Author: Seth Tow

INDIANAPOLIS — IU women’s basketball faced a daunting task on Friday in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals. Indiana’s reward for beating Oregon on Thursday was a rematch with regular-season conference champions USC, currently ranked No. 2 in the country. The Hoosiers kept things close against the Trojans in January at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, but this game had different stakes and a different atmosphere. Still, IU hung right in with USC. The Hoosiers won the second and third quarters, and never trailed by double digits. But the Trojans just had more firepower than Teri Moren’s team could match, and they…

This is the seventh in a series of profiles of potential candidates for Indiana’s open basketball head coaching position. Candidate: Ben McCollum Age: 43 Current position, tenure: Drake head coach since 2024 Previous Jobs: Northwest Missouri State head coach 2009-24; Emporia State assistant coach 2005-09 Accomplishments: If IU fans are looking for a Curt Cignetti replica for the men’s basketball program, McCollum is probably the closest comparison in terms of his résumé. He spent 16 years coaching Division II Northwest Missouri State, and when you Google him, you’ll see that he does, in fact, win. McCollum won four Division II national…

INDIANAPOLIS — With every whistle blown against her team in the first half Thursday, IU head women’s basketball coach Teri Moren grew increasingly animated. She could only hold in her frustration for so long as her Hoosiers accrued foul after foul in the Big Ten Tournament second round against Oregon. Moren clearly felt that the referees weren’t calling the game evenly at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, and that the Ducks were allowed to play with more physicality than IU. Juniors Lilly Meister and Yarden Garzon each had three fouls around midway through the second quarter, and senior Karoline Striplin picked up her…

INDIANAPOLIS — In the second round of the Big Ten Tournament, Indiana women’s basketball took care of business. The ninth-seeded Hoosiers opened their conference tournament run at Gainbridge Fieldhouse with a 78-62 win over eighth-seeded Oregon on Thursday. IU advances to Friday’s quarterfinals against No. 1 seed USC at noon ET. Indiana (19-11) started with a strong first quarter for the second game in a row. The Hoosiers built a 23-11 lead thanks to seven Oregon turnovers, which turned into 13 IU points. The Ducks (19-11) finished with 18 turnovers on the game. Junior Shay Ciezki spearheaded Indiana’s strong offensive start on…

After a rough senior night loss to Maryland, Indiana women’s basketball aired out some frustrations both publicly and privately. Head coach Teri Moren called out her players after that Maryland game for their focus and fight. The team responded with a comfortable win at Purdue on Sunday to close out the regular season. The Hoosiers had two days in between the Maryland loss and the Purdue win, and they had plenty of conversations in that span to make sure everyone was on the same page. Moren said she specifically talked to her veteran leaders, graduate students Sydney Parrish and Chloe…

Indiana men’s basketball was handed a firm lesson on Tuesday night. The Hoosiers entered Oregon’s Matthew Knight Arena on a roll, coming off three straight wins and four in the last five games. After their season appeared hopeless, they’d recovered and played themselves back into the NCAA Tournament picture. A victory over the Ducks would’ve put IU in a comfortable position for its dancing hopes. But the margins between winning and losing in March can be very thin. And Indiana found itself on the wrong side of those margins on Tuesday, as the Ducks quacked their way to a 73-64…

Yarden Garzon has been named a second team All-Big Ten selection by both coaches and media. The junior was the lone IU player to earn recognition on the second team; no Hoosiers made the first team, for the first time since 2019. This is her second time appearing on the second-team All-Big Ten, along with her freshman season in 2022-23. Going into the Big Ten Tournament, Garzon is averaging a career-high 14.1 points per game on the season. The Israeli reached the 1,000-point milestone in January. She’s also setting career-bests with , 3.2 assists and 1.4 steals per game, along…

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Indiana women’s basketball entered its regular-season finale reeling from two straight losses marred by recurring issues from the entire season. There’s no opponent the Hoosiers would rather see in that situation that Purdue. IU steamrolled its archrival in Bloomington in mid-February in a similar scenario, which led to momentum going into a huge game against Ohio State. Indiana similarly took care of business at Mackey Arena on Sunday, cruising to a 77-57 victory over the Boilermakers. Indiana (18-11, 10-8 Big Ten) picked up its 13th consecutive victory over its nemsesis with this result. Graduate students Chloe Moore-McNeil…

Indiana men’s basketball may not be “over the hump,” but it’s rounding into form at the right time. The Hoosiers have now won four of their last five games after a dominant 78-62 victory at Washington on Saturday. They’ve played like a rejuvenated team since head coach Mike Woodson’s forthcoming departure became official ahead of the Michigan game. Both Woodson and his players, during this five-game stretch, have looked like a weight has been lifted off their shoulders. Indiana (18-11, 9-9 Big Ten) is playing looser and coaching more freely. Everything is just flowing a lot better than it had…

This is the sixth in a series of profiles of potential candidates for Indiana’s open basketball head coaching position. Candidate: T.J. Otzelberger Age: 47 Current position, tenure: Iowa State head coach since 2021 Previous Jobs: UNLV head coach 2019-21; South Dakota State head coach 2016-19; Iowa State assistant coach 2015-16; Washington assistant coach 2013-15; Iowa State associate head coach 2010-13; Iowa State assistant coach 2006-10; Chipola College assistant coach 2004-05 Accomplishments: Otzelberger has led Iowa State to three straight NCAA Tournaments, with a fourth tournament berth in four years all but guaranteed entering March. The Cyclones reached the Sweet 16 in…