Indiana University Women’s Basketball Hosts Oregon on Senior Day The Indiana Hoosiers host the Oregon Ducks this afternoon at 1 PM in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall with the game televised on the Big Ten Network. The Hoosiers will honor Seniors Shay Ciezki and Jerni Kiaku even though the Hoosiers have one more regular season home game on Saturday afternoon when they host Penn State. Both Seniors did not start their careers in Bloomington but came to Indiana to finish their careers to take that next step in their careers. Shay Ciezki played two seasons at Penn State before coming to Indiana. Ciezki has started 118 of 124 games played scoring 1,750 points, 321 assists, 311 rebounds, 140 steals and 18 blocks and helped the Hoosiers get to the second round of the NCAA Tournament a season ago losing to National Runner Up South Carolina in Columbia.
The Buffalo New York Native has scored 993 points, 166 rebounds, 164, assists, 69 steaks and 15 blocks in a Hoosier uniform. Ciezki leads the Hoosiers with 23.2 points and 1.5 steals per game. Ciezki rolled her ankle in the morning shooting before the Hoosiers game at USC and did not play as Indiana lost 79-73 on February 12. Ciezki played 7 minutes and scored 2 points as he tweaked her ankle in a 92-48 loss at #2 UCLA last Sunday. The good news is the Hoosiers have not played since and gives her time to recover and get ready for this three-game stretch run with a trip to the Big Ten Tournament at stake. Kiaku who hails from Garner, North Carolina played her freshman season at North Carolina Central then transfer Duquesne for her Sophomore and Junior Seasons before transferring for the second time in her career and landing at IU. Kiaku has played in 120 games with 44 starts scoring 1,059 points, 341 rebounds, 183 assists, 115 steals and 8 blocks. This season Kiaku has played in 23 games and started the USC game when Ciezki could not go. Kiaku has scored 76 points, 48 rebounds, 29 assists and 7 steals. Kiaku has seen her minutes increase throughout the season and has been a key contributor off the bench for the Hoosiers.
Indiana is 14-13 on the season and 3-12 in the Big Ten. The Hoosiers are sitting in the 15th and final spot for the Big Ten Tournament and after the Ducks the Hoosiers travel to Rutgers and close out the regular season hosting Penn State. Penn State beat Rutgers 87-78 on Saturday in Piscataway as Penn State is now 3-13 in the Big Ten and Rutgers is 1-15 and could be mathematically eliminated from the Big Ten Tournament if the Hoosiers win this afternoon. Northwestern is 2-13 in the Big Ten and host Illinois this afternoon. Currently Penn State, Northwestern and Rutgers are the three teams that are on the outside looking in. If the Hoosiers win today this would give the Hoosiers, the chance to solidify their spot in Indianapolis. Lenee Beaumont is averaging 13.4 points and a team leading 3.1 assists per game. Edessa Noyan leads the Hoosiers with 5.1 rebounds and 0.5 blocks per game while averaging 5.1 points per game. Indiana is averaging 70.7 points, 12.2 assists and 15.6 turnovers per game. The Hoosiers shoot 47% from the field, 37% from the three-point range and 78% from the free throw line.
Oregon is 19-9 on the season and 7-8 in the Big Ten. The Ducks beat Nebraska 80-76 in Eugene on Thursday Night. The Ducks trailed 37-33 at halftime and outscored the Cornhuskers 47-39 in the second half. Ehis Etute scored 21 points to lead Oregon and was 9-10 from the free throw line. Katie Fiso scored 19 points, and Janiyah Muhammad scored 12 points off the bench going a perfect 5-5 form the field and 2-2 from beyond the arc. Katie Fiso leads the Ducks with 14.4 points and 6.6 assists per game. Mia Jacobs is averaging 12.4 points and Ehis Etute averages 11 points along with a team leading 8.3 rebounds and 0.7 blocks per game. Ari Long leads Oregon with 2 steaks per game. Elisa Mevius averaged 12.5 points in 2 games as the 5-10 Senior from Germany has not played since November 8th against Montana suffering an injury and missing the rest of the season.
