#22 Indiana faces #6 Louisville at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in the CareSource Invitational The #22 Indiana Hoosiers are looking to bounce back after suffering thier first loss under new Head Coach Darian DeVries when they battle #6 Louisville Cardinals this afternoon at 2:15 PM at a sold-out Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis with the game televised on CBS. The game is part of the third annual CareSource Invitational which is a series of college basketball games dedicated to raising awareness and funds for adolescent and young adult mental health.
This will be the 23rd time these two programs have meet with Indiana holding a 12-10 series lead. Indiana and Louisville are meeting on a neutral floor for the third consecutive season. Indiana rallied from a second half deficit at the Empire Classic at Madison Square Garden in New York City to win 74-66 on November 20, 2023, with Kel’el Ware leading the way with 12 points and 7 rebounds. Louisville beat Indiana 89-61 in the Opening Round of the Battle 4 Atlantis in Nassau The Bahamas on November 27, 2024. This will be the sixth time both teams are ranked coming into the matchup with Louisville holding a 3-2 edge.
Indiana is 7-1 on the season and 0-1 in the Big Ten after dropping thier conference opener Wednesday Night 73-64 at Minnesota. The Hoosiers had 22 points off turnovers and 13 points off the bench holding the Golden Gophers to just 5 points off turnovers and 1 point off the bench. Indiana struggled on offense going 22-55 for 40 percent and 8-27 from beyond at the arc for 29 percent. Tayton Conerway led the way with 18 points and Lamar Wilkerson scored 15 points. Sam Alexis had 10 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists. Conor Enright had 7 assists. Tucker DeVries who leads the Hoosiers with 16.8 points per game was held to 9 points for the second time in three games after 9-point game against Kansas State on November 25.
Indiana has five players who average double figures. Lamar Wilkerson averages 16.5 points. Tayton Conerway averages 12.6 points while he leads the Hoosiers with 4.9 assists and 2 steals per game. Reed Bailey averages 10.6 points and Sam Alexis leads the Hoosiers with 6 rebounds and 1.2 blocks while averaging 10.5 points per game. The Hoosiers are averaging 86 points and 9 turnovers per game. Indiana is shooting 49 percent from the field, 36 percent from three-point range and 75 percent from free throw line. Freshman Aleska Ristic made his Indiana debut Wednesday Night. The Freshman from Serbia has been out due to injury and played 3 minutes against Minnesota giving the Hoosiers another healthy body off the bench.
Louisville is 7-1 and coming off a 89-80 loss at #25 Arkansas Wednesday Night. The backcourt matchup will be a good one as Indianapolis Pike Graduate Ryan Conwell leads the Cardinals with 19.5 points per game and has hit 31 triples this season. Freshman Guard Mikel Brown Jr. who is considered a 2026 presumptive NBA Lottery Draft Pick is averaging 17.6 points and a team leading 5.6 assists per game. Isaac McNeeley adds 12.1 points per game while shooting 41 percent from long distance. Junior big man Sananda Fru averages 10.1 points along with a team leading 6.1 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game. Kobe Rodgers leads the Cardinals with 1.5 steals per game. Louisville is the second in the nation making 12.6 triples per game and averages 94.6 points a game.
Louisville commits 10 turnovers a game while shooting 47 percent from the field, 35 percent from three-point range and 76 percent from the free throw line. The Cardinals have 15 player roster that represents Kentucky, Florida, Indiana, Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio, Alabama, West Virginia, Washington DC, Senegal, Germany, Egypt and Greece. There are 8 Seniors, 2 Juniors, 2 Sophomores and 3 Freshmen. Head Coach Pat Kelsey is in his second season at Louisville with 34-9 record after the Cardinals lost in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in 2024. Kelsey is 294-131 in 14 seasons as Head Coach with 5 NCAA Tournament Appearances with Winthrop, The College of Charleston and Louisville.
