Teri Moren and Team USA Score 122 on China at the FIBA U-19 Women’s World Cup The United States continues to light up the scoreboard at the FIBA U-19 Women’s World Cup in Brno Czechia, The Red, White and Blue beat China 122-57 on Wednesday in the Round of 16. It’s the third time in four games the Americans have scored over 100 points in the tournament. The 122 points is now the fifth most single game point total in tournament history. The United States set the record in the first game by scoring 134 points over Korea. The Americans own the top six places in tournament history and 10 of the 14 spots overall after they scored 114 points on Israel to close out group play.
Team USA Coached by Indiana University Women’s Basketball Head Coach Teri Moren led 68-37 at half-time and outscored China 54-20 in the second half. The Americans put six in double figures led by UCLA bound Sienna Betts who scored 21 points and pulled down 10 rebounds for her third double of the tournament in four games. Only two Americans played over 20 minutes as Coach Moren has utilized her entire team throughout this tournament and have plenty left in the tank as they chase the Gold Medal. All 12 Americans scored, and Sydney Douglas was the only one who did not play 10 minutes just playing 9 minutes and 53 seconds but getting on the score sheet after not scoring in the last two games
Indiana University Sophomore Zania Socka-Nugemen scored 4 points, pulled down 3 rebounds, 1 steal along with a turnover and committed a foul in 13 minutes and 8 seconds of action off the bench. In four games Socka-Nugemen has scored 20 points, 17 rebounds, 2 steals, 1 block in 44 minutes of playing time committing 1 turnover and 1 foul. Team USA will face France in the Quarterfinals this afternoon at 2:15 PM Eastern Time as the French took care of the host Czechia 65-31 on Wednesday. France beat Brazil 83-47 and lost to Australia 70-66 in Group C Play as they will come into the matchup with the United States with a 2-1 record.
Indiana University Athletics Staff Members, Partners win Emmy Awards for 2024-25 IU Football and Men’s Basketball Intro Videos IU’s highly acclaimed Mark Cuban Center for Sports Media and Technology staff added a pair of special recognitions to their collective list of accolades this summer. Emmy Award winners. Earlier this summer, Mark Cuban Center staff members Andrew Brown, Dani Malakoff, and Darrell Grant were honored with Central Great Lakes Chapter Emmy Awards for their work on the 2024-25 Indiana Men’s Basketball and Indiana Football intro videos. The videos were done in collaboration with St. Louis-based Ryval Studios, which will continue to partner with the Cuban Center on IU Athletics’ videoboard shows for the next three years.
“Winning an Emmy award is always incredibly humbling,” said Jon Morgan, Founder and Executive Producer of St. Louis-based Ryval Studios. “It’s an honor to see our work win on such a big stage alongside some of the best creative work in the region. Working with the team at IU has been a great experience, and we are excited to be partnering with them for the next several years!” In all, the IU and Ryval Studios team was nominated in three categories. The IU Football intro video, “New Era,” earned the Emmy in the Promotion-Sports category, and was also nominated in the Editor – Short Form Content category. The IU Men’s Basketball intro video, “No Time to be Wastin’,” meanwhile, earned an Emmy in the Sports Open/Tease category.
Brown (producer – IU Football Intro video), Malakoff (producer – IU Football Intro video), and Grant (director – IU Football Intro video) were each awarded an Emmy for their work. Ryval Studios’ Jon Morgan (Executive Producer on IU Basketball Intro Video and Producer on IU Football Intro Video) was also honored. This year’s Emmy awards represent the second career Emmy for Malakoff and the first for both Brown and Grant. Ryval Studios, meanwhile, has been honored eight times, with this being the company’s first recognition in the Central Great Lakes Region. “One of the first goals we set in strengthening our videoboard shows last year was to improve our intro videos, and our partnership with Ryval Studios has allowed us to do just that,” said Malakoff. “It’s extremely gratifying to see that hard work pays off and to be recognized by our peers as one of the best in the region. We look forward to continuing to create engaging and captivating videos with them in the future.” These represent the first two Emmys that IU was won from the Central Great Lakes Chapter. IU Athletics’ Andrew Brown was nominated for his work as the producer on the ‘This is Indiana – A History of Basketball Tradition’ video in the Sports Open/Tease category in 2024.
