Mackenize Holmes named to the 2024 WBCA Preseason Wade Trophy Watch List
Graduate Forward Mackenize Holmes was named to them 16-member 2024 WBCA Preseason Wade Watch list, which honors the nation’s best player, announced by the organization on Thursday.
A Wade Trophy finalist last season, Holmes enters her fifth and final season with the Hoosiers in 2023-24. A three-time first team All-American last season, she is a unanimous preseason all-Big Ten honoree from the coaches and was also selected by the media vote The Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year and a unanimous selection for All-Big Ten first teams as a senior, the Gorham, Maine native averaged 22.3 points (second in B1G), a team-high 7.8 rebounds and shot a NCAA second-best 68.0 percent from the floor. She is also a preseason honoree for the 2024 Lisa Leslie award, which honors the nation’s top center.
Holmes led the Hoosiers in scoring on 25 occasions as a senior while posting double figures in 31 games, scoring 20 points 19 times and three 30-point scoring efforts. Her nine double-doubles led the team, as six of her double-doubles occurred in conference play which ranks eighth all-time in a single season. She also led the league in blocks (58) and blocks per game (1.9) and averages 1.1 steals (35) per game. Holmes is now in the top five in scoring in school history (1,897) and second in all-time blocks (208).
Big Ten Conference releases 2024 Football Schedule
The Big Ten Conference today announced the 2024 football schedule powered by IFS. With the additions of Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington into the conference, 2024 will be the first season with 18 teams and no divisional format.
The Big Ten Conference announced its Flex Protect XVIII model on October 4, 2023, which features a combination of protected opponents and rotating opponents for universities. Each member institution will continue to play nine intraconference games per season, and teams will play every other conference opponent at least twice – once home and once away – and will play rotating opponents no more than three times in a five-year period.
The 2024 season will conclude with the annual Big Ten Football Championship Game, which will feature the top two teams in the overall conference standings at the end of the regular season, with the winner earning the Big Ten Championship. Tiebreaking procedures will be announced later.
Selected Saturday games in the 2024 season may be adjusted to select Fridays and other special dates, including Labor Day Sunday and Black Friday. The 2025 football schedule will be announced in the future.
Indiana Football releases non-conference slate as Big Ten announces dates for 2024 campaign
The Big Ten Conference announced the dates for the 2024 conference schedule on Thursday (Nov. 2) and the Indiana football program also released its 2024 non-conference opponents and dates.
The Hoosiers will play eight home contests during the 2024 season, with three non-conference matchups and five Big Ten home games. The Hoosiers will not have back-to-back road contests during the 2024 slate and play consecutive home games on three occasions. Times and television designations will be announced closer to the start of the 2024 season.
Indiana opens the season against FIU on August 31. It marks the third time in program history the two programs meet in a season opener and the first at Memorial Stadium. IU played FIU in the 2016 and 2018 season openers in Miami. The first meeting with Western Illinois follows on September 7 at home.
The first Big Ten Conference game to feature one of the four new members will take place at the historic Rose Bowl Stadium when Indiana travels to take on UCLA on September 14. It will be the first meeting between the two teams and IU’s first trip to the historic venue since the 1968 Rose Bowl team that finished 9-2 and won the Big Ten with a 6-1 record.
The final non-conference game arrives a week later versus Charlotte on September 21 before the B1G home opener against Maryland on September 28. After a trip to Northwestern on October 5, Indiana will have an idle week in front of back-to-back home games versus Nebraska (10/19) and Big Ten newcomer Washington (10/26). The matchup with the Huskies will be fourth meeting between the two programs and first since 2003.
The Old Brass Spittoon will be up for grabs in East Lansing, Michigan on November 2 when Indiana travels north to face Michigan State. Michigan heads to Bloomington for a November 9 contest and, after the second idle week, Indiana’s final road contest at Ohio State is slated for November 23.
A battle for the Old Oaken Bucket occupies its historic spot at the end of the regular season, as Purdue will head to Memorial Stadium for the 127th edition of the rivalry on November 30.
Hoosiers Host Badgers in Big Ten Quarterfinal
Big Ten regular season co-champion and No. 1-seeded Indiana men’s soccer (9-4-4, 4-2-2 B1G) will welcome No. 8-seeded Wisconsin (6-4-6, 2-2-4 B1G) to Bill Armstrong Stadium on Friday (Nov. 3) in the Big Ten Tournament Quarterfinal round. The Big Ten Plus digital platform will stream the match. Kickoff is set for 7:30pm.
Due to the 6:30pm start time for the IU men’s basketball exhibition game against Marian, the normal parking opportunities for home IU men’s soccer matches will not be available Friday. If you are attending the men’s soccer match, gameday parking will be available at:
Parking lot across from St. Paul’s Church off 17th Street Fee Lane Garage (also referred to as the Kelley School of Business garage) – 709 N Fee Lane
- Indiana is the Big Ten Tournament’s winningest program, both by wins (44) and number of titles (15). The Hoosiers have a 44-11-13 (.743) record in the conference tournament.
- IU has failed to advance from the first round just six times in 32 tournaments and has appeared in the final in 22 seasons.
- Senior defensive midfielder Hugo Bacharach was named the Big Ten Player of the Week for his performance in the title-clinching, 4-1 rout of Rutgers on Sunday. Bacharach scored IU’s first goal and assisted Samuel Sarver in the victory.
ABOUT THE BADGERS
- Wisconsin finished the regular season 6-4-6 and 2-2-4 in the Big Ten. The Badgers are 1-3-2 in road matches.
- The Badgers are led by second-year Head Coach Neil Jones, who owns a 12-10-10 during his time in Madison and a 93-64-36 record over 11 seasons as a H Head Coach.
- Sophomore Forward Thomas Raimbault leads the Badgers offensively with three goals and two assists totaling eight points.
IU has a 26-1-2 home record against Wisconsin all-time and had won 17 consecutive home matches versus the Badgers prior to the draw this season.
Former Indiana University Runner set to race in the Pan-American Games on Saturday Former distance runner Daniel Michalski will represent the United States at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, on Saturday, in the 3000m steeplechase. He was close to an Olympic berth in 2021 where He placed fourth at trials in 2021, almost earning an Olympic berth. He also set a personal best time of 8:20.96.
A 2019 graduate transfer, Michalski made an impact in his first season with the Hoosiers by making the NCAA National Championships roster placing seventh in the nation and earned a Big Ten silver medal. Prior to Indiana, he competed at Cedarville University where he was named the 2017 NCAA Division II Outdoor National Champion in the steeplechase his junior year. Michalski won with a school-record time of 8:44.49. He was also Cedarville’s first NCAA men’s national champion. To follow along, results of the PanAm games can be viewed HERE on the Olympics website.
IFS Named First-Ever Official Technology Partner of Big Ten Conference
The Big Ten Conference and Big Ten Network (BTN) today announced the addition of IFS, the global cloud enterprise software company, as an official partner of the Big Ten Conference, the nation’s premier athletic and academic conference. As the first-ever technology partner of the conference and network, IFS becomes the Official Technology Partner of the Big Ten Conference.
Throughout the partnership, IFS will provide feature segments on BTN and deliver advanced statistics into game broadcasts. In addition, IFS will present the Big Ten Football Players of the Week awards and serve as the presenting sponsor of the Big Ten Baseball Tournament. The IFS brand will also be featured in an array of media assets and TV visible signage in Big Ten men’s and women’s basketball, football and various Olympic sports.
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