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Indiana men’s basketball got its first Quad 1 win of the season and the first signature win of the Darian DeVries era Tuesday night, knocking off the No. 12 Purdue Boilermakers 72-67. The win brings Indiana back to .500 in Big Ten play at 5-5 halfway through the 20-game conference season. Nick Dorn got the […]
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Indiana men’s basketball (13-7, 4-5 Big Ten) is set to take on rival Purdue (17-3, 7-2 Big Ten) in a home matchup on Tuesday night. The Hoosiers’ last outing was an 82-69 road win over Rutgers that snapped a four-game losing streak in Big Ten play. Indiana fell to Nebraska, Michigan State, Iowa and Michigan […]
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Indiana’s new head coach Darian DeVries will get his first taste of the Indiana-Purdue rivalry this week, as the Hoosiers host the Boilermakers Tuesday night in Assembly Hall. Purdue comes into the matchup ranked No. 12 in the latest AP Poll, making them the fourth ranked opponent Indiana has seen over the last five games. […]
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Indiana’s offensive line keeps getting good news this offseason. Bray Lynch, the Hoosiers’ starter at right guard for the 2025 national championship run, announced he’ll be returning to the program for the 2026 season on social media on Sunday. Lynch was a member of Indiana’s signing class of 2022 and redshirted as a freshman his […]
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One of the greatest Indiana wide receivers in recent memory is off to the NFL. Omar Cooper Jr., the Hoosiers’ leader in receptions and receiving yards during their 2025 national championship run, is declaring for the 2026 NFL Draft, he posted on social media. He was a 4-star prospect in the class of 2022 out […]
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Indiana football’s offensive line just got some great news. Carter Smith, the Hoosiers’ starter at left tackle since the 2023 season, announced that he’ll be returning to the program for the 2026 season on social media. He’d previously said as much on the field following the Hoosiers’ win over Miami in the College Football Playoff […]
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One of the stars of Indiana’s rise to the top of college football is off to the NFL. Mikail Kamara, a starter at defensive end for the past two seasons at Indiana, announced his intention to declare for the 2026 NFL Draft on Saturday shortly after the Hoosiers’ national championship celebration at Memorial Stadium in […]
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Indiana football’s defense just got a huge boost. Tyrique Tucker, one of the Hoosiers’ most productive defensive players at tackle, will return for his final year of eligibility in the 2026 season, he shared social media. He emerged as a starter this past season after showing great potential as a member of the line’s rotation […]
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Having lost four straight games, Darian DeVries found himself in a tough spot in his first season as Indiana’s head coach. All four of the losses came against ranked opponents, two of them being on the road, so they weren’t necessarily bad on paper. But the Hoosiers didn’t look competitive for stretches (sometimes long ones) […]
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Not much had been going well for Darian DeVries’ Indiana Hoosiers over the last four games, over which they went 0-4 and lost the last three games by 10 or more points. DeVries desperately needed a get-right game to keep his first season at Indiana from going off the rails heading into Friday night’s game […]
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Fernando Mendoza made it official on Friday: he’s declaring for the NFL Draft. He shared the news on social media, posting a video to Instagram and LinkedIn reflecting on his time and accomplishments at Indiana before sharing his intentions. Mendoza, the most decorated individual player in Indiana program history, leaves Bloomington as a Big Ten […]
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Indiana football is hiring Tyson Brown, the senior associate head coach and director of strength and conditioning at Colorado State, as the program’s new head strength and conditioning coach, according to reporting from Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports. Derek Owings, Indiana’s previous head strength and conditioning coach, left to take the same role at Tennessee […]
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Indiana football quarterback Fernando Mendoza has shined on some of the biggest stages this season from the Heisman Trophy ceremony in New York City to the College Football Playoff National Championship Game in Miami Gardens. He’ll occupy a different stage at 11:35 p.m. on Thursday night: that of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, per […]
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Indiana football’s top cornerback is heading to the NFL. D’Angelo Ponds, on the heels of the Hoosiers’ win in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game, said he plans on declaring for the 2026 NFL Draft on Thursday during an appearance at Raising Cane’s in Bloomington, per Zach Osterman of the Indianapolis Star. Ponds was […]
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The Indiana Hoosiers are national champions of college football. Indiana, the No. 1-seed in this past College Football Playoff, outlasted No. 10-seed Miami in a 27-21 victory in the National Championship Game on Monday night at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, winning its first national title in program history. The folks over at […]
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Part of what made Indiana football’s 2025 National Championship run so newsworthy was the makeup of the Hoosiers’ roster, largely full of players who were generally described as ‘overlooked,’ in some capacity. By now, most are familiar with the fact that Fernando Mendoza went from a 2-star recruit of high school to winning the Heisman, […]
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Indiana football hasn’t been without its detractors during its marvelous two year run of success under head coach Curt Cignetti. Few have been as sharp and perhaps none have been as prolific as Paul Finebaum, a television-radio personality and the songbird of the SEC. Finebaum was critical of Indiana’s inclusion in 2024’s College Football Playoff, […]
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Indiana football claimed its first national title in program history on Monday night, beating Miami 27-21 in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game. It’s the most significant achievement for the athletic department in decades. The game and eventual win drew plenty of attention on social media with public figures from rapper Lil Wayne to […]
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Derek Owings, Indiana football’s Director of Athletic Performance, has been hired as the Director of Football Sports Performance at Tennessee, roughly the same job, the Volunteers’ program confirmed on Tuesday. Owings was in his second season with the Hoosiers after following head coach Curt Cignetti from the same role at James Madison. He’s previously worked […]
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Alberto Mendoza, Indiana football’s second string quarterback in 2025 through its run to the National Championship, has entered the transfer portal, according to reporting from ESPN. Mendoza, the younger brother of starting quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza, has been with the Hoosiers since before the 2024 season. He flipped his commitment to Indiana […]
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It literally does not get better than this for Indiana football fans. Monday night’s win over Miami in the National Championship game capped off a 16-0 season for Indiana, the first time since Yale did it in 1894 that a team has won 16 games in a season with out a loss. The Hoosiers had […]
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Indiana football beat Miami 27-21 on Monday night at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. Here are three takeaways from the game: The Indiana Hoosiers The Indiana Hoosiers are a college football team. They play their games at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. It wasn’t a fully unclosed stadium until Barack Obama was in […]
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Indiana needed a play. Miami was driving and the deficit was just six points with just under two minutes left in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game. A touchdown and an extra point would put the Hurricanes in front with just a few, if any, seconds left for Indiana to make anything happen. The […]
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It happened. It’s real. The Indiana Hoosiers are national champions in college football. Indiana beat Miami 27-21 on Monday night in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game to win the program’s first national championship. It’s the biggest win for Indiana, in any sport, in decades. The folks over at BreakingT have been hard at […]
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The Hoosiers did it. In Curt Cignetti’s second year as head coach, Indiana has won its first National Championship in program history, finishing the season at a perfect 16-0. It was Indiana’s first undefeated season, first Big Ten Championship win, first Rose Bowl win, and first three College Football Playoff wins in program history. Indiana […]
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