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It’s December in 2004. Indiana University has hired a new head football coach. Terry Hoeppner, or “Hep,” was a Hoosier, born in Woodburn, Indiana. He was also a winner. He’d risen up the coaching ranks from high school to college, eventually taking over at Miami (OH) in 1999, leading the RedHawks to a MAC Championship […]
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Indiana became the first team in the 12-team playoff era to survive the First Round Bye and advance to College Football Playoff Semifinals, doing so in dominant fashion against an Alabama team that was alleged to be more battle-tested than the Hoosiers. Outside of some potential jitters and probable technical issues on the first and […]
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For the eighth time this season, Curt Cignetti’s Indiana Hoosiers got out to a big enough lead to bring in Alberto Mendoza and the the rest of the second-team players for some second half reps. This time, it came against the Alabama Crimson Tide in the Rose Bowl, helping Indiana advance to the College Football […]
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No. 1-seed Indiana football is set to take on No. 9-seed Alabama this afternoon in the 2026 Rose Bowl Game, which doubles as a College Football Playoff Quarterfinal, at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California. We’ve said this quite a bit as of late, but this is in all likelihood the biggest game in […]
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Indiana football could be getting some good recruiting news in the coming days. Turbo Richard, a sophomore running back out of Boston College who entered his name into the transfer portal this week, has received a crystal ball prediction to commit to Indiana, with 247Sports’ Tony Morrell logging it on Tuesday morning. Morrell is an […]
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Indiana’s going to be in the market for some backfield help this offseason. Roman Hemby and Kaelon Black, the Hoosiers’ top two running backs will be out of eligibility and off to the NFL if they choose that path. It won’t be as much of a reset as this past offseason, with Khobie Martin likely […]
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Indiana football received some bad news on the heels of the Big Ten Football Championship game win when Curt Cignetti announced that the team would be without Stephen Daley for the remainder of the season after he suffered an injury after said game. Alongside Mikail Kamara, Daley was the only edge rusher to appear in […]
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Curt Cignetti’s Indiana will see one of the most talented quarterbacks its faced this year in Alabama’s Ty Simpson this Thursday at the Rose Bowl. It won’t be the first time Bryant Haines’ group will be tasked with containing an elite quarterback, but Simpson brings some things to the table Indiana hasn’t seen yet. For […]
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No. 1-seed Indiana got some good news ahead of the Rose Bowl. Junior wide receiver Omar Cooper Jr., the Hoosiers’ leader in receiving yards this season, is expected to be available for the Rose Bowl Game against No. 9-seed Alabama, per reporting from ESPN’s Pete Thamel. He left the Big Ten Championship game win over […]
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Indiana women’s basketball returns to Big Ten action on Monday evening, taking on Big Ten foe Minnesota at home. Minnesota is a program that’s had the tools to be a consistent winner for a fair amount of time now and has been on the rise under head coach Dawn Plitzuweit, a Midwest native who was […]
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Indiana football may be in the market for a quarterback this coming offseason. The Hoosiers have enjoyed great success at the position through two seasons under head coach Curt Cignetti, with Kurtis Rourke guiding the offense to a 11-2 finish in 2024 and Fernando Mendoza winning the 2025 Heisman Trophy on top of the Big […]
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Indiana football may be in the market for a quarterback this coming offseason. The Hoosiers have enjoyed great success at the position through two seasons under head coach Curt Cignetti, with Kurtis Rourke guiding the offense to a 11-2 finish in 2024 and Fernando Mendoza winning the 2025 Heisman Trophy on top of the Big […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
Indiana football may be in the market for a quarterback this coming offseason. The Hoosiers have enjoyed great success at the position through two seasons under head coach Curt Cignetti, with Kurtis Rourke guiding the offense to a 11-2 finish in 2024 and Fernando Mendoza winning the 2025 Heisman Trophy on top of the Big […]
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Indiana football may be in the market for a quarterback this coming offseason. The Hoosiers have enjoyed great success at the position through two seasons under head coach Curt Cignetti, with Kurtis Rourke guiding the offense to a 11-2 finish in 2024 and Fernando Mendoza winning the 2025 Heisman Trophy on top of the Big […]
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Indiana football may be in the market for a quarterback this coming offseason. The Hoosiers have enjoyed great success at the position through two seasons under head coach Curt Cignetti, with Kurtis Rourke guiding the offense to a 11-2 finish in 2024 and Fernando Mendoza winning the 2025 Heisman Trophy on top of the Big […]
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Indiana women’s basketball (11-2, 0-1 Big Ten) is set to take on Minnesota (9-3, 0-1 Big Ten) in its return from a holiday break on Monday evening. The Hoosiers’ last outing was a 71-44 win over Western Carolina that featured a bit of a slow start before they began to run away with it in […]
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After an opening round bye, No. 1-seed Indiana football is back in action this Thursday against the No. 9-seed Alabama Crimson Tide in the Rose Bowl. Curt Cignetti, Fernando Mendoza, and the rest of the team will have an opportunity to extend the dream season and continue writing program history. Standing in their way will […]
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When Indiana football enters the 2026 season, it’ll almost certainly do so without quarterback Fernando Mendoza. Mendoza, the 2025 Heisman Trophy winner, is projected as an early first round selection in this coming spring’s NFL Draft. He’s led the Hoosiers to the best regular season in program history and their first Big Ten championship in […]
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More and more college basketball programs are making midseason moves to strengthen rosters. Some of these signings look to be moves for the sake of adding depth. Others seem to be swings at players with real upside as starters. Either way, the practice has generated plenty of controversy around the sport, which has absorbed several […]
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Indiana football will enter the offseason looking to reload through the transfer portal ahead of the 2025 season with a handful of positional needs. The Hoosiers still intend to build primarily through the high school route and this offseason could yield less movement than the first two under head coach Curt Cignetti, but there’s always […]
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Indiana football is set to have a few openings in the offensive backfield. Roman Hemby and Kaelon Black, who’ve gotten the majority of carries in 2025, are both set to run out of eligibility. Lee Beebe Jr., who suffered a season ending injury against Indiana State after transferring in from UAB last offseason, could return […]
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Indiana men’s basketball moved to 10-3 on the season with an up-and-down 81-60 win over Siena on Monday evening in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. The Hoosiers build a substantial cushion with an outstanding performance in the first half before a lackluster showing in the second kept them from turning this into another 100-point outing. There’s […]
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When Indiana football’s defense takes the field for the Rose Bowl, it’ll be shorthanded. Stephen Daley, one of the Hoosiers’ top edge rushers this season, will be out with an injury suffered during the aftermath of the Big Ten Football Championship game win over Ohio State. He was one of Indiana’s most productive defenders on […]
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Indiana is set to see plenty of familiar faces at the Rose Bowl. It’s no secret that Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer was previously the Hoosiers’ offensive coordinator for a single season in 2019 prior to his rapid rise to the top of the sport’s coaching ladder. But, after taking the Washington and Alabama jobs, […]
about 2 months ago | 1 read
Indiana opened as the betting favorite over Alabama in the 2026 Rose Bowl Game, which doubles as a College Football Playoff quarterfinal, with FanDuel Sportsbook giving it a 6.5-point edge. The over/under is set at 48.5 points. The No. 1-seed Hoosiers are set to face off against the No. 9-seed Crimson Tide after the latter […]
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