Indiana University Women’s Basketball wins their First Big Ten Road Game of the Season at Wisconsin The Indiana Hoosiers beat the Wisconsin Badgers 77-74 Wednesday Night at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wisconsin as the Hoosiers have won two in a row and put themselves right back in the race for the Big Ten Conference Tournament in Indianapolis. Indiana is 13-11 overall and 2-10 in the Big Ten and will host Purdue on Sunday at 2 PM. The Hoosiers have a favorable schedule with five of the last six games against teams with a.500 or losing record. The Hoosiers continue their domination of the Badgers as they have won 12 in a row against the Badgers including last six in Madison and are 19-19 all-time in Madison and lead the all-time series 55-23.
Shay Ciezki scored 31 points, 9 rebounds and 5 steals to lead the Hoosiers. Freshman Nevaeh Caffey scored a career high 16 points and Lenee Beaumont added 11 points. Edessa Noyan scored 8 points and had 6 rebounds. Jerni Kiaku added 6 points, Maya Makalusky scored 5 points, and Faith Wiseman did not score in 7 minutes of action. Indiana shot 29-52 from the field for 56%, 6-20 from three-point range for 30% and 13-16 from the free throw line for 81%. The Hoosiers had 28 rebounds, 11 assists, 7 steals, no blocks and 12 turnovers.
Wisconsin is 13-10 overall and 5-7 in the Big Ten. Kyrah Daniels and Destiny Howell led the Badgers with 15 points apiece. Shay Bolin scored 14 off the bench and Laci Steele added 12 points. Wisconsin went 30-66 from the field for 45%, 9-22 from three-point range for 41% and 5-7 from free throw line for 71%. The Badgers had 35 rebounds, 14 assists, 4 steals a block and 10 turnovers. Indiana led 31-30 at halftime and outscored Wisconsin 46-44 in the second half. The Hoosiers have started to click the last two games and with a favorable schedule the rest of the way they are hoping that they continue to head in the right direction heading into the postseason.
Bloomington North and Lighthouse Christian Win Girls Basketball Sectional Openers Both Bloomington North and Lighthouse Christian won their IHSAA Girls Basketball Sectional Tournament opening games Tuesday night as the Cougars and the Lady Lions will play in the Sectional Semifinals on Friday Night. In Class 4A at Terre Haute North Bloomington North beat Terre Haute North 46-31 as the Cougars improve to 12-11 on the season and faceoff with City Rival Bloomington South who is 17-5 on the season in the second semifinal Friday night. Terre Haute North ends the season at 7-17 ending the year with a six-game losing streak and back-to-back losses to Bloomington North after the Cougars beat the Patriots 49-30 in the Regular Season finale last Thursday at Terre Haute North. The first game Friday night will be 6-15 Martinsville taking on 15-7 Terre Haute South at 6 PM with the Championship game scheduled for 6 PM Saturday evening.
In Class 1A at Clay City Lighthouse Christian beat Dugger Union 65-32 as the Lady Lions are 11-11 on the season and face White River Valley who is 11-10 in the first semifinal Friday Night at 6 PM. Dugger Union ends its season with a 4-18. White River Valley beat Bloomfield 30-19 in the first game Tuesday Night as the Cardinals season comes to a close with a record of 7-15. In Class 3A Edgewood will host Cascade on Friday night in the first Semifinal. The Mustangs are 16-5 and face a 13-10 Cascade team who beat Speedway 38-35 in the first game Tuesday Night at Edgewood as the Sparkplugs season comes to an end at 10-10. In the second game Friday night it will be 14-6 Owen Valley taking on 17-6 Northview as the Knights beat Indianapolis Washington 64-5 in the second game Tuesday night as Continentals end the season at 4-10. The Championship game is scheduled for 6 PM Saturday evening.
In Class 2A at Eastern Greene West Vigo beat Eastern Greene 46-27 and defending State Champion South Knox beat Sullivan 43-32. West Vigo is 6-15 on the season and will face 13-7 Linton at 6 PM in the first semifinal Friday Evening followed by 16-6 North Knox against 18-3 South Knox in the second semifinal at 7:30 PM with the Championship Game scheduled for Saturday Night at 7:30 PM. Eastern Greene finishes the season with a 7-14 record and Sullivan ends its season with a record of 11-12.
Bloomington South Girls Swimming Looks to Repeat as Sectional Champions The Bloomington South Panthers look for a sectional four peat in Girls Swimming as the Prelims start this evening at 5:30 pm at East Central HS in St. Leon, Indiana is just off Interstate 74 on the way to Cincinnati. The Panthers along with Bloomington North and Edgewood will make the long bus trip to compete against Batesville, Columbus East, Columbus North, East Central, Greensburg, Lawrenceburg, Milan, Oldenburg Academy, Rising Sun, South Dearborn, South Ripley and Trinity Lutheran. The Diving Finals are Saturday at 9 AM and the Swimming Finals are at 1 PM.
Bloomington South has won the last three sectional titles in a row and looking for their sixth title since 2020. Bloomington North won the Sectional title in 2022. Bloomington South has won 22 Sectionals since 1979, and Bloomington North has won 13th since 1972 while Edgewood is looking for its first sectional championship in program history. Bloomington South won the Sectional Title at Columbus North last year with a team score of 503.5 points with Bloomington North finishing 3rd with 295 points and Edgewood 5th with a team score of 162 points. The Panthers won 6 Individual Events and 2 relays. Columbus North won 2 Individual events, and East Central won one individual and one relay event.
