Latest developments in the Stephen Daley and Kellan Wyatt case, now joined by Sam Alexis Legal proceedings involving the eligibility of IU football’s Stephen Daley and Kellan Wyatt ended today without a ruling. Meanwhile, a new door of opportunity exists for IU basketball center Sam Alexis. Daley and Wyatt received a temporary restraining order from a Monroe County court that cleared a path for them to play the first two weeks of the 2026 season, but they are now seeking an injunction to extend their eligibility until their lawsuit against the NCAA can be heard. Alexis has joined dozens of new plaintiffs in the same Monroe County case. A Monday hearing intended to decide on whether an injunction was appropriate ended with the court seeking additional information. That additional information is due by Thursday. “The Court directs parties to submit proposed findings and conclusions of law. Findings are due by the 17th day of September 2026,” court records indicate. “The Court will grant more time if parties agree to extend the TRO.”
Whether Daley and Wyatt are eligible for this weekend’s game against Western Kentucky hinges on them receiving an injunction this week, or an extension of the temporary restraining order. It is not clear whether Judge Kara Krothe intends to rule on the injunction before the end of the week. Alexis has presumably withdrawn from a Tennessee court case where an injunction was obtained and then successfully stayed by the NCAA pending appeal.
All three players are continuing to practice with their respective teams while the legal matter is sorted out. The legal wranglings come after the NCAA did not extend its new five-year eligibility rule passed this summer to members of the class of 2022 who had just exhausted their eligibility in four years. In issuing the temporary restraining order, the court determined the plaintiffs had shown by verified pleading and supporting evidence that immediate and irreparable injury would occur before notice could be served and a hearing held. IU swimmers Owen McDonald and Zalán Sárkány, and volleyball player Avry Tatum are part of the case as well.
Indiana University Women’s Volleyball’s Teodora Krickovic Named Big Ten Setter of the Week A brilliant all-around performance and a 3-0 week for the Indiana volleyball program helped second-year setter Teodora Krickovic be named the Big Ten’s Setter of the Week on Monday afternoon. This is the second time in two years that she has earned the honor from the league offices. IU earned a trio of victories (Southern Indiana, Cal Poly and Eastern Illinois) in five days as its offense began humming at an elite rate. The Hoosiers were set to a .338 team hitting percentage last week as Krickovic dished out 11.60 assists per set (116 total). IU hit a season-best .391 against Eastern Illinois (Sept. 11). In all three victories, IU’s five primary attackers had at least five kills in each contest.
Her elite offensive decisions weren’t the only thing that helped IU last week. She added 18 digs, 11 kills, six blocks and five aces while keeping opposing defenses off guard. On the season, Krickovic is averaging 10.28 assists per set, 2.00 digs per set, 0.92 kills per set and 0.48 blocks per set. She is set to become the 12th setter in program history with 1,500 career assists this weekend. The Hoosiers will ride a three-game winning streak into the final weekend of non-conference play on Friday evening. This is the 14th Big Ten weekly honor that IU has earned under the guidance of head coach Steve Aird and the third by the young Serbian setter.
Indiana University Women’s Tennis Competes at the Debbie Southern Fall Classic The Hoosiers wrapped up their first fall tournament with Ameia Sorey winning the consolation singles bracket along with her and doubles partner Nicole Sifuentes winning their doubles flight. Play for Sorey began with a match against Roisin Gilheany (N.C. State) where she won the first set, 6-1, before falling 6-2 and 6-0. She picked it back up against Elle Warren (Furman) winning 6-3 and 6-4. She finished off singles play defeating Given Roach (Georgia Tech) 6-2 and 7-5 winning the consolation bracket. Sorey and Sifuentes showed off in doubles play starting off strong defeating Rennard and Bulger (Wake Forest), 6-2. The two then competed against Roach and Karantali (Georgia Tech) defeating them 6-4. The pair concluded doubles play against Dozier and Basireddy (Georgia Tech) taking home the crown in doubles flight 2, 7-6(5).
