NCAA Set for June 5th Vote on 5-Year Egilbity Approval Likely and What it Means for Indiana University Men’s Basketball The NCAA’s Division I Cabinet discussed on Friday possible implementation of an age-based eligibility model, should the concept ultimately be formally proposed and approved. The Cabinet also signaled it would consider voting on the age-based eligibility model at its June meeting. Currently, athletes generally are allowed four seasons of competition over five years with no age restrictions. The age-based eligibility model would give athletes a window of five years to compete in Division I starting immediately after their high school graduation or 19th birthday, whichever comes first. It also would eliminate waivers for extended eligibility except for pregnancy, religious missions or active-duty military service.
Currently enrolled athletes with eligibility after the 2025-26 academic year will have the flexibility to apply the age-based model or continue previous eligibility rules, whichever is more beneficial to that individual. Several national commentators with sources inside the NCAA have signaled the new model is expected to pass in June. So what would this mean for the 12 scholarship players currently on the IU basketball roster? The Hoosiers were already a program expecting the potential to have most of the roster available for the next two seasons. Now a third season with most of the same group at least becomes feasible, while understanding the transfer portal remains an option for all players. Let’s go through each of the current 12 IU basketball scholarship players, and how the new 5-year eligibility rule would impact them.
Markus Burton – Would have two years left. Burton has played three seasons and was expected to obtain a medical hardship waiver to obtain a fifth year of eligibility. But the new rule would ostensibly eliminate the need for that waiver. Because he can choose to operate under the old model, it’s possible a waiver could end up being more favorable if a situation arises that affords Burton the possibility of six or more years in college. Bryce Lindsay – Same as Burton. Justin Monden – Would have two years left. Aiden Sherrell – Would have three years left. Jaeden Mustaf – Would have three years left. Darren Harris – Would have three years left. Samet Yigitoglu – Would have three years left. Trent Sisley – Would have four years left. Prince-Alexander Moody – Would have five years left Vaughn Karvala – Would have five years left. Trevor Manhertz – Would have five years left. Clemens Sokolov – Would have five years left.
If you were holding out hope a player like former IU big man Sam Alexis could return under this new rule, don’t count on it. Alexis completed his fourth season of college basketball in March, and he does not appear to have a case to obtain a fifth via a waiver. The NCAA said on Friday athletes whose fourth year of college eligibility was completed by spring 2026 would not be given any more eligibility under the new model. Some commentators believe a wave of lawsuits will follow if this part of the rule passes. So stay tuned.
Indiana University Women’s Golfer Sheridan Clancy Concludes her NCAA Championship Run in Carlsbad California Indiana University Redshirt junior Sheridan Clancy narrowly missed qualifying for the fourth round of 2026 NCAA Women’s Golf Championships at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa North Course over Memorial Day Weekend. Clancy forced a three-player playoff for the final individual spot in the fourth round with a birdie on No. 9 (her final hole of the round) in the third round on Sunday evening. The playoff ran four holes on Sunday night, but the tie was not broken before darkness suspended play. Play continued Monday morning, but Clancy ultimately fell to Taylor Riley (LSU) on the fifth hole of the playoff. The TCU transfer finished tied for 28th overall and shot a 216 (70-75-71; E). Her top-30 individual finish marked the best by a Hoosier since Erin Carney placed 20th in the 1998 NCAA Championships.
Redshirt junior Sheridan Clancy played a 216 (70-75-71; E) to tie for 28th place. Round 1: 70 (-2) with birdies on No. 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, and 17. Round 2: 75 (+3) with a birdie No. 4. Round 3: 71 (-1) with birdies on No. 1, 2, 3, 9, and 10. Clancy finished the season with a team-high 39 rounds across 13 events. She compiled 15 rounds at or below par and posted a stroke average 72.87, the second lowest in program history. Clancy finished inside the top-20 in six tournaments with four top-10 results.
