Indiana University Women’s Basketball closes out a three game homestand with Marshall The Indiana Hoosiers look to remain perfect on the young season when they host the Marshall Thundering Herd for a 7 PM tip off at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall with the game streaming. on Big Ten Network Plus. This will be the fifth all-time meeting between the two teams with Indiana leading the series 3-1. Marshall makes its first trip to Bloomington from Huntington, West Virginia for the first time since 1981. The Hoosiers have won all three meetings with the Thundering Herd on Bloomington. Indiana won 75-53 on February 7, 1975, 69-46 on January 21, 1977, and 90-59 on January ,3, 1981. Marshall beat Indiana 57-56 in Huntington West Virginia on January ,23, 1986.
The Hoosiers are 2-0 with home wins over Lipscomb 80-46 and ,72-56 over Illinois-Chicago last Friday Night. The Hoosiers trialed 34-27 at halftime and outscored the Flames 45-22 in the second half. Shay Ciezki scored a Hoosier career high 35 points and she leads the team 28.5 points per game after she scored 22 points in the season opener against Lipscomb. Ciezki leads the team with 1.5 steals and 0.5 blocks per game. Zania Socka-Nguemen is averaging 19 points and a team leading 9.5 rebounds per game. The Sophomore from Sliver Spring Maryland is coming off her first career double-double 19 points and ,13 rebounds after playing sparingly her Freshman Season at UCLA. Lenee Beaumont leads the team with 4 assists per game along with 7 points per game scoring average. Indiana is averaging 76 points, shooting 48% from the field, 32% from three-point range and 85 percent from the free throw line. The Hoosiers are always going to be a team under Head Coach Teri Moren that prides its self on defense and after a rough first half trailing at halftime the Hoosiers answered the call with a something defense that disrupted Illinois-Chicago and responded with Ciezki and Socka-Nguemen leading the way on offense but wants more players to step up and score when their number is called.
Marshall is 2-0 on the season with a pair of home wins over Buffalo 53-39 and Northern Kentucky 69-53. Freshman Olivia Olson leads the Thundering Herd with 14 points per game. Senior Timaya Lewis Eutsey averages ,10.5 points and leads the team with 3 steals and 2.5 assists per game. Senior Blessing King averages a team leading 10.5 rebounds per game and Meredith Maier leads the team with 1 block per game. Marshall averages 60.5 points per game, shooting, 37% from the field, 27% from three-point range and 70% from the field. There are 6 Seniors, 3 Juniors, ,3 Sophomores and 2 Freshman on the 14-player roster that represents West Virginia, Ohio, Tennessee, Kansas, New Jersey, California, Florida, Michigan, Kentucky and New Zealand.
Juli Fulks is in her second year in charge of Marshall with a record of 17-20. The Dola, Ohio native played at Capital University in Bexley, Ohio from 1996-2000. She started her coaching career at Westerville North HS as an assistant coach from 2000-02. Fulks moved to the college ranks as an assistant coach at Defiance College in Ohio from 2002-04. Fulks became the Head Coach at Lewis & Clark College in Portland Oregon from 2004-14 with a record of 158-104 and 3 NCAA Division III Tournament Appearances from. 2011-13. Fulks went to Transylvania University in Lexington Kentucky from 2014-24 with a record of 242-39 with 6 NCAA Division III Tournament Appearances making the final four in 2024 and leading the Pioneers to the 2023 National Championship with a 33-0 record. Fulks is ,417-163 in 22 seasons as a Head Coach.
This will be the final game of a three-game opening homestand as the Hoosiers will travel to Florida State on Sunday to face the Seminoles in the first matchup against a power four team. The key for the Hoosiers against Marshall is who becomes that third scorer for the Hoosiers. Lenee Beaumont scored double digits against Lipscomb, but it was Ciezki and Socka-Nguemen who put the Hoosiers on their backs against the Flames and a young team that is still working through the chemistry of coming together in a short amount of time.