Both teams are coming off a loss and since the game is sold out there will be a lot of red in the stands. Louisville is just a 2 hour drive up interstate 65 and IU just an hour away. It will be the biggest sports day for IU fans as the football team competes in the Big Ten Football Championship Game at Lucas Oil Stadium tonight. Hoosier Nation is looking for two huge victories today and should the Hoosiers win on the hardwood this afternoon it will be the best win for Darian DeVries and this new look Hoosier squad so far.
Indiana University Women’s Basketball Opens the Big Ten Conference Season at Illinois The Indiana Hoosiers open the Big Ten Conference Season traveling to State Farm Center in Champaign with a Noon tipoff against the Illinois Fighting Illini on the Big Ten Network. Indiana is 22-21 all time in Big Ten Conference openers. Indiana has won 7 straight since the 2018-19 season and Head Coach Teri Moren is 8-3 all-time in conference openers. The Hoosiers are 8-1 and overcame a slow start to beat Western Michigan 71-53 Wednesday Night in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. Head Coach Teri Moren was not happy after the game with her teams performance and said it felt more like a loss than it did a win because of the teams lack of energy and effort.
Indiana is without forward Zania Socka-Nguemen who has missed the last two games with a lower leg injury and remains week to week. Socka-Nguemen is averaging 13 points and leading team with 9 rebounds and 0.4 blocks per game. Edessa Noyan pulled down 11 rebounds against Western Michigan has replaced Socka-Nguemen in starting lineup. The Junior from Sweden is averaging 4.2 points and 5 rebounds per game. Shay Ciezki leads the Hoosiers with 24.4 points and 1.4 steals per game. The Senior is shooting 56 percent from the field, 45 percent from three-point range and 92 percent from the free throw line. Lenee Beaumont is averaging 14.9 points, 5.1 rebounds and leads the team with 3.1 assists per game. The Hoosiers are averaging 75 points and 13 turnovers per game while shooting 48 percent from the field, 35 percent from three-point range and 75 percent from the free throw line. Indiana is 3-1 away from Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall this season. Head Coach Teri Moren is 253-112 in her 12th season in Charge of the Hoosiers and 452-243 in 23 seasons overall.
Illinois is 7-1 on the season with thier only loss coming on November 14, losing at Oregon State 64-59. Illinois is 6-0 at home winning every game by double digits. The Fighting Illini beat Florida State in Tallahassee 86-63 on November 23 as they are 1-1 away from Champaign. Berry Wallace leads the Fighting Illini in scoring at 18.3 points per game. Gretchen Dolan averages 13.4 points per game. Cereah Parchment is averaging 11.1 points while leading the team with 7.8 rebounds and 2.2 steals per game. Maddie Webber is averaging 10.3 points per game. Destiny Jackson leads the team with 4.8 assists per game and averaging 8.4 points per game. Lety Vasconcelos leads with team with a block per game and averaging 4 points per contest. Aaliyah Guyton who transfered from Iowa is averaging 7.1 points, 1.9 rebounds and 1.9 assists while averaging 17.4 minutes per game in 7 games this season. Guyton is the daughter of former IU Men’s Basketball Star A.J. Guyton.
Illinois averages 81 points and 12 turnovers per game. The Fighting Illini shoot 46 percent, 31 percent from three-point range and 82 percent from free throw line. The Fighting Illini have a 15-player roster with 5 from the home state. The rest of the team represents Ohio, New York Pennsylvania, Brazil, Australia, Spain and Canada. Illinois has 1 Senior, 3 Juniors, 6 Sophomores and 5 Freshman. Head Coach Shauna Green is in her Fourth season at Illinois with 69-36 record and 226-111 in 12 seasons. Illinois is coming on a five-game winning streak and 2 game winning streak against the Hoosiers after snapping a 16-game losing streak. Indiana is 20-18 in Champaign, and the Hoosiers lead the all-time series 49-32.
