Indiana University Women’s Basketball Returns to the Sunshine State playing Three Games The Indiana Hoosiers return to the Sunshine State to play three games starting with the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles today at 1 PM at the Alico Arena in Fort Myers Florida with the game streaming on ESPN+. The Hoosiers will take part in the Coconut Hoops Tournament in the same venue facing Gonzaga Friday afternoon and Iowa State or Marquette on Sunday depending on Friday’s result. The Hoosiers won at Florida State 76-72 on November 18, in their first road game of the season. The Hoosiers beat Butler 72-53 last Wednesday night in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall to improve to 5-0 on the season. Lenne Beaumont has scored 44 points the last two games with a career high 23 at Florida State and followed it up with 21 points against Butler including 19 in the first half.
Beaumont is averaging 13.6 points, 5.6 rebounds and a team leading 3 assists per game. Shay Ciezki leads the Hoosiers with 21.2 points, 6 rebounds and a team leading 1.4 steals per game. Zania Socka-Nguemen averages 14.6 points per game and team leading 9.6 rebounds per game. Edessa Noyan came off the bench Wednesday to score 8 points, 6 rebounds, 2 blocks and an assist against Butler and leads the team with 0.6 blocks per game. The Hoosiers are averaging 71.4 points per game, shooting 47 percent from the field, 36 percent from three-point range and 72 percent from the free throw line while committing 15.8 turnovers per game. Head Coach Teri Moren picked up her 450th career win against Butler in 23 seasons as head Coach and has 251 wins in her 12th season at Indiana.
Florida Gulf Coast is 1-2 on the season after a 58-41 loss at George Mason last Wednesday. The Eagles lost at home to Davidson 77-51 in the season opener and beat Ave Maria 92-37 at home. The Eagles are averaging 61.3 points and commit 19.7 turnovers per game. FCGU is shooting 43 percent from the field, 22 percent from three-point range and 61 percent from the free throw line. Junior Karina Gordon leads the Eagles with 12 points and 3 assists per game. Senior Nay Staton is averaging 11 points and 7 rebounds per game. Sophomore Sinai Douglas is averaging 10.7 points per game. Cerina Role leads the team with 2.3 steals per game, and Anna Montag averages a team leading 1.7 blocks per game. The Eagles have a 12-player roster that represents Florida, Louisiana, Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin, Tennessee, New Jersey and Chile. The Eagles have 5 Seniors, 2 Juniors, 4 Sophomores and 1 Freshman.
Rania Harmon is in her first year as Head Coach at Florida Gulf Coast after she was hired in April. Harmon was an assistant coach at the University of Iowa for 8 seasons with a 208-63 record and a combined five Big Ten Conference Titles. Harmon was the assistant coach at her alma mater Central Michigan for five seasons including a 2013 NCAA Tournament berth. Harmon spent two seasons as the director of Women’s Basketball Operations at the University of Michigan. Florida Gulf Coast has been one of the best mid major programs in Women’s College Basketball since starting their program in 2002-03. Karl Smesko coached the team from 2002-25 with a 611-112 record and 10 NCAA Tournament Appearances and 2 Division II Tournament Appearances along with 6 WNIT Postseason Tournament appearances and no losing seasons.
Smesko left the school after 2 games into the 2024-25 season to become Head Coach of the Atlanta Dream in the WNBA. Long time assistant Coach Chelsea Lyles took over and went 29-1 and went to the NCAA Tournament losing to Oklahoma 81-58 in the first round for the second year after the Eagles lost to the Sooners 73-70 in the 2024 NCAA Tournament First Round in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington. This will be the second meeting between the two teams as Florida Gulf Coast beat Indiana 73-69 in Fort Myers on December 21, 2010. The Hoosiers played in the Fort Myers Tip-Off Tournament at the Suncoast Credit Union Arena on November 23, and 25, 2023. The Hoosiers beat Tennessee 71-57 and Princeton 72-63. The Hoosiers are looking to leave Florida with three more wins this week as they look to build on their good start with a new team that continues to improve as the season goes along.
#25 Indiana University Men’s Basketball Hosts Kansas State in a Big Non-Conference Matchup #25 Indiana Hoosiers host the Kansas State Wildcats this evening at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall at 8 PM with the game televised on Fox Sports 1. Indiana is ranked for the first time in Associated Press Poll and moved up one spot from 25 to 24 in the Coaches Poll that was released yesterday. It’s the first time since November 2024 that the Hoosiers are ranked in both polls. Indiana is 5-0 on the season averaging 88.2 points and committing 8.8 turnovers per game. The Hoosiers shoot 50% from the field, 39.4 % form three-point range and 77% from the free throw line. Indiana scored 98, 100 and 101 points in wins over Alabama A&M, Marquette and Milwaukee. The last two games Indiana has struggled scoring 69 points against Incarnate Word and 73 against Lindenwood while struggling to hit shots in both games.
