Indiana faces Utah in the First Round of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament The #9 seed Indiana Hoosiers and #8 Seed Utah Utes will meet this afternoon at 1:30 PM in the first round of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament in Colonial Life Arena in Columbia South Carolina with the game televised on ESPN2. The Hoosiers and Utes are in the Birmingham 2 Regional and the winner will play top Seed South Carolina or 16 Seed Tennessee Tech in the Second Round on Sunday. The Gamecocks are the host for this portion of the tournament. Indiana is in the NCAA Tournament for the 11th time in program history and the 7th time under Head Coach Teri Moren. Indiana is 11-10 all-time in the NCAA Tournament and 6-0 under Moren in first round games. Prior to Coach Moren arriving in Bloomington Indiana the Hoosiers won one first round game in 1983 against #3 Kentucky 87-76 before losing to #2 Georgia 86-70 in the second round. The Hoosiers in the first round in 1994, 1995 and 2002. Under Moren Indiana made the Elite 8 in 2021 and lost in the Sweet 16 in 2021 and 2024 and were bounced in the second round in 2016, 2019 and 2023. South Carolina ended the Hoosiers season in 2024 79-75 as the Gamecocks finished the season 38-0 and won their 3rd National Championship.
The Hoosiers are 19-12 on the season and finished 10-8 in the Big Ten. Indiana was #9 seed for the Big Ten Tournament at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis and beat #8 seed Oregon 78-62 on March 6 and lost to top seed USC 84-79 on March 7 in the Quarterfinals. The Hoosiers come in averaging 70.3 points and commit 14.4 turnovers per game. Indiana is shooting 45 percent from the field, 36 percent from three-point range and 79 percent from the free throw line. Yarden Garzon leads the team with 14.5 points per game along with 5.3 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.3 steals per contest. Sydney Parrish is averaging 11.9 points while leading the team with 5.4 rebounds and 0.8 blocks per game. Shay Ciezki is averaging 11.6 points per game and Karoline Striplin is averaging 10.1 points per game. Chloe Moore-McNeil is averaging 9.9 points while leading team with 4.4 assists and 1.4 steals per game.
Utah is making their 4th consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance and 21st overall. The Utes have been in the second round 9 times including the last three years. Utah has made the Sweet 16 three times in 2001, 2006 and 2023 and got to the Elite 8 in 2006. The Utes are 13-20 all time in the big dance and 9-11 in the first round. Gavin Petersen is in his first year as the Utes Head Coach as are 22-8 overall and finished 13-5 in the Big 12 Conference. Utah lost to Texas Tech 75-64 in the Second Round of the Big 12 Tournament at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri on March 6. Petersen took over on November 22, 2024, four games into the season when Lynne Roberts left to become Head Coach of the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks. Petersen has been an assistant and associate Head Coach since 2002 with stops at Hawaii, Idaho State, Idaho, Hawaii a second time Pacific and Utah since 2015. He is native of Honolulu, Hawaii and graduated from Hawaii Pacific University in 1999 and the University of Hawaii in 2009.
Utah comes into the tournament averaging 76.7 points and committing 16.2 turnovers per game. Utah is shooting 46 percent from the field, 37 percent from three-point range and 75 percent from the free throw line. Utah has 14 player roster that represents Utah, Colorado, Minnesota, South Dakota, Kansas, California and Wisconsin along with five international players that represent Australia, Belgium, France and Portugal. Gianna Kneepkens leads the Utes with 19.2 points per game. Maye Toure is averaging 13 points per game while leading the team with 6.8 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game. Kennady McQueen averages 10.5 points per game Ines Vieira leads the team with 4.8 assists and 1.7 steals while averaging 5.2 points per game. Utah goes nine deep with five appearing in every game this season. McQueen, Viera and Toure are all Seniors and Kneepkens is a Junior for a team with 9 upperclassmen along with two Sophomores and three freshmen. One player that the Hoosiers will know but will not see on the floor is 6-3 Junior Chyra Evans who played her first two seasons at the University of Michigan before heading to Utah. Evans played in 56 games with 23 starts scoring 255 points, 197 rebounds, 66 assists, 28 blocks and 25 steals for the Wolverines. Evans has redshirted this season after suffering an ankle injury in the preseason.