Oregon averages 75.8 points, 17.6 assists and 15.5 turnovers per game. The Ducks shoot 45% from the field, 35% from three-point range and 78% from the free throw line. The Ducks have a 15-player roster that represents Oregon, California, Washington, Minnesota, Texas, Michigan, Oklahoma, Luxembourg, Australia, Germany, Sweden and Kosovo. There are 5 Seniors, 5 Juniors, 3 Sophomores and 2 Freshman on the team for Head Coach Kelly Graves who is 260-132 in his 12th season at Oregon and has an overall record of 642-249 in 24 seasons overall. Oregon leads the all-time series 3-1 as this will be the Ducks first visit to Bloomington. Oregon won the regular season meeting in Eugene 54-47, and the Hoosiers won the Second Round of the Big Ten Tournament 78-62 in Indianapolis a season ago. Indiana and Oregon met in the 2019 NCAA Tournament Second Round in Eugene with the Ducks winning 91-68 and the first meeting came on December 16, 1984, with the Ducks winning 77-56.
Bloomington South Scores 500 Points to Win the Columbus North Boys Swimming and Diving Sectional The Bloomington South Panthers scored 500 points to win the Columbus North Boys Swimming and Diving Sectional Saturday. Bloomington North finished second with 326.5 points, Edgewood finished fourth with 184 points and East Central was third with 245.5 points. The Panthers have won 18 sectional titles as Bloomington South dating back to 1987. The Panthers have won three in a row and both Bloomington North and Bloomington South have won the sectional every year since 2020. Bloomington South won 2 Individual titles and 2 relay titles as three Individuals form three different schools won 2 Individual titles apiece. All Swimming Event winners advance to the State Finals on Friday and Saturday at the Indiana University Natatorium on the Campus of Indiana University Indianapolis. The Diving Regional will be at Jasper Tuesday Night at 6 PM as the top four advance with 2 from Columbus North along with one from East Central and South Decatur as the Monroe County Schools were shutout with Robert Cole, Samuel Libby and William Pleskac from Bloomington South Finished 5th through 7th and Edgewood Freshman Liam Kersten finished 8th.
The Panthers Peter Kovacs won the 50-yard Freestyle with a time of 20.38 and the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 44.97. The Panthers won the 200 Yard Medley Relay with a time of 135.62 and the 400 Yard Freestyle Relay with a time of 312.67. Columbus East Sophomore Joshua Pendleton won the 200-yard Freestyle with a time of 1:43.05 and the 500-yard Freestyle with a time of 4:37.13. Oldenburg Academy Junior Nash King won the 200-yard Individual Medley with a time of 1:50.97 and the 100 Yard Backstroke with a time of 50.25. Columbus North Junior Dagan Kleffman won the one-meter diving event with a score 372.10. Greensburg Sophomore Harrison Yu won the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 52.04. Milan Sophomore Seth Thomas won the 100 Yard Backstroke with a time of 1:00.78 and Greensburg won the 200-yard Freestyle Relay with a time of 1:29.88.
The prelims were held Friday evening after severe weather rolled through the area Thursday night forcing the postponement back a night and preparing for back-to-back days of swimming with a quick turnaround. 9 of Saturday’s 11 event winners had the fastest time in the prelims on Friday. Rising Sun Junior Harrison Mossburger had the fastest time in the 100 Yard Butterfly with a time of 52.90 as Harrison Yu won the final was second in the prelims. Easy Central had the fastest time in the 200-yard Freestyle Relay with a time of 1:33.29 as Greensburg who won the final was second in the prelims.
Notre Dame Graduate Jadin O’Brien finishes 7th in the Women’s Two Women Bobsled at the Mlian-Cortina Winter Olympics Months after getting into a bobsled, Jadin O’Brien has finished seventh at the Olympic Winter Games. O’Brien, a Notre Dame graduate who was aiming to make the Olympics in track and field, teamed with Elena Meyers Taylor at Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. Standings were determined by two runs Friday and two Saturday.
