Indiana University Men’s Basketball faces its first true Road Test at Nebraska The Indiana Hoosiers get their first true road test when the travel to Lincoln, Nebraska to face the Nebraska Cornhuskers at 8 PM this evening inside Pinnacle Bank Arena with game televised on FOX. Indiana played in the Battle 4 Atlantis Thanksgiving Week in the Bahamas losing to Louisville and Gonzaga by a combined 44 points before leaving the Island with a 16-point win over Providence in the 7th place game. Indiana has won all seven of their games inside Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall this season. The Hoosiers are 19-10 all time against the Cornhuskers Nebraska won all three matchups last year against the Hoosiers by double digits including a 93-66 blowout in the Big Ten Tournament Quarterfinals in Minnesota. The Hoosiers missed the NCAA Tournament and chose not to accept any other Postseason Tournament Bids ending their season in disappointing and embarrassing fashion. The Hoosiers are 9-5 all-time in Lincoln. Indiana loss by 16 points a season ago and Nebraska beat them by 15 in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.
The Hoosiers played their best game of the seaso wen Monday Night beating Minnesota 82-67 in the Big Ten Opener. Oumar Ballo led Indiana with 18 points and 7 rebounds as the seven-footer had his way inside against the Golden Gophers who could not contain him as he went 5-5 from the field and 8-11 from the free throw line. Freshman Bryson Tucker sparked Indiana off the bench with 16 points on 6-10 from the field and 4-6 from the free throw line along with 6 rebounds. Malik Reneau scored 16 points. Kaanan Carlyle added 14 off the bench in his first game back from a lower body injury and Mackenzie Mgbako scored 13 points as the Hoosiers pulled away midway through the first half thanks to Tucker and Ballo and Minnesota going cold from the field and the Hoosiers Defense forcing pressure on Minnesota that kept them off balance for most of the game.
Malik Reneau leads the Hoosiers with 15.5 points and 1.5 steals per game. Mackenzie Mgbako is averaging 15.1 points and 5.1 rebounds per game. Oumar Ballo averages 13.2 points along with a team leading 9.1 rebounds and 2 blocks per game. Myles Rice is averaging 10.8 points but he struggled against Minnesota scoring 2 points but he had 5 rebounds, dished out 2 assists and had a steal. Trey Galloway leads the team with 3.7 assists per game. The Hoosiers are averaging 80.4 points and commit 14 turnovers per game. Indiana is shooting 51 percent from the field, 36 percent from three point range and 75 percent from the free throw line. Nebraska is 6-2 overall and 0-1 in the Big Ten after a 89-52 loss at Michigan State last Saturday Afternoon. 6-10 Senior Andrew Morgan lead the way with 14 points off the bench and 6-7 Senior Brice Williams added 11 points. The Nebraska went 18-54 from the field for 33 percent, 4-22 from three point range for 18 percent and 12-18 from the free throw line for 66 percent. The Conrhuskers pulled down 19 rebounds, dished out 8 assists, 8 steals and committed 11 turnovers. Michigan State led start to finish as the Cornhuskers tied the game twice at 7 and 11 all in the first half. Michigan State used an 13-2 run to up by 11 points leading 24-13 with 7:36 left in the first half. Michigan State led 41-31 at halftime and outscored Nebraska 48-21 in the second half with their largest lead of the game at 42 points.