Utah and Indiana will meet for the first time ever on the hardwood in Women’s Basketball. Utah has played two Big Ten teams this season losing at Northwestern 71-69 on November 14, and beating Washington 67-57 in Seattle on December 14, after they trailed by 10 points going into the fourth quarter. Utah beat #3 Notre Dame 78-67 on November 30, in the Cayman Islands Classic. These are two programs that have been mainstays in the NCAA Tournament for the last decade and both have a winning culture and showcase their programs to the country this afternoon with a chance at defending national champion South Carolina on Sunday and for Indiana they were so close to pulling off the upset and would love nothing more than to get a second chance at Dawn Staley’s squad and this time on the Gamecocks home floor but first things first they have to get through Utah.
Indiana University Women’s Swimming in Eighth Place after the first night of the NCAA Championships No. 7-ranked Indiana finished top 10 in both opening night relays for just the second time in program history Wednesday at the 2025 NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships inside the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center. IU reached the podium in the 800-yard freestyle relay, placing eighth, and 10th in the 200-yard medley relay. The Hoosiers sit eighth in the team standings after two events. “It was a solid start for the Hoosiers today,” IU head swimming coach Ray Looze said. “We have a lot of people swimming very well but certainly have more in the tank. We just told the team that success this competition will be all about executing the simple fundamentals.”
Indiana posted the second-best time in program history to finish eighth in the 800-yard freestyle relay with a 6:55.15. Senior Anna Peplowski led the field with the fastest 200 free split and the only swimmer under 1:41 with her 1:40.97. IU started its night with a 10th-place performance in the 200-yard medley relay, its best finish in the event since 2019, matching its seed. In heat three of four, senior Kacey McKenna gave Indiana the lead with a 23.51 – a personal best 50-yard backstroke and the fourth-best leadoff split Wednesday night. Junior Kristina Paegle touched in 1:34.62 with the event’s third-best anchor leg, going 20.96.
RESULTS
200 MEDLEY RELAY
10. Kacey McKenna, Brearna Crawford, Miranda Grana, Kristina Paegle – 1:34.62 (Second-team All-America) 800 FREESTYLE RELAY
8. Miranda Grana, Anna Peplowski, Reese Tiltmann, Kristina Paegle – 6:55.14 (All-America)
Record 88 Indiana Hoosiers receive Winter Academic All-Big Ten Honors The Big Ten Conference recognized a total of 1,153 students on winter sports rosters who have been named to the Academic All-Big Ten Team Wednesday. The list of honorees includes 81 men’s and 102 women’s basketball students, 106 men’s ice hockey students, 65 men’s and 158 women’s gymnastics students, 163 men’s and 282 women’s swim and dive students, and 196 wrestling students. A total of 88 Hoosier student-athletes from five sports earned Winter Academic All-Big Ten honors, smashing the previous school record set last year (78). “There’s always a great deal of attention on our programs and how we perform in the Big Ten and on national scale, and rightfully so,” said IU Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Scott Dolson. “But today, we’re glad to be able to shine a light on our student-athletes for their accomplishments in the classroom. To have a record-setting total of Winter Academic All-Big Ten award winners speaks to the commitment of not only those student-athletes, but also our coaching staffs and the Academic Services staff led by Lo Price.” To be eligible for Academic All-Big Ten selection, students must be on a varsity team, have been enrolled full time at the institution for a minimum of 12 months and carry a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or higher.
