#22 Indiana University Men’s Basketball Travels to Minnesota for Big Ten Opener The #22 Indiana Hoosiers open the 2025-26 Big Ten Conference Men’s Basketball Season with a trip to Minneapolis to face the Minnesota Golden Gophers at Williams Arena this evening at 7 PM with the game televised on the Big Ten Network. It will be the first conference game for Indiana’s Darian DeVries and Minnesota’s Niko Medved as brand-new head coaches to the Big Ten. DeVries coached at West Virginia a season ago going 19-13 and missed out on the NCAA Tournament. This year he has the Hoosiers unbeaten at 7-0 and ranked in the top 25. Medved who graduated from Minnesota in 1997 returns to his hometown after coaching at Colorado State from 2018-25. Medved coached one season at Drake from 2017-18 going 17-17 and reaching the College Insider Tournament second round before leaving for Colorado State. His replacement at Drake was Darian DeVries who went 150-55 in six seasons. Both Head Coaches have winning records. Medved is 226-176 in 13 seasons overall with four years at Furman from 2013-17. Medved took Colorado State to 3 NCAA Tournaments along with NIT Postseason Tournament appearance in 2021. He reached the College Insider Tournament three times twice with Furman in 2016 and 2017 and Drake in 2018.
DeVries is 176-68 in his 8th season as Head Coach with 3 NCAA Tournament Appearances and appearances in the 2019 College Insider Tournament and the 2022 College Basketball Invitational. Tucker DeVries the coach’s son leads the Hoosiers with 17.9 points per game along with 5.4 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.1 steals per game. Lamar Wilkerson is averaging 16.7 points per game and leads the Hoosiers with 1.7 steals per contest. Tayton Conerway averages 11.9 points and leads the team in assists with 6.4. Reed Bailey averages 11.3 points and Sixth Man Sam Alexis is leading the team with 6.4 rebounds and 1.4 blocks while averaging 10.6 points per game. Freshman Trent Sisley is averaging 9.6 points for the Hoosiers and averaging 20.3 points off the bench. Indiana has 9 players that average 10 or more minutes per game. The Hoosiers are shooting 50 percent from the field, 37 percent from three-point range and 76 percent from the free throw line. Indiana is scoring 89.6 points per game as the Hoosiers average 20.9 assists and 9.7 turnovers a game. The Hoosiers have dished out 146 assists and only turned it over 68 times in the first seven games of the season.
The Golden Gophers are 4-4 on the season but have lost three in a row losing to San Francisco 77-65 in Sioux Falls South Dakota, Stanford 72-68 and Santa Clara 86-75 in Palm Springs California last weekend. The Golden Gophers lost at Missouri 83-60 on November 12. Minnesota is 4-0 at home with wins over Gardner-Webb 87-60, Alcorn State 95-50, Green Bay 72-65 in overtime and Chicago State 66-54. Williams Arena is a tough place to play but the Hoosiers have won four in a row at the Barn dating back to 2020. Indiana leads the all-time series 109-69 and 9 in a row and 11 of the last 12 since 2018. Minnesota’s last win in the series came in February 16, 2019, when they beat the Hoosiers 84-63 in Minneapolis.
Cade Tyson leads Minnesota in scoring with 22.4 points per game. Jaylen Crocker-Johnson is averaging 12.1 points along with a team leading 9.1 rebounds and 1.1 blocks per game. Isaac Asuma leads the team with 4.4 assists and averages 9.3 points per game. Chansey Willis Jr. leads the Golden Gophers with 2.4 steals per game while averaging 6.3 points. Minnesota averages 73 5 points and commits 11.6 turnovers per game. The Golden Gophers shoot 45 percent from the field, 31 percent from three-point range and 66 percent from the free throw line. Minnesota has a 15-player roster that Includes Senior Maximus Gizzi from New Palestine, Indiana and has not appeared in a game this season for Minnesota. There 5 players from the State of Minnesota and the rest of the roster represents Texas, Illinois, Colorado, New Jersey, California, Florida, North Carolina and Michigan. There are 5 Seniors, 5 Juniors, 2 Sophomores and 3 Freshmen on this year’s squad.