Tucker DeVries leads the team in scoring with 19.2 points per game while averaging 5.8 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.2 steals per game. Lamar Wilkerson is averaging 17 points along with a team leading 2.4 steals per game. Sam Alexis comes off the bench to average 11.4 points along with a team leading 7 rebounds and 1.6 blocks per game. Tayton Conerway is averaging 11 points and a team leading 6 assists per game. Reed Bailey averages 10.6 points per game. The Hoosiers are 4-0 at home and average 88.2 points and have outscored their opponents by 25.8 points per game. Indiana still has a lot of work to do in terms of getting offensive rebounds. The Hoosiers have played good defense in the first half of the last two games, but they are going to need a complete 40 minutes this evening against another power four team.
Kansas State is 5-1 on the season with home wins over UNC Greensboro 93-64, Bellarmine 98-71, California 99-96 and Tulsa 84-83. The Wildcats played their last two games in Kansas City beating Mississippi State 98-77 and losing to Nebraska 86-85. P.J. Haggerty leads the Wildcats with 28 points and 6.3 assists per game. The 6-4 Junior Guard from Crosby, Texas will be a good test for the Indiana back court as he will be at the top of the scouting report. Abdi Bashir Jr averages 14.3 points per game. Nate Johnson averages 13.7 points along with a team leading 6.2 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game. David Castillo averages 11.8 points and Khamari McGriff averages 11.7 points. Dorin Buca is the team leader with 1.3 blocks per game. Kansas State averages 92.8 points and commits 13.7 turnovers per game. The Wildcats are shooting 52% from the field, 43% from three-point range and 77% from the free throw line. Kansas State has a 14-player roster that represents Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Florida, Italy, Ireland, Serbia, Canada and Germany. The Wildcats have 4 Seniors, 6 Juniors, 2 Sophomores and 2 Freshmen.
Head Coach Jerome Tang is in his fourth season at Kansas State with a record of 66-43. Tang took the Wildcats to the NCAA Tournament Elite 8 in 2023 and lost in the NIT First Round in 2024. The 59-Year-Old was born in Trinadad and Tobago and graduated from Charter Oak State College which is online school based in New Britian Connecticut in 2007. Tang was the Head Coach at Heritage Christian Academy in Texas from 1993-2003 before going to Baylor where he served as the assistant coach from 2003-17 and the associate head coach from 2017-22 as the Bears won the National Championship in 2021. Indiana and Kansas State will meet for the first time since the 1998 Maui Invitational First Round when the Hoosiers won 71-70. Indiana leads the all-time series 19-12 along with an 11-4 record in Bloomington and has beaten Kansas State the last nine times they have met. This will be the biggest test yet for this Hoosiers squad with a Kansas State team who has size, speed and loves the push the tempo.
Class of 2026 Safety LaRon Dues Decommitts from Indiana University Football IU football’s recruiting class of 2026 continued to evolve on Sunday evening. Sarasota, Fla. based safety LaRon Dues announced he is no longer an Indiana verbal commit. “For the best interest for me and my family I will be decommitting from Indiana,” Dues wrote on his X account. Dues announced his commitment to IU in June. He is a 3-star prospect, and the No 148 safety in the senior class based on the national average of the recruiting sites. Indiana still currently has two safety commits in their national top-30 2026 class — 3-stars Jamar Owens and recent Colorado flip D’Montae Tims. The Hoosiers also recently got a visit from 4-star safety and Penn State decommit Matt Sieg, who appears to be close to making his college decision.
Indiana has now seen a total of four former verbal commits in the 2026 class have a change of plans, including three in the last week: Laron Dues, Sarasota, Florida, S (3-star) –> ? , Jay Timmons, Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, DB (4-star) –> Ohio State, Walker Bryson, Rabun Gap, Georgia, WR (3-star) –> ? and Cash Herrera, San Diego, California, QB (3-star) –> ?
Indiana University Volleyball’s Avry Tatum and Candela Alonso Corcelles Selected in the Major League Volleyball Draft Head coach Steve Aird and his staff have prided themselves on preparing the program’s players to be ready for the next level. Since 2018, 11 different IU graduates have gone on to play professional volleyball. That number will grow by two to 13 following Monday’s Major League Volleyball Draft. Senior outside hitter Candela Alonso-Corcelles and senior opposite Avry Tatum were selected in the 2nd and 4th rounds respectively in the 2025 MLV Draft. Grand Rapids picked the Madrid native, Alonso-Corcelles, 11th overall while Columbus took Tatum with the 27th overall pick of the afternoon. The two players are set to join their former teammate, Kaley Rammelsberg – Atlanta (2021-23), in the league next season. Alonso-Corcelles has left one of the biggest legacies the program has ever seen. She’s top 10 in IU history in career kills (1,330) and is just one win away from becoming the winningest player in program history. On top of her offense, Alonso-Corcelles has offered up 741 digs, 198 blocks and 94 aces.