Brice Williams leads the team in scoring at 17.5 points per game. Fort Wayne Indiana Native Connor Essegian is averaging 13.0 points per game. The Central Noble HS Grad is a Junior who played his first two seasons at Wisconsin scoring 506 points in 68 games with 3 starts. Juwan Gary is averaging 10.6 points and 4.4 rebounds per game. 6-10 Sophomore Berke Buyuktuncel will match up with Oumar Ballo as the 244 Pounder from Bursa, Turkey averages 8.6 points along with a team leading 5.9 rebounds and 0.9 assists per game. Rollie Wooster averages 8.9 points and a team leading 2.6 assists per game. Sam Hoiberg who is the Son of Head Coach Fred Hoiberg leads the team in steals at 1.8 per contest. Nebraska is averaging 79.4 points and committing 11.3 turnovers per game. The Conrhuskers are shooting 44.7 percent from the field, 29.8 percent from three-point range and 76.6 percent from the free throw line. Nebraska has a 17-player roster that represents 10 States including Nebraska, Indiana, South Carolina, Illinois, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Utah, Minnesota, North Carolina, Montana along 2 international players from Turkey and the Netherlands.
Fred Hoiberg is in his 6th season at Nebraska with a record of 69-96 and the Cornhuskers made the NCAA Tournament a season ago losing to Texas A&M 98-93 in the first round of the South Regional. Hoiberg coached at Iowa State from 2010-14 going 115-56 with 4 NCAA Tournament Appearances in 5 seasons. Hoiberg has an overall record of 184-152 11 seasons with 5 NCAA Tournament Appearances. Nicknamed “The Mayor” after he received several write in votes in the 1993 mayoral race in his hometown of Ames, Iowa. Hoiberg was drafted by the Indiana Pacers with 52nd overall pick in the 1992 NBA Draft and played with the team from 1995-99 before going to the Chicago Bulls from 1999-2003 and the Minnesota Timberwolves from 2003-05. Hoiberg coached the Chicago Bulls from 2015-19 with. 115-155 record and lost in the first round of 2017 NBA Playoffs to the Boston Celtics 4-2.
Indiana University Football Announces 2025 Season Schedule The Big Ten revealed the complete 2025 conference schedule with opponents by date on Wednesday afternoon. The league opponents were announced a while ago, and the nonconference opponents and dates have been known for a long time. But now we have the complete picture for Indiana’s 2025 season, which should be one of the more anticipated campaigns in Hoosier history. Here’s what year two of the Curt Cignetti era looks like: NON CONFERENCE
Aug. 30 – Old Dominion
Sept. 6 – Kennesaw State
Sept. 13 – Indiana State
CONFERENCE
Sept. 20 – vs. Illinois
Sept. 27 – at Iowa
Oct. 11 – at Oregon Oct. 18 – vs. Michigan State
Oct. 25 – vs. UCLA
Nov. 1 – at Maryland
Nov. 8 – at Penn State
Nov. 15 – vs. Wisconsin
Nov. 29 – at Purdue
The nonconference schedule should allow for another fast start for Cignetti and crew, and a conference home opener against Illinois provides a chance to reach 4-0. But after playing eight home games in 2024, the Hoosiers will go on the road five times in the Big Ten next year. The slate includes three especially challenging road trips — at Iowa, at Oregon, and at Penn State — with the former two coming back-to-back early in the season. The Big Ten has built-in two bye weeks again next season, with IU’s off weeks coming ahead of the trip to Oregon and the Old Oaken Bucket game vs. Purdue.
Indiana University Men’s Basketball Sophomore Gabe Cupps Sidelined Indefinity with Injury Indiana men’s basketball will be down a player for extended time. Sophomore guard Gabe Cupps will be out indefinitely, the program announced Wednesday, after undergoing a successful surgery for a pre-existing, nagging lower body injury. Cupps is reporting on social media he had his meniscus repaired.
Cupps has played in only four games for the Hoosiers so far this season, and he’s missed the last three contests. He averaged six minutes per game across those four appearances, and didn’t score a point on his four field-goal attempts. He last played four minutes during IU’s win over Providence in the Battle 4 Atlantis. The Dayton, Ohio native played a more important role last season. He played in all 33 games for Indiana, with 22 starts. Cupps averaged 2.6 points, 1.8 rebounds, and 1.2 assists per game while shooting 36.4 percent from the field, 35.9 percent from 3-point range, and 61.5 percent at the foul line.