It was an Instagram DM from Meyers Taylor, a five-time Olympian, that encouraged O’Brien to try out for bobsled. O’Brien thought it was a joke. It was not. So two days after finishing fifth in the heptathlon in the USA Championships in August 2025, she traveled to Lake Placid, N.Y., for a bobsled tryout. She was teamed with Meyers Taylor, then did well enough in the lead-up to the Olympics to be chosen to Team USA. O’Brien became the push athlete for the 41-year-old Meyers Taylor, who won monobob in Italy for a sixth Olympic medal, equaling the most ever by an American woman. “It has really been a roller-coaster of events,” O’Brien told The Associated Press. “Everything’s happened so fast, but … I’ve kind of been conditioned to be able to handle new things very, very fast and then perform despite a lack of experience. “So, it has been a whirlwind. I could never have predicted my life would turn out this way, but I’m incredibly grateful and I’ve loved every second of it.”
Two German sleds took gold and silver medals. The U.S. team of Kaillie Armbruster Humphries and Jasmine Jones, also a track athlete, climbed from fourth to a bronze medal in the final run for a cumulative time of 3:49.21. It was the second medal in Italy for Humphries, 40, who also took bronze in monobob. She tied Meyers Taylor and speedskater Bonnie Blair with a sixth career medal, three representing Canada and three for the United States. Kaysha Love and Azaria Hill, both former UNLV sprinters, were fifth in 3:49.71. Time for Meyers Taylor and O’Brien was 3:50.49. Meyers Taylor/O’Brien were fifth after Friday’s first run but dropped to 12th overall after their second run was 21st. They moved up to seventh after Saturday’s two runs.
O’Brien, 23, of Pewaukee, Wis., was a three-time NCAA champion for Notre Dame in the indoor pentathlon. Her transition to bobsled nearly slid off course when she crashed in January training in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The front axle came off the sled, losing all control. The Olympic dream could have ended there. Instead, they raced four days later. “It was not easy getting back on the line to race in St. Moritz after that,” O’Brien told AP. “We were both very, very beat up. I decided to put my body on the line for E because I felt that I had the best chance of getting her a top-10 finish.”
Yet the most perilous part of O’Brien’s Olympic journey was overcoming an illness known as PANDAS — Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections. It is a rare condition in which children develop neuropsychiatric symptoms — obsessive-compulsive disorder, tics, depression, sleep disturbances, sensory problems — following a streptococcal infection. Commonly known as strep, the infection affects the throat and tonsils but can cause complications. Her symptoms worsened from the ages of 5 to 10, until her parents found a doctor willing to put their daughter through holistic treatments. O’Brien said she doesn’t often dwell on that period of her life because she doesn’t know what might surface. “I think if I actually unpacked what happened and then kind of look at it and see how it’s affected my life now, I’d find some interesting things,” she said. “But I guess I look at it now like what good has come from it. “I would say the resilience part, the story, being a witness, being a hope for people.”
Indiana University Track and Field Closes out the Indoor Regular Season at the Alex Wilson Invitational Indiana track and field completed their final indoor meet before the Big Ten conference championship on Saturday at the Alex Wilson Invitational. The day started with Lyric Steele in the women’s 60-meter dash. After advancing to the finals, Steele finished second with a time of 7.59. The Hoosiers ran two distance medley relays in the meet. The quartet of Andrew Mangum, Cameron Mullens, Nico Colchico, and Camden Marshall ran a time of 9:28.52 that now ranks ninth on the Hoosier all-time list. In the women’s race, the team of Veronica Hargrave, Kiera Davis, Nola Somers Glenn, and Lily Myers (11:09.85) now ranks as the eighth fastest time in school history.