All sectional champions will advance to State Finals next weekend in Indianapolis. Any contestant who equals or betters the state time standard in their respective event in the consolation final or the championship final of the sectional qualifies for the state finals. The State standard may not be achieved by a swimmer who is competing on the first leg of a relay. The next fastest number of contestants in the state that being that would bring the total number to 32 in each event and if there is a tie for the 32 spot both contestants will advance to the state finals. The four in each Diving Sectional advance to the regional and the top 8 in each regional advance to state finals.
Liberty Clark Makes History with Big Ten Weekly Award Double For the second time this season, the Big Ten Conference named Liberty Clark both its Swimmer of the Week and Freshman of the Week on Wednesday. The awards come as Clark’s second swimmer of the week honor and record seventh freshman of the week honor. Clark is the first Big Ten woman to earn nine weekly awards in a single season. Clark put an exclamation mark on her rookie regular season, helping the No. 9-ranked Hoosiers topple No. 4 Louisville, 161-138, on Friday (Jan. 30). The freshman recorded three program records and three pool records during the meet.
Individually, Clark broke her own school standards in the 50-yard freestyle (21.48) and 100-yard freestyle (46.36), winning the latter. Clark set the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center pool record in the 100 free as well as the 200 free (1:41.35), her second individual win. In the final event of the meet, Clark led off Indiana’s record-shattering 400-yard freestyle relay that set the program and pool records and tied the Big Ten record in 3:08.07. He leadoff (46.38) nearly matched her individual 100 free time and was the quickest of the Hoosier quartet. The crew of Clark, freshmen Grace Hoeper and Alex Shackell and senior Kristina Paegle trimmed 1.74 off the program record time they had set at Michigan three weeks prior. Clark will get her first taste of collegiate championships later this month when the Hoosiers compete in the Big Ten Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships, February 18-21 in Minneapolis.
Indiana University Men’s Basketball to Honor the 1975-76 Unbeaten National Championship Team at halftime of the Oregon Game 2026 is a year to celebrate perfection at IU. At halftime of Indiana’s game against Oregon next Monday, members of the 1976 undefeated team will be honored. Players from the team expected to be there are Quinn Buckner, Scott May, Kent Benson, Bobby Wilkerson, Jim Crews, Scott Eells, James Roberson, Tom Abernethy, and Mitchell Radford – honoring Wayne Radford. The players will also take questions from the media prior to the game, along with AD Scott Dolson. Indiana has been wearing a 1976 jersey patch all season in honor of the 50-year anniversary of college basketball’s last undefeated season.
The IU football team just finished their own 16-0 national championship season, giving IU the last undefeated season in each sport. Indiana and Oregon tip at 8:30 p.m. ET Monday in Bloomington. Indiana’s 1975-76 team finished a perfect 32-0 and remains the most recent Division I team to complete an undefeated season. The dominant Hoosiers – coached by Hall of Famer Bob Knight – won their five NCAA Tournament games by an average of 15.2 points, including an 86-68 route of Michigan in the national championship game.
Indiana excelled in nearly every phase of the game that season, outscoring opponents by an average of 17.3 points while shooting over 50 percent from the field and forcing an average of 20.3 turnovers per game. Six players from that Hoosier squad would eventually reach the NBA, including Scott May, who won nearly every national player of the year award after averaging 23.5 points, 7.7 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game.
Indiana University Football has an opening on Curt Cignetti’s Staff as Chandler Whitmer Heads back to the NFL Curt Cignetti has an opening on his coaching staff. Per reports, IU quarterbacks coach Chandler Whitmer is leaving the Hoosiers to take the same position with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFL. This will be the second consecutive offseason Indiana will have to replace its quarterback’s coach. Cignetti hired Whitmer last year after Tino Sunseri left to become UCLA’s offensive coordinator. Sunseri was let go midseason as the Bruins struggled. Whitmer came to IU after spending 2024 with the Atlanta Falcons as pass game specialist, and before that he was an offensive quality control coach for the Los Angeles Chargers. He helped coach Fernando Mendoza to a record-setting season with the Hoosiers, one that culminated in a bounty of postseason honors including IU’s first Heisman Trophy. Mendoza shattered the program’s single-season touchdown record with 41 and finished with the second-most yards in a single season at 3,535.
Indiana University Football is Bringing back Tino Sunseri as Quarterbacks Coach IU football coach Curt Cignetti is bringing back Tino Sunseri as his quarterbacks coach based on multiple Tuesday evening reports. The news follows the decision by 2025 quarterbacks coach Chandler Whitmer to leave for the NFL. Sunseri left Indiana following the 2024 season to become the offensive coordinator at UCLA. Sunseri and UCLA mutually agreed to part ways just four games into the 2025 campaign. Sunseri has had a long run of success with quarterbacks, including Kurtis Rourke at Indiana in 2024. Sunseri came to Indiana from James Madison where he worked under Cignetti. Under his direction, the 2023 season saw Jordan McCloud earn Sun Belt Player of the Year, in 2022, Todd Centeio was voted Sun Belt Conference Offensive Player of the Year, and in 2021, Cole Johnson set the JMU single-season records for passing yards (3,779), passing touchdowns (41), and completions (287). Sunseri came to JMU after a two-and-a-half-year stint on Nick Saban’s staff at Alabama, where he served as a graduate assistant, working primarily with the quarterbacks.