Indiana University Football Hosts Annual Spring Game This Evening at Memorial Stadium The Indiana football program will wrap up the spring portion of its practice schedule with the annual Indiana Football Spring Game this evening at 8 p.m. inside Memorial Stadium.
Arriving at the Stadium-Admission and parking are FREE with gates opening at 7 p.m. to get your first glimpse at the 2025 Indiana football roster. Fans can utilize Gates E2 and E4 for entry into the stadium with all seating located on the east side of Memorial Stadium. The gameday Clear Bag Policy will be in place. All athletics surface lots will be open starting at 5 p.m., with fans asked to utilize Gates 2, 4 and 12 when arriving. RV parking will be available at Gate 11, with ADA availability on the southeast and northeast Memorial Stadium. All Athletics surface parking lots will be open for additional overflow parking and fans can view a parking map here.
Pregame Processions-The Indiana football marketing staff will have giveaways starting at 7 p.m. with rally towels available at all entry gates. All pregame activities will take place on the Memorial Stadium east concourse, with rally towels, schedule posters, schedule cards and magnets available. Photo opportunities with Bubba, The Rock, and B1G Inflatable will be available. The IU Marching Hundred Pep Band and IU Cheerleaders will perform at 7:15 p.m. Season tickets will also be available for purchase.
Gameday Convenience-The Indiana Sausage Haus & Victory Flag BBQ, as well as the east concourse Market Grab & Go stands will be open starting at 7 p.m. and throughout the event. IU merchandise and apparel will be available at the Gate E3 Store Booth, the mobile shop on the east concourse, and in the west lobby of Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.
Scoring System-The squad will be split between the offense and defense with the scoring system as follows: Touchdown – 6 points, Extra Point – 1 point
Field Goal – 3 points, Turnover Gained – 4 points, Defensive Stop/Punt Forced – 3 points, Safety – 2 points.
Former Indiana University Football Assistant Coach Mike DeBord Passes Away at Age 69 Mike DeBord, a Muncie, Ind. native who was the offensive coordinator for Tom Allen’s initial seasons at Indiana, died on Wednesday. He was 69. DeBord died due to complications from a stroke he suffered in 2021. DeBord joined Allen’s staff as offensive coordinator in 2017. Indiana went 5-7 in both of the seasons DeBord was offensive coordinator, but the seeds were planted on a turnaround shortly after DeBord retired after the 2018 season. Many of the stars of the 2019-20 teams that reached bowl games, such as quarterback Michael Penix, were recruited when DeBord was on Allen’s staff. “I was Blessed to be mentored by and coach with Mike DeBord. He was one of the best men that I know in the coaching profession! #LEO,” Allen said in an X post on Tuesday evening.
DeBord had a long career in both the college ranks and in the NFL. DeBord graduated from Wes-Del High School in Gaston, Ind. and played four seasons at Manchester College as an offensive lineman in the late 1970s. DeBord’s coaching career began at Franklin College in 1982, and it began an odyssey in which DeBord made 20 different stops before his career ended in 2021. DeBord was an offensive line coach at Franklin, Fort Hays State, Eastern Illinois, Ball State, Colorado State, Northwestern and Michigan. He ascended to offensive coordinator at Michigan in 1997. He was on Lloyd Carr’s national title-winning staff at Michigan in 1997. DeBord became head coach at Central Michigan from 2000-03. He had a 12-34 record with the Chippewas. He returned to Michigan from 2004-07 before he moved up to the NFL. He eventually became the Tennessee Titans’ offensive coordinator in 2015 and 2016. DeBord’s retirement from Indiana after the 2018 season didn’t last long. He was with the AAF San Diego Fleet in 2019. DeBord returned to Michigan one last time in 2020 before he finished his career at Kansas as offensive coordinator in 2021, but he never coached a game as head coach Les Miles was fired a month after DeBord was hired and DeBord was not retained on the next staff.
