Indiana University Men’s Basketball holds off Incarnate Word The Indiana Hoosiers used a big first half run to stay ahead and hold off the Incarnate Word Cardinals 69-61 Sunday Evening at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. Indiana is 4-0 on the season and hosts Lindenwood on Thursday at 6 pm. Incarnate Word located in San Antonio; Texas is 2-2 on the season and will play the University of Southern Indiana on Thursday in Daytona Bech Florida as part of the Boardwalk Battle. Sam Alexis and Trent Sisley combined for all 26 of the Hoosiers bench points. Alexis finished with 16 points, 5-7 from the field, 6-8 from the free throw line and 8 rebounds. Sisley the Freshman from Santa Claus, Indiana finished with 10 points on 4-7 shooting and 2-4 from three-point range. Tucker DeVries finished with 14 points but struggled to hit shots, going 4-13 from the field, 3-11 from three-point range and 3-6 from the free throw line. The Hoosiers finished 23-53 from the field 43%, 5-24 from three-point range for 20% and 18-26 from the free throw line for 86%. Indiana pulled down 42 rebounds, 18 assists, 4 steals, 4 blocks and 10 turnovers.
Incarnate Word’s Tahj Staveskie led the way with 17 points; Jordan Pyke added 16 points and 10 points from Indianapolis native and Pike High School Graduate Davon Bailey. The Cardinals finished 28-60 from the field for 38%, 8-21 from three-point range for 38% and 7-9 from the free throw line for 77%. The Cardinals pulled down 29 rebounds, 10 assists, 4 steals, 2 blocks and 9 turnovers. Incarnate Word lost at Colorado State 98-64 and has two home wins over Jarvis Christian University 104-60 and Southwestern Christian 109-70. This was the first meeting between the two teams, and the Hoosiers are 10-0 all-time against teams from the Southland Conference. Head Coach Shane Heriman was born in Mishawaka, Indiana and was the Head Coach at La Lumiere School in La Porte, Indiana leading the lakers to an 82-7 record and 2017 Dick’s National Championship with a 70-52 win over Montverde Academy from Florida. Herriman is 29-42 in his third season at the school and led the Cardinals to the College Basketball Invitational Semifinals in 2024. Herriman played at the University of Tulsa from 2008-11 and is 37 years old.
Indiana got on the board 26 seconds into the game when Tayton Conerway found Reed Bailey on the ally-oop. Incarnate Word scored the next six points to lead 6-2 with 17:28 left in the second half. Jordan Pyke scored back-to-back buckets and Marcus Glover hit a free throw to put the Cardinals ahead. The game went back and forth with the Hoosiers trailing 10-7 with 14:27 left in the first half. Sam Alexis came in off the bench and slammed it home to get the Hoosiers within one at 10-9 at the 14:09 mark. The Hoosiers took the lead with Lamar Wilkerson’s fastbreak layup with 13:32 left in the first half to make it 11-10 Hoosiers. The Cardinals took the lead one more time with Indianapolis Native and Pike High School Graduate Davion Bailey hitting two free throws for a 12-11 lead with 13:06 left.
Sam Alexis continued his dunking assault on the Cardinals as the rebounded the missed Reed Bailey dunk and slammed it home himself as the Hoosiers retook the lead 13-12 with 12:43 left and never trailed again. Indiana used a 7-0 run to lead 18-12 with 10 minutes. The Hoosiers outscored the Cardinals 17-7 the rest of the half to lead 35-19 at halftime. Alexis had 13 points on 4-5 from the field with all 4 of his buckets slam dunks along with 5-6 from the free throw line and 3 rebounds. The Cardinals did not hit a field goal for the last four minutes and twenty-one seconds of the first half. The Hoosiers maintained a double-digit lead until 6:50 left in the second half when the Cardinals Thaj Staveskie hit a three pointer to make it an 8-point game to make it 53-45 Hoosiers. Lamar Wilkerson’s free throw made it 9-point game at 54-45. The Cardinals made it a five-point game on two occasions 64-59 with 1:21 left and 66-61 with 14 seconds left. Indiana hit three free throws, one by Sam Alexis and two by Lamar Wilkerson to close the game out as the Hoosiers did not hit a field goal for the final two minutes and twenty seconds.
