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It’s been a pretty substantial week of news around Indiana Athletics. The Hoosier football program is coming off of a week loaded with commitments and other recruiting activity while the men’s basketball program is reportedly involved in a new multi-team non-conference event. Here’s what you need to know about the Hoosiers today: ICYMI on The […]
It was an eventful week in recruiting for Indiana football as the Hoosiers picked up four commitments in the class of 2027 while losing one. Meanwhile, Indiana’s staff is on the road visiting high school programs and prospects around the country. Here’s what you need to know in Indiana recruiting from this past week: Commitments […]
Indiana football’s staff has been hard at work since the conclusion of spring ball, hitting the recruiting trail in visiting prospects on the road, extending scholarship offers, scheduling visits and hosting priority targets in Bloomington. The program is set to host another visitor in June, as of this week. Chris Bradley, a cornerback in the […]
Indiana football’s staff has been hard at work on the recruiting trail since spring ball ended, extending offers, visiting prospects on the road and getting visits locked in. They landed another visitor earlier this week. The Hoosiers are set to host Jahmiere Daniels-Portis, a linebacker in the class of 2027, for an official visit in […]
A big recruiting week for Indiana football continued on Thursday afternoon when the Hoosiers landed their seventh commitment in the class of 2027. Jordan Carrasquillo, a wide receiver in the class of 2027, announced his commitment to Indiana via social media. He chose the Hoosiers over offers from Maryland, Wake Forest and Cincinnati, according to […]
One of the first players to commit to Indiana out of the transfer portal this season was Jaeden Mustaf, a 6’6” combo guard/wing who has played two years at Georgia Tech. He started 10 games as a freshman, appearing in 26, before becoming a regular in the starting lineup last season. Despite some sites listing […]
Recruiting the state is always a huge priority for Indiana football, but the class of 2027 is proving even more pivotal than usual given the prospects at the top, including one who’s seen his recruitment skyrocket in recent weeks. Errol Kearns III is a safety out of Lawrence Central High School in Indianapolis who’s currently […]
Neutral site non-conference tournaments have been a thing for decades in men’s and women’s college basketball, but we’re only getting more and more of them with the onset of the NIL era. Now, Indiana men’s basketball is linked to the latest one. The “Diamond Cup,” is an eight-team event under discussion to be played starting […]
Indiana football head coach Curt Cignetti is perhaps the most renowned winner in all of college football. He’s done so at each of his stops as a head coach all the way to Bloomington, where he took one of the sport’s losingest programs to a national championship in just two seasons. On Sunday, he’ll have […]
One of the biggest stories of the college football offseason is tied to Indiana football. A bit. Brendan Sorsby, who was on Indiana’s roster during the 2022 and 2023 seasons, emerging as the starting quarterback in the latter, revealed that he’s been betting on sports during his time as an athlete at both Indiana and […]
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NCAA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in IU fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Indiana men’s basketball’s first season under head coach Darian DeVries ended with disappointment when a late […]
Monday was pretty up and down for Indiana football. Or down and up is probably a more accurate way of phrasing it. First, Indiana lost one of its high school commitments in the class of 2027 when Monsanna Torbert Jr., a defensive back out of Princeton High School in Cincinnati, announced his decommitment from the […]
It was a pretty big recruiting weekend in Bloomington for Indiana football. The program hosted a slew of visitors and landed two commitments. The first, Rico Jackson, is a defensive back out of Quince Orchard High School in Gaithersburg, Maryland. He pledged to join the Hoosiers on Friday during an official visit after receiving a […]
Curt Cignetti got his sixth commitment from the class of 2027, landing in-state offensive lineman, Mason McDermott. McDermott announced his commitment on Twitter while on his visit to Bloomington this weekend. Per 247 Sports, McDermott is the fifth best prospect in the state of Indiana, playing at Noblesville High School, and the 27th best offensive […]
Every major collegiate sports postseason event seems to be expanding. The NCAA Tournament recently made the move to 76 teams from 68 and the College Football Playoff went from just four teams to 12 starting with the 2024 season. It was then that Curt Cignetti took over a long-ailing Indiana football program and led it […]
Entering 2026, two things were true for Indiana football: The Hoosiers had never won a national championship nor seen a 5-star prospect commit to join the program. Now, with January’s win in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game and a recent prediction from On3/Rivals vice president Steve Wiltfong, both could change this year. Wiltfong […]
Indiana football’s staff is taking full advantage of the quieter period of the calendar between spring football and summer football. The Hoosiers are on the recruiting trail putting in more work on established prospects in the class of 2027 while building early connections in the class of 2028. The program made one of the latter […]
Indiana football’s unprecedented two-year rise from the depths of irrelevance to the best team in the sport spurred a wave of optimism across college football. If the Hoosiers can do it, why not us? In 2025, that was Illinois fans. In fairness to the Fighting Illini, the “next Indiana,” label was applied by external national […]
Tino Sunseri, Indiana’s co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, is back in Bloomington after a brief stint at UCLA. Just like in 2024, he’s hit the ground running on the recruiting trail looking for passers to run Curt Cignetti and Mike Shanahan’s offense in the future. The program’s eyes are turning more toward 2028 lately as […]
Indiana football is making more moves at quarterback in the high school recruiting class of 2028 this month. Tino Sunseri, months into his second stint in Bloomington, is hitting the ground running in the same way he did in 2024. Bode Spence, a quarterback, was recently extended a scholarship offer from the Hoosiers back on […]
Indiana football’s staff is taking full advantage of the quite period between spring football and summer football, hitting the road and the phones to talk with prospects as they look to build up the 2027 and 2028 recruiting classes. Among the latest targets is Ryan Peterson, a linebacker in the class of 2028 out of […]
Indiana football is making moves in the high school recruiting class of 2027 and has a massive chance to make an impression on one of the top prospects at safety this weekend. Davion Jones out of William Amos Hough High School in Cornelius, North Carolina, released his top-5 programs this week and the Hoosiers are […]
Indiana football offered Ifeanyi Emedobi, an in-state edge rush prospect out of Fort Wayne, back in April. Now his recruitment has moved onto the next stage. Emedobi has an official visit to Bloomington scheduled for June, per his social media. He’s rated as a 4-star prospect in the 247Sports Composite, ranking in as the 36th […]
Indiana won the national championship largely thanks to its defensive line. The Hoosiers’ front was among the most disruptive in the country and the staff is looking to build it up to maintain that level of play for several seasons to come. Myles Smith, a 4-star prospect at edge rusher in the class of 2027, […]
Hoping to watch this year’s running of the Indianapolis 500? What about Indiana football head coach Curt Cignetti’s turn in the pace car? Worry no longer. Tickets or not, the race will be broadcast in the Indianapolis area. With the news of reserved seating at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway selling out again, the local blackout […]