Indiana University Women’s Basketball Hosts #8 Ohio State to kick off the home stretch The Indiana Hoosiers face the first of three ranked opponents when the host the #8 Ohio State Buckeyes tonight at 7 PM inside Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall with the game streaming on Peacock. The Hoosiers are 10-4 at home and this will be the 4th time this season a ranked opponent has come into Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall as the Hoosiers are 1-2 against ranked opponents in Bloomington this season. Indiana is 16-9 on the season and 8-6 in the Big Ten. The Hoosiers sit in 9th place in the Conference Standings, and they are a bubble team for the NCAA Tournament. Indiana could get off that bubble as they face three ranked opponents in the final four games of the regular season. The Hoosiers face #22 Michigan State on Sunday in East Lansing before hosting #21 Maryland in the final regular season home game next Thursday before traveling to Purdue on March 2.
The Hoosiers beat Purdue 78-56 last Saturday afternoon at home as the Hoosiers have won 12 in a row against the Boilermakers and hold on to the Barn Burner Trophy. Indiana jumped out to a 30-10 lead after the first quarter and led 48-22 at half and never looked back. The Hoosiers shot 50 percent from the field and three-point range and 87 percent from the free throw line. Yarden Garzon is averaging 13.9 points which leads the team along with 5 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.4 steals per game. Sydney Parrish who scored 19 against Purdue is averaging 11.9 points while leading the team with 5.7 rebounds and 0.9 blocks per game. Shay Ciezki is averaging 10.1 points, and she went over 1,000 points for her college career at Minnesota. Ciezki started her career at Penn State and played there for two seasons before she came to Bloomington in the off-season.
Karoline Striplin is averaging 10.1 points per game along with 3.6 rebounds. The Hartford Alabama native scored 28 points and pulled down 7 rebounds at Michigan and has been a mainstay in the starting lineup since she replaced Lilly Meister. Chloe Moore-McNeil is averaging 9.8 points along with a team leading 4.2 assists and 1.4 steals per game. Indiana is averaging 70 points and committing 14.2 turnovers per game. The Hoosiers are shooting 45 percent from the field, 36 percent from three-point range and 77 percent from the free throw line. When Indiana gets stops on defense it leads to offense and the Hoosiers need that tonight against a tough Buckeye squad.
Ohio State is 22-3 overall and 11-3 in the Big Ten and coming off an 86-78 overtime win at home against the Iowa Hawkeyes Monday Afternoon in a Presidents Day matinee. All three Buckeye losses have come on the road losing at Penn State in a stunner 62-59 on January 19 and then losing twice in Los Angeles 65-52 against UCLA February 5 and 84-63 to USC on February 8. The Buckeyes have played two overtime games in a row after Minnesota pushed the Buckeyes to the limit 87-84 last Thursday Night in Columbus. Cotie McMahon leads the Buckeyes averaging 17 points per game. The Junior from Centerville, Ohio has scored in Double Figures in 19 of 21 games and has two double doubles on the season. McMahon has scored 50 points in the last two games with 25 points apiece against Minnesota and Iowa.
Freshman Jaloni Cambridge is averaging 15.2 points per game and leads the team with 4 assists. The 5-7 Cambridge is coming off a 29-point game against Iowa Monday afternoon and she is a quick guard who will keep the Hoosiers hopping all game long. Chance Gray is averaging 13.4 points per game. Taylor Thierry averages 10.3 points and leads the team with 2.5 steals per game. Ajae Petty is averaging 9.1 points and leads the team with 6.7 rebounds per game. 6-6 Freshman Elsa Lemmila from Finland leads the Buckeyes with 1.9 blocks per game. Ohio State is averaging 80 points and committing 12.8 turnovers per game. Ohio State comes to Bloomington shooting 45 percent from the field, 32 percent from three-point range and 69 percent from the free throw line.