Indiana has been really good taking care of the basketball and getting after it on the defensive end slowing down a high-powered team like Kansas State and scoring 100 points on Marquette in Chicago. Indiana will have to attack the glass and get offensive boards especially in a road game like this if they want to be towards the top of the Big Ten. Minnesota has a tough two game stretch to open Big Ten Play traveling to top ranked Purdue a week from tonight. The Golden Gophers brought in 10 transfers including Maximus Gizzi who is a Hoosier native who played at NAIA Huntington University in Huntington, Indiana. Minnesota returns 2 players from last year including Isaac Asuma and a Walk on Grayson Grove. Both teams have a new look to them and with Big Ten team playing 2 Big Ten Teams this time of year a 2-0 start could be what both teams need to get off to a good start in a very competitive conference.
Indiana University Women’s Basketball Returns Home to Battle Western Michigan The Indiana Hoosiers return home to Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall tonight at 6 PM to battle the Western Michigan Broncos with the game streaming on Big Ten Network Plus. This will be the 13th meeting between the two teams in a series that dates back to 1975. This will be the Broncos eighth trip to Bloomington as Indiana is 5-2 against the Broncos at home and leads the all-time series 8-4. Indiana has won four in a row over Western Michigan including the last three at home. The last time Western Michigan beat Indiana was January 11, 1980, 67-64 in Bloomington. The Hoosiers are 3-1 in Kalamazoo and 0-1 at neutral site which was a 75-62 loss in Mount Pleasant, Michigan on March 11, 1976.
Indiana is 7-1 after going 2-1 in Fort Myers Florida last week with Wins over Florida Gulf Coast and Gonzaga and Lost to #10 Iowa State 106-95 on Sunday in the Championship Game of the GIECO Coconut Hoops Tournament. The Hoosiers made their second trip to the Sunshine State after winning at Florida State earlier in the season and come away with a 3-1 record. Shay Ciezki led the Hoosiers with 38 points which is most points in a game since Amanda Cahill scored 38 against Michigan State in a four-overtime thriller in the Big Ten Tournament in 2018. Ciezki went 12-21 from the field and 13-14 from the free throw line. Ciezki leads the Hoosiers with 24.2 points and 1.4 steaks per game. Ciezki has scored double digits every game this season and had scored 22 or more points in six of the eight games. Lenee Beaumont is averaging 15.1 points and a team leading 3.2 assists per game. The Redshirt Sophomore scored 19 points against Iowa State and has scored in double figures in seven of the Hoosiers 8 games this season. Zania Socka-Nguemen missed the game on Sunday with an injury and it’s unclear if she will be available for this game. Socka-Nguemen is averaging 23 points with a team leading 9 rebounds and 0.4 blocks per game. The Hoosiers are averaging 76.3 points and committing 14.1 turnovers per game. Indiana is shooting 49 percent from the field, 36 percent from three-point range and 75 percent from the free throw line. Edessa Noyan started on Sunday and had 8 points and 8 rebounds. The Hoosiers got minutes from Faith Wiseman and Jade Ondineme who all took turns battling Iowa State’s Audi Crooks inside as she scored a career high 47 points against the Hoosiers.
Western Michigan is 1-4 on the season and an 82-70 overtime loss to Division II Roosevelt University form Chicago last Tuesday at home. The Lakers outscored the Broncos 19-7 In extra period to hand Western Michigan it’s second home loss of the season after a 72-64 loss to Duquesne on November 9. Western Michigan’s only win came on November 13, at Milwaukee 65-64. The Broncos lost at Appalachian State 65-45 and at Michigan State 98-44 as the they are 1-2 away from Kalamazoo. The Broncos average 57.6 points and commit 20 6 turnovers per game. Western Michigan is shooting 36 percent from the field, 27 percent from three-point range and 63 percent from the free throw line De’Ahna Richardson leads Western Michigan in scoring at 12.3 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. Kalley Starks averages 10.6 points and 5 rebounds per game. Ariana Wilkes leads the team with 7.2 rebounds and 0.8 blocks per game while averaging 5.8 points per game. Alli Carlson leads the team with 5.6 assists and 2.2 steals per game while averaging 7.2 points per game.