What will the Hoosiers response be after a lackluster performance Wednesday Night and Coach Moren being critical of several players after the game. Indiana is going to have another challenge inside with Freshman Cearah Parchment inside who had 16 points and 12 rebounds in 90-41 win over Bellarmine Tuesday Night. Coach Moren talked about how without the energy of Zania Socka-Nguemen in the lineup that others including Edessa Noyan, Faith Wiseman and Jade Ondineme will have to step up and fill that void and knows that if they are going to win at Illinois, they have to play a lot better than they did on Wednesday.
Indiana University Volleyball sweeps Colorado to reach the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 For just the second time in program history, the Indiana volleyball team (25-7, 14-6 B1G) is headed to the Sweet 16 and the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament. The fourth-seeded Hoosiers came from behind in the third set to finish off a sweep of fifth-seeded Colorado (25-20, 25-17, 25-23) at Wilkinson Hall on Friday night. Senior outside hitter Candela Alonso-Corcelles played one of the best games of her career in what is likely the last home game of her career. She provided 16 kills at a .556 clip, making just one attacking error in three sets. She provided six digs, three assists and two blocks in the win.
Freshman outside hitter Jaidyn Jager found an extra gear late in the match, recording 15 kills while hitting .375. She added three digs, three assists and a service ace. Senior opposite hitter Avry Tatum tallied eight kills and matched a season high with five blocks. Even though it only shows one ace in the box score, IU was relentless from the service line. Colorado was forced behind the three-meter line for most of the evening. The Hoosiers racked up 11 blocks, led by a brilliant seven-block night from senior middle blocker Madi Sell. Colorado hit just .208 on the evening.
The performance of the night came from graduate student outside hitter Jessica Smith. After not practicing all week and missing yesterday’s game, Smith stepped up to serve IU on a 5-0 from the end line. Three consecutive attacking errors handed IU a 23-22 lead in game three. Jager forced match point with her 15th kill before Colorado hit the final ball of the night out of bounds – sending IU to its first Sweet 16 since 2010. IU will wait to learn its opponent for the NCAA regional semifinals but is expected to meet top-ranked Texas next Thursday or Friday in Austin. The ESPN family of networks will carry all games in the regional round. IU’s win on Friday was the 25th of the season – further extending a single-season program record in the NCAA era.
Indiana University Women’s and Men’s Swimming and Diving Sweeps Cincinnati to close out the Fall Semester Indiana swimming and diving junior Miranda Grana’s program record 200-yard butterfly swim highlighted a complete performance, as the Hoosiers defeated Cincinnati in its final dual meet of the fall semester Friday inside the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center as The Women won 157-124 and the Men won 162-112. Already the school standard setter in the 100-yard backstroke (49.62), 200-yard backstroke (1:48.73) and 100-yard butterfly (49.98), Grana added the 200 fly to her collection Friday. Grana blew away the field with a 1:53.25, the only time under two minutes. That time toppled Gia Dalesandro’s eight-year-old record (1:53.67) set at the 2017 Big Ten Championships. Friday’s swim marked Grana’s first-career swim of the event in yards. Grana was one of eight Hoosiers to win multiple individual events – also capturing the 200 IM in 2:00.24 – as the Hoosiers won all but one event.
Sophomore Raekwon Noel led the way with three victories despite competing outside his routine program. Noel set personal bests in the 100-yard freestyle (42.86), 200-yard freestyle (1:35.33) and 200 IM (1:46.25) and helped IU win the 200-medley relay. Six freshmen contributed victories to the team win. In the 1,000 free, rookies Luci Gutierrez (9:54.97) and Luke Ellis (8:56.41) combined to sweep the event. David Kovacs swept the backstroke events with times of 48.19 and 1:44.03, and Grace Hoeper won both the 200 free (1:46.20) and 100 fly (53.46). Indiana diving swept the springboards. Senior Maxwell Weinrich and sophomore Joshua Sollenberger traded first-and-second-place finishes on the 1-meter and 3-meter, respectively, while junior Ella Roselli won both boards on the women’s side. Indiana will resume dual meet action in January, starting with a road dual at Michigan on January 9.