Indianapolis 500 Sets Fifth Straight Purse Record as Felix Rosenqvist Takes Home $ 4.34 Million The Indianapolis 500 purse record was broken for the fifth consecutive year for the 110th Indianapolis 500. First-time winner Felix Rosenqvist of Meyer Shank Racing with Curb Agajanian earned a record-high $4.34 million from a total purse of $30,906,400, according to a release from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. This is the largest purse in the history of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” on the heels of four consecutive record-breaking years. This year’s average payout for NTT INDYCAR SERIES drivers was $936,500, which also exceeds last year’s average of $596,500. “The Indianapolis 500 continues to make history, in more ways than one,” INDYCAR and IMS President J. Douglas Boles said in the release.
In 2025, the Indianapolis 500 purse was $20,283,000, and the year’s winner payout was $3.8 million. In 2024, the Indianapolis 500 purse was $18,456,000, and the winner earned $4.3 million, which included a $440,000 roll-over bonus from BorgWarner for earning back-to-back wins. In 2023, the Indianapolis 500 purse was $17,021,500, and the winner earned $3.7 million. In 2022, the Indianapolis 500 purse was $16,000,200, and the winner earned $3.1 million. Before 2022, the largest Indianapolis 500 purse was $14.4 million for the 2008 Indianapolis 500. “The Month of May featured a back-to-back grandstand sellout crowd – our largest crowd since the 100th Running in 2016 – and intense on track action with the most lead changes ever in the Indy 500. Felix Rosenqvist added his name to the history books in stellar fashion, with the closest finish in Indy 500 history and now the largest purse. There’s no better end to a memorable month.” The next NTT INDYCAR SERIES race is the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear on Sunday, on the streets of Downtown Detroit.
2027 Indy 500 Logo Revealed as Ticket Renewals Begin Indianapolis Motor Speedway is celebrating back-to-back grandstand sellouts with the launch of ticket renewals for the 111th Indianapolis 500. Fans have until June 15 to renew their tickets or request seat upgrades for 2027. IMS officials say ticket prices will rise when tickets go on sale to the general public this fall and again closer to each event in 2027. Ticket holders can renew or request seat upgrades at ims.com/renew, by calling 317-492-6700, or by visiting the IMS Ticket Office. The speedway also unveiled the logo for next year’s Indy 500. The design features the iconic Indy 500 wordmark inside a red oval tilted at a nine-degree angle. The angle represents the signature banking of the track. A white geometric structure frames the logo, representing the speedway’s grandstands. The logo also pays tribute to track landmarks like the Pagoda and brick oval, IMS said in a release.
“The Indianapolis 500 is a can’t-miss bucket list event fueled by the best and most loyal fans in sports. Their passion and love for the Speedway and the Indy 500 are unmatched,” INDYCAR and IMS President J. Douglas Boles said. The ticket announcement comes the day after the checkered flag wave for the 110th Indy 500. Sunday’s race featured the closest finish in Indy 500 history in front of a sold-out crowd. Fans can renew or request upgrades at ims.com/renew, by calling 317-492-6700 or visiting the IMS Ticket Office. Prices will increase when tickets go on sale this fall and again in 2027. Fans renewing tickets can also order additional Month of May products during the renewal period. These include practice and qualification day tickets, Bronze and Silver Badges, Victory Celebration tickets, Miller Lite Carb Day tickets, and Coors Light Snake Pit wristbands. Fans who didn’t attend in 2026 but plan to attend in 2027 can apply for tickets now at ims.com/apply.
Katherine Legge Finishes 31st in the Coca Cola 600 as after her Attempt to Complete the Double was Dashed earlier in the day Katherine Legge had one thing on her mind as Sunday night turned to Monday morning at Charlotte Motor Speedway: Getting some much-needed sleep. “The highlight will be when I can finally lay down because I’m so tired,” Legge said. Legge’s quest to become the first woman to complete “The Double” — racing 1,100 miles spread out over two tracks on one day — ended quickly Sunday when she crashed out in the Indianapolis 500. She flew to North Carolina and finished in 31st at the Coca-Cola 600 and 12 laps back after losing a tire mid-race. Legge said now it is time to regroup after what she called “a calamity of errors.”