Sophomore Alli Harness is from Burlington Indiana and played at Carroll High School in Flora and is the all-time Leading Scorer with 2,134 points and 2024 Indiana All-Star. Harness has played in four games for the Broncos this season averaging 4.3 points and 3.3 rebounds while averaging 19.3 minutes per game. Western Michigan has 13 Player Roster that Represents Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, South Carolina, Canada, Spain and Latvia. There are 5 Seniors, 2 Juniors, 3 Sophomores and 3 Freshmen.
Head Coach Kate Achter is in her first season at Western Michigan after Coaching at Detroit Mercy taking over a 1-29 team to 32 wins in two seasons and the programs first winning season since 2016-17 and their first postseason victory in the Horizon League Tournament since 2017. Achter spent six seasons at Loyola Chicago taking a team that was 2-28 and to 18-12 and taking the Ramblers to their first ever postseason tournament appearances with a trip to the Women’s Basketball Invitational. Before becoming a head coach Achter was an Assistant and Recruiting Coordinator at Xavier and St Bonaventure and saw the Bonnies make a Sweet 16 Appearance in her time with the Program. Achter played at Bowling Green for Curt Miller who was the head coach at Indiana for two seasons from 2014-16. Atcher led the Falcons to Four Mid-American Conference Titles and a trip to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 in 2007. She remains Bowling Green’s all-time assist leader with 668 and free throws made with 551 and is a 2018 Inductee into the Bowling Green Athletics Hall of Fame.
For the Hoosiers they are still looking for a consistent third scorer and more production from their bench and Socka-Nguemen misses any more time due to injury will be a concern for the Hoosiers going forward with the Big Ten Conference Opener at Illinois on Saturday. For Western Michigan how do they respond after a tough loss at home to a division II team and now face another though test on the road against a Big Ten Team. The Broncos have already battled a good Michigan State Squad and now face Indiana and possibly without a key starter inside.
Five Indiana University Volleyball Players Honored by the Big Ten Conference Five Hoosiers were honored by the Big Ten on Tuesday afternoon following the greatest regular season in the history of the Indiana volleyball program. Postseason awards were released today by the conference office ahead of the start of this week’s NCAA Tournament. For the first time in program history, IU had three players selected as First Team All-Big Ten members. Senior outside hitter Candela Alonso-Corcelles, senior opposite hitter Avry Tatum and freshman setter Teodora Krickovic were among 25 conference athletes selected to the All-Big Ten First Team in 2025.
Tatum, a team captain, has enjoyed a tremendous senior campaign for the Hoosiers this season. She recorded 336 kills in the regular season, providing 3.23 kills per set. The Solana Beach, California native hit at a .326 offensive clip, nearly 40 points better than her mark from last season. Tatum had 21 matches with 10-or-more kills and recorded 57 blocks, 61 digs, and 13 aces.
Alonso-Corcelles has turned into one of the elite six-rotation athletes in the conference during her final season with the Hoosiers. She recorded a team-best 3.47 kills per set and had 361 kills overall. She hit .243 in 30 regular season matches, her first season with an offensive efficiency above .200 in her career. The Madrid, Spain native added 207 digs, 21 aces and a career-high 62 blocks in her senior campaign. With a win over Illinois on Nov. 26, Alonso-Corcelles became the winningest player in program history (75). She is top 10 in school history in kills (1,345) and heads into the tournament with a chance to earn All-American honors.
Krickovic was tasked with replacing star setter Camryn Haworth in 2025 and took the position to new heights. She provided 1,109 assists and finished the regular season among the nation’s elite at 10.66 assists per set. The Novi Sad, Serbia native helped set IU to a team hitting percentage of .280 – a mark that is on pace to break a single-season program record. She is the first freshman in program history to be named First Team All-Big Ten in their debut season. It’s the fourth-straight year that an IU setter has earned All-Big Ten honors. In three of the last four years, IU has had a First Team All-Big Ten player at the position.