ACADEMIC ALL-BIG TEN Men’s Basketball
Shaan Burke
Jackson Creel
Gabe Cupps
Luke Goode
James Goodis
Anthony Leal
Mackenzie Mgbako
Jakai Newton
Jordan Rayford
Ian Stephens
Women’s Basketball
Lexus Bargesser
Lenee Beaumont
Shay Ciezki
Yarden Garzon
Julianna LaMendola
Lilly Meister
Chloe Moore-McNeil
Sydney Parrish
Henna Sandvik
Men’s Swimming and Diving
Ryder Androsky
Toby Barnett
Luke Barr
Finn Brooks
Lucas Byrd
Max Cahill
Vidar Carlbaum
Jackson Carlile
Mason Carlton
Tomer Frankel
Dash Glasberg
Quinn Henninger
William Jansen
Alejandro Kincaid
Mikkel Lee
Max Lestina
Josh Matheny
Collin McKenzie
Rafael Miroslaw
Utkarsh Patil
Leo Pelaez
Lucas Piunti
Joseph Radde
Drew Reiter
Dylan Smiley
Alex Stone
Carson Tyler
Maxwell Weinrich
Kai van Westering
Gavin Wight
Benson Wong
Jassen Yep
Women’s Swimming and Diving
Katie Carson
Morgan Casey
Brearna Crawford
Mariah Denigan
Mya DeWitt
Caroline Foltz
Katie Forrester
Anna Freed
Ching Hwee Gan
Lily Hann
Elyse Heiser
MacKenna Lieske
Skyler Liu
Kacey McKenna
Cat Minic
Kristina Paegle
Anna Peplowski
Olivia Roumph
Ella Roselli
Reese Tiltmann
Sydney Turner
Lily Witte
Chiok Sze Yeo
Wrestling
Mason Alley
Anthony Bahl
Jacob Bullock
Joey Buttler
Blaine Frazier
Derek Gilcher
Anthony Isek
Magnus Kuokkanen
Bryce Lowery
Robert Major
Jacob Moran
Jeffery Rhemrev
Roman Rogotzke
Indiana Pacers beat the Dallas Mavericks at Gainbridge Fieldhouse Pascal Siakam scored 29 points, Bennedict Mathurin scored 16 of his 23 points in the fourth quarter and the Indiana Pacers rallied from an 11-point deficit in the final six minutes to beat the short-handed Dallas Mavericks 135-131 on Wednesday night. The Pacers retook the lead with 14.7 seconds left when Siakam stole the ball, and a wide-open Andrew Nembhard knocked down a 3-pointer to make it 131-130. Indiana closed it out at the free-throw line. Nembhard finished with 22 points and eight assists while Tyrese Haliburton sat out with a back injury. Mathurin also had seven rebounds. The Pacers have won four of their last five games and now lead Milwaukee by one game for the No. 4 seed in the Eastern Conference. P.J. Washington Jr. finished with 26 points to lead the Mavericks, who had six of their eight available players score in double figures. Jaden Hardy had 24 points and Kai Jones added 18 points and 11 rebounds points for Dallas, which has lost nine of 10.
Coach Jason Kidd’s squad certainly played with heart with three All-Stars Anthony Davis, Kyrie Irving and Klay Thompson all sitting out. They just ran out of gas late and couldn’t finish it off. It looked like the Pacers might coast for 2 1/2 quarters and that may have been the problem. But after digging themselves into the late deficit, they flipped a switch and pulled out a crucial win. The Pacers trapped Mavericks guard Max Christie in the corner following an inbound pass, Siakam ripped it away and Indiana moved the ball around until finding Nembhard. Indiana had a 15-3 advantage in fast-break points.
Taylor University announces Summer Tennis Camps schedule The Taylor tennis program has announced a trio of camps planned for the summer, with a prospect camp for the men’s and women’s tennis programs, as well as a youth camp on the schedule. The prospect camps will be for high school athletes interested in playing collegiately and will cost $75 per camper. The camps will be from 10:00 am through 3:00 pm at the brand-new Taylor tennis complex. Campers will participate in individual drills during the morning session and match play in the afternoon. A question-and-answer session with head coach Josh Forbes and a lunch will be provided. The men’s tennis prospect camp will be held on May 10, while the women’s tennis prospect camp will be hosted on June 21.
The third camp of the summer will be a week-long youth camp from June 23 through 27 for boys and girls entering grades three-through-eighth in the fall. Grade three-through-five will participate from 10:00 am through noon, with grades six-through-eight going from 1:00 pm through 3:00 pm at the TU tennis complex. Campers will participate in individual skill development, match play and competitive drilling. The cost for the youth camp is $100 per participant and includes a camp t-shirt. For more information on any of the upcoming Taylor tennis camps, please contact head coach Josh Grubbs at josh_grubbs@taylor.edu or by phone at 513-477-6924. Online registration and payment are available at TaylorTrojans.com/camps.
WNDY TV-23 in Indianapolis to broadcast 10 Cincinnati Reds Games this season Baseball fans in central Indiana will have a new way to watch some of the Cincinnati Reds games this season. My INDY-TV 23 will broadcast 10 Reds games live in 2025, beginning with the team’s home opener on Thursday, March 27, against the San Francisco Giants. The announcement was made by DuJuan McCoy, owner, president and CEO of WISH-TV and My INDY-TV 23. “We strive to bring our viewers the best in live, local and regional sports on WNDY-MyINDY-TV 23,” McCoy said. “MyINDY-TV 23 has become the destination station for sports in Indianapolis, airing more than 105 live events each year. We are very excited to be able to broadcast these Major League Baseball games to our communities on our free, full-power, over-the-air television station.” MyINDY-TV 23 is available over the air on Channel 23 in the Indianapolis market.