Indiana University Women’s Basketball Freshman Neveah Caffey to Enter the Transfer Portal Indiana women’s basketball freshman Nevaeh Caffey is planning to enter the transfer portal, per a report from On3. Caffey becomes the sixth IU player to hit the portal, along with Phoenix Stotijn, Faith Wiseman, Jade Ondineme, Chloe Spreen, and Edessa Noyan. But the Warrenton, Mo. native is — by far — the most significant of that group of six. The point guard started all 32 games for the Hoosiers as a freshman, averaging 8.5 points, 2.5 assists, and 3.5 rebounds across 31.6 minutes per game. She displayed promising defensive potential from the beginning of the season, as well. Caffey was named Miss Show-Me Basketball 2025 prior to arriving in Bloomington and appeared a key piece for the future at Indiana. But now, the Hoosiers — barring something unforeseen — will see her leave for another program. Teri Moren has eight scholarship players remaining for the 2026-27 season. IU has three returning starters left: Maya Makalusky, Lenée Beaumont, and Zania Socka-Nguemen. The Hoosiers now have a glaring void at point guard. Incoming freshman Ashlinn James has a lot of potential to step into that role at some point, but it’s unclear if Moren would turn to the Louisville native immediately.
The Big Ten and SEC Create a New Volleyball Challenge Week The Big Ten and SEC – the two deepest volleyball conferences in the country – will pit their programs against each other during the second week of the season in 2026. The inaugural Big Ten-SEC Volleyball Challenge Week will feature 30 marquee matchups and several national television contests on BTN, FOX, FS1, ESPN and the SEC Network. The week will culminate with a doubleheader at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Head coach Steve Aird and his Indiana volleyball team will play a pair of matches against Georgia (Tuesday, Sept. 1) and the defending national champions, Texas A&M (Sept. 2). Purdue, who will play the same pair of SEC foes, is the host site for that week’s quadrant. All four matches will be played at Holloway Gymnasium in West Lafayette.
This is the third-straight season that IU will play the defending champions away from home. The Hoosiers went to Austin in 2024 to play Texas (L, 0-3) and kicked off November last year by beating Penn State (W, 3-0) in State College. With an already scheduled game against Tennessee (Sept. 6), IU is set to play three of the SEC’s top teams within six days of each other. The last meeting against Georgia in program history came all the way back in 1992. The two sides have split the previous four meetings at two apiece. This will be the third time IU has played Texas A&M in Aird’s tenure. The Aggies won in 2018 (University Park, Pa.) before the Hoosiers returned the favor in 2022 (Bowling Green, Ky.). Texas A&M leads the all-time series 4-2.
Current members of the two conferences have combined to win the last six national championships. Three of last year’s Final Four teams came from either the Big Ten or SEC. Other premier matchups that week include USC-Texas (Sept. 2) and Wisconsin-Florida (Sept. 2). The Wrigley Field doubleheader (Sept. 6), the first volleyball matchups in the stadium, will pit Nebraska-Missouri and Penn State-Kentucky against each other on FOX. Television selections and match times will be set at a later date.
2026 Indiana Volleyball Schedule – as announced so far
Tuesday, Sept. 1 – vs. Georgia (West Lafayette, Ind.)
Wednesday, Sept. 2 – vs. Texas A&M (West Lafayette, Ind.)
Sunday, Sept. 6 – vs. Tennessee (Nashville, Tenn.)
Indiana University Women’s Basketball Junior Edessa Noyan to Enter the Transfer Portal Indiana women’s basketball will see one of its starters for most of the 2025-26 season enter the transfer portal. Forward Edessa Noyan is planning to go into the portal, per On3. She’ll become the fifth Hoosier to enter the portal, along with Phoenix Stotijn, Faith Wiseman, Jade Ondineme, and Chloe Spreen. Noyan played in all 32 games for the Hoosiers this past season, and she started 21 of those contests when Zania Socka-Nguemen was injured. The Virginia transfer had an up-and-down campaign, averaging 5.8 points and 5.8 rebounds in 22.7 minutes per game. She turned in some good performances near the end of the year, with 18 points in IU’s best win of the season over Oregon, and a double-double in the team’s comeback victory over Nebraska in the Big Ten Tournament. Indiana now has only nine players on scholarship slated for the 2026-27 season. Teri Moren has just three post players among that group, and Socka-Nguemen is the only one with collegiate game experience. Sydney Fenn has missed all of her two seasons with the program due to injury, and Zoe Jackson is part of IU’s strong incoming freshman class. Noyan’s departure creates a clear frontcourt void for the Hoosiers to fill in the transfer portal in April.