Before this season, IU had never had two players selected to the All-Big Ten First Team in the same season. In 2025, the Hoosiers provided three in the same year. IU is one of five conference programs (Nebraska, UCLA, Wisconsin and Purdue) with three-or-more First Team All-Big Ten athletes. As expected, Krickovic was one of 10 players named to the Big Ten’s All-Freshman team. She was joined by freshman outside hitter Jaidyn Jager, the only unanimous selection in the conference. Jager was a Second Team All-Big Ten pick as well after providing 3.35 kills per set and 2.22 digs per set.
For the first time in program history, IU landed two different first-year players on the Big Ten’s All-Freshman team. Krickovic and Jager are the seventh and eighth athletes respectively in IU history to be selected to the team. Three of those eight players (Ramsey Gary) have come in the past three campaigns. IU’s four athletes selected to All-Big Ten teams in 2025 are the most in a single year in program history. Before this season, IU had three athletes named to the respective teams on four occasions – most recently in 2023 (Haworth, Rammelsberg and Gary).
Junior setter Luca Fickell was named IU’s selection as the Big Ten Sportsmanship Honoree. Each program provided a student-athlete that represents the core values that the school stands for. Fickell has been a tremendous teammate and support system for every player in the program. Head coach Steve Aird and the Hoosiers begin their NCAA Tournament journey on Thursday (Dec. 4) evening in Bloomington. IU will take on the MAC tournament champions, Toledo, at Wilkinson Hall. It’s IU’s first tournament game since 2010 and Toledo’s first in program history.
Taylor University Women’s Soccer secures Six Academic All-District Honors The Taylor University women’s soccer team received the maximum number of College Sports Communicators NAIA Academic All-District honors, with six student-athletes earning the award, including Morgan Fletemeyer, Shalyn Hussey, Eliza Luttrell, Campbell Massey, Kiana Siefert and Libby Thomas. TU was one of 27 teams from the NAIA to place the maximum number of six individuals on the 2025-2026 Academic All-District Women’s Soccer teams.
Fletemeyer earned her third career CSC Academic All-District award with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.96 in biology health sciences. The senior midfielder, who was recently tabbed honorable-mention all-league, has started all 19 matches this season with three goals and one assist. Hussey picked up her first career CSC Academic All-District recognition with a cumulative GPA of 4.00 as an English major. The senior defender, who started all 19 matches with one assist, helped solidify TU’s back line as one of the top ranked defenses in the NAIA this season.
Luttrell grabbed her second career CSC Academic All-District award with a cumulative GPA of 3.91 in elementary education. The junior forward, who was voted a first-team all-league performer, delivered a standout performance this season, leading the Trojans in goals (12) and assists (8) across 17 appearances to record the program’s highest single-season point total (32) in over a decade. Massey collected her second career CSC Academic All-District award with a cumulative GPA of 3.85 in psychology. The junior defender started all 19 matches and was selected as a first-team all-league performer, while anchoring the back line and posting career-high four goals with one assist.
Siefert received her first CSC Academic All-District honor with a cumulative GPA of 3.77 in management and marketing. The senior forward was named a first-team all-league performer, finishing second on the team in points (19) with six goals and a team-leading seven assists during her 15 appearances. Thomas earned her second CSC Academic All-District award with a cumulative GPA of 3.64 in management and marketing. The senior defender has started all 19 matches with one goal and one assist, helping the Trojans produce one of the best seasons in program history as a key contributor on the back line.
The CSC Academic All-District distinction is designed to recognize student-athletes for outstanding achievements in the classroom and on the field. To receive the honor, an athlete must have a cumulative grade-point average of 3.50 or higher on a 4.0 scale, must have reached sophomore status academically, and must have met the playing time criteria of 90-percent games played or 66-percent games started. Each university is limited to six individuals for the award and student-athletes are nominated for the honor by their own Sports Information Department. Fletemeyer, Hussey, Luttrell, Massey, Siefert and Thomas will all advance to the ballot for CSC Academic All-American honors, which will be voted on by members of the CSC before being announced on December 16, 2025.
