No. 6 Indiana Hoosiers Men’s Soccer Host Saint Louis in the NCAA Second Round NCAA Division I men’s soccer’s two greatest champions meet for the second time this season as No. 6-seeded Indiana hosts Saint Louis today in the NCAA Tournament Second Round on Jerry Yeagley Field at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Kickoff is set for noon ET, and tickets are on sale here. Indiana students can get in free with a valid Crimson Card. Fans unable to attend the match can stream it live via the ESPN+ digital platform. Indiana owns a 9-1-1 record on its home pitch and a 72-7-4 (.892) home record in the NCAA Tournament all-time. IU has welcomed a single-season program record attendance of 34,680 fans to Armstrong Stadium this season. The Hoosiers and Billikens previously met this season on September 3, a 1-0 Indiana home victory courtesy of Collins Oduro’s seventh-minute winner.
Indiana ranks No. 2 in the country in scoring with 46 goals in the regular season. The attack is directed by Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year Palmer Ault, who leads the NCAA with 42 points from 16 goals and 10 assists. Ault is the first NCAA DI player since 2017 to eclipse 15 goals and 10 assists in the same season. IU makes its 50th appearance in the NCAA Tournament. The program boasts the NCAA records for appearances in the round of 16 (44), quarterfinal (29), final four (22) and national title match (17). Indiana’s eight national championships are the most since 1973, its first season as a varsity program. This is Indiana’s NCAA-record 39th consecutive appearance. No other Division I men’s soccer program has an active streak greater than nine straight seasons. The NCAA Selection Committee awarded Indiana the No. 6 national seed, the program’s NCAA-record 25th national seed and 11th in 12 seasons.
Saint Louis advanced to the NCAA Tournament Second Round with a 2-1 victory over Kentucky on Thursday in St. Louis. The Billikens equalized in the 86th minute from freshman midfielder Jack Di Maria, who went on to score the golden goal in the 104th minute. The Billikens are unbeaten in their last 11 matches, earning a 7-0-4 record since September 27. That stretch includes an unbeaten Atlantic 10 season (5-0-3) and a penalty shootout victory over Dayton in the conference tournament final last Sunday. A-10 Coach of the Year Kevin Kalish leads the Billikens in his eighth season, sporting an 80-33-34 record during his time in St. Louis as well as a 129-79-48 career record over 14 seasons as a head coach. Graduate goalkeeper Jeremi Abonnel repeated as the Atlantic 10 Goalkeeper of the Year as one of nine Billikens to earn all-conference honors.
The Billikens own 10 national championships, the most in NCAA Division I men’s soccer. Saint Louis won its most recent title in 1973; the year IU men’s soccer became a varsity sport. Since then, the Hoosiers have shined as the standard, winning eight titles – the most in that span. Indiana has had the significant better of the all-time series with Saint Louis, winning 25 of the 3 meetings. IU and Saint Louis have met five times in the NCAA Tournament, resulting in five Hoosier home victories. The two teams met in the second round of the 2022 NCAA Tournament on IU’s road to its 22nd NCAA College Cup. The teams were separated only by Ryan Wittenbrink’s 75th-minute goal in the 1-0 Hoosier home win.
Top Ranked Nebraska beats Indiana University Volleyball in a Sold-Out Wilkinson Hall In front of a fantastic crowd in Bloomington, the Indiana volleyball team (22-6, 13-5 B1G) put up a valiant effort against No. 1 Nebraska. The Hoosiers had leads in all three sets but couldn’t find the points to close out each game. The Huskers finished off a 3-0 sweep (25-19, 25-16, 25-22) to remain undefeated. IU finishes its regular season home slate at 10-3 and 7-3 in the Big Ten. Senior outside hitter Candela Alonso-Corcelles fought through a big Nebraska block to record 10 kills, her 49th career conference match with double-digit kills. She recorded five digs and added an assist in her final regular season game at Wilkinson Hall. Senior opposite hitter Avry Tatum tallied seven kills while freshman outside hitter Jaidyn Jager provided seven as well.
