia Central H.S., he was the Region 5, 5A Defensive Lineman of the Year. Hall is IU’s 11th player in the…

With its season on the line, Indiana baseball suffered one of its worst pitching performances of the season. The Hoosiers imploded very quickly in Sunday afternoon’s elimination game against Southern Miss. The Golden Eagles scored five runs in the top of the first inning and never looked back, steamrolling their way to a 15-3 victory at Lindsey Nelson Stadium in Knoxville, Tenn. Southern Miss moves on to the regional final, beginning later this (Sunday) evening, needing to beat No. 1 overall seed Tennessee twice to advance. Indiana is eliminated with the loss. IU sophomore right-hander Brayden Risedorph had a tough…

Indiana baseball left itself too much work to do. The Hoosiers fell behind No. 1 overall seed Tennessee and allowed the score to become too lopsided to overcome in Saturday’s NCAA regional game. The Volunteers rolled to a 12-6 victory at Lindsey Nelson Stadium in Knoxville,  putting themselves in the regional final. IU will play Southern Miss Sunday at noon ET in an elimination game on ESPN Plus. The winner of the game will have a doubleheader and take on Tennessee at 7 p.m. The Volunteers would win the regional with a win in that game, but the teams would…