Indiana University Women’s Basketball Players Shay Ciezki and Lenee Beaumont Selected to the 2025-26 CSC All-Academic Team Indiana women’s basketball redshirt sophomore guard Lenée Beaumont and senior guard Shay Ciezki both earned spots on the 2025-26 CSC Academic All-District Team. Academic All-District® honorees were considered for advancement to the CSC Academic All-America® ballot, where Ciezki has advanced to All-American voting and will be announced in the coming weeks. The 2025-26 Academic All-District® Women’s Basketball teams, selected by College Sports Communicators, recognize the nation’s top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom.
Beaumont, who holds a 3.78 GPA in sport marketing & management, averaged 13.3 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game in her redshirt sophomore season. The Lisle, Ill. native scored in double figures 25 times and had five 20-plus point scoring games. She averaged 43.1 percent from the floor and 37.6 percent from the 3-point line as she started all 32 games for the Hoosiers. Beaumont was named IU’s recipient of the Big Ten Sportsmanship award in 2025-26 and was a 2024-25 Academic All-Big Ten selection.
Ciezki holds a 3.78 GPA in sport marketing & management and closed out her senior season by averaging 22.8 points per game and scored 708 points while knocking down 79 3-pointers. She finished second in a single season in school history while setting the school record for points per game in a single season. The Buffalo, N.Y. native is the second player in NCAA Division I women’s basketball to average a 50/40/90 while scoring 20+ or more (Eva Hodges, William & Mary 2019). Ciezki shot 52.6 percent from the floor, 44.6 percent from the 3-point line and 90.8 percent at the free throw line. She scored in double figures in 30 of 31 games played in her senior season, scoring 20 points or more 23 time and had seven 30-point games. In her four-year career, Ciezki has been named a three-time Academic All-Big Ten selection.
Indiana University Wrestling Announces the Signing of Avon’s Mason Goelz Indiana Wrestling head coach Angel Escobedo announced the program’s latest signing to their 2026 recruiting class. Mason Goelz of Avon, Indiana has signed with the Hoosiers and will join the program in the fall of 2026. He joins Tommy Gibbs and Jackson Shipley as part of Indiana’s 2026 class.
Mason Goelz | 141 lbs. | Avon, Ind.-Wrestles for Avon High School. High school coach is Alex Johns. Wrestles club for Contenders Wrestling Academy. Three-time IHSAA State Placer. 3rd Place at 138 lbs. at 2026 IHSAA State Championships. 2nd Place at 120 lbs. at 2025 IHSAA State Championships. 5th Place at 106 lbs. at 2024 IHSAA State Championships. Intends to major in Business. Parents are Jacob and Deann Goelz. Siblings are Noah and Olivia Goelz. Why IU: “I always wanted to go to IU.”
Indiana Hoosier Youngsters Lead Way in Day Two of the NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships Indiana swimming sophomore Alexei Avakov and freshman Josh Bey both reached the podium in their debut events at the 2026 NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships Thursday inside the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta. Five Hoosiers and a relay scored points on day two of the national meet, as Indiana sits fourth in the team standings with 132.5 points – one point out of third place. “I am really proud of both Josh and Alexei making they’re first ‘A’ finals,” IU head swimming coach Ray Looze said. “Big day tomorrow.”
Avakov dropped 76 hundredths from his best time Thursday in the 100-yard breaststroke, the sophomore’s first event at his first NCAA Championships. Coming into the meet ranked No. 19 in the event, Avakov first improved with a 50.89 in the morning to qualify for the final in seventh. Avakov improved again in his second swim, finishing sixth on the podium with a 50.58. He now ranks No. 5 in program history in the 100 breast. Bey put out a courageous swim in his championship final. The freshman went out with Texas junior and eventual champion and American record breaker Rex Maurer – through 300 yards, Bey was second with a 2:44.29 split, one second behind Maurer. The youngster lost steam in his freestyle and fell to seventh at the final touch with a 3:37.23. Still, Bey will be proud to be Big Ten Champion, his 3:34.90 last month setting the conference record.
Indiana University Softball to Host Detroit Mercy for Two Games Indiana will close out the month of March with two home games against Detroit Mercy on Friday and Saturday at Andy Mohr Field. The Hoosiers hold a 25-7 (7-2 B1G) mark while Detroit Mercy is 7-18 (1-2 Horizon) entering the weekend. The Hoosiers’ prolific offense ranks top-15 nationally in a number of statistical categories: T-No. 10 (.369), No. 8 On Base Percentage (.475), No. 6 RBI (259), No. 7 Scoring (9.03), No. 6 Runs (289), No. 4 Stolen Bases (83), No. 3 Triples (16). Avery Parker and VanBrandt each have 10 home runs on the season thus far. Josie Bird is just behind them with nine. Parker needs one home run to tie and two home runs to break the program’s career record of 45. The two games against Detroit Mercy are Indiana’s last two games for the month of March where Indiana has been 10-3 for the month. After not playing at all at home in February, the Hoosiers will have played 11 of 15 games this month at Andy Mohr Field after this weekend. Against Portland State in the Littlewood Invitational (Feb. 12), VanBrandt hit for the cycle as part of a 5-for-5 day where she also totaled two home runs.
