Indiana University Athletics Continues Water Policy Change for Today’s Football Game Against Western Kentucky For the second consecutive week, Indiana University Athletics will implement a series of game-specific policy changes for fans attending Saturday’s IU Football game against Western Kentucky at Merchants Bank Field at Memorial Stadium. Sealed Water Bottles: Fans are permitted to bring one sealed, clear, non-glass water bottle into the stadium. The safety seal must be unbroken upon entry. Refillable Containers: Spectators may bring one empty, refillable non-glass water container into the stadium. IU Athletics has multiple free water refill stations located on both the east and west concourses. Cooling Stations: Misting stations will be positioned throughout the Memorial Stadium concourse to help fans stay cool. Concession Options: Bottled water remains available for purchase at stadium concession locations. First Aid and Assistance: First-aid stations are located on the east and west concourses. Fans requiring assistance can contact 812-369-MYIU (6948) or dial 911 in the event of an emergency. Please note that this policy change is game-specific and is in response to the anticipated warm weather. Unless we communicate otherwise, standard gameday policies (no outside food/drink and no outside containers) will return for next week’s game against Northwestern. Attendees are strongly encouraged to drink plenty of water before, during, and after the game. Game-day weather is forecasted to be partly cloudy and warm, with temperatures reaching the mid-to-upper 80s.
Indiana University Football to be without Stephen Daley and Kellan Wyatt for Today’s Game against Western Kentucky Indiana football will not have defensive ends Stephen Daley and Kellan Wyatt available this weekend as they continue to pursue a fifth season of eligibility in the courts. The news comes via ESPN’s Pete Thamel. “Indiana’s Stephen Daley and Kellan Wyatt are not expected to be eligible this weekend as they await a judge’s injunction ruling,” Thamel wrote on X. “They had been eligible on a temporary restraining order that’s expired. The judge has indicated that her ruling on the injunction will not come until next week.” Both eligible prior to the expiration of their restraining order, Daley played in the first two games of the season and has seen 32 snaps, while Wyatt only played in week two and saw nine snaps. Both players have continued practicing with the team since the start of fall camp as their eligibility status has changed multiple times. They were both highly impactful a season ago before suffering injuries.
Daley had 19 tackles for loss to go with 41 quarterback pressures, 5.5 sacks and two forced fumbles in 2025. He had 10 tackles for loss over the last three games of the regular season. In seven games Wyatt had 27 tackles in 2025, including 8.5 for a loss and 2.5 sacks. The judge’s ruling next week will also impact IU basketball player Sam Alexis, who is also currently ineligible and part of the same group of plaintiffs seeking an injunction. “Per attorney Ryan Downton of the Texas Trial Group, the judge is expected to make a decision as soon as Monday next week,” Thamel wrote in a later post on X. “It will be no later than Friday, which means that No. 4 Indiana will have clarity before starting Big Ten play.” Indiana and Western Kentucky kick at 4 p.m. ET this afternoon and hosts Northwestern next Friday evening.
10th Annual Candy Stripe Crew to Be Held on October 18th Indiana women’s basketball will host the 10th annual Candy Stripe Crew basketball clinic on Sunday, Oct. 18 from 1:45-3:15 p.m. ET at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. The clinic is open to children and adults with developmental disabilities hosted by IU’s staff and players. To register, fill out the clinic forms by clicking here and return to the women’s basketball office via email (WBASKET@iu.edu) or by dropping them off at Cook Hall (1001 E. 17th St.). Any additional questions should be directed to the women’s basketball office via e-mail (WBASKET@iu.edu) or phone 812-855-3013. Space is limited to 50 participants. Check-in for the event will be from 1:30-1:45 p.m. on Oct. 18 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall’s south lobby. Caregivers and guardians are also encouraged and welcomed to attend.