Results -Day 1
Doubles Sorey/Sifuentes def. Rennard/Bulger (Wake Forest), 6-2 Sorey/Sifuentes def. Roach/Karantali (Georgia Tech), 6-4 Dimitrov/Ceroni (Furman) def. Gregg/Boyer, 6-4 Gregg/Boyer def. Sorska/ Eissa (Maryland), 6-3
Singles Gilheany (N.C. State) def. Sorey, 1-6, 6-2, 6-0 Goetz (Georgia Tech) def. Gregg, 6-3, 6-0 Conway (N.C. State) def. Sifuentes, 6-3, 7-5 Amirichetty (Furman) def. Boyer, 7-6(1), 4-6, 6-0
Day 2
Doubles Sorey/Sifuentes def. Dozier/Basireddy (Georgia Tech), 7-6(5) Xu/Bucher (Illinois), def. Gregg/Boyer, 6-4
Singles Sorey def. Warren (Furman), 6-3,6-4 Donnelly (Maryland) def. Gregg, 7-6(2), 6-4 Sifuentes def. Dozier (Georgia Tech), 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 Karantali (Georgia Tech) def. Boyer, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
Day 3
Singles Basireddy (Georgia Tech) def. Boyer, 6-4, 6-1 Sorey def. Roach (Georgia Tech), 6-2, 7-5 Isyanov (Illinois) def. Gregg, 7-6(7), 6-1 Santos (Wake Forest) def. Sifuentes, 6-3, 7-5
Indiana University’s I Association Announces 2026 Awards The I Association presented its 2026 awards over the weekend ahead of the Indiana-Howard football game on Saturday (Sept. 12). On Friday (Sept. 11), the I Association honored five individuals. The first award presented was the Zora Clevenger Award. It is presented to living I Men, who as alumni, have made outstanding contributions to Indiana University through service to its athletic program. Chuck Franz was the first of two honored with the Zora Clevenger Award over the weekend. Franz, a former IU Men’s Basketball player from 1980-84 and was a member of the 1981 NCAA Championship team. The second Clevenger winner was Adewale Ogunleye, an IU football standout from 1995-99. Ogunleye is IU’s all-time leader in sacks and tackles for loss prior to enjoying an 11-year NFL career that included a Pro Bowl selection in 2003 with the Miami Dolphins and made a Super Bowl appearance with the Chicago Bears in the 2006 season. Ogunleye was inducted into the IU Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014.
Next, the Leanne Grotke Award was presented, which is bestowed on living female letterwinners for outstanding contributions to IU Athletics after graduation. This weekend, there were two Grotke Award winners in Mary Beth Godsey, who was part of IU’s Track and Field program from 1974-76 and Nancy Martin of Indiana Women’s Basketball (1976-77). Lastly, the Bill Orwig Award capped the weekend’s award distribution. That award recognizes outstanding contributions by a non-alumnus to IU Athletics. This year’s Orwig winner was recently retired IU Faculty Athletics Representative Marietta Simpson.
From Carmel to Grand Slam glory: Rajeev Ram retires after historic tennis career From a Carmel High School state champion to a Grand Slam champion and world No. 1 doubles player, Rajeev Ram leaves tennis with a legacy few athletes achieve — one that began with a father introducing his son to the game. Every tennis career eventually reaches its final point. For Carmel’s Grand Slam champion and three-time Olympian Rajeev Ram, that moment arrived at the U.S. Open. After more than two decades competing on the professional tennis tour, Ram announced he is retiring from the sport. “I decided that the U.S. Open this past week was going to be my last tournament as a professional and so puts an end to a long tennis career, which I certainly am very proud of. But…it’s time to move on to the next chapter,” Ram said. It marks the end of a 22-year professional career filled with championships, historic moments and memories that stretched from Carmel to the biggest courts in the world.
Ram’s journey began in Indiana. He won the state singles title for Carmel High School in 1999. Today, a court at the school bears his name. He went on to the University of Illinois, where he helped the Fighting Illini win the NCAA team championship in 2003 and captured the NCAA doubles title with Brian Wilson. Ram turned professional at age 20 and built a career that made him one of the most accomplished American doubles players in tennis history. Ram began specializing in doubles in 2017. That pivot led to one of the most successful chapters of his career.