Indiana enters the series with Detroit Mercy after a 3-1 showing in their last weekend. Indiana picked up the sweep on the road at Maryland before falling to No. 16 Oregon in a wild game on Monday (March 23). The Hoosiers’ sweep at College Park marked its first sweep of the season and put them at 3-0 in Big Ten series play after finishing victorious in their first two series against Minnesota and Rutgers. Indiana was in a close game on the Friday, being tied 5-5 through six innings before home runs from Alex Cooper and Madalyn Strader elevated the team to an 8-5 lead and eventual win. In the series’ second game, Indiana picked up its 14th win by run rule this season, taking the game, 10-2 in five innings. Indiana owned steady control of game three, too, winning by a final score of 7-2. Against No. 16 Oregon, Indiana originally led 7-0 before Oregon tied it at 7-7. Indiana would take the lead again at 9-7 after four innings before Oregon scored a barrage of runs in a 24-12 win.
Detroit Mercy holds a 7-18 record prior to this weekend’s two-gamer in Bloomington. The Titans have played in tournaments at DePaul, Western Kentucky, Texas Tech, North Alabama, Alabama A&M and Northern Kentucky. In the Titans’ first conference series of Horizon League play last weekend, Detroit Mercy went 1-2 taking the first game at Youngstown State but dropping the latter two. Next weekend’s series against IU Indy (April 3-4) will be its first home games of the season at Buysse Ballpark. At the plate, Trinity Fessler leads the team with a .367 batting average and has four extra base hits along with 12 RBI to her name. Abby Klaft follows with a .303 batting average plus 14 RBI to go with it. The Titans have four pitchers on their staff with Savannah Schultz and Erin Flynn getting the most usage. Schultz has a 5-8 record with 21 appearances. She owns a 5.23 ERA with 58 strikeouts this year. Indiana is 4-1 all time versus Detroit Mercy. The last two meetings came in 2003 when the two teams split the series, 1-1.
Indiana Hoosiers Track and Field Close Day One of Raleigh Relays The Indiana University track and field team opened the first day of the Raleigh Relays on Thursday seeing personal bests and improvements on the all-time record lists. The day started with the women’s shot put. Makayla Hunter opened the outdoor season with a second place finish. Freshman Emma Gardner also saw her first competition as a Hoosier in the event. On the men’s side, Seth Brosseau earned a fifth-place finish with a personal best distance of 17.28m/56-8.5. In the men’s Javelin, Dalton Boisseau opened his season with a fourth-place finish recording a personal best mark of 64.65m/212-1. His distance now ranks third all-time on the school record list, passing Jake Wiseman for the spot. Rocklan Boisseau also saw his first competition for the cream and crimson in the javelin throw. His mark of 57.26m/187-10 finished in the top 15 in the event and ranks 11th on the school record list. Day two from Raleigh, N. C. will begin tomorrow at 10 am with Hannah Alexander and Gardner in the women’s discus.
Purdue Men’s Basketball Squeaks past Texas in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Men’s Sweet 16 Trey Kaufman-Renn has heard coach Matt Painter remind the Boilermakers so many times during his four years at Purdue that it’s not always the first shot of a possession that matters most. “It’s those tip-ins at the end of the games,” Kaufman-Renn recalled of the message. “He said that my four years here, so it’s kind of cool to experience that.” Yes, Kaufman-Renn’s quick hands at the rim extended a special NCAA Tournament run for Purdue. Kaufman-Renn tipped in a miss by Braden Smith with 0.7 seconds left, and the No. 2-seed Boilermakers edged hobbling Texas star Tramon Mark and the 11th-seeded Longhorns 79-77 on Thursday night in the Sweet 16.
Texas (21-15) tied it moments earlier when Dailyn Swain made a driving layup, was fouled and converted the three-point play with 11.9 seconds to go. Smith had scored on his own drive with 38 seconds remaining and finished with 16 points. Kaufman-Renn hit his first seven shots — going 6 for 6 and grabbing five rebounds in the first half — on the way to 20 points. He was mobbed by teammates right after the final buzzer sounded at SAP Center. Purdue will play top-seeded Arizona on Saturday night with a chance to advance to the Final Four.