Energy was at a high level from the jump for the Hoosiers. Senior middle blocker Madi Sell had five kills and an early solo block. IU held a 9-5 lead in the opening set before Nebraska went on a run to open a big lead. IU provided 31 digs from nine different players and had several hustle plays to get the crowd on its feet. Nebraska pulled away late in set three after being tied at 17-all. Junior outside hitter Harper Murray led the match with 11 kills. Freshman opposite hitter Virginia Adriano recorded nine kills and six blocks. The Hoosiers hit .147 on the evening while Nebraska provided a .340 hitting efficiency. IU finishes out the regular season next week with matches at Illinois (Nov. 25) and Purdue (Nov. 29). The Hoosiers are just one win from matching a single-season program record for victories. One more win would make Alonso-Corcelles the winningest player in program history. IU will await Selection Sunday (Nov. 30) to see if postseason volleyball will come to Wilkinson Hall.
Indiana Men’s Swimming and Diving Wins the Ohio State Invitational and the Women Finish Second Indiana swimming and diving broke four program records and won 19 of 42 events this week at its midseason meet, the Ohio State Invitational, which concluded Friday night inside the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion. Indiana won 10 events on the final night, including sweeps of the 400-yard freestyle relay, 200-yard butterfly and 200-yard backstroke. Junior Miranda Grana captured her third victory Friday night in the 100-yard backstroke, as the program record holder dropped the school’s No. 2 performance in 1:49.06. Grana swept the backstroke events and added a 100-yard butterfly victory. She went a program record 49.98 in the 100-yard butterfly and then 49.89 in the 100-yard backstroke this week to become the fifth woman – and second international swimmer – to break 50 seconds in both events, joining Olympians Claire Curzan, Maggie MacNeil, Regan Smith and Gretchen Walsh.
Zalán Sárkány completed his sweep of the distance events Friday, winning the 1,650-yard freestyle with a 14:23.85, just 2.56 seconds short of his program record time that won the NCAA Championship in March. The senior led a 1-2-3 Hoosier finish, followed by sophomore Luke Whitlock’s personal best 14:37.47 and freshman Luke Ellis‘ 14:45.59 – both out of the slower heats. Sárkány also won the 500 free with a 4:09.57 and posted a program record in the 400 IM, placing third in 3:39.73. Freshman Liberty Clark captured her second program record of the meet in the 100-yard freestyle, resetting the standard twice Friday. Clark started her day setting the quickest non-relay 100 free in the prelim with a 47.24, then broke the program record outright with a 46.87 to win that individual final. She went even lower as the leadoff of Indiana’s 400-yard freestyle relay victory with a 46.83, leading a quartet that set the second-best time in program history with a 3:10.49.
Notably, Clark also went 45.87 as the anchor of Thursday’s 400 medley relay, the ninth-best 100 free split in NCAA history. The freshman broke the 50-yard freestyle program record in 21.54 on Tuesday as well. Andrew Shackell was the lone Indiana freshman to join Clark as an event winner, slashing his personal best in the 200-yard butterfly by 3.03 seconds with a 1:41.26. Shackell also set personal bests in the 200 free (1:34.30), 500 free (4:15.19) and 100 fly (45.93) during his first midseason meet. A freshman also won a diving event, as Josh Hedberg impressed on platform. The youngster posted a 467.65 prelim list – the sixth-best mark in program history – and only needed a 417.05 to win the final. Sophomore Joshua Sollenberger won the 3-meter springboard the day before, giving IU two victories on the three boards this week.
TEAM STANDINGS
Men
1. Indiana – 2,766
2. Louisville – 1,984.5
3. Ohio State – 1,745
4. Purdue – 1,346
5. Yale – 1,215.5
6. Penn State – 1,064
7. Kentucky – 989
8. Cincinnati – 689
9. Northwestern – 202
10. Wisconsin – 56
11. Pittsburgh – 19
Women
1. Ohio State – 2,257
2. Indiana – 2,010.5
3. Louisville – 1,934
t4. Kentucky – 1,262
t4. Purdue – 1,262
6. UCLA – 1,041
7. Cincinnati – 832
8. Penn State -745.5
9. Yale – 710
10. Northwestern – 152
11. Pittsburgh – 149
12. Wisconsin – 32
Indiana will close out the fall portion of its season with a December 5 dual meet, hosting Cincinnati in the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center.