Indiana University Women’s Basketball Lands University of Virginia Transfer Edessa Noyan The IU women’s basketball roster rebuild continued Tuesday with the addition of Virginia transfer Edessa Noyan. The 6-foot-3 Noyan announced her commitment to Teri Moren’s squad following a visit to Bloomington. She also visited Purdue and West Virginia. From Botkyrka, Sweden, Noyan played in 54 games with 26 starts over two seasons with Virginia. She averaged 5.7 points in 2024-25 while shooting 40.7% from the field overall, and 32.8% from three. Her season was disrupted when she missed six games after being hospitalized with pneumonia. Noyan had some good games against top competition. She went for 10 points, three assists, five rebounds, two steals and a career-high four blocks against Duke. She scored 16 points, had five rebounds and knocked down four three-pointers in Virginia’s upset victory at North Carolina. Noyan has played multiple times on the Swedish National team. She should have two years of eligibility remaining. Indiana has now added four transfers during the offseason. Noyan joins Chloe Spreen (Alabama), Zania Socka-Ngueman (UCLA) and Phoenix Stotijn (Arkansas).
Indiana University Football Tight End Sam West announces he is Entering the Transfer Portal Greensburg, Ind. product Sam West showed promise during his time at IU. But he’ll play out the latter part of his college career elsewhere. He announced Tuesday on X he’s entering the transfer portal. “I want to thank everyone at Indiana for an incredible past two years,” West wrote in the post. “I’ll always hold my time here in high regard and value the experiences and relationships I’ve built.” West appeared in all 13 games in 2024, seeing action mostly on special teams. He made his first career reception against Charlotte — a 37-yard pass to set up the third scoring drive for Indiana. West appeared in two games and redshirted his initial collegiate season in 2023. He should have three years of eligibility at his next stop. A commit to Tom Allen in the class of 2023, West stayed through the coaching change. IU coach Curt Cignetti mentioned West as a potential candidate to move to slot wide receiver this spring as he competed for playing time behind transfer tight ends Holden Staes (Tennessee) and Riley Nowakowski (Wisconsin). Indiana lost 2024 starting tight end Zach Horton to eligibility. Veteran James Bomba is also back at tight end, along with freshmen Andrew Barker and Blake Thiry.
Full Schedule Announced for the Indiana Pacers and Milwaukee Bucks First Round NBA Playoff Series The schedule for the Indiana Pacers-MIlwaukee Bucks first-round Eastern Conference playoff series will be relatively spread out as the teams won’t play Game 2 until Tuesday and won’t play Game 3 until Friday. After only releasing schedules for Game 1 of each series on Sunday night, the NBA released the rest of the schedules early Wednesday morning after the Golden State Warriors defeated the Memphis Grizzlies in the Western Conference play-in round, grabbing the No. 7 seed in the West. After opening the first round on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, the Pacers and Bucks will meet again Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Game 2, which will be televised on NBA TV. The series moves to Milwaukee for Game 3 on Friday, April 25 for an 8 p.m. game televised on NBA TV and ESPNU and then Game 4 on Sunday, April 27 at 9:30 p.m. for a game televised on TNT. Each of those games will also be available on Fan Duel Sports Network Indiana according to a post on the Pacers’ social media accounts. Game 5 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse will be April 29 if necessary. Game 6 is set for May 2 at Fiserv Forum and Game 7 is set for May 4 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. Times and television for those games have not been scheduled. The conference semifinals will begin May 5-6 but could move up to May 3-4.
ESPN will Televise Caitlin Clark’s Return to the University of Iowa on May 4th The Indiana Fever will play in what is likely the first nationally televised WNBA exhibition game in May, a source familiar with the situation confirmed to the South-Central Indiana News Network. ESPN picked up the Fever’s exhibition against Brazil women’s national team on May 4, The Athletic first reported. The game tips at 6 p.m. ET and will air on ESPN unless there is a Game 7 in the NBA playoffs, which would cause the Fever game to be shifted to ESPN2. The Fever will take on Brazil’s national team at Iowa’s Carver-Hawkeye Arena, a homecoming for Caitlin Clark just a year removed from her star career for the Hawkeyes and a few months after her number 22 was retired. Tickets sold out in 45 minutes and resale prices exceed $250 on Ticketmaster. ESPN declined comment. Add the preseason broadcast to the Fever’s list of a league-high 41 nationally televised or streamed games. Airing the exhibition also comes after several years of fans pushing for preseason broadcasts, which reached a peak in 2024 when more than two million viewers watched a Minnesota Lynx-Chicago Sky matchup via a fan’s livestream on X, formerly known as Twitter.