Former Indiana University Women’s Basketball Player Grace Berger Signs with the Dallas Wings The Dallas Wings have signed guard Grace Berger to a seven-day hardship contract, the team announced Wednesday before their home game with Las Vegas. The Wings lost 90-86 and Berger did not play in the game even though she practiced on Wednesday after she joined the team. The Wings qualify for a roster hardship due to injuries of Maddy Siegrist and Ty Harris. Berger was the seventh overall pick by the Indiana Fever in the 2023 WNBA Draft. She averaged 4.2 points, 1.6 rebounds and 1.9 assists in her rookie season with the Fever, appearing in 36 games. The 5-foot-11-inch guard spent two seasons with Indiana before being waived prior to the 2025 season. In 2025, Berger played in two preseason games for the Minnesota Lynx before being waived prior to the start of the regular season. She was signed by the Los Angeles Sparks to a hardship contract on June 17, seeing action in one game. In her five-year career at Indiana University, Berger amassed 1,841 points, 573 assists and 752 rebounds. She ranks seventh all-time in scoring, second in all-time assists and is the all-time winningest player in school history with 118 career victories. She was tabbed as a member of the 2022-23 All-Big Ten First Team and was named an Associated Press All-American Honorable mention her graduate season.
Former Indiana University Men’s Basketball Player Noah Vonleh added to the Final TBT Assembly Ball Roster There is a very heavy IU presence on this year’s Assembly Ball The Basketball Tournament (TBT) squad. In total the team features 11 players who played for Indiana. The latest addition to the squad is 29-year-old Noah Vonleh. The one-and-done Hoosier played seven years in the NBA. The team will be coached by Adam Ross, with former IU player A.J. Guyton serving as one of the assistants. Assembly Ball will begin their pursuit of the $1 million winner-takes-all TBT prize Saturday at 4 p.m. against Fail Harder. That game at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis will air on FS1. If they win, Assembly Ball plays again on Monday at 8 p.m. ET, and the regional final is on Tuesday at 8 p.m.
Lilly King Among 32 Hoosiers to Compete on the World Stage Thirty-two athletes and coaches with ties to Indiana athletics compete on the world stage this month between the World Aquatics Championships and the FISU World University Games across three disciplines – swimming, diving and track and field. Twenty-one Hoosiers participate in the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore that began on Wednesday and will go through August 3. Eleven more earned bids to the FISU World University Games in Germany that started on Wednesday and go through July 27. Fans can stream the World Aquatics Championships on Peacock and watch the World University Games on FISU.TV.
The Indiana swimming and diving program sends a total 30 participants to the two meets – 21 to Singapore (13 swimmers, four divers, four coaches) and nine to Germany (five swimmers, three divers, one coach). Two IU track and field athletes – Trelee Banks-Rose and Jania Hodges – will represent Team USA at the World University Games. This month Hoosiers represent a total of 10 countries. Nineteen of the 32 Hoosiers compete for Team USA. Singaporeans Ching Hwee Gan and Mikkel Lee will help host the World Aquatics Championships in their home country. Indiana University alum Lilly King will compete for the final time in Singapore after announcing her impending retirement in June. King will race the 50-meter breaststroke and 100-meter breaststroke individually and could also swim the USA’s medley relays. King is an 18-time World Champion and 27-time world championship medalist.
WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS Swimming
Caspar Corbeau (Netherlands)
Mariah Denigan (United States)
Ching Hwee Gan (Singapore)
Miranda Grana (Mexico)
Lilly King (United States)
Miroslav Knedla (Czech Republic)
Mikkel Lee (Singapore)
Ray Looze (United States – Assistant Coach)
Josh Matheny (United States)
Rafael Miroslaw (Germany)
Raekwon Noel (Guyana)
Anna Peplowski (United States)
Noelle Peplowski (Mexico – Assistant Coach)
Luke Ryan (Czech Republic – Assistant Coach)
Zalán Sárkány (Hungary)
Kai van Westering (Netherlands) Diving
Eric Best (United States – Head Coach)
Josh Hedberg (United States)
Ella Roselli (United States)
Carson Tyler (United States)
Lilly Witte (United States)
FISU WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES Swimming
Josh Bey (United States)
Vidar Carlbaum (Sweden)
Matt King (United States)
John Long, Jr. (United States – Assistant Coach)
Owen McDonald (United States)
Chiok Sze Yeo (Singapore)
Diving
Dash Glasberg (United States)
Joshua Sollenberger (United States)
Maxwell Weinrich (United States)
Track and Field
Trelee Banks-Rose (United States)
Jania Hodges (United States)
Indianapolis Colts win ESPY for “Kicking the Stigma” Program The Indianapolis Colts have been named the 2025 Sports Humanitarian Team of the Year at the annual ESPY awards. The Colts were recognized for their Kicking the Stigma program, which was founded by late owner Jim Irsay in 2020. They were the first major professional sports franchise to create a program focused on mental health disorders and the stigma around seeking help. According to the Colts, one in four Hoosiers will suffer from a mental health disorder in their lifetime. One in six kids between the ages of 6 and 17 experience a mental health disorder each year.
Since 2020, Kicking the Stigma has committed more than $31 million to Kicking the Stigma, including $6.4 million in Action Grants. Those grants have funded Children’s TherAplay, Recovery Cafe Muncie, U Bring Change to Mind at IU and the HOPE Family Care Center. The Irsay family also donated $3 million to create the Irsay Institute at Indiana University for researching and addressing the stigma surrounding mental health. In a statement on the ESPY award, Jim Irsay’s daughter, Kalen Jackson, said, “Instead of the story being told about us, we wanted to tell our own story in hopes of helping others who are struggling.” The Colts are the first team to win the Sports Humanitarian Team of the Year award for work in the mental health realm. The Colts were finalists for the award in each of the last three years and are only the third NFL team ever to win the honor.
Indiana Fever fall to the New York Liberty without Catlin Clark The Indiana Fever (12-11) suffered a 98-77 loss to the New York Liberty at Barclays Center on Wednesday night, the team’s final game before the WNBA All-Star break. Kelsey Mitchell’s eight-point first quarter saw the guard break the franchise record for three-pointers made with her 607th of her WNBA career, but a high-scoring New York Liberty took the 32-24 lead after the first 10 minutes. The Liberty extended their lead in the second quarter going up 53-38 at the halftime break. Despite a 9-0 run from the Fever, the Liberty continued to lead 74-57 at the end of the third quarter. The Fever were unable to overcome the deficit, despite 20 points in the fourth quarter, leading to the eventual loss.
Sophie Cunningham earned her first start of the season and first start as a member of the Indiana Fever, marking the 93rd start of her WNBA career. The game also marked Cunningham’s 200th WNBA appearance. With her second three-pointer of the game with 3:31 left in the first quarter, Kelsey Mitchell recorded her 607th career three-pointer, officially passing Indiana Fever legend Tamika Catchings for the most three-pointers in franchise history. Additionally, Mitchell moved into 11th all-time for three-pointers made in WNBA history, doing so in just 255 games played. Kelsey Mitchell finished the night with 16 points, extending her double-digit scoring streak to 22 games, posting 10+ points in every game so far this season. Aliyah Boston recorded her 300th career assist in the first quarter at 1:28 by a 3-pointer from Damiris Dantas, ending the night with six assists. The Indiana Fever return home to Gainbridge Fieldhouse where the franchise will host the 2025 WNBA Skills Challenge and All-Star Game tonight and tomorrow before heading back out on the road to take on the New York Liberty on Tuesday, July 22 at 8 p.m. ET.