Texas had subbed 7-foot center Matas Vokietaitis out of the game with 11 seconds left after Boilermakers big man Oscar Cluff had fouled out, giving Purdue a better opportunity in the paint. Kaufman-Renn got himself right under the front of the rim after Smith missed on his drive. “The No. 1 thing for us to have a chance today was to rebound with Purdue,” Texas coach Sean Miller said. “I thought we really struggled to rebound on defense.” Mark scored 29 for the Longhorns, grimacing and clearly in pain limping on his injured leg through the closing minutes when the sixth-year senior’s team needed him most. His points were the most by a Texas player in an NCAA Tournament game since Kevin Durant scored 30 against Southern California in the second round of the 2007 tournament.
Purdue (30-8) advances to Saturday’s Elite Eight game against either top-seeded Arizona (34-2) or No. 4 seed Arkansas (28-8), who were playing the late game in San Jose. The teams traded baskets and chances most of the night. Chendall Weaver scored off his offensive rebound with 1:03 to play pulling Texas within 73-72 after Smith had made only one of two free throws. Vokietaitis hit a pair of free throws with 20 seconds left before Purdue’s C.J. Cox made two at the 19.4-second mark. Another miss for Miller who made his ninth Sweet 16 appearance in 21 seasons, the most of any coach who hasn’t reached the Final Four. The Longhorns had won three straight following a three-game losing streak — this time with football coach Steve Sarkisian among an animated Texas crowd sitting a few rows off courtside. “It feels really good to be a part of what we did, that’s the one thing I would say,” Miller said.
Smith thought he’d taken a winning shot, then was left beneath the basket to watch his teammate deliver. “I was standing under the rim, I was like ‘Please get in there, please get in there,’ and it did,” said Smith, who also dished out five assists. “Trey tipped it perfectly and I was like ‘Thank God, thank God that went in.’”. What an ending for Mark who was going to stay on the floor for his final game any way he could. He took three foul shots in pain with 16:20 left after a hard fall and foul by Fletcher Loyer, briefly exiting before coming back. “Just being a competitor wanting to play and wanting to advance for my teammates,” he said of how he withstood the pain, “wanting to keep this thing going.”
Jordan Pope scored 12 points in 33 minutes for Texas playing in his native Bay Area, coming back after breaking his foot late in a second-round win over Gonzaga. Pope, who was born and raised in nearby Oakland, appreciated the medical team that helped make it happen. “It meant a lot, a moment that I’m sure I’ll remember for the rest of my life, something that’s a lot bigger than myself and my play,” Pope said. “… I had nothing to lose it’s the Sweet 16.”
Browning’s Bat Powers Taylor Trojans to Cross-County Victory Over RV Indiana Wesleyan Before Storms Suspend Game Two Taylor scored seven runs in the final three innings for a comeback victory over cross-county rivals RV Indiana Wesleyan (15-8, 8-3 CL) before storms forced the squads to suspend game two on Thursday in Marion, Indiana. The Trojans struck early in the opener when Jayci Kitchen hit a one-out doubled that was matched by Bella Browning to get a run on the board. Grace Mullins drove Browning in two batters later to double the early advantage.
The Wildcats answered with a run in the bottom of the frame and added one in each of the next three innings to take a 4-2 lead in the fourth. The offense started to sizzle for TU in the fifth as Madisyn Standridge opened the frame with a double and scored on an error. Kitchen reached on a bunt single, and Browning laced her second double of the game to plate Lizzy Sinders. After the first out of the frame was recorded, Mullins roped a single up the middle to score Kitchen.
Indiana Wesleyan answered with three in the bottom of the inning on a two-out bases-loaded triple by Danic Fuller to retake the lead. Clutch hitting in the sixth saw the top of the order load the bases for Browning with two outs. The sophomore shortstop laced her third double of the day to clear the bases and give Taylor an 8-7 lead it would hold onto in a huge win. Larkin drove in Browning to add an insurance run before Standridge rocketed a two-run home run in the seventh to extend the lead to 11-7.
Sinders showed nerves of steel inside the circle at the end, retiring seven of the final eight batters. The freshman continues to show her dynamic presence as the Trojans’ ace delivering in the key moments and striking out four in a complete game win. Five Trojans had three hits in the contests as Browning, Standridge, Kitchen, Mullins, and Sinders each delivered in the rivalry matchup at the plate. Taylor trailed 7-2 in the second game, as Ava Everman ripped an RBI single in the second and scored on a passed ball in the second before Indiana Wesleyan rattled off six in the bottom of the third. The nightcap had to be suspended with storms rolling into the area in the fourth inning. Taylor (13-12, 8-5 CL) takes the field in Crossroads League play next against No. 7 Marian (19-4, 11-3 CL), who top the league standings on Saturday, March 28th on the road, with first pitch set for 1:00 pm.