Indiana Hoosiers Women’s Golf Finishes Third at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic The Indiana women’s golf team finished third overall and shot an 884 (303-300-281; +20) at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic played at the UGA Golf Course from March 28-30. The finish is the best for the Hoosiers in the team standings since claiming runner-up honors at the Boilermaker Classic to open the season. The final round 281 (-7) is the second-lowest mark posted by Indiana since the second round of the Illini Women’s Invitational in October. Freshman Saia Rampersaud, who played the event as an individual, matched her career-low tournament score of 213 (70-71-72; -3). She tied for fourth among all players in the field, her second career top-10 and fourth career top-20 finish. Rampersaud compiled 10 birdies across the three days of competition.
Redshirt junior Sheridan Clancy played a clean tournament with seven total birdies. Her three-round scorecard of 216 (74-72-70; E) tied her for eighth place, her second straight top-10 performance. Senior Madison Dabagia shot a 221 (73-78-70; +5) to tie for 14th. He converted eight birdies and an eagle in the tournament. Dabagia has earned 12th top-20 finishes in her two-year stint with the Hoosiers. Junior Katie Poots played a 223 (78-76-69; +7), which included a team-best 69 (-3) in the final round. Poots dropped seven birdies for her best individual finish (t-19th) since tying for 11th at the CIEE FAU Paradise Invitational on Feb. 4. Sophomore Cara Heisterkamp ended the tournament at 227 (78-74-75; +11) with five birdies. Redshirt senior Maddie May shot a 233 (80-81-72; +17) with six birdies. Indiana will close regular season play at the Therese Hession Buckeye Invitational from April 17-18 at the Ohio State Scarlet Course in Columbus. Postseason play will begin with the Big Ten Championships from April 24-26 at the Oakmont Golf Club in Glendale, Calif.
Indiana University Baseball Travels to Evansville for Midweek Matchup The Indiana Baseball team (10-17, 3-9 B1G) will be out for redemption this week after getting swept at No. 24 Nebraska over the weekend. Head coach Jeff Mercer and his squad will be looking to break a five-game losing streak ahead of a visit from Rutgers over the weekend. The Hoosiers are 9-4 against the Purple Aces during his tenure as the skipper.
Sophomore outfielder Cole Decker will return to his hometown of Evansville this evening in the best form of his life. He has a team-best 12-game reached base streak and has hit .333 (10-30) over the last 10 games. During that stretch, he is reaching base at a .487 clip – the best of any IU players. Redshirt junior right-handed pitcher has produced five-straight scoreless outings (9.1 innings pitched) as his stellar campaign continues. He tossed 2.2 innings of shutout baseball on Friday at Nebraska, keeping IU in the game down the stretch. Freshman right-handed pitcher Ivan Mastalski (3.06 ERA) have been two of the best options out of the bullpen on the year. First pitch at Charles H. Braun Field is set for 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT in Evansville. It is the final game in the month of March as the calendar flips to April this week. ESPN+ will stream the game and the radio broadcast can be heard at iuhoosiers.com/watch.
Purdue’s Fletcher Loyer to compete in the Three Point Contest at the Final Four Purdue might not be playing in this weekend’s Final Four, but one of their star shooters will still be a part of the fun. Boilermakers senior guard Fletcher Loyer will compete in the annual 3-Point Championship inside Hinkle Fieldhouse on Friday, April 3 at 7 p.m. The event will then air Sunday, April 5 at 1:30 p.m. on ESPN. Indiana’s Shay Ciezki will also participate in the Women’s 3-Point Championship. Loyer broke the Boilers program record for most career three-pointers made, topping out at 309. He helped lead the Boilers to a Big Ten Tournament Championship and second Elite Eight trip in the last three seasons before Purdue lost to Arizona with a spot in the Final Four on the line. Loyer finished the season averaging 14.1 points a game and shooting 43.2% from deep range. Ciezki led the Hoosiers in scoring this past season, averaging 22.8 points a game. She made 79 from distance in her senior season, including two games with 7 deep balls. Her 44.6% from past the arc was best in the Big Ten.