Grand Rapids finished just outside the playoffs during last year’s season. The Rise went 11-17 and picked three pin hitters, including Alonso-Corcelles, to begin their 2025 draft class. Alonso-Corcelles is the first IU player to ever be selected in the Major League Volleyball draft. Tatum joined the Hoosiers as a transfer in 2023 and has left one of the biggest legacies in the program history. She has over 1,100 career kills, nearly 900 of those with IU. She is hitting .320 on the season with 3.19 kills per set and has become one of the best opposites in the entire country.
Columbus, which featured Rammelsberg and former IU libero Paula Cerame in 2025, has a new look roster for next season. Tatum will get the chance to compete for playing time on the right side and brings one of the most powerful arms in the country to the professional level. IU’s program has never been in a better place than right now. Alonso-Corcelles and Tatum are the first players ever selected in the Major League Volleyball draft from the program. IU is one of just two Big Ten programs (Wisconsin) with multiple players picked in this year’s draft. Both players will wrap up their collegiate careers in December as IU begins its journey through the NCAA Tournament. They will head to their respective clubs for training camp in January as the 2026 MLV season gets underway.
Bailey Sinish of Carroll (Fort Wayne) Named 2025 Indiana Miss Volleyball Following a historic run at Carroll High School, Bailey Sinish is taking home one of the state’s top honors. Sinish is the 2025 Miss Volleyball winner, which was presented following the IHSVCA All-Star games on Sunday. Angola’s Maya Harris was a finalist for the award, along with Madi Miles (Hamilton Southeastern), Elle Schara (Crown Point) and Lydia Stahley (Roncalli). The 5-foot, 11-inch outside hitter set a school record in career kills with 1,808 during her four-year run at Carroll. Sinish also racked up 175 blocks, 167 aces and 854 digs. As Carroll’s top outside hitter, Sinish led the Chargers to back-to-back 4A state championships in 2024 and 2025. That run includes 50 consecutive wins dating back to last season, along with an unbeaten record of 37-0 this season. Sinish will continue her volleyball career with IU Indianapolis.
Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark, Allyiah Boston and Stephanie White to Participate in the United States Women’s Basketball Team December Training Camp The USA Basketball Women’s National Team announced today the 18 players who will participate in a training camp set for Dec. 12-14 at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The camp will feature 2024 Olympic gold medalists Kahleah Copper, Chelsea Gray, Brittney Griner, Kelsey Plum and Jackie Young. Dearica Hamby won a 3×3 bronze medal at the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
Brionna Jones is a 2022 FIBA World Cup champion, alongside Copper and Gray while Plum (2022, 2018) and Griner (2018, 2014) are two-time World Cup champions. Aliyah Boston, who has represented the USA in various junior and senior competitions and camps, is also expected in Durham. Ten players will make their senior national team camp debuts including Lauren Betts, Cameron Brink, Paige Bueckers, Veronica Burton, Sonia Citron, Caitlin Clark, Kiki Iriafen, Rickea Jackson, Angel Reese and JuJu Watkins. Betts, Boston, Burton, Jackson and Reese have competed in the FIBA Women’s AmeriCup, while Betts, Boston, Brink, Bueckers, Citron, Clark and Watkins own gold medals from various junior competitions. Iriafen will make her USA Basketball debut in Durham. A number of players also feature 3×3 experience, including Olympic medalists Plum (2021, Gold), Young (2021, Gold) and Hamby, World Cup gold medalist Brink (2023) and AmeriCup medalists Burton (2022, silver), Hamby (2023, gold) and Jones (2021, gold). Boston, Bueckers and Jackson also have played for USA Basketball in 3×3 junior competitions.
2025-28 USA Basketball Women’s National Team head coach Kara Lawson (Duke University) will lead training camp. She will be assisted by court coaches Natalie Nakase (Golden State Valkyries), Nate Tibbetts (Phoenix Mercury) and Stephanie White (Indiana Fever). White, the 2023 WNBA Coach of the Year, was a court coach at the April 2024 Women’s National Team’s Training Camp and also played for the USA at the 1997 Jones Cup and the 1994 U.S. Olympic Festival. During the 2025 season, White led the Fever to a franchise-best 24 wins. Tibbetts, who made it to the WNBA Finals in 2025 with Phoenix, was the head coach of the USA Basketball Men’s Pan American Games Team that finished third place in 2011. Nakase, the 2025 WNBA Coach of the Year, will make her USA Basketball debut. The first-year head coach helped the Valkyries become the first-ever expansion franchise to make the playoffs in their first season. USA Women’s National Team managing director Sue Bird will evaluate players prior to naming a team for the 2026 FIBA Women’s World Cup, which will take place from Sept. 4-13, 2026, in Berlin. The USA will seek their fifth consecutive World Cup gold medal.