‘Boo at the Bart’ Coming Back to Bloomington The Indiana baseball program will open the doors to Bart Kaufman Field on Sunday, October 25th evening for a community Halloween event. Head coach Jeff Mercer and his team will host the third annual ‘Boo at the Bart’ event for local kids and families to come trick-or-treat, play games and meet members of this year’s team. This will be the third-straight year that the team hosts this event as it continues to grow in size. Nearly a thousand people came last year to enjoy great weather, candy, games and community outreach. All players and coaches from IU’s 2027 roster will be on hand to partake in games while passing out candy and signing autographs. The event will run from 4-6 p.m. on Sunday, October 25th at Bart Kaufman Field. Gates to the field will open right before the start time. Kids who attend the event will be able to receive a voucher for a free ticket to any home baseball game next spring. Families can stay tuned to any updates surrounding the event by following @IndianaBase on X/Twitter.
Indiana University Cross Country Travels to John McNichiols Invitational in Terre Haute The Indiana men’s and women’s cross country teams travel to their first away meet of the season for the John McNichols Invitational this morning. Indiana State will host the meet that is split into championship and open races from Terre Haute, Ind. The Championship races will open the day, starting at 8:30 am with the women’s 6K race, followed by the men’s Championship 8K race at 9:05 am. The Open competitions will follow, starting with the women’s 6K at 9:40 am and the men’s 8K race at 10:15 am. The Hoosiers will see runners in all four races on Saturday morning, splitting seven into each race. Indiana will race 14 men and women with a combined 28 runners competing attached over the weekend.
| Men’s Championship | Women’s Championship |
| Liam Bauschke Alex Bruns Dominic Ellis Dylon Nalley Tony Provenzano Sam Quagliaroli Ahmed Saleh | Ava Jarrell Jasmine Martoglio Lily Myers Joey Rastrelli Maddie Rocchio Lucinda Rourke Katy Zang |
| Men’s Open | Women’s Open |
| Caden Click Jackson Gackenheimer Garrett Hicks Matt Kim Gordy Libby Aidan Lord Elroe Tafese | Harper Allen Sadie Foley Heidi Harmeyer Jessica Hegedus Ceci Jackson Catie McCabe Michaela Quinn |
No. 3 Notre Dame and Michigan St. ready to revive their historic football rivalry after nearly a decade off No. 3 Notre Dame and Michigan State have a storied rivalry without a recent chapter. That changes Tonight. For the first time since 2017, the Fighting Irish and Spartans (2-0) will square off in the Battle for the Megaphone — a rivalry that once was a featured annual attraction because of its national championship implications. New Michigan State coach Pat Fitzgerald would like to keep this game on future schedules, too. “Not to play this game every year, it just stinks, I think for both fan bases and both teams,” he said. “It’s one of the great, storied traditions and rivalries in college football. Scheduling is a pain in the neck for everybody, but it’s always great to have your rivalry games on the schedule.” Irish coach Marcus Freeman also has said publicly he prefers to keep rivalry games on the schedule, though Notre Dame’s five-game tie-in to the ACC has made it more difficult.
The result: Southern California fell off the docket this year for the first time in a non-COVID year since 1946; Notre Dame and Michigan haven’t met since 2019 after playing almost every year starting in 1978; and Purdue dropped in 2015 after playing the Irish annually from 1996-2014. The Boilermakers and Notre Dame resumed their in-state rivalry in 2021 and will meet next week for the third straight year following another three-year hiatus. Notre Dame’s rivalry with the Spartans has included some dandies. The 1966 game between the nation’s top two teams ended in a 10-10 tie at East Lansing, Michigan, a game dubbed “The Game of the Century.” While this game won’t come with that hype, Freeman understands the Irish (2-0) must play well to avoid another September loss at home. “They’re physical, tough,” Freeman said. “They play hard. They don’t mess up. They don’t beat themselves. It’s obvious they have Pat Fitzgerald’s DNA written all over them. They’re going to be a good challenge for us.”