The English driver completed just 17 of the scheduled 200 laps at Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s iconic 2.5-mile oval before she ran into the car of Ryan Hunter-Reay, knocking both cars out of the race. Hunter-Reay started spinning in the second turn and braked hard to keep his car off the wall, and the trailing Legge steered inside to try to avoid the 2013 Indy 500 winner. But as smoke emerge from both braking cars, Legge’s car hit the inside wall. “I’m fine, just gutted more than anything,” she said after being checked and released at the track’s infield medical center. “Ryan spun in front of me, I think he was battling his car for a minute, I was just chilling, trying to save fuel and he spun down the track and started coming up the track, so I tried to go low and just didn’t make it.” Legge was the sixth driver ever to attempt “The Double.” The only driver to complete it is three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart in 2001.
It’s been a week full of bad luck for Legge. Her flight from New York to Indianapolis was delayed, causing her to miss Indy’s annual media day. Then she had communications trouble in Friday’s final 500 practice, and after flying to Charlotte on Saturday, Coca-Cola 600 qualifying was rained out. “Hopefully, we get all of the travel woes out of the way now before the weekend, and this weekend goes smoothly,” Legge told The Associated Press on Thursday. “My management has been speaking with Kyle’s management about how to get the logistics sorted out, how they did it and we’re trying our best to copy and paste what they had and they’re just keeping me in the loop.”
Her fortunes briefly looked like they might have changed when the speedway dodged the predicted prerace rain, allowing the race to begin on time. Then came the tangle with Hunter-Reay, who was also was checked and released by IndyCar’s medical team. “It was super tough out there,” Hunter-Reay said. “The whole time I was trying to keep it off the wall. Just super disappointing. That’s the busiest I’ve been around here in 16 years. I was trying to keep it off the wall the whole time and finally, one of those wiggles didn’t come back in Turn 2.”
At the 500, crashes and bad weather have been a theme in each of the last three “Double” attempts. A rain-delayed Indy start prevented two-time NASCAR champion Kyle Larson from making it to Charlotte in time for the start in 2024, and Larson crashed out of both races last year after another rain-delayed start in Indy. But Legge was hoping to avoid all of it. “She’ll stay here throughout,” her father, Derek Legge, said before the first race while texting from a golf cart outside her garage. “We’re keeping an eye on the weather. It might even be delayed here an hour at a time.” By then, Legge’s car was already on the Brickyard as the sold-out grandstands filled in and hundreds of people surrounded the cars on the track. The English driver started from the No. 26 spot, the middle of the ninth row, at Indy, where she drove for HMD Motorsports with A.J. Foyt Racing team.
The other five drivers who previously tried “The Double” had months to prepare, but Legge’s teams didn’t announce her attempt until last week. Since then, those behind the scenes helped Legge line up the helicopter ride she planned to take from the speedway to Indianapolis International Airport and the private jet that would take her to Charlotte.
No 1. Taylor University Baseball Survives a second elimination game at the NAIA Baseball World Series No. 1 Taylor (54-6) remains alive at the 2026 Avista NAIA World Series after knocking out the host No. 4 Lewis-Clark State 8-5 in Monday’s elimination game at Harris Field. It was the second straight victory while facing elimination, as the Trojans advance to Today’s 3 p.m. PT (6 p.m. ET) elimination game against the loser of MACU-William Carey.
TU came out aggressive at the plate and jumped out to an 8-1 lead following a pair of runs in the first inning and pushing across six more in the third. Sam Gladd launched a three-run homer in the big inning – a no-doubter to right center for the senior’s 46th career home run and fifth career blast in Lewiston where he homered four times as a freshman in 2023. The Trojans were eliminated from the World Series that year by Lewis-Clark, which also marked the Warriors’ last appearance at the baseball national championship.
Lewis-Clark (45-9) got three runs back on four hits in the bottom of the third. That trimmed the deficit to four at 8-4, but the Trojan pitching staff delivered a strong performance the rest of the way, limiting the Warriors to just one run and three hits over the final seven frames. Nick Crabtree gave the Trojans 2.1 innings in his 10th start, while Nathan Frady (3.1), Jake Boyer (1.1) and Gage Gongwer (2.0) were dominant out of the pen. Frady improved to 6-2 on the season with the victory, while Gongwer secured his first save after retiring all six batters he faced in the eighth and ninth innings.
