Derek Schultz: Of Indiana’s 11 Division I men’s basketball teams, just one heard its name on Selection Sunday
Only Purdue will participate in a postseason tournament.
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NCAA announces slate of events for Final Four weekend
Plans are coming together for what is expected to be the most action-packed Final Four weekend in history, with the NCAA on Wednesday unveiling community initiatives and events for this year’s event.
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Indiana University football fans descend on Miami
IU fans filled direct flights from Indianapolis to Miami and added crimson-and-cream accents to the city’s sleek skyscraper hotels.
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Nominations are open for Be Better Awards honoring Jim Morris
IBJ is overseeing the nomination process and selection of 10 people who demonstrate the values of Morris, a longtime business and civic leader who died in 2024. The awards are part of a larger campaign associated with the NCAA Final Four in Indianapolis.
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Championship basketball weekend to include HBCU all-star games
The Indianapolis Recorder Newspaper, one of the longest-running Black publications in the United States, announced on Tuesday its partnership in presenting the HBCU All-Star Game Experience at Corteva Coliseum.
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Purdue seniors start March Madness farewell tour, putting team ahead of individual glory
By sticking around longer than most players in today’s game, Purdue players Trey Kaufman-Renn, Fletcher Loyer and Braden Smith have seen and done things that seem increasingly unfathomable.
Purdue moves up to No. 2 seed after winning Big Ten tourney
The Boilermakers will play Queens University of Charlotte (North Carolina), which is making its first March Madness appearance.
5 days of Final Four events include concerts, festivals
Free and low-cost options include the three-day March Madness Music Festival at American Legion Mall, the Men’s Final Four Fan Fest at the Indiana Convention Center, and a coffee and chocolate festival at the Stutz.
Mark Montieth: Wilkerson missed victory bash for IU’s ’76 title. He’s ready for 50th celebration.
The Indiana University men’s basketball team that won the NCAA championship in 1976 will be honored throughout the week of the Final Four in Indianapolis, most publicly at halftime of the tournament’s championship game on April 6.
NCAA men’s basketball mock selection exercise provides look behind the curtain
The NCAA held a mock selection exercise on Thursday, Feb. 19, inside a conference room at the governing body’s downtown Indianapolis headquarters to show how much goes into the process.
NCAA tourney selection committee won’t let travel concerns dictate bracketing or seeding of field
For those teams that inevitably will have to travel great distances for March Madness, organizers of the men’s and women’s tourneys are pleading for patience.
NIL enforcement czar: Third-party deals that blow past college $20.5M cap not what they expected
The system created to regulate name, image and likeness deals across college sports isn’t working as smoothly as its designers had hoped.
Man who helped recruit players into sprawling NCAA basketball point-shaving scheme pleads guilty
Jalen Smith pleaded guilty to wire fraud and bribery charges, becoming the first of 26 people charged in the scheme to formally do so.
NCAA football oversight committee proposes stiff penalties for violations of transfer portal window
The NCAA football oversight committee proposed the legislation to penalize schools who add players who did not make public their interest in transferring during the January transfer portal window.
March Madness could expand, but talks won’t happen until after tournaments
NCAA President Charlie Baker reaffirmed his support for expanding March Madness from 68 teams — the current size of the men’s tournament since 2011 and the women’s tourney since 2022.
NCAA approves uniform patches, opening up revenue possibilities for athletic departments
Research has shown college football and basketball teams could earn between $500,000 and $12 million each for their patches.
No. 1 Indiana looking for a storybook ending to complete real-life Hollywood script at Miami
Coach Curt Cignetti promised to change Indiana University’s football image from the moment he took the job five days after the end of the 2023 season.
Mark Montieth: Indiana coaching legends used principles similar to Cignetti’s
The Hoosiers have but one game to win to complete the greatest U-turn in the history of college football.
15 former NCAA players among those charged in alleged scheme to rig basketball games
Federal prosecutors charged 20 people on Thursday in what they called a betting scheme to rig NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association games.
IU Indianapolis adds sports business-focused co-major
Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business in Indianapolis offers three co-majors, which are 15-credit-hour programs students can take in addition to their core major.
IU, Oregon coaches and coordinators juggle transfer portal chaos amid playoff race
In October, the Indianapolis-based NCAA shifted from two portal windows to one. The 15-day transactional window now spans from Jan. 2-16, giving players and coaches alike just over two weeks to set themselves up for success the following season.
Michigan football’s sign-stealing fines will cost school more than $30M, athletic director says
The Indianapolis-based NCAA announced in August a series of punishments for a sprawling scandal that has loomed over the Wolverines for two years.
NCAA agrees to pay volunteer coaches $303M under proposed settlement
The class-action lawsuit would affect more than 7,700 men and women who worked as volunteer coaches in sports other than baseball, according to a motion for preliminary approval filed this week.
NCAA revokes eligibility of 6 more college basketball players as betting probe continues
The NCAA said last month that it had been investigating at least 30 current or former players for gambling issues.