Bloomington South Shut Out in the Class 5A Football Semi State Championship Game by New Palestine Bloomington South football’s next semi-state title remains safely locked away in the Indianapolis safe. The right combination continues to elude the Panthers, who have gotten two of the three numbers with regional titles over the past three seasons. That last one, it’s hard to point to any one thing. Sometimes it’s an injury to a key player, or a great play made by a future college standout. Maybe it’s just bad luck, running into a team of destiny or a private school powerhouse that stands in the way.
Or it could be bad timing, facing a wrecking crew like this current top-ranked New Palestine squad, which steamrolled into the state finals again with a 42-0 win over No. 3 South on a rainy, chilly Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. “You’re always going to run into a good football team here,” South coach Gabe Johnson said. “Last year was a little closer. This team is kind of a juggernaut, obviously. No one wants to play them. One day, maybe we’ll be the favorite and the one everyone is worried about. “We’ve got to find a way to do that for sure.”
The Dragons have won 27 straight games for a reason, and they don’t care if they’re in Class 4A or in 5A like they are this year. They dominated up front on both sides to be sure, but South was never able to give its best effort. An early turnover and soul-crushing 92-yard touchdown pass led to a 27-point first half and no season-saving rally was forthcoming this time. “It wasn’t good,” Johnson said. “Everything we said couldn’t happen, we did. Some of that was us. Blown coverage and stuff like that. We didn’t play well. “They’re very good on top of us not playing well is not a great recipe. You have to come here and play well and not turn the ball over and we didn’t accomplish any of that stuff. One day we’ll figure out how to get over the hump.”
South (11-2) is the fourth straight ranked team the Dragons (13-0) have slayed during this playoff run. “They’re where they are for a reason,” Johnson said. “That’s as good as a team as there is. They are very well coached. Disciplined. It’s a good model. “Guys are trying to emulate that and figure it out we”ll get back to the drawing board.” New Pal set tone by taking the opening kickoff 80 yards in six minutes for a score, then scooping up a bad snap by South just a minute later at midfield. With 2:01 left in the first quarter, it was already 14-0. Even when things went right, they went wrong for the Panthers.
South rolled a punt to the 8, but two plays later, Mason Oglesby was all by himself behind the secondary, which was worried about a run game that piled up 109 yards in the first period. Down 21-0, South never recovered. A 53-yard completion to Jalen Williams to the 1 went for naught after a holding call negated Shaun Cooper’s TD run. Instead, a missed 26-yard field goal was the only chance South had to put points on the board all night. Two interceptions in the third quarter eventually led to the 35-0 lead that set the running clock in motion. “You can’t make mistakes,” Johnson said. “They make you play perfect football. And that’s hard in itself. We knew it was going to be a challenge. At the end of the day, I don’t think we probably played out best on a night where we had to be really good.” South was limited to 69 yards rushing on 25 carries, while Duncan Combs was 14-of-24 for 144 yards. NP piled up 259 yards on 39 attempts by six different ballcarriers. QB Jacob Davis ran the show, rushing for 53 yards and a score and tossing for 147 and two more TDs. One missed tackle led to big trouble all night. “It’s such a fundamental game,” Johnson said. “And we weren’t good at the fundamentals tonight.” Still, South has gone 30-9 over the past three seasons. That’s a lot of extra reps to bank for the future, but there’s still a big hole in South’s wallet. “These guys have played a lot of football, and they’ve done a lot for the program,” Johnson said. “And that can’t go unrecognized.”
No. 17 Taylor Women’s Soccer Defeats No. 11 Central Methodist, Trojans Advance to NAIA Championship Round of 16 The Taylor University women’s soccer team earned its first NAIA national tournament win in program history after the 17th-ranked Trojans defeated No. 11 Central Methodist 1-0 in Saturday’s NAIA Second Round match, hosted at Turner Stadium. TU (14-2-3), which tied its single season wins record after the victory, will advance to the NAIA Women’s Soccer Championship final site in Pensacola, Florida. The Trojans will face top overall seed and Crossroads League rival Marian on Monday, Dec. 1, at the Ashton Brosnaham Soccer Complex. After dominating possession in the first half, the Trojans kept putting pressure on and eventually broke through with the deciding goal in the 56th minute. The game-winning strike was an own goal by Central Methodist that ricocheted in the net after Morgan Fletemeyer lasered a line drive from the right side of the box. The Eagles (16-3-2) did not go quietly and had several nervy chances late in the contest, as momentum shifted to their attacking zone.