For 26 consecutive years, Rajeev Ram competed at Flushing Meadows, setting the record for the longest streak of U.S. Open men’s doubles appearances in tournament history. Alongside British partner Joe Salisbury, Ram won three consecutive U.S. Open men’s doubles championships in 2021, 2022 and 2023 — becoming the first men’s doubles team in the Open Era to accomplish that feat. The 2022 U.S. Open title was especially meaningful. Ram became the world No. 1 in doubles after the victory, while winning his favorite Grand Slam tournament. “In terms of a result, I mean, that second U.S. Open we won in a row, it also may be the number one player in the world after that match and so, you know, defending the U.S. Open title, becoming number one all in one shot was pretty amazing,” he said. “That being my home Grand Slam, the tournament I played the most, the tournament that I loved the most, you know, was really special for me.”
Ram finished his career with six Grand Slam titles. His coach, Bryan Smith, who began working with Ram when he was 14 years old, said the accomplishments reflect an extraordinary level of talent and commitment. “To be playing at the level he’s playing. He just got to the semifinals of the U.S. Open at 42 years old. That’s not normal. He has two silver medals. He’s got six Grand Slams. He was ranked top 60 in singles. He’s been ranked number one in the world in doubles,” Smith said. “I mean, those are not something small. That’s a big deal.”
Ram also represented the United States at three Olympic Games: Rio, Tokyo and Paris. He won his first Olympic silver medal in 2016 in mixed doubles with Venus Williams at the Rio Games. “To be honest…a silver medal in the Olympics is like one of the tougher things, because…you lose your last match, right? And it’s, like, sometimes even the bronze medalists are probably in a better mood because they’ve won their last match. They got on the podium. They had to win to get that last one,” Ram said. He said being on Team USA allowed a valuable view outside of the tennis bubble. “When you’re at the Olympics, it’s like you’re just this small, small part of this humongous production. You see athletes from all over the world. You have no idea how they got to where they’re where they’re at. You know, and they’re everyone has their own story. For me, I realize what sport can do in bringing the world together, and just to be a small, small part of that was humbling,” Ram said.
In 2024, he teamed with Austin Krajicek of Texas at the Paris Olympics. The duo reached the gold medal match after a memorable quarterfinal victory. “Our Paris run was pretty special. We had a couple of great matches in the quarterfinals. We beat Spain, and it was against Rafa Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz on the court which Rafa basically owns. One of the most incredible atmospheres I’ve ever been a part of. Probably the most incredible,” Ram said. Ram’s second Olympic silver medal was another place on the podium, but it also marked an unachieved goal of gold. “Unfortunately, those two Olympics they ended with really kind of gut-wrenching losses. You feel like, you know, the Olympics comes around once every four years. I was lucky to play three of them, but I did lose two gold medal matches from winning positions,” he said.
While Ram’s accomplishments filled record books, he credits his start in tennis to his father. “I’m an only child. No one in my family played tennis, you know, really before me. But it was a game that I was introduced to by my dad, and we played together, and I just loved every minute of it,” Ram said. Ram said tennis became much more than a profession. “Tennis has given me my whole life,” he said. The schedule is grueling, however, and Ram is ready for a different pace. “The tennis schedule is probably like no other in any other professional sport. We play from January to November, all over the world. You know, changing time zones, changing surfaces, changing conditions, all of that,” he said.
Now, Ram and his wife, Zainab Saqib, will discover what the next chapter holds. “One of the things I’ve tried to do in my whole career is not make decisions off the cuff. I think it’s going to be important for me to really understand what, you know, my life is going to look like, or maybe what it’s not going to look like now, because tennis is really all I’ve ever known as a professional. And so, you know, having two, three months at the end of the year to sort of sit down and really think about it, I think is going to be important for me because, you know, rushing into a decision for the next however many years is not something I think would be beneficial,” he said.
