The 2025 Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament Starts this afternoon at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis For the first time in the history of the Big Ten Conference 15 teams will compete starting this afternoon in the Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The conference expanded to 18 teams this season with bottom three teams being left out. Purdue finished 3-15 tied with Rutgers in the standings as the Scarlet Knights beat the Boilermakers in the regular season to clinch the 15th and final spot leaving the Boilermakers at home with a 10-19 overall record. Northwestern finished 17th with a 2-16 record in conference and overall record of 9-18. Penn State finished 18th with a 1-17 record and overall record of 10-19. This is the first in the tournaments history since it began in 1995 that teams did not automatically qualify for the conference tournament. The tournament will see 14 games played in the next five days. Today there will be three games all streaming on Peacock. In game 1 at 3:30 PM 13 Seed Minnesota takes on 12 Seed Washington, followed by 15 Seed Rutgers taking on 10 Seed Nebraska at 6 and at 8:30 PM 14 Seed Wisconsin takes on 11 Seed Iowa. There will be four games on both Thursday and Friday all televised on Big Ten Network. The Semifinals are on Saturday on the Big Ten Network and the Championship Game is 4:30 PM Sunday Afternoon on CBS.
Indianapolis has hosted the Big Ten Tournament 26 Times. The Tournament started at Historic Hinkle Fieldhouse in 1995 and 1996 before going to the RCA Dome for three years from 1997-1999. Even though the name has changed three times now it has been held in this building when it was Conesco Fieldhouse in 2000 and 2002-11 then was called Bankers Life Fieldhouse in 2012 came back in 2014 and stayed from 2016-2021. Gainbridge Fieldhouse took over in 2022 the last time the tournament was held in the Circle City. Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan hosted the tournament in 2001. The Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, Illinois hosted in 2012 and 2015 and for the last two years in 2023 and 2024 it has been at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Indianapolis will host in 2026 before it heads to West to T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas for 2027 and Little Caesars Arena in Detroit Michigan in 2028.
8 Teams have won the Big Ten Tournament with Purdue winning 9 titles with their last in 2013, Iowa has won 6 including the last three in a row. Maryland has won 5 with their last title coming in 2021. Ohio State has won 5 but it’s been since 2018 when the Buckeyes last lifted the trophy. Penn State won the first two Big Ten Tournaments in 1994 and 1995. Indiana won in 2002, Michigan State in 2005 and Nebraska in 2014. Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Northwestern, Rutgers and Wisconsin have never won the Big Ten Tournament. The four newcomers USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington all made the tournament. USC won the Regular Season Title and UCLA is second seed as the Trojans and Bruins are on a collision course to meet for the time this season if they both get to the championship game and could become the 9th different team to win the Big Ten Tournament. Oregon is the 8 seed and will face 9 seed Indiana on Thursday at Noon.
Three Indiana University Women’s Basketball Players earn All-Big Ten Honors Indiana women’s basketball placed three on the 2024-25 All-Big Ten teams, announced by the league on Tuesday afternoon. Junior guard Yarden Garzon was named the conference’s second team from the coaches and the media votes. Graduate student guard Chloe Moore-McNeil picked up an honorable mention nod from both polls and graduate student guard Sydney Parrish was named honorable mention by the media.
Garzon is Indiana’s leading scorer with 14.1 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game and has scored in double figures 23 times. She earns her third-straight All-Big Ten honors in 2024-25 and shoots a league-leading 40.4 percent from the 3-point line. Her accuracy from the arc comes on a team-high 76 triples, which ranks 20th nationally, and has hit multiple 3-pointers in 23 games this season. Garzon averages 2.5 3-pointers per game, which ranks 25th in the nation and also has two double-doubles on her resume this season. The Ra’anana, israel native has an overall field goal percentage of 43.5 percent from the floor and is an 87.7 percent free throw shooter. She most recently set the program’s new record for 3-pointers made in a career with a current career total of 208.
Moore-McNeil is also now a three-time All-Big Ten selection as she earns a spot on the honorable mention squad. The Greenfield, Tenn. native adds 9.5 points, a team-high 4.3 assists and 4.1 rebounds per game as the Hoosiers’ floor general. She has dished out in 28 games in her final season in Cream and Crimson and scored in double figures 13 times, eight of those times against Big Ten opponents. Through her final season, Moore-McNeil continues to work her way up the IU record books as she ranks fifth all-time with 486 assists and recently played in the program’s record 149th game.
Parrish is back on an All-Big Ten team to collect her second conference honors of her career. She is Indiana’s second leading scorer and leading rebounder with 12.2 points and 5.6 rebounds per game. The Fishers, Ind. native ties Garzon with a team-high two double-doubles while shooting 45.2 percent overall and 34.1 percent from the 3-point line. Parrish has been consistent for the Hoosiers during Big Ten play, scoring in double figures in 13 of the last 15 games and 17 times overall. She has connected on 43 3-pointers with multiple makes in 13 games. The Hoosiers are the No. 9 seed in the upcoming 2025 TIAA Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament and will being action on Thursday at 12 p.m. vs. No. 8 seed Oregon.
