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Indiana football at Purdue: 3 keys to retain the Old Oaken Bucket
No. 2 Indiana football is set to make the short trip up north take on rival Purdue for the Old Oaken Bucket Trophy on Friday at Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana. The Hoosiers are looking to go 12-0 while the Boilermakers are looking for their first win in Big Ten play. Here’s the biggest […]
Indiana football: Big Ten Championship game scenarios for the Hoosiers
Indiana football is heading up north on Friday to take on rival Purdue at Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette in the annual battle for the Old Oaken Bucket. Should the Hoosiers win, they’d complete the first 12-0 regular season in program history and, more than that, secure a spot in the 2025 Big Ten Football […]
Remember that time… Peyton Ramsey led Indiana over Purdue in 2019?
Indiana football hasn’t had a ton of recent rivalry success aside from the rather prominent 66-0 drubbing the Hoosiers handed the Boilermakers last season to reclaim the Old Oaken Bucket. The program, then led by Tom Allen, lost the prior three matchups with some pretty lopsided margins favoring the team to the north. Then there […]
Indiana football at Purdue: Q&A with Hammer and Rails
Indiana football is set to make the short trip up north to West Lafayette on Friday to take on rival Purdue in the battle for the Old Oaken Bucket at Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana. We (metaphorically) sat down with the good folks at our SB Nation sister site covering all things Boilermakers, Hammer […]
Purdue DC Mike Scherer on Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza: ‘Extremely smart’
Indiana football is set to take on rival Purdue for the Old Oaken Bucket on Friday at Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana. The Boilermakers’ athletic department parted ways with former head coach Ryan Walters after the Hoosiers’ 66-0 win in Bloomington last season. In steps a new staff and pretty new roster led by […]
Indiana football key matchups: Purdue’s wide receiver corps
Indiana football is set to make the short trip up north on Friday to take on Purdue at Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana. The Boilermakers have had a less-than-ideal start to the Barry Odom era this season. Purdue sits at 2-9 on the season and is still searching for its first win in conference […]
IU basketball beats Kansas State 86-69: 3 takeaways
Indiana men’s basketball moved to 6-0 under head coach Darian DeVries with an 86-69 win over Kansas State at Assembly Hall this Tuesday. The win brings Indiana to 2-0 against high-major programs, including the neutral site win over Marquette. Outside of a stretch of about eight minutes in the first half when the Hoosiers let […]
Everything Darian DeVries said after Indiana’s win over Kansas State
Indiana men’s basketball head coach Darian DeVries addressed the media after the Hoosiers’ 86-69 win over Kansas State on Tuesday night at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. Here’s what he had to say: Q: Darian, Tayton said Conor has been talking about this match-up defensively for, like, three days and his desire to go up against […]
Everything Tayton Conerway, Reed Bailey said after beating Kansas State
Indiana men’s basketball’s Tayton Conerway and Reed Bailey spoke with the media following the Hoosiers’ 86-69 win over Kansas State on Tuesday night at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. Here’s what they had to say: Q: Tayton, can you talk about what the game plan was to slow down Haggerty and how you guys executed it? CONERWAY: […]
IU basketball’s defense stifles Kansas State, PJ Haggerty in 86-69 win
Kansas State entered Assembly Hall with one of the highest-scoring offenses in the country. The Wildcats were among the very best 3-point shooting teams nationally and had P.J. Haggerty, men’s college basketball’s leading scorer with 28 points per game, regularly catching defenders out of position and finishing at the rim or firing from deep. They […]
IU beats Kansas State 86-69: 5 things we learned about the Hoosiers
Indiana men’s basketball earned an 86-69 win over Kansas State on Tuesday night at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana. The Hoosiers came out swinging, with early 3s and free throws building up a 20-4 lead just six and a half minutes into the matchup. While the offensive production cooled off some in the […]
Quick Reaction: IU men’s basketball beats Kansas State 86-69
After suffering through some slow starts the last couple of times out, the Indiana Hoosiers hit the ground running against Kansas State. Indiana had eight points before the Wildcats got on the board, locking in on both ends of the floor to build an early lead. Between forcing turnovers on defense and making 3-pointers on […]
Where Indiana sits in the College Football Playoff rankings in Week 14