The Buckeyes have a 14-player roster that represents Tennessee, Michigan, Ohio, New York, North Carolina, Maryland, Nevada, Georgia and Finland. Ohio State has 3 games after tonight with Purdue and Michigan State at Home and Road Trip to Maryland to close out the regular season. Ohio State leads the All-Time Series with the Hoosiers 60-24. Indiana is 16-21 all-time at home against the Buckeyes as Ohio State has won the last two meetings. The Buckeyes beat the Hoosiers 74-69 on February 4, 2024, in Columbus and 79-75 in the Big Ten Tournament Semifinals in Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 4, 2023. Indiana beat Ohio State 83-59 in Columbus on February 13, 2023, and the Hoosiers won in Bloomington 78-65 on January 26, 2023.
Bloomington South Boys Swimming Looks to Repeat as Sectional Champions The Bloomington South Panthers along with the Bloomington North Cougars and the Edgewood Mustangs will make the long two-hour trip one way to the Boys Swimming Sectional at East Central High School in Saint Leon, Indiana just off interstate 74 in Southeastern Indiana and a couple miles from the Ohio State Line. The Preliminaries kickoff tonight at 6 PM as 15 Teams will compete. The Monroe County Schools will be joined by Batesville, Columbus East, Columbus North, East Central, Greensburg, Lawrenceburg, Milan, Oldenburg Academy, Rising Sun, South Dearborn, South Ripley and Trinity Lutheran will compete. The Diving Finals are Saturday morning at 9:30 AM followed by the Swimming Finals at 1:30 PM.
All Sectional winners will advance to the State Finals along any contestant who equals or better the state time standard in their respective event in the Consolation or Championship Finals will qualify for the State Finals. The First through fourth place finishers in diving will advance to the Regional that will take place on Tuesday at Jasper High School beginning at 6 PM. Bloomington South won the sectional last year as Bloomington North won the sectional four years in a row from 2020-23. Both Bloomington Schools have been at the top of the Boys Swimming Sectional for a while and look to bring home more hardware to add to the trophy cases on the Northside or Southside of Bloomington.
Bloomington North has won 17 Sectional Titles in 1974, 1976-77 1989-1992, 1998-2002 2013 and 2020-23. Bloomington South has won 13 Sectional Titles in 1994-97, 2007, 2010-12 2015-18 and 2024. The Panthers were State Runners Up in 1989, 1996 and 2011-12. Add in Bloomington High School who won 3 straight Sectional and State Titles from 1970-72 and 1932 State Runners Up and Monroe County has won 33 Sectional Titles, 3 State Titles and 5 Time State Runners Up.
Indiana University’s Softball Schedule at Jeannine McHaney Memorial Classic in Texas has been Altered Indiana Softball’s upcoming weekend tournament, the Jeannine McHaney Memorial Classic has undergone some schedule changes. The tournament, hosted by Texas Tech, will now have games from Friday, Feb. 21 to Monday, Feb. 24. Indiana will only play from Friday to Sunday. The Hoosiers will play four games across the three days. The entire tournament schedule is listed below in Eastern Time.
Updated Schedule: FRIDAY – 2/21 (Home team listed second) 2 p.m. – UIC v Detroit Mercy 4 p.m. – Detroit Mercy at Texas Tech 6 p.m. – UIC v Indiana
SATURDAY – 2/22 11 a.m. – Indiana v UTEP 1 p.m. – UIC at Texas Tech 3:30 p.m. – Indiana at Texas Tech 6 p.m. – Detroit Mercy v UTEP 8 p.m. – Detroit Mercy v UIC
SUNDAY – 2/23 10 a.m. – UTEP v UIC 12:30 p.m. – Indiana at Texas Tech 3 p.m. – UTEP at Texas Tech
MONDAY – 2/24 1 p.m. – UTEP at Texas Tech Single game tickets are available. Fans who bought tickets for Thursday’s games will be able to use that ticket to attend Monday’s contest.