Five Taylor Trojans Men’s Soccer Players earn Academic All-District Honors The Taylor University men’s soccer team had five student-athletes receive College Sports Communicators NAIA Academic All-District honors this fall, including Levi Kelly, Brock Carpenter, Matt Yoder, Caleb Van Dop and Josh Byrd. Levi Kelly earned his second career CSC Academic All-District recognition with a 4.00 cumulative grade-point average in biology health sciences. The senior midfielder appeared in all 17 matches during the 2025 campaign, helping lead TU to the program’s best start (5-1) over the past decade. Kelly tallied a team-high and career-best three assists, with all three helpers recorded during the six-game stretch to start the season. Kelly ranked among the top 20 Crossroads League leaders in assists.
Brock Carpenter received his first CSC Academic All-District award with a cumulative GPA of 3.95 in biology health sciences. The senior forward appeared in all 17 matches during his final season of his Trojan career. Carpenter scored two goals during a five-match span at the beginning of the season, helping guide TU to the program’s best start in over a decade. He recorded his first career assist against RV Spring Arbor, while performing as a key contributor in draws against three nationally ranked opponents. Matt Yoder picked up his second career CSC Academic All-District honor with a 4.00 cumulative GPA in finance. The junior forward appeared in all 17 matches and tallied 15 shot attempts during the 2025 season. Yoder scored a goal in TU’s 3-1 victory over Goshen – his seventh career tally.
Caleb Van Dop earned his first CSC Academic All-District award with a cumulative GPA of 3.64 in finance. The sophomore midfielder started 13 of his 16 overall appearances during the 2025 campaign. Van Dop finished with three points, including a goal against RV Spring Arbor and an assist to help TU earn a 1-1 draw against No. 7 Bethel – one of the three draws this season against nationally ranked opponents. Josh Byrd garnered his first CSC Academic All-District recognition with a cumulative GPA of 3.62 in finance and accounting. The midfielder started all 16 matches that he appeared during his sophomore season. Byrd finished tied for third on the team with two assists, with both helpers delivered during TU’s 2-1 victory at IU Northwest. He was the only Trojan to produce two assists in one match this season.
Donovan Mitchell Scores 43 Points to lead the Cleveland Cavaliers past the Indiana Pacers Donovan Mitchell scored 43 points to lead the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 135-119 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Monday night. Mitchell, who made 16 of 27 shots from the field, also had nine rebounds and six assists. Jaylon Tyson added 27 points on 10-of-13 shooting and a team-high 11 rebounds. Evan Mobley and DeAndre Hunter each scored 13 for the Cavs. Pascal Siakam had 26 points for Indiana, and Andrew Nembhard scored 21. Garrison Mathews, who signed a second 10-day contract Monday with the Pacers, added 15 points — hitting all three of his attempts from 3-point range. Jay Huff also scored 15.
The Cavaliers shot 51% from the field while the Pacers shot 49%. Cleveland had a 48-36 rebounding edge. Indiana had 14 turnovers, six more than Cleveland. Cleveland led by 21 twice, the last time at 53-32 before settling for a 66-54 halftime lead. The Pacers’ only lead was 2-0. Hunter put the Cavaliers ahead for good at 5-2 with a 3-pointer. The teams shot nearly the same in the opening half as the Pacers were at 50% and the Cavaliers at 49%. The difference was Cleveland had a 27-15 rebounding advantage and committed just three turnovers while the Pacers had eight. The Pacers trailed 99-90 after three quarters. The Cavaliers scored the first five points of the fourth quarter and retained a comfortable margin the rest of the game. The Cavaliers were without Darius Garland, who sat out of the second of back-to-back games to manage his left toe injury. Lonzo Ball missed the game due to an illness. The Indiana Pacers will host the Denver Nuggets at Gainbridge Fieldhouse this evening at 7 PM.