Tucker DeVries Tabbed Co-Big Ten Player of the Week Indiana redshirt senior forward Tucker DeVries was named Co-Big Ten Player of the Week, the conference announced on Monday afternoon. DeVries shared the distinction with Ohio State senior guard Bruce Thornton. In a pair of Hoosier wins to open the season, DeVries averaged 22.5 points, 8.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists, and 1.0 steal per game. He shot 57.1% (16-of-28) from the floor and 58.8% (10-of-17) from the 3-point line.
The two-time Missouri Valley Player of the Year began his Cream ‘n Crimson career with an 18-point, 11-rebound double-double in a 98-51 win over Alabama A&M. He became the first Hoosier since Devonte Green (March 23, 2019) to record at least 15 points, 10 rebounds, and four made 3-pointers in a game. He also eclipsed the 2,000-point mark for his career, the only active NCAA Division I men’s basketball player to join the 2k club. His encore performance included a game-high 27 points (24 in the first half) to pair with six rebounds in a 100-77 win over Marquette at the United Center in Chicago to earn Most Outstanding Player of the Waterkeeper Alliance Invitational honors. He knocked down six of Indiana’s 14 made 3-pointers, the most a Hoosier team has made since a win at Iowa on Feb. 17, 2018. The Indiana Hoosiers will be back in action at 7 PM on Wednesday against Milwaukee at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.
Shay Ciezki Named Big Ten Women’s Basketball Player of the Week Indiana senior guard Shay Ciezki has been named the Big Ten Player of the Week after a pair of spectacular opening week performances against Lipscomb and UIC. Ciezki averaged 28.5 points while shooting 52.6 percent from the floor and 56.3 percent from the 3-point line in a pair of wins for the Hoosiers to go along with 4.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.5 steals while holding +2.5 assist/turnover ratio. The Buffalo, N.Y. native was also a perfect 8-for-8 at the free throw line. She led Indiana in both games this week starting with the season opener against Lipscomb on Tuesday where she had 22 points, three assists and five rebounds. Her new IU career-high 35 points pushed the Hoosiers to victory on Friday night over UIC on 12-for-21 shooting and connected on seven 3-pointers. Ciezki also added four rebounds, two assists and two steals against the Flames. It marks the first Big Ten Player of the Week honor for Ciezki in her career and the first for Indiana since Sara Scalia (Nov. 23, 2023).
Houston Takes over the Associated Press Number 1 Men’s Basketball Ranking from Purdue The first regular-season AP Top 25 is typically an overhaul from the preseason poll as voters get a better sense how good teams might actually be. This season certainly is no different. Houston was No. 1 in the poll released Monday, swapping spots with Purdue by earning three more points overall. The Cougars received 18 first-place votes from a 61-person media panel and Purdue had 36, with four other teams also getting at least one. UConn, Duke, and Arizona round out the top five in a chaotic poll that saw only four teams hold their positions from the preseason poll, yet no one moved in or out of the poll. Houston, which lost to Florida in last spring’s national championship game, is No. 1 for the first time since a three-week stint in 2024.
The Boilermakers were ranked No. 1 in the preseason poll for the first time in program history and opened the season with a pair of wins. Purdue had a hard time shaking Oakland in an 87-77 win Friday and some Top 25 voters dropped the Boilermakers out of the top five on their ballots. “Yeah, I mean, we just beat Oakland by 10 points. Credit to them, they played a great game,” Purdue guard Fletcher Loyer said. “But if we’re supposed to be the No. 1 team in the country, we’ve got to be better than that, and it starts at the defensive end.” Houston had no trouble in its first two games, blowing out Lehigh and Towson by an average of 18 points.
Arizona moved up eight places from No. 13 after an impressive win over reigning champion and then-No. 3 Florida in Las Vegas. No. 8 Alabama moved up seven places following Saturday’s 103-96 win over then-No. 5 St. John’s at Madison Square Garden. No. 18 North Carolina also climbed seven spots after beating then-No. 19 Kansas and No. 17 Michigan State gained five places with its 69-66 win over then-No. 14 Arkansas. The losses by Florida, St. John’s and Kansas sent all three tumbling. The Gators lost seven places (to No. 10), the Red Storm dropped eight (No. 13) and the Jayhawks fell six (No. 25).