Indiana University Men’s Soccer announces Spring Soccer Schedule Indiana men’s soccer will play five exhibition matches during the spring semester, including two matches on Jerry Yeagley Field at Bill Armstrong Stadium, head coach Todd Yeagley announced Tuesday. IU will host matches on consecutive weekends to kick off the slate in early March. The Hoosiers are set to welcome 2024 NCAA Tournament team Evansville on March 1 and Oakland on March 9. Fans can attend those matches for free. Local and in-state fans will have another chance to see the Hoosiers April 11, when IU and Notre Dame meet at the Grand Park Sports Campus in Westfield, Indiana. Admission is free. Indiana will travel twice in April, visiting familiar foes Saint Louis (April 5) and Kentucky (April 19). The Saint Louis match will take place at the Worldwide Technology Soccer Park in Fenton, Missouri.
Saturday, March 1 Evansville Bloomington, Ind. (Bill Armstrong Stadium) 1 p.m. ET Sunday, March 9 Oakland Bloomington, Ind. (Bill Armstrong Stadium) 3 p.m. ET Saturday, April 5 at Saint Louis Fenton, Mo. (Worldwide Technology Soccer Park) 3:30 p.m. ET Friday, April 11 vs. Notre Dame Westfield, Ind. (Grand Park – Indoor) 7:30 p.m. ET Saturday, April 19 at Kentucky Lexington, Ky. (Bell Complex) Noon ET
#14 Michigan State outlasts #13 Purdue Men’s Basketball in East Lansing Jase Richardson had 12 points and Frankie Fidler scored 11, leading No. 14 Michigan State to a 75-66 win over No. 13 Purdue on Tuesday night. The Spartans (21-5, 12-3 Big Ten) have won three of four to pull within a half-game of conference-leading and 12th-ranked Michigan, heading into the rivals’ matchup on Friday night at Crisler Center. Trey Kaufmann-Renn scored 24 and Braden Smith added 17 for the defending Big Ten-champion Boilermakers (19-8, 11-5), who have lost three straight for the first time in five years. Michigan State’s Coen Carr and Jaden Akins each scored 10 points. The Boilermakers led by seven midway through the first half and the Spartans went on a surge to take a 33-31 lead at halftime. Michigan State stayed in control in the second half and sealed the win by finishing 4 for 4 from the field.
Without 7-foot-4 Zach Edey, now a rookie with the Memphis Grizzlies, the Boilermakers can’t protect the rim, and the Spartans took advantage with lobs and dunks. No one picked coach Tom Izzo’s team to win the Big Ten title before the season started, but the balanced and streaky squad has a shot with two games left against Michigan and a home game against No. 11 Wisconsin. Coen Carr defied gravity with a dunk off a high lob to tie the score late in the first half during a 16-5 run that gave the Spartans control. Michigan State scored 19 points off Purdue’s 12 turnovers. With first place in the Big Ten at stake, Michigan State will play at Michigan on Friday night. In another rivalry game, Purdue will play at Indiana on Sunday.
Taylor University Track and Field’s Jaynie Halterman Honored by the Crossroads League Jaynie Halterman was selected as the Crossroads League Women’s Indoor Track and Field Runner of the Week on Monday after her record-setting performance at the league championship meet. Halterman was named the 2025 Crossroads League Indoor Championships Women’s Runner of the Meet after winning the 3,000 and 5,000-meter races. In addition to her two victories, the freshman shattered the CL Championship and Taylor program records for the two races, easily met the NAIA A-standard and posted the best times of the year in the NAIA in each.
The two races marked Halterman’s first of the indoor track and field season and were her first races since capping an undefeated cross-country season with the individual national championship in the fall. The honor is the sixth of Halterman’s young career and gives Taylor Athletics a total of 36 weekly league awards during the 2024-2025 year. Halterman and the Trojans will close their indoor campaign at NAIA Nationals on February 27 through March 1.