Author: Seth Tow

Indiana jumps back into conference play this weekend with a road game at Nebraska. The Hoosiers and Cornhuskers will face off for the first time since 2019 Saturday at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska. Nebraska is, historically, a difficult road environment to play in, with a long sellout streak — this game will be the Huskers’ 386th consecutive sellout crowd. And Saturday is their homecoming game. “I know we’re going to get their very best shot. We have to be at our very best, no question,” IU head coach Tom Allen said on Monday. “Our first road game last week,…

Indiana women’s basketball will look different this year. The Hoosiers lost a foundational core last season when Ali Patberg, Nicole Cardaño-Hillary, and Aleksa Gulbe graduated. Patberg, especially, was a natural leader on the floor and graduated as the program’s all-time winningest player. It’s not easy to replace a group that won as much as those three did. That’s a challenge Teri Moren and her staff attacked in the spring, by adding three transfers. Some useful pieces off the bench return, potentially in more prominent roles. Some of the four-woman freshman class could see playing time. But the main reason IU…

Through the first quarter of the season, one of Indiana’s biggest weaknesses has been early offensive struggles. The Hoosiers have had a lot of trouble getting their offense rolling early in games. They’ve scored nine total points in its four opening quarters of games this year. That ranks last among Big Ten teams. IU is trying to figure out what’s happened and how to fix it. “It seems like every time we start a game, we always start off slow, then we start to pick it up in the second half. I just feel like it’s just consistency,” running back Shaun…

Indiana will try to put last week’s loss at Cincinnati behind them quickly with a key Big Ten opportunity ahead this week. IU (3-1, 1-0 Big Ten) hits the road Saturday for its first conference away game, taking on Nebraska (1-3, 0-1) at 7:30 p.m. E.T. at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska. The teams last played each other in 2019, when IU took home a 38-31 win. Here are a few takeaways and notes from Monday’s media availability with head coach Tom Allen, offensive coordinator Walt Bell, defensive coordinator Chad Wilt, and quarterback Connor Bazelak. Mixed bag of health updates D.J.…

The first quarter of Indiana’s season has been riddled with mistakes. They didn’t end up costing the Hoosiers games quite yet, but it wouldn’t be sustainable to keep playing that way as the schedule got tougher. Saturday in Cincinnati it got tougher, and those mistakes finally caught up with IU. This wasn’t a case of a few key moments swinging the Bearcats’ way and deciding the game. The Hoosiers made critical errors in all three phases of the game, and did so in a game where they couldn’t afford to do so. Cincinnati made IU pay with a 45-24 win.…

Going into what proved to be a deciding play in Indiana’s game against Western Kentucky, Jaylin Williams was mad. The defensive back was called for pass interference on the last drive of regulation, as the Hilltoppers attempted to win the game in 47 seconds. The penalty took WKU into long field goal range, and eventually into more makable territory. The kick was missed, sending the game to overtime. Four plays later, Western Kentucky lined up to try another field goal. But Williams was still peeved about the penalty. “I had a PI right before that, so for me, honestly, I…

Myles Jackson is used to relocating and adapting. While growing up in the southeast, Jackson and his family moved 11 times. Most of them came while he was in elementary and middle school — he spent all four high school years at Mill Creek High in Hoschton, Georgia. The family mostly migrated within Georgia, along with multiple moves to South Carolina. That background shaped Jackson’s identity. He had to build new relationships and friendships so often that doing so became second nature. “It forced me to develop my own personality,” Jackson said. “Just allowed me to find myself and figure…

As Tom Allen entered Indiana’s team room for his press conference after IU’s win over Western Kentucky, his expression said it all. While Allen made his way to the podium, he shot the crowd of reporters an unmistakable look. His eyes widened. He smiled. And, basically, he simultaneously exhaled and laughed. It was another one of those games for Indiana football. The type of contest that various iterations of IU teams have gone through for years. Games comprised equally of sloppy mistakes and clutch plays. The games that the Hoosiers somehow, some way hang in long enough to create late…

Indiana’s first two games of the 2022 season have been very different, both in the circumstances around the game and the way the games played out. This week will continue that trend. Indiana hosts Western Kentucky on Saturday at noon at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington. IU edged out the Hilltoppers, 33-31, last year at Houchens Industries-L.T. Smith Stadium in Bowling Green. But as Western Kentucky head coach Tyson Helton said to local media this week, last year’s game doesn’t mean that much for this year. “It’s a new season. Both teams have a new team, new guys playing for them,”…

Luke Haggard didn’t want to play left tackle. The IU senior played youth football for only one year before getting to Petaluma (Calif.) High School, where he played defensive end and tight end as a freshman. He moved to left tackle on offense as a sophomore, but the team ran a triple-option offense which didn’t ask as much of a left tackle as other styles do. Haggard didn’t really start learning the craft of the position until he got to Santa Rosa (Calif.) Junior College. And even then, he wasn’t immediately all in. He arrived at Santa Rosa wanting to…