With college football season starting to creep up, we’re running down Indiana’s schedule to preview all 12 opponents for 2024. IU returns home to host Charlotte in week four at Memorial Stadium, in the Hoosiers’ final non-conference game of the regular season. This is the first-ever meeting between the schools on the football field. Head coach Biff Poggi enters year two with the 49ers after a difficult first season, and he has a lot of work to do to turn things around. Opponent: Charlotte Date/Time/TV: Saturday, September 21, TBA Location: Memorial Stadium, Bloomington, Ind. 2023 record/postseason result: 3-9, 2-6 AAC…
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With college football season starting to creep up, we’re running down Indiana’s schedule to preview all 12 opponents for 2024. IU opens Big Ten play in week three this year with an immediate introduction to the conference’s new terrain: a prime-time game at UCLA. This will be the first-ever meeting on the football field between the Hoosiers and Bruins, and it’s IU’s first game in Pasadena since the 1968 Rose Bowl. UCLA hired DeShaun Foster as head coach during this offseason after Chip Kelly left to become Ohio State’s offensive coordinator. Opponent: UCLA Date/Time/TV: Saturday, September 14, 7:30 p.m. ET,…
Class of 2025 four-star Trent Sisley has trimmed his recruitment to five schools, and Indiana made the cut. The 6-foot-7 power forward, per multiple reports, is down to IU, Purdue, Notre Dame, Iowa, and Michigan State. 247Sports Composite ranks the Lincoln City native as the No. 73 overall player and the No. 19 power forward in the class. Rivals has Sisley at No. 67 overall. The Heritage Hills product held other offers from Ohio State, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Louisville, West Virginia, and UCF, but eliminated those schools from contention. Sisley is one of Indiana’s biggest in-state recruiting priorities for the class…
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.…