The Trojans outhit the Warriors 13-10 in the contest, with nine different players registering a base knock in the TU lineup. Gladd (2-for-5, HR, 3 RBIs), Ben Kennedy (2-for-3, 2B, 2 RBIs), Nate Simpson (2-for-5) and Jordan Malott (2-for-4, RBI) each recorded two-hit outings. Brayden Manning’s hitting streak extended to 19 games following his third-inning single while reaching base now in 38 consecutive appearances. Quinn Kunkel produced a pinch-hit single for the third straight game and fifth over the past six outings. Luke Sutter, Brennan Frickel and Fletcher Roemmich each tallied a base hit.
After Kennedy and Sutter reached base to lead off the game, TU got the scoring started on Malott’s RBI single to left center. With the RBI, the senior first baseman broke the TU single-season record and now stands with 95 runs-produced on the year. Brennan Frickel stepped up next and delivered a sacrifice fly to put the Trojans ahead 2-0. Lewis-Clark plated one run in the bottom of the first with a two-out RBI single, but Crabtree prevented more damage by escaping a bases-loaded jam with a strikeout. Two innings later, the Trojans distanced themselves after batting around and sending 11 batters to the plate. Manning and Malott led off with back-to-back singles, before Gladd stepped up two batters later and connected on his long ball to deep right center, lifting the Trojans to a 5-1 advantage.
The rally continued as Simpson and Jace Schrock reached base to turn the lineup over, and Kennedy delivered a two-run double to right center. The senior shortstop, who has posted 17 RBIs in seven games, later came around to score on a passed ball. The Warriors responded with three runs in the third to keep within striking distance, with three of the first four batters Frady faced delivering an RBI. However, the junior righty settled in and retired the next eight batters he faced with a pair of strikeouts to carry the Trojans into the sixth inning. Lewis-Clark’s final run came across on a sacrifice fly in the sixth, before Boyer entered to record the final out of the frame. Gongwer took over in the eighth and need just 14 pitches to slam the door on the Warriors’ season.
Notre Dame Men’s Lacrosse falls to Princeton in the National Championship Game Notre Dame’s memorable 2026 season came to an end in the NCAA Championship title game, as the Fighting Irish suffered a 16-9 defeat to No. 1 Princeton on Memorial Day inside Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Irish were playing in their third national championship game over the last four seasons. Despite the loss, Thomas Ricciardelli had a notable performance in goal, making a season-high 19 saves. On the offensive end Josh Yago and Will Angrick each recorded multiple goals, scoring two apiece. Yago, Ricciardelli and Shawn Lyght were each named to the NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team.
For the second-straight game, the Irish were on fire coming out of the gate, scoring three goals in the opening 5 minutes of action to jump out to an early 3-0 lead. Will Maheras scored the opener followed by strikes from Yago and Jeffery. After a Princeton timeout the Tigers managed to settle in and respond with three straight goals of their own to level the score at 3-3 with 3:34 left in the first quarter. Notre Dame was then whistled for a two-minute, non-releasable penalty but were able to escape unscathed and keep the game even after the opening 15 minutes of action. The Tigers took over the game in the second quarter, outscoring the Irish 8-0 to take an 11-3 lead into the halftime break.
Notre Dame refused to go away, as Angrick scored the first two goals of the second half to make it 11-5. Princeton got one back with a score to push its lead to 12-5 before Dylan Faison and Luke Miller each scored to trim the lead to five at 12-7 with 5 minutes left in the third. The Tigers scored the final goal of the period to give them a 13-7 lead heading into the final 15 minutes of regulation. Yago wrapped around the crease and scored his second of the afternoon to make it a 13-8 game before Princeton answered with 10 minutes left, moving the score to 14-8. The Tigers went on to score two of the final three goals to go on to win the title by a score of 16-9.