Incarnate Word came out in a zone and Indiana Head Coach Darian DeVries Said after the game “That slowed us down a little bit, but our defense played really good in the first half.” The Cardinals used zone against Colorado State and went to all man defense in their two wins. Indiana did not shoot the ball as well as they have in previous games, but the Cardinals pushed the Hoosiers in the second half. “Give them credit they played was very tough and without Sam we don’t win that game, he was amazing down low” Indiana Senior Tucker DeVries said after the game. The Hoosiers now moved onto the next game against Lindenwood Thursday Night.
Indiana University Women’s Basketball Wins First Road Game of the Season at Florida State The Indiana Hoosiers Women’s Basketball team played their first game away from Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall as the Hoosiers beat the Florida State Seminoles 76-72 Sunday Evening at the Tucker Center in Tallahassee Florida. Indiana is 4-0 on the season and will host Butler Wednesday Night at 7 PM. Florida State is 3-2 on the season and will travel to in-state rival Florida on Thursday Evening at 6:30 PM. It’s the Hoosiers’ second all-time win against Florida State and their second win Tallahassee as Indiana won 79-76 on January 7, 1981. This was the Hoosiers third trip to Tallahassee as Florida State won the last meeting in the Sunshine State 58-47 on December 2, 2003. The Seminoles have won all three meetings in Bloomington 62-61 on December 19, 2001, 85-78 on November 30, 2007, and 84-72 on December 3, 2009, to lead the All-Time Series 4-2 against the Hoosiers.
Lenee Beaumont scored a career high 23 points, Shay Ciezki added 22 points and Zania Socka-Nguemen recorded her third consecutive double-double with 11 points and 13 rebounds. Indiana went 27-46 from the field 48%, 7-18 from three-point range for 39% and 15-21 from the free throw line for 71%. The Hoosiers pulled down 34 rebounds, 10 assists, 3 steals ,1 block and 13 turnovers. Florida State got 19 points from Sydney Bowels, 16 points from Jasmine Shavers and 12 points from Pania Davis. The Seminoles went 25-63 from the field for 40%, 2-14 from three-point range for 14% and 20-26 from the free throw line for 77%. Florida State pulled down 36 rebounds, 10 assists, 5 steals, 3 blocks and 12 turnovers. After the Hoosiers struggled against Marshall after a very poor shooting performance and a ton of turnovers. The Hoosiers went on the road and got a quality win against a power four team that most likely will be in the NCAA Tournament come March. It gives Teri Moren’s team a huge confident boost with more tough games ahead.
Indiana University Volleyball sweeps Maryland There was no shortage of offense on Sunday afternoon at Wilkinson. Indiana’s potent attack hit at a record clip as it swept visiting Maryland in straight sets (25-23, 25-22, 25-14). The Hoosiers (21-5, 12-4 B1G) recorded 51 kills in just three sets with a hitting percentage of .456. All five primary attackers had at least five kills as the program picked up its 21st win of the season. From the jump, IU’s offense scored in every fashion it wanted. Freshman setter Teodora Kričković directed a fantastic game plan against Maryland’s block. She recorded 42 assists (14.00 per set) and set the Hoosiers to a hitting percentage of .456. (54-7-103). IU’s hitting efficiency was the highest in a Big Ten match since 1991 and the best in any conference match since the beginning of the rally-scoring era (since 2001).
IU committed just seven attacking errors in the entire match but hit at a .607 clip in the third set with 17 kills and zero errors. The seven hitting errors are the fewest in a Big Ten match since volleyball began the 25-point rally-scoring era in 2008. It’s the first time IU has hit above .450 in a contest since Aug. 26, 2003 (.500 – vs. Radford). Freshman outside hitter Jaidyn Jager continued her tear on the conference with a match-high 16 kills at a .542 hitting percentage. Senior outside hitter Candela Alonso-Corcelles provided 14 kills in the win. In seven career matches against Maryland, she reached double-digit kills each time. Senior opposite hitter Avry Tatum added 10 kills at a .360 clip.
Freshman middle blocker Victoria Gray had an outstanding offensive weekend for the Hoosiers. In two wins, she had 14 kills with zero errors. She hit .636 and also provided six blocks in the pair of victories. Senior middle blocker Madi Sell added five kills and three blocks in Sunday’s win. The victory over Maryland helped IU match single-season program records for regular season wins (21) and Big Ten wins – since the NCAA adopted volleyball in 1981. On Thursday (Nov. 20) against Rutgers, IU will look to break the single-season program Big Ten wins record.