Kristina Vincic ran a season best time and new indoor personal record (56.29) in the women’s 400-meter, finishing fourth overall. In the men’s mile, Aidan Lord ran a season best time of 4:12.99 to finish 10th in the race. Katelyn Henselmeier ran a new personal best in the women’s 600-meter race. Her time of 1:30.60 was best for a third place finish. The field events closed out the day for the Hoosiers, seeing Seth Brosseau (Shot Put) and Bridget Beyer (Weight Throw) finish fourth and first in their respective events. The Hoosiers will be back next weekend as they look to compete in the B1G indoor championship. The meet is scheduled from Thursday (Feb. 26) and will conclude on Saturday (Feb. 28) From the Fall Creek Pavilion in Indianapolis, Ind.
Indiana University Softball Picks up Second Win of the Weekend Over Saint Joseph’s Indiana followed up its first game of the weekend at the USF Invitational much like the first, with another run rule to mark back-to-back wins. The Hoosiers defeated Saint Joseph’s on Saturday morning at USF Softball Stadium, 10-1, in five innings. With the win, Indiana’s season record now stands at 9-3. Indiana got off to a fast start, scoring half of their runs in the top of the first inning. Alex Cooper and Madalyn Strader picked up the first RBIs of the game on a sac fly and bunt single, respectively. Nevaeh Nash scored on a wild pitch before Ellie Goins hit for an RBI triple to make it a 4-0 game through just seven at bats. Brooke Mannon tacked on the last run of the inning with an RBI single up the middle to score Goins. Alex Cooper followed up with another RBI in the top of the second, doubling to score Aly VanBrandt to make it a 6-0 game.
Saint Joseph’s scored its only run of the game in the bottom of the second on a single up the middle from Elyssa Hasapis to cut the lead to 6-1. In the top of the third, Josie White hit an RBI single to right field to make it a 7-1 game. The Hoosiers finished the scoring to position them for a run rule in the top of the fifth as Aly VanBrandt tripled for the second time and Josie Bird singled down the left field line to bring the run count to 10. Indiana set a new single-game record for most triples hit by the team in program history (4). The previous high was three against Arkansas Pine-Bluff in 2011. Aly VanBrandt tied the single-game record for most triples in a game by a player with two. She tied it with eight other players. Ellie Goins hit her third triple of the season and Peyton Drummond hit her second. Aubree Hooks threw her first complete game, going 5.0 innings and picked up her third career win to improve her record to 3-0. VanBrandt (3), Alex Cooper (2) and Josie Bird (2) all had multiple hits in the game. Indiana outhit Saint Joseph’s 13-5. Indiana will have a doubleheader tomorrow with a game against Marist at 9 a.m. and a game against Boston College right after at 11:30 a.m. this morning.
Indiana University Women’s Swimming and Diving Brings Home Four Medals on Night Three of the Of the Big Ten Championships No. 6-ranked Indiana added four medals to its tally Friday night at the 2026 Big Ten Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships inside the Jane K. Freeman Aquatic Center on the campus of the University of Minnesota. Through three of the four days at the conference meet, the Hoosiers have collected nine medals – including two titles – and four program records. IU ranks third in the team standings with 694 points, 20.5 points out of second place. Indiana’s 50-yard freestyle program record reset again Friday night as the two fastest sprinters in school history jockeyed for podium positions. Freshman Liberty Clark and senior Kristina Paegle secured the silver and bronze medals, respectively, as Clark beat her own school record by one hundredth with a time of 21.47. The 2025 Big Ten 50 free champion, Paegle came in one tenth behind Clark and one hundredth off her lifetime best with a 21.57.
Junior Miranda Grana returned to the 100-yard backstroke podium for a second consecutive season while also earning her second medal in as many days. Grana touched in 51.33 to narrowly snatch the bronze medal, as five swimmers finished within 19 hundredths of the podium. Freshman teammate Alex Shackell finished only eight hundredths behind Grana but placed sixth. Senior Mya DeWitt made it three Hoosiers in the championship final, placing eighth in 51.75. Grana, sophomore Jonette Laegreid, Shackell and Clark combined for silver in the 400-yard medley relay with a time of 3:26.15 – ranking No. 3 in program history. Shackell and Clark dropped the fastest splits for their respective strokes; Shackell was the only fly swimmer under 50 seconds with a 49.66, and Clark’s 45.96 was 1.24 seconds faster than any other anchor in the field. Clark’s split marks her second sub-46-second anchor this season.