Whatever they decide, the impact of the game his father introduced to him will continue through his work with the Rajeev Ram Foundation and the Crystal House. His father gave him a racket. Those evenings on the court after work gave him a foundation. And from that foundation came a Grand Slam champion, an Olympic medalist and a world No. 1. A legacy built not only on championships, but on the father-son bond that started it all.
Indiana University Indianapolis students’ part of delegation of American media outlets covering FIBA Women’s World Cup Team USA had to fight back in the second half to bring home their fifth straight FIBA Women’s World Cup championship. Indiana Fever stars Caitlin Clark and Aliyah Boston came off the bench to add 19 points to USA’s 97-79 win over France, but they weren’t the only ones representing the Hoosier State on the international stage. IU Indianapolis grad students Jenna Black and Carter Jones spent the last two weeks in Berlin as well, covering the tournament not only as students, but as fully credentialed members of the professional media. “In the first couple runs, there weren’t a lot of media people, especially U.S. media,” Black said. “Carter and I were like two of maybe five U.S. media outlets that are here, so we’ve really been able to get in on some really cool quotes and stuff that we probably wouldn’t have been able to do if this was happening in the United States.”
Black and Jones are part of IUI’s Sports Capital Journalism program. They went to every Team USA practice and game, interviewing the players and coaches and wrote about two dozen articles for their college blog and the IndyStar. “A year ago today, if you would have told me I’m doing what I’m doing now, I never would have believed you,” Jones said. “You can learn and hear about here’s the dos and don’ts of the industry, and ‘Here’s how to write a paper’ or how to write an article. But getting to experience it in real life and getting to be there and see other journalists who are doing their full-time jobs has been something that is an invaluable experience so far.”
“When I first started the program, I was just really nervous to ask questions because I was scared of what people would think of my question — if it was bad or if I messed up. So I feel like just be confident that, you know, you’re supposed to be in that room,” Black said. “I just try to think that they probably don’t know that I’m a student. Like, maybe they just see me as also someone who’s trying to do their job and I am trying to do my job.” Black’s favorite article she wrote was about Clark and Angel Reese’s rivalry, but their teamwork this past week on the court. Interviewing Clark was Jones’ favorite part of the work trip.
“She had a comment where she mentioned something about the attention she gets and how everything she does is always going to be talked about, and that’s something that I knew about. Obviously, I know her popularity worldwide,” Jones said. “But hearing it come out of her mouth, standing right in front of her, really hit home to understand what some of these athletes go through off the court and how their personal lives can be affected by the publicity that they get because of how good they are at their craft.” Program director Malcolm Moran works hard to help students get real world experience as sports journalists. Black and Jones covered the Final Four in Indianapolis this past spring and other students went to the Olympics. Both Black and Jones hope to be beat writers for a team in the future. Jones’ is interested in working for a college basketball or NBA team, while Black’s ultimate goal is to work for the Tennessee Titans in the NFL.
Taylor University’s Connor Shaw Named Crossroads League Men’s Soccer Defensive Player of the Week Taylor men’s soccer goalkeeper Connor Shaw has been named the Crossroads League Defensive Player of the Week, the league announced Monday. The weekly honor recognizes the top individual performances from September 7-13. Sports information directors from league institutions nominate student-athletes and vote on each week’s winners. Shaw turned in a pair of strong outings between the posts, making four saves in a 2-1 road win over receiving-votes Madonna before adding two more in a 2-0 shutout of IU Columbus. The junior is unbeaten this season and has lowered his goals-against average to 0.32, fifth best in the nation. Across the two matches, Shaw stopped six of seven shots faced for an .857 save percentage while playing all 180 minutes in goal.
The Trojans have started picking up awards and honors for the 2026-2027 year, with already landing 13 Crossroads League and MSFA Mideast League Player-of-the-Week honors and one NAIA National Player-of-the-Week award. Shaw is the second individual to earn CL weekly honors from the TU men’s soccer team this season, with freshman Roarke Watterson recognized as Offensive Player of the Week on Aug. 24. The Taylor men’s soccer team (6-0-2) returns to action Wednesday for a 2:30 p.m. start time at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in the non-conference finale.