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Here are three more players from 2025 IU football team evaluating fifth year
Indiana’s roster saw a major boost this week when news broke defensive end Stephen Daley intends to come back for a fifth season after a federal injunction cleared the way for his return. Who else might be eyeing a fifth season and a return to Bloomington under the same injunction? Here are three more 2025 [...]
IU football: Stephen Daley on a modified program to get back to full speed, but ‘looks pretty good’
BLOOMINGTON — Indiana football officially added Stephen Daley to its 2026 roster. And with fall camp starting Wednesday, he’s working towards getting back to full speed. Daley suffered a season-ending injury while celebrating Indiana’s victory over Ohio State in the Big Ten Championship Game in early December, which impacted his offseason plans. NFL workouts weren’t [...]
Watch: IU football coach Curt Cignetti talks start of fall camp
Watch as IU football coach Curt Cignetti met with the media on Wednesday morning following the program’s first practice ahead of the 2026 season. Cignetti is entering his third season at Indiana. He holds a 27-2 record with the Hoosiers. Indiana opens the 2026 season on Sept. 5 against North Texas at Memorial Stadium in [...]
“We always can find ways to get better”: Why Indiana’s defensive mindset is terrifying for the rest of college football
Indiana defensive coordinator Bryant Haines won the Broyles Award as the nation’s top assistant coach a season ago. Despite that achievement, most of the attention around the national champion Hoosiers centered on Curt Cignetti and Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza. However, it was Indiana’s suffocating defense that was the unsung hero last season. In their [...]
Watch list season: Four IU football players on Nagurski watch list, two on Outland
The Football Writers Association of America released its 2026 Bronko Nagurski and Outland Trophy Watch Lists this week. The Nagurki list includes 68 defensive standouts as contenders for the national defensive player of the year, while the Outland recognizes 68 returning standout interior linemen on both sides of the ball. Indiana leads all schools with [...]
IU football: Stephen Daley returning to the Hoosiers for fifth year
Indiana’s already strong defensive line got a major boost on Tuesday afternoon. Edge rusher Stephen Daley is returning to the Hoosiers for a fifth season. After transferring in from Kent State during the offseason, Daley became one of Indiana’s most valuable defensive players as the 2025 season progressed. He was rotating early in the season [...]
IU women’s basketball freshman Zoe Jackson to miss 2026-27 season with knee injury
Indiana women’s basketball took a hit to its roster coming out of summer workouts. Freshman forward Zoe Jackson suffered a knee injury during a practice in late July, the program announced Tuesday. She’ll miss the entire 2026-27 season while recovering. “Jackson will undergo surgery in the coming weeks and will rehabilitate her injury with Indiana’s [...]
IU football ranked No. 6 in 2026 preseason coaches poll
The first official 2026 college football preseason poll was released on Monday afternoon. And Curt Cignetti has likely found another motivational tool for his third season in Bloomington. Indiana is No. 6 in the preseason coaches poll, a panel of 73 coaches across the nation that includes Cignetti. The coaches put Ohio State, Oregon, Georgia, [...]
“The people love us”: IU football players and coaches navigating life-altering fame
For 63 years, as an assistant and then lower level college head coach, Curt Cignetti could leave the house while enjoying relative autonomy. His public life started changing during Indiana’s 2024 season, when the Hoosiers stunned the college football world with an 11-1 regular season and an invite to the College Football Playoff. By then [...]
Watch list season: IU football’s Hoover on Maxwell, Clausen on Mannelly
Can IU football have a repeat winner of the Maxwell Award? Quarterback Josh Hoover is on the preseason watch list for the honor, which goes to college football’s best player. Hoover is college football’s leading returning passer with 9,629 yards and is second in touchdown passes with 71. He has 16 career 300-yard games and [...]
Notes on Hoosiers in the NFL: Kamara suffers torn ACL at 49ers camp
The news is not good after former IU football star Mikail Kamara was carted off the field at San Francisco 49ers camp this weekend. Kamara was diagnosed with a torn ACL, Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports Bay Area reports. The 49ers waived Kamara with an injury designation on Sunday, and he will revert to the [...]
Big Ten wants to eliminate its own football title game, IU players aren’t so sure
IU football players were learning for the first time on Thursday the Big Ten Championship game might soon become a thing of the past. Commissioner Tony Petitti confirmed at Big Ten Media Days in Chicago last week the 24-team College Football Playoff he is pushing necessarily means the end of early December conference title games. [...]
IU football’s home-and-home with Notre Dame beginning in 2030 cancelled
IU football fans looking forward to a home-and-home series with Notre Dame were dealt disappointing news on Monday afternoon. According to multiple reports, the games originally set for 2030 and 2031 in Notre Dame and Bloomington, respectively, have been cancelled. National reports indicate Indiana decided to cancel, but it’s worth noting Notre Dame has already [...]