Indiana University Football holds annual Pro Day Workout IU football hosted its annual Pro Day for NFL scouts and other personnel in Bloomington on Tuesday. While only Kurtis Rourke and C.J. West received NFL Combine invites, this day expands the opportunity for former IU players to perform combine-like activities in front of the league and gives them a chance to earn training camp invites, free agent contracts, etc. 21 Players participated that included Shawn Asbury, James Carpenter, Lanell Carr Jr, Andison Coby, Miles Cross, Cedarius Doss, James Evans, Zach Horton, Terry Jones Jr., Ty Son Lawton, Jacob Magnum-Farrar, Derek McCormick, Darin McCulley, Myles Price, Kurtis Rourke, Josh Sanguinetti, Nic Toomer, Jailin Walker, Trey Wedig, CJ West and Keshawn Williams.
Big Ten Announces Volleyball Opponents for the 2025 Season The 18 Big Ten volleyball programs learned their designated conference opponents for the 2025 season as announced by the conference office. All teams will play 20 league matches with 14 single play opponents and three double play opponents. The Hoosiers went 8-12 in the first season of the 18-team Big Ten. Head coach Steve Aird’s team closed the year winning three of its final four games including commanding victories over Michigan and Illinois at Wilkinson Hall. IU has won at least eight conference games in each of the last three seasons.
A year ago, IU was paired with Purdue, Illinois and Ohio State for its home-and-home Big Ten series’. That will change in 2025 with the Hoosiers set to meet Purdue, Northwestern and Maryland in their only double play league matchups. Those three teams will combine to make up six of the 20 Big Ten games on IU’s schedule. IU has won three-straight matchups against Maryland and two of the last three against Northwestern. The rest of IU’s matchups are set to flip from the designated location last year. After going to the Pacific Northwest to play Oregon and Washington on the first weekend of conference play in 2024, those two schools will make the return trip to Bloomington next year. In turn, IU’s west coast swing will take it to Los Angeles to face USC and UCLA.
Additional home matches at Wilkinson Hall will come against Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Rutgers and Ohio State. Road contests at Penn State, Illinois, Michigan, Michigan State and Wisconsin will round out the 2025 conference slate for the Hoosiers. IU’s road game at Rec Hall in University Park will mark back-to-back years that the program has taken on the defending national champions in their home gym (2024 – at Texas). The full Big Ten schedule will come out this summer after TV networks make their national television selections for the season. IU will build its first four weekends of the season against non-conference opponents with high-leverage RPI’s. Expect the full 2025 schedule to be released in June.
Hoosier Basketball Magazine announces Top 60 Girls Senior Workout participants
Hoosier Basketball Magazine announced Top 60 senior girls’ basketball players for 2024-25. These girls were selected from approximately 1,400 senior players statewide. Statistical evaluation, game observation and statewide research were conducted during the season and throughout the state tournament to determine Hoosier Basketball Magazine’s Top 60 seniors. Two sessions of the 44th annual Top 60 Senior Workout will be hosted by Hoosier Basketball Magazine in conjunction with the IHSAA and the IBCA on Sunday, March 9th at Beech Grove High School in Indianapolis (5330 Hornet Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46107). Half of the Top 60 girls, primarily from northern and southern Indiana, will participate in the first session (1:00-3:00 pm EST). The remaining players, primarily from central Indiana, will compete during the second session (3:30-5:30 pm EST).
The Top 60 Senior Workout includes two of the state’s top senior scorers, both over 23 ppg— Jacklynn Hosier, Alexandria-Monroe-25.2 ppg (Vermont) and Kaycie Warfel, Pendleton Heights-23.3 (Taylor). Note: High scoring Meredith Tippner, Noblesville (26 ppg), who is a Miami (Florida) recruit, was selected but is injured and unable to participate. There are nine players that participated in the 2025 IHSAA state finals including four state champion players— Kya Hurt and Jamaya Thomas from AAAA Champion Lawrence North along with Ella Bobe and Bren Hill representing AA Champion South Knox. Top 60 players from IHSAA runner-up teams are Brooke Winchester, Warsaw – AAAA, Leah West and Mylie Wilkson, Greensburg – AAA, Taylor Van Meter, Rensselaer Central – AA and Carley Barrett, Lafayette Central Catholic – Class A.
There are more than 20 invitees who are committed to Division I Universities across the country including Jaylah Lampley, Lawrence Central (Mississippi State). A few of those D1 signees will play their college basketball in the Hoosier State— Winchester, Warsaw (Ball State), Addison Baxter, Columbia City (Butler), Avery Gordon, Brownsburg (Purdue), Lily Graves, Franklin Central (Southern Indiana) and Bobe, South Knox (Southern Indiana). Note: Maya Makalusky, Hamilton Southeastern (Indiana) and Kira Reynolds, South Bend Washington (Purdue) were selected but are unable to participate.