The College Football Playoff’s selection committee unveiled its fourth set of rankings for the 2025 season during a live show on Tuesday night. Indiana, ranked No. 2 in both the AP and Coaches’ top-25 polls, remained at No. 2 for the fourth straight week. The Hoosiers are coming off of a bye week following a […]
Indiana football: Purdue may play two quarterbacks against Hoosiers
You may end up feeling a bit of déjà vu on Friday when Indiana heads up north to take on Purdue at Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette. The Hoosiers rather notoriously couldn’t decide between two quarterbacks, Tayven Jackson and Brendan Sorsby, during Tom Allen’s final season as the program’s head coach in 2023. Both saw […]
Darian DeVries on Kansas State: ‘They put a lot of pressure on your defense’
Indiana men’s basketball is set to take on one of the highest scoring offenses in college basketball’s early season when Kansas State comes to Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall on Tuesday night. The Wildcats rank in at 37th nationally in offensive efficiency, take 41.1% of their shots from 3-point range and convert on 43.3% of those […]
Indiana football’s Curt Cignetti compliments Purdue, Barry Odom
Curt Cignetti is entering his second Old Oaken Bucket matchup against Purdue as Indiana’s head coach. His first was a statement 66-0 win in Bloomington that cemented the Hoosiers’ bid for an at-large spot in the 2024 College Football Playoff. This week, Indiana has a chance to clinch a spot in the Big Ten Football […]
IU women’s basketball at FGCU: How to watch, more
Indiana (5-0, 0-0 Big Ten) is set to take on Florida Gulf Coast (1-2, 0-0 ASUN) on Tuesday afternoon at Alico Arena in Fort Myers, Florida. The Hoosiers are coming off of a strong 72-53 win over Butler and won their most recent game in the Sunshine State, a 76-72 road win over Florida State […]
Everything Darian DeVries said ahead of Indiana vs Kansas State
Indiana men’s basketball head coach Darian DeVries addressed the media during a press conference ahead of the Hoosiers’ matchup against Kansas State on Tuesday night at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana. Here’s what he had to say: Q: You’ve done rebuilds the last two years at Drake and West Virginia. You had the preseason […]
Darian DeVries gives injury updates on Aleksa Ristic, Jason Drake, more
Indiana men’s basketball head coach Darian DeVries gave a handful of updates on his team’s health during a press conference ahead of the Hoosiers’ matchup against Kansas State on Tuesday night in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana. The Hoosiers have been without two guards, Aleksa Ristic and Jason Drake and one forward, Josh […]
Everything Curt Cignetti said ahead of Purdue
Indiana football head coach Curt Cignetti addressed the media during his usual Monday press conference ahead of the Hoosiers’ matchup with Purdue on Friday at Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana. Here’s what he had to say: CIGNETTI: Coach Odom has got them playing hard. They’ve been very competitive at home. You look at Purdue. […]
Curt Cignetti gives injury updates on Elijah Sarratt, Drew Evans, more
Indiana football head coach Curt Cignetti provided a handful of injury updates during his usual Monday afternoon press conference ahead of the Hoosiers’ matchup against Purdue on Friday at Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana. The Hoosiers have been without multiple players for the past few weeks and others have kept playing with minor injuries. […]
IU men’s basketball ranked for first time under Darian DeVries
For the first time under head coach Darian DeVries, Indiana men’s basketball is ranked in the AP top-25 poll, appearing at No. 25 when the rankings were released on Monday afternoon. Ironically, it’s Indiana’s first appearance in the poll in just about a year. The Hoosiers were No. 14 on November 25, 2024, before a […]
Can Indiana keep scoring when 3s aren’t falling? Here’s what the fans think
Indiana men’s basketball opened the 2025-26 season, the program’s first under head coach Darian DeVries, on an offensive tear unseen around the men’s program in several seasons. The Hoosiers scored no less than 90 points across their first three matchups including a 100-77 thumping of Marquette at the United Center in Chicago. They were taking […]
IU basketball key matchups: Kansas State’s P.J. Haggerty
Indiana men’s basketball is set to take on Kansas State on Tuesday night at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana. This matchup presents more of a challenge than the Hoosiers have faced up to this point. Indiana is 5-0 on the season with one of those wins, a 100-77 thumping of Marquette in Chicago, […]
IU basketball vs Kansas State: 3 things to know
Indiana (5-0, 0-0 Big Ten) is set for a matchup against Kansas State (5-1, 0-0 Big 12) on Tuesday at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana. The Hoosiers are coming off of two consecutive sluggish performances against mid-major competition after opening the season on an offense tear, never scoring less than 90 points in […]
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