Notre Dame leads the rivalry 49-29-1, but Michigan State won 11 of the previous 19 meetings and won six straight road games in the series, a Notre Dame Stadium record for an opponent. They will meet again in 2027, but Fitzgerald would like this game to be on the Spartans’ schedule every year. “I’m honored to be a part of college football, I’m honored to be part of rivalries,” Fitzgerald said. “This is one of the storied rivalries in college football, one that dates back all the way to 1897. Notre Dame Stadium is one of the cathedrals of college football. It’s got a great pageantry, great atmosphere, so it’s great to always be a part of those types of games.”
Pat Fitzgerald has special memories of playing and coaching at Notre Dame Stadium. He played on the 1995 Northwestern team that upset No. 9 Notre Dame 17-15, a victory that propelled the Wildcats to end a 23-year streak of losing seasons by winning the Big Ten and going to the Rose Bowl. As the Northwestern coach in 2014, his team won 43-40 in overtime. NFL scouts are salivating over two Irish potential first-round draft picks, cornerback Leonard Moore and safety Adon Shuler. Fitzgerald, a former linebacker understands why. “Their defense is physical and violent at each level. They’ve got a first-round corner, potentially the first pick overall, they’ve got talent everywhere,” Fitzgerald said. “I mean Moore’s going to be, he might be the first pick overall. It doesn’t take long for you to see Schuler (on tape).”
Notre Dame is averaging 46.5 points a game, led by quarterback CJ Carr, who is completing 71.4% of his throws and is within two games of matching Brady Quinn’s school record of 16 consecutive games with a TD pass. Defensively, the Irish limited Rice to 128 total yards, their lowest single-game total since 2008 when Washington had 124. Michigan State running back Cam Edwards leads the Big Ten in rushing and is fifth in the nation, averaging 125 yards per game. He has run for three scores on 27 carries and is fourth among FBS active rushers with 2,940 yards in his career. Quarterback Alessio Milivojevic has thrown for 417 yards and three scores with no interceptions.
Caitlin Clark’s Nike signature shoe arrives October 1st with ‘Caitlin Blue’ and ‘Warning Code Yellow’ Caitlin Clark doesn’t have much longer to wait for her first signature shoe to come out. They will be available starting Oct. 1 in the U.S. and a week earlier in China. “I’m just super excited,” she told The Associated Press in Germany last week. “I look down at my feet and I’m, man, I’m wearing my shoes. There’s not many people that get a Nike signature shoe.” Clark will be the fifth active player to have a signature shoe, joining fellow Nike athletes Sabrina Ionescu and A’ja Wilson. Angel Reese has one with Reebok and Breanna Stewart with Puma. Sheryl Swoopes was the first women’s basketball player to have her own one in 1995. Elena Delle Donne’s signature shoe debuted at the same time as Stewart in 2022. They were the first players with signature shoes since Candace Parker in 2011. “I don’t even think that’s something I dreamed about as a kid, because it felt so far away from something that I could ever achieve,” Clark said of having her own shoe. “I was always a kid that wanted the coolest shoes and I’m so excited.” The shoe will sell for $140, putting it around the same as Wilson and Ionescu’s shoes. It will be available in “Caitlin Blue” and “Warning Code Yellow” when it first comes out.
“I hope when people put the shoe on, they can feel a part of me,” Clark said. “I hope more than anything, it gives people confidence that they can dream to achieve whatever they want and they feel like they can be me in the shoe.” Clark, who gifted the shoes to her Indiana Fever teammates when she returned from helping the U.S. win a gold medal at the women’s FIBA World Cup, said a lot of her personality has come through in the shoe with the colors that she wears. “It’s just been really cool and a fun process. I hope everybody knows that I put a lot of time and effort into it. It’s not just like Nike mocked this up and I check the box,” she said. “This was something that was super important for me because I really want my fans to feel connected and to feel like they can play just like how I play.” Clark said there are many more colors coming down the road. They’ll also be a signature line of apparel coming out as well with T-shirts, jackets and sweatshirts. “It’s been a really fun process and it never gets old,” Clark said. “Lacing up your shoes that have your logo on it and that you designed and have a Nike swoosh — I don’t think it gets much better than that, to be honest.”