Former state champion coach DeeAnn Ramey (North Central-Marion) will direct both sessions. Other outstanding Indiana girls’ high school coaches from the IBCA have been invited to join the 2025 Top 60 staff— Hollie Anson-Eaves (South Knox), Lenny Krebs (Warsaw), Amy Selk (Beech Grove), Jason Simpson (Greensburg) and Stephen Thomas (Lawrence North). Both sessions are open to the public for admission fee of $9.00. Media can call (317) 925-8200
if interested in credentials for one or both sessions.
Class of 2025 Top 60 Senior Girls
Laila Abdurraqib, Lawrence Central
Madi Allen, North Decatur
Emma Ancelet, Danville
Lindsay Arcella, Andrean
Carley Barrett, Lafayette Central Catholic
Addison Baxter, Columbia City
Lauren Bear, Tri-West
Andrea Benefield, Westville
Lilly Bischoff, Center Grove
Emily Bleke, Bellmont
Libby Blythe, Evansville North
Ella Bobe, South Knox
Mylee Boling, Beech Grove
Gabby Burrus, North Central (Marion)
Brookelynn Buzzard, Wabash
Brynlee Clarke, Northview
Ashley Cox, DeKalb
Aubrey Crockett, Westfield
Hadley Crosier, Lanesville
Jalyn Davidson, North Central (Farmersburg)
Nevaeh Dickman, Fishers
Kenzie Garner, Sheridan
Rielyn Goodwin, Northridge
Avery Gordon, Brownsburg
Ava Grant, Center Grove
Lily Graves, Franklin Central
Tianna Guy, Indianapolis Cathedral
Bren Hill, South Knox
Jacklynn Hosier, Alexandria-Monroe
Kya Hurt, Lawrence North
Lily Kreischer, Eastside
Ayla Krygier, Lake Central
Jaylah Lampley, Lawrence Central
Joslyn Marshall, Heritage Christian
Kassie McMasters, Southport
Ava Mikesell, Northeastern
Kaelyse Mitchell, Evansville Reitz
Avah Montgomery, Southridge
Alyssa Murphy, Corydon Central
Alivia Peoples, Anderson Prep
Ellie Richardson, Scottsburg
Kahlen Robinson, Bowman Academy
Jordan Scott, Castle
Ava Shafer, Mooresville
Emma Simpson, Parke Heritage
Aniah Smith, Avon
Madison Sonsini, Greenfield-Central
Gabby Spink, Gibson Southern
Jamaya Thomas, Lawrence North
Marissa Trout, Huntington North
Jessa Troy, Penn
Amyannah Tucker, Richmond
Taylor Van Meter, Rensselaer Central
Kaycie Warfel, Pendleton Heights
Kylie Wells, Merrillville
Leah West, Greensburg
Mylie Wilkson, Greensburg
Layla Williams, Fort Wayne Wayne
Jaeda Wilson, Indianapolis Cathedral
Ryiah Wilson, South Bend Washington
Vanessa Wimberly, Lake Central
Brooke Winchester, Warsaw
Class of 2025 Top 60 Senior Girls
SELECTED BUT UNABLE TO PARTICIPATE DUE TO INJURY
Addie Bowsman, Twin Lakes • Leonie Boyer, Rushville • Maya Makalusky, Hamilton Southeastern •
Monique Mitchell, South Bend Washington • Isabelle Shepherd, Carmel • Meredith Tippner, Noblesville
SELECTED BUT UNABLE TO ATTEND
Kimber Abshear, Wapahani • Ava McGrade, Lakewood Park • Alex McKinley, North Knox • Jersey Paul, Carroll (Allen) •
Jayde Pryor, Tri-Township • Kira Reynolds, South Bend Washington • Josie Vaughn, Corydon Central
NFL Combine in Indianapolis sets new Attendance Record The NFL Combine Experience in Indianapolis set a new attendance record this year, with over 30,000 fans participating in the four-day event that ended Sunday. Held at Lucas Oil Stadium, the event drew 18,000 fans on Saturday alone. The NFL scouting combine and surrounding activities were estimated to have generated over $10 million in economic impact for the city. The NFL Combine Experience in the south parking lot of the stadium had interactive games including a digital 40-yard dash, a bench press photo op, a vertical jump, the full collection of 58 Super Bowl rings, and the chance to take a selfie with the Vince Lombardi Trophy.
The Combine Experience was part of the larger NFL scouting combine event that offered fans an inside look at the draft process. The scouting combine has been in Indianapolis every year since 1987, except the COVID-19 pandemic year of 2021.Nicki Ewell, NFL senior director of fan experiences and hospitality, said in a statement issued Monday night, “We’re thrilled by the record turnout at this year’s NFL Combine Experience. The enthusiasm in the stands was palpable, and it’s clear that our fans are eager to connect with the game in new and exciting ways.” Chris Gahl, executive vice president and chief marketing officer for the city’s tourism arm, Visit Indy, said in a statement, “Each year, Indy is hungry to prove its ability to host this event at the highest level, supported by our long-standing partnership with the Indianapolis Colts and the NFL.”