Indiana diving provided a significant boost, sending juniors Lily Witte and Ella Roselli to the championship final. IU advanced three divers between the ‘A’ and ‘B’ finals while the other top-five teams combined for three ‘B’ finalists altogether. Witte finished fifth with a score of 323.50 with Roselli trailing close behind in sixth with a 315.65. Freshman Kaylee Bishop scored out of the consolation final for the second time, placing 13th. Indiana freshmen have combined for 183 points this week. “Great night for the Hoosiers,” IU head swimming coach Ray Looze said. “We’re in a tight team battle, and I’m super proud of how hard the ladies are fighting. I’m really proud of Miranda Grana for fighting through an illness. Our freshmen continue to shine and are led by outstanding upperclassman.” “This team always does better as we go higher,” IU head diving coach Drew Johansen said. “Lily and Ella showed their experience and confidence to both get into the A-Final tonight. Kaylee continued to stand up as a real point-getter for the team in her freshman outing.”
TEAM SCORES
1. Michigan – 883
2. Ohio State – 714.5
3. Indiana – 694
4. Wisconsin – 650
5. USC – 516.5
6. Minnesota – 489
7. UCLA – 423.5
8. Purdue – 301
9. Northwestern – 295
10. Nebraska – 277.5
11. Rutgers – 265.5
12. Iowa – 215
13. Penn State – 162
14. Illinois – 149.5
Clutch Hitting Fuels Taylor Trojans Softball to a Sweep Over Oakland City Clutch hitting throughout the day led Taylor to a pair of victories over Oakland City (0-6) on the road on Friday afternoon. Ava Everman was outstanding at the plate driving in six RBI and lacing a pair of doubles in the freshman’s breakout performance. Jayci Kitchen was great in the nine-hole adding three RBI and a pair of hits. Bella Browning scored three runs with three hits in the nightcap. Taylor capitalized on a litany of miscues by the home squad. Madisyn Standridge reached on a dropped third strike before an error allowed Lizzy Sinders to join her on the basepaths. Grace Mullins walked to load the bases and after an out, another error moved everyone up 60 feet and got Browning first. Everman delivered the only base hit in the inning for TU with a two-RBI single for an early 3-0 lead.
The Mighty Oaks scored twice in the bottom of the inning and knotted the score in the second before eventually taking the lead on a solo home run by Kinsley Heichelbech in the bottom of the fifth. The Trojans bats broke through in the sixth after an error with a pair of outs allowed Delaynee McCreary to cross the plate and place runners on first and second for Kitchen. The sophomore lefty laced a double to left center to score a pair of runs and get the lead back. McCreary added an insurance run in the seventh with an RBI double allowing Sinders to score her second run of the ballgame. Sinders settled in after a tough opening to the game inside the circle and earned the complete game victory, with four strikeouts and just a pair of earned runs allowed.
The squads traded zeros in the first inning before Taylor took the first lead of the game with a run in the second. Browning doubled to begin the frame and scored on an error for a 1-0 advantage. The Trojans added to the lead in the next inning as Standridge laced a leadoff ground rule double. Sinders singled home Standridge and reached third after a single by Mullins forced the Mighty Oaks to switch pitchers. The move appeared to work with a pair of strikeouts, but Everman continued her terrific day with a two-RBI two-out double. Oakland City scored a run in the third before TU added to the lead in the fifth with an RBI single by Kitchen. Everman provided another insurance run in the top of the seventh doubling home Browning. Claire Cullen exited in the bottom of the seventh with the bases loaded and the lead standing at 6-2. Katie Kottlowski relived the sophomore and after a wild pitch struck out the final two batters for her first save of the season and eighth of her career, which ties her for second in program history. Cullen earned the victory with 6.1 innings inside the circle, striking out three and allowing three runs on nine hits and three walks.