The Southeastern Conference, Big Ten and Big 12 each had six ranked teams to make up 72% of the field. The Atlantic Coast Conference and Big East were next with three each, while the West Coast Conference had one with No. 19 Gonzaga. The Big 12 and SEC each have three top-10 teams. Indiana coach Darian DeVries has a history of producing quick turnarounds at previous stops and is hoping to pull another one off in his first season in Bloomington. The Hoosiers looked good in the first week of the season, blowing out Alabama A&M and Marquette to inch closer to being ranked. Indiana has two games that won’t exactly move the needle — against Milwaukee and Incarnate Word — but could find itself ranked if the early-season jumbling continues.
Taylor’s Jaynie Halterman Named CL Runner of the Week After Record-Setting Performance Jaynie Halterman cruised to an Individual CL championship on Friday and was consequently named the Crossroads League Runner of the Week on Monday. Halterman won the 6k race and set a new course record with a time of 20:17.6 at Indiana Wesleyan in the Crossroads League Championships. The sophomore’s record-setting time saw her outpace the rest of the field by over a minute and lead TU to its 13th-consecutive CL title. The Thompson’s Station, Tennessee native, has won the CL award after all nine cross country meets she has participated in at TU in two years of competition. No. 1 Taylor (84-6) caps its incredible season at the NAIA National Championships on Friday, November 21st, in Tallahassee, Florida, with the women’s race beginning at 8:30 am.
Taylor’s Kaycie Warfel Repeats as CL Player of the Week and Celina Blount Earns Second Weekly Honor For the second week in a row, Taylor women’s basketball swept the weekly league awards as Kaycie Warfel earned the Crossroads League Offensive Player of the Week honor while teammate Celina Blount was named the CL Defensive Player of the Week, league headquarters announced on Monday, TU has already claimed four of the six CL women’s basketball player of the week awards – a new single-season high under head coach Cassie Wiseman.
Warfel, a freshman from Pendleton, Indiana, is off to an incredible start in her college career and leads the NAIA in scoring at 34.3 points per game. She led TU to a pair of victories last week with a 38-point outing in the Trojans’ impressive 111-90 home win on Wednesday over RV Olivet Nazarene and followed that up with 37 points during Saturday’s 87-62 victory at IU Columbus which featured 18 points during a big third-quarter run. For the week, Warfel shot a combined 58.5 percent overall from the field and 7-of-10 (70%) shooting from three-point range, while going 20 for 23 (87%) at the free-throw line. Warfel is the first player in school history with 37 or more points in three consecutive games.
Blount, a sophomore from Liberty Township, Ohio, posted back-to-back double-doubles last week to help the Trojans remain undefeated while averaging 14.5 points, 14.0 rebounds and 5.5 blocks in the pair of victories. For the second time in four games, Blount tied the TU single-game record for blocks with eight against RV Olivet Nazarene, which nearly gave her a triple-double after posting 14 points with a career-high 16 rebounds. She continued her paint dominance with a career-best 15 points, 12 boards and three blocks in the road victory over IU Columbus. Blount has registered three double-doubles in four outings and leads the NAIA in blocks per game at 4.8 (among leaders that have played more than one game). Overall, through four contests, she’s averaging a double-double with 13.0 points and 10.3 rebounds per night.
Blount and Warfel are the first Trojans named league player of the week twice in one season since Taylor Westgate in 2023-2024. Warfel is the first Trojan to win back-to-back CL weekly awards since Becca Buchs in 2019-2020. Across all sports, the Trojans have now claimed 25 athlete-of-the-week awards during the 2025-2026 school year. TU (4-0) will return to action on Saturday afternoon when it travels to Trinity Christian (0-3) for a 2 p.m. ET tipoff inside DeVos Gymnasium.