Author: Seth Tow

BLOOMINGTON — Things are starting to turn around for Indiana women’s basketball. The Hoosiers slogged through their first three games of the year, surviving despite sloppy play against Brown but falling to Harvard and Butler. It became very evident, very quickly, that this team was different than the ones that reached three Sweet 16s in the last four years. IU bounced back with nice wins over Stanford, Columbia, and Baylor, but closed out November with another clunker against North Carolina. But IU has seemingly settled in during December. The team capped off the month with a dominant 83-52 victory over…

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana women’s basketball took care of business in its Big Ten home opener. The Hoosiers pulled away from Wisconsin in the first half and rolled to a 83-52 victory on Saturday at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. IU (10-3, 2-0 Big Ten) has now won six straight games to close out the calendar year, and has now won 11 consecutive games over Wisconsin. IU returns to action next weekend, for a huge game against No. 1 UCLA on Saturday at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. Here are three quick keys to Indiana’s strong performance against the Badgers. A big second quarter…

One of Indiana men’s basketball’s biggest flaws through its first 12 games of the season has been the struggle to play a complete game. IU (9-3, 1-1 Big Ten) has been able to do it — or at least get close enough to it — in a few games, notably against South Carolina. And it’s certainly excusable to endure some struggles against top-tier teams like Gonzaga. But on too many occasions, the Hoosiers have gone through extended stretches on the court where things just get away from them too easily. Shots stop falling, passes get lazy and sloppy, mental mistakes…

Indiana football’s historic season was less about individual moments of brilliance, and more about the collection of many such moments. IU finished 11-2, after its College Football Playoff loss to Notre Dame. And the disappointment of that performance — and, more broadly, combined with the team’s letdown at Ohio State — may linger for some. But in the big picture, this was the greatest season in program history. These Hoosiers won more games than any other IU team, and it was a product of superb coaching by Curt Cignetti and his staff and a talented group of players that performed…

If Curt Cignetti wrote a wish list to Santa Claus for Christmas, he just got his top request under the tree. IU edge rusher Mikail Kamara announced on social media on Wednesday that he’s returning to the Hoosiers for the 2025 season. He has one year of eligibility remaining. Kamara turned in a superb season for IU in 2024, becoming the program’s first Associated Press All-American in a decade — a third-team All-American at edge rusher. He also earned All-Big Ten first team honors. The redshirt junior finished 13th in the nation with 10 sacks, which tied for the fifth-most…

Christmas just got a little more merry for Indiana football. Three-star class of 2025 quarterback Jacob Bell announced his commitment to IU on social media on Wednesday morning. The Naperville, Ill. native received an offer from Indiana on Tuesday, and announced he was decommitting from Ball State just hours later. Bell initially committed to the Cardinals in June. The Hoosiers were Bell’s first power four offer. He held other FBS offers rom Bowling Green, Eastern Michigan, Kent State, Marshall, Ohio, and Western Michigan. Bell was named Naperville Sun player of the year after a strong senior season. Per MaxPreps, he…

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The more football Indiana’s offense played against Notre Dame, the greater the sense of inevitability grew. The 10th-seeded Hoosiers sputtered for much of Friday’s game in the College Football Playoff first round. Quarterback Kurtis Rourke turned in an uncharacteristically erratic night, the seventh-seeded Fighting Irish completely locked down IU’s running game, and there weren’t any easy answers to fix the problems. it ended in a 27-17 Notre Dame victory, in a contest that wasn’t as close as that score indicates. IU (11-2) racked up 126 yards of offense and scored two touchdowns in the last five…

The biggest game in Indiana football history forces the Hoosiers to balance two strong mindsets. IU is set to take on Notre Dame Friday at 8 p.m. in South Bend in the first round of the College Football playoff. If the Hoosiers pull off an upset victory, they advance to the Sugar Bowl to take on Georgia. The team is in a special position, the type players envision themselves in as they grow up around the game. But appreciating that significance directly conflicts with the things Curt Cignetti has preached all year — no one game is bigger than the…

Indiana women’s basketball sophomore guard Lenée Beaumont will miss the rest of the 2024-25 season, the program announced Thursday on social media. Beaumont had not yet played this year, while battling a lingering knee problem from the offseason. Her status remained unclear, and head coach Teri Moren sounded pessimistic about her prospects of suiting up anytime soon. But Thursday’s announcement put that uncertainty to rest. Beaumont, the program said, underwent successful knee surgery this week. She’ll utilize her medical redshirt for this year, and will return for 2025-26 as a redshirt sophomore. Meanwhile, graduate student Sydney Parrish is nearing a…

It didn’t take long into Zach Horton’s football career for him to want something different. The Roanoke, Va. native began playing as early as he was allowed to, at age five or six. He started at running back, and his earliest memory of the game came from that position. Horton scampered 90 yards for a highlight-reel touchdown, the type that would hype up most players. But he wasn’t in a celebratory mood after crossing the goal line. “I went to the sideline to my dad, and I told him, ‘I don’t want to do it no more. I don’t want…