Indiana University Wrestling Dominates Central Michigan in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall Indiana dominated on Friday night in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, defeating Central Michigan, 33-7. The Hoosiers took eight of 10 bouts against the Chippewas and won five matches by bonus points. With the win, Indiana is now 3-1 on the season. No. 12 Jacob Moran (125) only needed a period and a half to earn a 20-5 tech fall win over Archer Anderson to put Indiana up 5-0. In the next match, Blaine Frazier (133) used a reversal in the last five seconds of the bout to earn an 8-6 decision over Andrew Austin and improve it to an 8-0 team score. Joey Buttler (149) controlled the pace against No. 30 Jimmy Nugent. Buttler didn’t allow a takedown and scored two to win by decision, 6-1.
No. 31 Derek Gilcher (174) had a season-high in points scored, winning 20-5 (5:53) by tech fall over Brayden Gautreau. The win put the team score at 24-3. No. 14 Sam Goin (184) fought from behind and earned a late third period takedown to defeat Adrien Cramer in a 5-3 decision and made the team score 27-3. After trailing for much of the match, No. 12 Gabe Sollars (197) worked a scramble into a pin against Luke Cochran and put IU up 33-3. Buttler’s win over No. 30 Jimmy Nugent was his first ranked win of his collegiate career. Moran and Lillard both stayed undefeated with their wins to improve their season record to 7-0. Indiana earned bonus points in five bouts, including two tech falls, two major decisions and one pin. This was Indiana’s first match in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall since it defeated Rider on Nov. 10, 2023. Indiana will have a short turnaround to face No. 22 Little Rock on the road on Sunday in Arkansas.
Taylor Trojans Cruise Past Archers, 118-33, in 28th-Annual Silent Night Men’s Basketball Game Taylor posted its largest margin of victory for a Silent Night game with a 118-33 win over Moody Bible in front of a frenzied crowd on Friday night inside Odle Arena. After three and a half minutes of action, Pete Combs got the ball down low and threw down a slam for TU’s tenth point, sending the students pouring onto the court and breaking the early silence in emphatic fashion. The Trojans scored the most points in Silent Night history with 118 and held Moody Bible (2-6) to the fewest points at 33, leading to an incredible 85-point margin of victory, also the largest in the storied history of Silent Night.
A slow start to the contest for Taylor quickly evaporated as Nathan Baker scored five points off the bench in a hurry, which started a 21-0 run as Taylor used the raucous crowd to push the lead. The bench got ample playing time and delivered 88 of TU’s 118 points, with four bench players scoring in double figures. Baker posted a double-double with 13 points and 11 rebounds, adding three steals and a block. Taylor’s size advantage led to a robust 63 rebounds for the home squad, 27 on the offensive end which was more than the Archers 25 total boards. A 61-22 halftime lead ballooned quickly as Izaiah Day scored eight of his team-high 19 points in the first three minutes after the break. The junior guard played just ten minutes but shot 7-10 from the field and 4-5 from beyond the arc.
Dylan Deluca scored the Trojans 100th point on a nice move inside the paint as the freshman forward shot a perfect 8-8 from the field and scored a career-high 18 points. Kaleb Edwards and Anor Wogar were the final two double-digit scores with 13 apiece. TJ Davidson had a dynamic defensive effort with four steals and added seven points, seven boards and six assists to stuff the stat sheet. Taylor improved to 27-1 all-time on Silent Night, while the students impressed with a bevy of skits and creative costumes. Moses parting the Red Sea, pickles playing pickleball, and a car wash highlighted timeout skits, while costumes included crayons, the Tune Squad, and a group of Troy Boltons. Taylor debuted its new mascot and had the drumline deliver an epic performance before tipoff in another memorable Silent Night in Upland, Indiana. Taylor (7-3, 2-1 CL) plays today against Goshen (4-6, 0-3 CL) at 3:00 pm for its final Crossroads League matchup of 2025 before finishing non-league play over winter break.