Big Ten, IU football want to get CFP right before addressing non-conference schedule
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right? Yeah, that seems like a good plan for IU football, at least for the moment. Much has been made from the outside about Indiana’s nonconference schedule since Curt Cignetti took over as head coach. But after a 16-0 national championship season that included six top-10 wins, those [...]
Reaction: What the return of Sam Alexis means for IU basketball in 2026-27
Sam Alexis announced Sunday afternoon his intent to return to the IU basketball program for the 2026-27 season. What does this mean for the Hoosiers in coach Darian DeVries’ second year at the helm? INDIANA HAS SERIOUS SIZE AND EXPERIENCED FRONTCOURT DEPTH With the addition of Alexis, IU has a three-man rotation at the power [...]
IU basketball: Sam Alexis confirms intent to return in 2026-27
Sam Alexis announced Sunday afternoon his intent to return to IU basketball for the 2026-27. “Let’s do it again Hoosier Nation,” Alexis wrote on his Instagram account, accompanied by the following photo: Alexis won an injunction in a Tennessee court last week to play a fifth season of college basketball. The NCAA could appeal the [...]
IU basketball scholarship chart – updated after passage of five-year eligibility, return of Alexis
Below is the latest IU basketball scholarship chart. The most recent update accounts for the passage of five-year eligibility by the NCAA in June, 2026, and the return by Sam Alexis for a fifth season. Although 15 players may be allowed it is likely the Hoosiers will add no more than 13 players. Scholarship additions [...]
Notes on Hoosiers in the NFL: Kamara, Horton and Brady
NFL training camps are underway and there has been news related to former IU players this week. 49ers rookie defensive end Mikail Kamara was carted off the practice field on Saturday. Reporters at 49ers camp said Kamara appeared to suffer a knee injury. Kamara was an undrafted free agent. He played a total of six [...]
Hoosier Sounds: IU coach Curt Cignetti on the Pardon My Take podcast
Listen in as IU football coach Curt Cignetti joined the Pardon My Take podcast on Barstool Sports. Cignetti discusses refocusing the program after winning the national title, and much more. Entering his third season in Bloomington, Cignetti is 27-2 at IU with a Big Ten and national title to his credit. Indiana currently owns the [...]
Court ruling grants fifth year to all class of 2022 athletes, including these IU football and basketball players
August is setting up to be a wild month across college sports. Get ready for some last minute roster reshuffling. Judge Charlotte Sweeney of the U.S. District Court of Colorado granted a class-wide preliminary injunction on Friday requiring the NCAA to declare all athletes from the high school class of 2022 eligible for the 2026-27 [...]
Former IU basketball player Sam Alexis receives injunction to play fifth year
After spending the week with IU basketball in Peru, Sam Alexis has won an injunction in a Tennessee court to play a fifth season of college basketball. The news comes just days after head coach Darian DeVries said Indiana was open to a late roster addition to the team. It is not yet clear if [...]
Watch: IU football coach Curt Cignetti on Cover 3 Podcast
Watch below as IU football coach Curt Cignetti joined the Cover 3 Podcast at Big Ten Media Days. Video via CBS Sports/Cover 3 Podcast on YouTube. For complete coverage of IU football, GO HERE. The Daily Hoosier –“Where Indiana fans assemble when they’re not at Assembly” You can follow us on X: @daily_hoosier and find us on Facebook and Instagram Seven ways to support completely [...]
IU football coach Curt Cignetti has heard the whining and complaining from the SEC hype machine
Indiana coach Curt Cignetti likes to poke the SEC. A year ago the former Alabama assistant coach mocked their eight-game conference schedule. The SEC changed that a month later. With a 38-3 win Indiana over Alabama at the Rose Bowl and a third straight Big Ten national title since that comment, this year Cignetti has [...]
Watch: Curt Cignetti and the IU players on the Big Ten Network media day set
Watch below for Curt Cignetti and IU football players Isaiah Jones, Carter Smith and Tyrique Tucker with Rick Pizzo on the Big Ten Network set Thursday afternoon at the league’s media day. For Cignetti’s breakout session, GO HERE. For Cignetti at the podium, GO HERE. For the player breakout sessions, GO HERE. Video courtesy of [...]
IU football: Curt Cignetti provides insight on tight end health, offensive line positions
CHICAGO — Heading into fall camp, Indiana head football coach is pleased with his team’s health. The Hoosiers dealt with a lot of injuries during spring practice, with an abbreviated offseason after their national championship run. Players had less time than normal to have offseason surgeries and go through recovery processes ahead of spring ball. [...]
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