Campbell Massey and Brianna Rawlings each delivered strong performances, displaying why the defensive duo was selected first-team all-league. In the 89th minute, Massey had the play of the night when she covered an open net and saved the potential equalizer from crossing the line after Rawlings got tangled up in a scrum. Rawlings also made a game-saving stop a few moments earlier off a CMU corner, as the senior goalkeeper punched a header attempt above the bar and out of play. Rawlings finished the night with four saves. TU held on down the stretch after fending off an 11-5 second half shot advantage for the Eagles. Overall, CMU held the slight advantage 14-12 in total shots and 6-4 in shots on target.
Fletemeyer, Brooke Cimini and Kiana Siefert each put a shot on goal. Siefert led with four shot attempts overall. CMU’s leading goal scorer Mariana Barrreto finished with four shots and placed three of those attempts on frame. The Eagles’ keeper Amber Bennett recorded three saves. The Trojans outshot the visitors 7-3 in the opening stanza and finished with a 9-4 edge in corners, with seven of those also coming early in the match. TU registered five corners and three shots within the opening 15 minutes. It is the third ranked win of the season (3-2-3) for the Trojans, and the first victory over a ranked opponent at Turner Stadium since defeating then-ranked No. 10 Marian last season. TU will travel to Pensacola, Florida over Thanksgiving break to prepare for its Round of 16 match on Dec. 1. Stay tuned to TaylorTrojans.com for a match preview and more information.
Springer Eclipses 3,000 Assists at Taylor University Volleyball’s in Season-Ending Defeat Lindsay Springer eclipsed 3,000 assists at Taylor in a hard-fought four-set defeat against No. 18 Lewis Clark State (16-9) in NAIA Opening Round action inside Odle Arena on Saturday night. Springer reached the milestone with her first assist of the evening to Ruth Anderson, which gave Taylor an early 6-4 edge. The sensational senior collected 24 assists on Saturday to end her TU career with 3,023. Her 8.49 assists per set ranks seventh in program history. Springer and the Trojan offense began the night in terrific fashion, firing 18 first set kills against five errors en route to a 25-15 victory to open the night. Six hitters recorded a kill for TU in the opening set, with Daya Vestal leading the way with five. After hitting a sizzling .342 in the first, the offense cooled a bit throughout the night. An early advantage in the second set slowly slipped away after LCSC called a timeout with the score 11-7. Trailing 18-15, Taylor took the next three points, which included a block from Vestal, who led the team with five and a kill by Frey, who notched 12 kills in the match. The Warriors turned the tides and quickly raced away with the final seven points of the set to even it up at one apiece.
LCSC used the momentum to grab an early 5-2 advantage before Taylor responded with the next three and six of the next seven to flip the score and lead 8-6. A set of runs continued with the Warriors taking the next four before TU scored five of the next six to retake the lead. The squads traded points until TU led 20-17 after a kill by Vestal. A pair of kills followed by an ace, which the Warriors racked up ten in the match, even the score at 20. An error and a kill by Frey gave TU the lead in an all-important third set. Th wheels fell off and a similar end to the second happened as LCSC scored the final five points to stun the Trojans and take a 2-1 set advantage. TU responded early with a Frey kill and a pair of blocks by Anderson to take a 4-1 lead in the fourth. The Warriors scored the next four and then with Taylor holding a slight edge at 8-7, a decisive 8-0 run by LCSC gave them a commanding 15-8 lead.
The Trojans battled back valiantly as Ava Kraft notched three kills in the set, but the deficit proved too great, and the Warriors won the set and match to move onto NAIA Pool Play in Sioux City, Iowa in early December. Frey delivered another double-double with 17 digs to go with 12 kills and Margo Hernandez had 22 assists and 17 digs in an outstanding showing for the South Alabama transfer. McKaylah Flagle ended her TU career with 14 digs and four assists, climbing the program leaderboard in career digs to sixth with 2,039. A terrific season comes to a close for the Trojans with a final record of 20-12. Taylor loses a significant part of its rotation but returns a plethora of talent and will hope to get back to the NAIA Opening Round in 2026.