Indiana University Football Lands Former Penn State Commitment LaVar Keys for 2026 Indiana football moved to 11-0 with its victory over Wisconsin on Saturday. Just a day later, it landed a former Penn State pledge. Lavar Keys committed to the Hoosiers on Sunday, according to his X post, over Kansas State University and Maryland. The three-star recruit is ranked as the 849th-best recruit, per 247 Sports, and the 116th-best receiver. Keys first announced his intention to attend Penn State in August 2024. However, when the Nittany Lions fired head coach James Franklin on Oct. 12, Keys decommitted and reopened his recruitment the same day.
Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti first offered Keys last January and hosted him on an official visit last June. Keys was in Bloomington for the Hoosiers’ dominant 56-6 victory over UCLA on Oct. 25. When Indiana traveled to Maryland on Nov. 1, Keys, a Maryland native, visited the Terrapins. The Hoosiers also cruised to a win in that contest, defeating the Terrapins by 45 points. Indiana offensive coordinator Mike Shanahan served as the primary recruiter for Keys with safety and defensive back coach Ola Adams as the secondary one. Keys attends DeMatha Catholic High School — a school that’s produced numerous professional athletes — in Hyattsville, Maryland. He now joins 22 other Indiana commits in its 2026 class.
Taylor Trojans Close the Football Season with 77-Point Outburst in Rout at Madonna Taylor put an exclamation point on its 2025 season with a 77-35 blowout of Madonna on Saturday, wrapping a second-straight winning season with its seventh victory of the year. With a combined 16 wins over the 2024 and 2025 campaigns, Taylor posted its second-highest, single-season win total in program history, trailing just the 18 wins earned by the 1998 and 1999 squads. TU also recorded winning records in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 2009 and 2010, and for the 12th time in school history.
TU scored the win on Saturday with the same script it used all year, scoring at least 35 points for the 11th time in as many games and piling up at least 440 yards of offense for the 10th-straight outing. The Purple and Gray also eclipsed 300 yards of rushing for the sixth time this season and the fourth time in the last five contests. Taylor finished the game with 544 total yards of offense, with 389 yards coming on the ground, as TU clipped off 7.5 yards per carry to overpower the hosts (1-10, 0-5 MSFA). TU scored 70 points over the final three quarters to put the game well out of reach and used the 77 points and 544 total yards of offense to break its 2024 marks for new single-season program records.
The program also saw a new single-season individual record be set, as Nathan Parker found the end zone twice for his 20th and 21st rushing scores of the season, surpassing Jameson Chesser’s 2024 record of 20 rushing touchdowns. Parker also finished his sophomore season with 1,363 rushing yards, ending with the third-highest single-season mark in Taylor’s history. Taylor dipped deep into its depth chart throughout the 42-point victory, with three different players tossing at least one touchdown pass and nine different Trojans taking at least one carry. Parker, Nathan Turanchick and Ethan Albert all rushed for two scores each, with Albert finishing with 13 touches for 124 yards and Parker reaching 81 yards on just nine touches. Jack D’Arcy led the receivers once again with three catches for 47 yards and two touchdowns of his own. The TU defense earned four takeaways in the game, led by interceptions from David Worlds and Luke Graft. Graft also paced the club with seven tackles, while Caleb Ranzau had three hits for negative yardage and Preston Montgomery recorded the team’s lone sack. RV Taylor closed its 2025 season at 7-4 overall and in second place in the MSFA Mideast League with a 4-1 mark.
Indiana Pacers Guard Aaron Nesmith Sidelined for a Month with a Knee Injury Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle said that Aaron Nesmith will miss at least a month with a left knee injury. The forward was hurt in the Pacers’ loss at Phoenix on Thursday. “It’s likely going to be at least four weeks,” Carlisle said before Saturday’s home game against Toronto. “Talk to me on (December) the 15th. But it’s very good news — very, very good news. He’s not in a brace. He’s walking. I say it’s likely going to be four weeks. That doesn’t mean it couldn’t be less. It’s unclear at this time. But he’s doing very well, and the news was very, very good.”
The Pacers are already without six players. All-Star point guard Tyrese Haliburton was lost for the season to a torn Achilles tendon suffered in Game 7 of the NBA Finals. Forward Bennedict Mathurin scored 31 points in two games before being sidelined by a toe injury. Shooting guard Andrew Nembhard just returned after missing six games with a shoulder injury. Top reserve Obi Toppin was averaging 14 points in three games before going down with a stress fracture in his right foot. Nesmith was averaging a career-best 15.5 points and 4.5 rebounds in 11 games. He scored a career-high 31 points in the Pacers’ only win against Golden State on Nov. 1. The Pacers began the night 1-11.