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It was a huge week for Indiana Athletics as Heisman Trophy winner and national champion quarterback Fernando Mendoza was selected by the Las Vegas Raiders with the first overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft on Thursday while the football program held the annual spring game. There’s plenty to talk about. Here’s what you need […]
Indiana football broke its NFL first round drought of multiple decades when quarterback Fernando Mendoza was picked first overall on Sunday night. The program added a second when wide receiver Omar Cooper Jr. was selected 30th overall by the New York Jets. Cooper Jr. spent three seasons in Bloomington, remaining with the program during the […]
Can you hear the drums Fernando? I remember long ago another starry night like this Fernando Mendoza arrived in Bloomington in the Spring of 2025 after transferring in from California. His younger brother, Alberto Mendoza, had been recruited by then-James Madison head coach Curt Cignetti and elected to follow Cignetti and staff once he’d accepted […]
Indiana football and Curt Cignetti made even more history on Thursday night. Fernando Mendoza, the Hoosiers’ Heisman Trophy winning national champion quarterback, was selected by the Las Vegas Raiders with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft months after leading one of the most historically downtrodden programs in college football to the […]
Indiana football is officially set for the program’s spring game this evening, which will coincide with the beginning of the 2026 NFL Draft in an effort to celebrate outgoing starting quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner and national champion Fernando Mendoza. Former TCU quarterback Josh Hoover has stepped into Mendoza’s massive shoes as an experienced hand to […]
Indiana football’s spring game is officially upon us as the program looks to round out weeks of practice into the beginnings of another winner in Bloomington. This year is more special than any in recent memory, with the game itself coinciding with the beginning of the first round of the NFL Draft, where Hoosier legend, […]
Believe it or not, an Indiana football player has actually been selected with the first overall pick of the NFL Draft before. Richard Corbett “Corby” Davis, an Indiana native and fullback for the Hoosiers, was picked first overall by the Cleveland Rams in 1938. Fernando Mendoza, the Heisman Trophy winner and national champion, can still […]
Indiana men’s basketball fans have been through their fair share of great-on-paper offseasons that don’t end up working out once the roster hits the floor and the shots start to count. Darian DeVries, Ryan Carr and the rest of Indiana’s staff have to see this roster reload through to what actually matters, but it’s fair […]
It’s shaping up to be an incredibly eventful week for Indiana Athletics, even before the onset of new online beef between Indiana and Alabama. Indiana’s spring game is set for Thursday, the same day as the NFL Draft. Attendees will be able to watch Heisman Trophy winner and national champion Fernando Mendoza’s selection. With that […]
Indiana men’s basketball is set to welcome a bit of a familiar face to Assembly Hall for the 2026-27 season. Eric Reibe, a transfer center out of UConn, has committed to USC and head coach Eric Musselman. Reibe, who’s originally from Germany, committed to UConn as a member of the class of 2025 out of […]
Former Indiana men’s basketball head coach Mike Davis is reportedly set to lead a program once again after a brief stop as an assistant at Memphis, his first assistant role since his time in Bloomington. Davis is set to be named the head coach at Mississippi Valley State University in Itta Bena, Mississippi, per reporting […]
Every time a top college basketball coaching position opens, one name from the NBA ranks seems to light up the message boards, Twitter and wherever else fans talk about the sport as a “make him say no” candidate. You know who I’m talking about. That’s right. Bra- *dragged offstage by vaudeville hook* Okay, alright, not […]
Indiana football defensive coordinator Bryant Haines has done several things at a high level since arriving in Bloomington in 2024, but two things in particular stick out. Haines was named the winner of this past season’s Broyles Award as the top assistant coach in college football after coordinating smothering performances throughout the regular season and […]
Indiana football is in the news once again with a new spat with Alabama months after the Hoosiers’ 38-3 demolition of the Crimson Tide in the Rose Bowl Game. Former Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson appeared on a podcast in the leadup to the NFL Draft this week and was asked about the Tide’s performance against […]
Indiana women’s basketball landed its third transfer portal commitment of the offseason and second from Iowa State when former Cyclone Kenzie Hare announced her intentions to join the Hoosiers for the 2026-27 season via social media. Hare has spent the past two seasons with Iowa State after spending the first two seasons of her career […]
Indiana men’s basketball is set to have an almost entirely new roster ahead of the 2026-27 season with Trent Sisley being the only Hoosier who received minutes in 2025-26 to return. Darian DeVries, Ryan Carr and the rest of Indiana’s staff have been putting in work in the transfer portal to reload, with six commitments […]
Indiana Athetics has had a pretty busy week between even more transfer portal commitments for the men’s basketball program, the women’s basketball roster taking greater shape and spring practice carrying onward for the football program. Here’s what you need to know about the Hoosiers today: What they’re saying about the Hoosiers ICYMI on The Crimson […]
Indiana men’s basketball is naturally going to be compared, contrasted and measured against fellow Big Ten programs, but carries the additional wrinkle of the same being true for Louisville and Kentucky given the region the program occupies. This is especially true right now with each program having hired a new head coach in the past […]
Indiana football safety Preston Zachman addressed the media on Wednesday following the Hoosiers’ ninth spring practice. Zachman, who transferred in from Wisconsin this past offseason, brings plenty of experience to the Hoosiers’ secondary and helps fill a void left by departures from stars like Louis Moore and Devan Boykin. A graduate transfer, Zachman spent the […]
Indiana football safety Amare Ferrell addressed the media on Wednesday following the Hoosiers’ ninth spring practice. Ferrell is a senior entering his fourth season with the program after signing on as a recruit out of Columbia High School in Florida under Tom Allen. He saw minimal playing time as a true freshman in 2023 before […]
Indiana fans filled stadiums in Indianapolis, Pasadena, Atlanta and Miami this past season during the football program’s run through the College Football Playoff. Hoosier fans met the moment and then some, giving the team an extra jolt of crowd energy throughout its run up to the championship game, where the cream and crimson clad faithful […]
Yet another sporting event is coming to the Indianapolis area this year. The Big Ten is set to introduce the first ever conference volleyball tournament this season with the event taking place November 20-25, 2026, at the Fishers Event Center in Fishers, Indiana, per an official release. “For the first time in its history, the […]
Indiana men’s basketball is having as hot of an offseason as anyone in college basketball with six transfer portal commitments just eight days into the portal window. Add in Trent Sisley and a trio of freshman signees and that makes ten spots spoken for on the 2026-27 roster. Darian DeVries and the rest of the […]
Indiana men’s basketball made its debut in CBS college basketball insider Jon Rothstein’s top-45 programs of the offseason on Thursday. Rothstein ranks men’s college basketball’s teams who have a minimum of eight players committed and updates the ranking each day. The Hoosiers debut at No. 15 in Rothstein’s ranking, which lists projected starters and a […]
Former Indiana forward Josh Harris became the first of the program’s several transfer portal entries to find a new home on Thursday morning, committing to Florida Atlantic: Harris missed the entirety of the 2025-26 season, his lone year with the Hoosiers, due to injury after transferring in from North Florida alongside fellow portalee Jasai Miles […]