Indiana University Football Assistant Coach Bryant Haines named a Finalist for the Broyles Award For the second straight season, Indiana football’s defensive coordinator Bryant Haines has been announced as a finalist for the Broyles Award, which honors college football’s top assistant coach. Haines becomes the second Indiana assistant coach named a finalist for the award, which has been handed out each season since 1996. He joins Kane Womack, who was a finalist in 2020 and 2021. In just his first year at IU, Haines has had an immediate impact on a unit that ranks among the top 10 in numerous defensive categories. He revived an Indiana defense that ranked 98th in scoring defense and 85th in total defense in 2023 into a top 5 defense in just one season. His unit has limited opponents to under 100-yards rushing in eight of 12 games in 2024, which is a program record (since 1950), and leads the FBS in rushing defense (70.8). His aggressive style of play helps IU rank top 20 nationally with 86.0 tackles for loss and 34.0 sacks on the season.
His defense has led the nation in rushing defense in each of the last two regular seasons. Per Pro Football Focus, Indiana has the No. 2 rated defense in the nation (94.2), behind only Texas. Overall, the defense has allowed 20-plus points on just three occasions in 2024, 30 points just once, and held the opposition to under 300-yards of total offense seven times. His ability to adjust in-game has been a plus for IU, as well, and none more impressive than holding Michigan State to 193 yards of total offense – including a program-record minus-36 yards rushing – after the Spartans gained 123 yards on the first two offensive drives of the game (70 yards on its next 10 drives – 7.0 yards per drive).
In Week 11, the Hoosiers held Michigan to 206 yards of total offense to mark its lowest offensive output since the start of the 2016 season. A Week 13 meeting with Ohio State saw IU hold the Buckeyes to its fourth-lowest total offense output (316 yards) since the beginning of the 2018 season. In Week 14, his unit limited Purdue to its fewest yards of total offense in program history (67) and helped Indiana posts its largest margin of victory against an FBS opponent. Haines is one of five finalists that were selected from approximately 1,500 assistant coaches representing 131 FBS programs across the country. A selection committee of distinguished former head coaches, broadcasters and a committee representing the Football Writers Association of America will name an overall winner on February 13, 2025, at its annual awards banquet in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The Broyles Award was created in 1996 recognizing Coach Frank Broyles’ legacy of selecting and developing great assistants during his hall of fame career as head coach at Arkansas.
Four Indiana University Men’s Hoosiers Feature in All-North Region First Team Indiana men’s soccer is one of two programs (Penn) to produce four United Soccer Coaches first-team All-Region players in 2024. The organization announced its list of all-region honorees this week. Indiana is represented in every third within the All-North Region team. Senior forwards Tommy Mihalic (10 goals, 5 assists), Samuel Sarver (5 goals, 8 assists), senior midfielder Patrick McDonald (2 goals, 3 assists) and defender Quinton Elliot (3 goals, 3 assists) are eligible for All-America selection as first-team All-Region honorees. IU’s All-North Region quartet also featured in the All-Big Ten first team in November, as Mihalic also received the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year award.
Indiana Fever Hire Keith Porter as Player Development Coach The Indiana Fever announced that the team has hired Keith Porter as Player Development Coach. Porter was most recently the Player Development Coach with the Connecticut Sun (2023-24), during which time he worked with current Fever Head Coach Stephanie White and played a key role in the development of All-WNBA First-Team member Alyssa Thomas, WNBA All-Stars DeWanna Bonner and Brionna Jones, and WNBA Most Improved Player Dijonai Carrington.
Porter is also the Head Coach for Kosovo Heritage Basketball Academy, which focuses on training and development more than 400 players annually in Pristina, Kosovo. Porter played college basketball for two seasons at the University of Connecticut Avery Point (Division III), where he led the nation in scoring, was named an All-American, and was eventually inducted into the program’s Hall of Fame. He also played professionally in Spain and Puerto Rico.