Taylor Trojans Baseball Improves to 30-3, Complete Four-Game Sweep of Bethel Six runs down and facing uncharted territory, No. 3 Taylor leaned on its potent lineup. The Trojans pounded out 30 hits and scored 30 runs across the doubleheader, beating Bethel 18-8 in eight innings and 12-2 in seven to complete a four-game Crossroads League sweep at Winterholter Field on Monday. TU has now reached double figures in runs 19 times this season. Taylor (30-3, 18-2 CL) has won 12 consecutive games and hasn’t dropped a conference series in five years — a stretch that covers 42 straight series. The Trojans’ 18-2 start in league play mirrors last season’s path, when they were 19-1 in the CL at this same point after sweeping the Pilots. Luke Sutter was a major factor at the plate all day for the Purple & Gray. The senior outfielder collected a career-high five hits in Game 1, going 5 for 5 with a walk, three doubles and an RBI while scoring three runs. He added two more hits and a three-run homer in the nightcap to finish 7 for 8 across the doubleheader and 10 for 16 (.625) in the four-game series. At the top of the lineup, Sutter and Fletcher Roemmich each reached base six times in the opener alone.
Bethel (6-20, 4-16 CL) came out swinging in Game 1. Trey Delp ripped a two-run double in the first inning, Andrew Dillon added an RBI single, and Angel Alicea launched a two-run homer in the third to build a 6-0 lead — tied for the largest deficit TU has faced this season. The Trojans scratched one across in the bottom of the third on a Sutter RBI double, then broke through in the fifth. Roemmich walked and Sutter doubled to put runners on second and third, and Brayden Manning, Jordan Malott and Quinn Kunkel delivered three consecutive run-scoring hits to pull TU within 6-5. Malott’s two-run double to left center was the big blow of the frame. One inning later, Malott ended the suspense. With Roemmich and Sutter aboard after a hit-by-pitch and a walk, Malott turned on a 2-2 pitch and launched a towering fly down the left-field line — airborne for more than six seconds at a 50-degree launch angle — that hooked just inside the foul pole for a three-run homer that gave TU its first lead at 8-6.
The blast — his ninth of the season — tied Manning for the team lead. Malott finished with three hits and six RBIs in the opener, tying the most by a Trojan in a single game this season. Bethel tied it in the seventh on an Alicea RBI double and an unearned run on a throwing error. It stayed knotted at eight for all of two batters. Rylee Singleton doubled to open the bottom of the frame, Kaden Wu singled home the go-ahead run, and then Roemmich — down 0-2 in the count — hammered a three-run homer to left that blew the game open at 12-8. Malott and Brennan Frickel followed with back-to-back RBI doubles. TU scored six runs on six hits in the seventh and added four more in the eighth, capped by Kunkel’s solo homer on the first pitch he saw and Singleton’s bases-loaded single off the left-field fence that ended the game via the 10-run rule — TU’s eighth run-rule victory this season.
JT Tabor, making his first career relief appearance, earned the win to improve to 3-0 with two innings of one-hit ball. The two teams combined for 34 hits in the opener — 19 by TU, 15 by Bethel. The Trojans’ nine doubles were a season high, while Bethel’s four doubles were the most allowed by TU pitching this season. Game 2 required far less drama. Bethel again scored two in the first — Jesse Stout delivered a two-run single — but TU answered with a nine-run third inning that removed all doubt. Manning singled home the tying run, Frickel cracked an RBI double and Luke MacDonald cleared the bases with a two-run double to right center. Sutter capped the frame with his three-run blast to right.
Left-hander Alec Hershberger (1-0) earned his first win of the season with four innings and three strikeouts, and Brayden Stevenson tossed two hitless frames behind him while Blake Osbourne closed out the final frame. TU hit four home runs on the day, pushing the team’s season total to 51. Singleton finished 4 for 6 with three RBIs across both games. Frickel extended his hitting streak to 12 consecutive games — he’s batting .579 (22 for 38) during the stretch and leads the Crossroads League with a .462 average. Alicea paced the Bethel offense with a 4 for 7 day that included a homer, a double and three RBIs in the opener. Walters went 3 for 5 in Game 1, and Delp added three hits and two RBIs. The Trojans open a four-game Crossroads League series against Saint Francis on Thursday with a doubleheader at Winterholter Field. First pitch is set for 3 p.m. The series concludes with a Saturday doubleheader.