Hopeful Hoosier

A Hoosier’s hopeful look at the team, the tradition, and the road back

Category: Previews

  • The Next Test Awaits in Champaign

    Sunday 1 pm ET, CBS Sunday presents one of Indiana’s toughest challenges of the season. No. 8 Illinois is physical and playing at home, where momentum builds quickly and mistakes…


  • Bad Bunny Sunday, Bad Bison Monday

    It’s kind of wild that we already get another IU basketball game on a Monday night. Coming off that overtime thriller Saturday. After a Super Bowl Sunday. With the Hoosiers…


  • Hoosier Hopeful: Wisconsin & Oregon — Home Matters Now

    Coming off a tough, hard-fought loss at USC, Indiana gets back to Assembly Hall with a chance to reset and regain its identity before the schedule gets even tougher. The…


  • The Week Ahead: Two Tests, One Opportunity

    There aren’t any routine weeks left on Indiana’s schedule, and this one might be the least routine of all — two good opponents, two very different challenges, and not a…


  • Why UCLA Will Always Mean Something to Me

    Indiana plays at UCLA on Saturday — 5 p.m. ET on Peacock — in one of the toughest road environments in the Big Ten. The Bruins are 7–3 in league…


  • Preview: IU vs. Purdue — Rivalry Night in Assembly Hall

    After a dominant 82–59 road win at Rutgers on Friday, Indiana returns home Tuesday night to face No. 12 Purdue in one of the biggest rivalry games of the season.…


  • IU at Rutgers — A Different Kind of Test

    Friday, 6 p.m. ET on FS1 Friday night in Piscataway isn’t about erasing Michigan. It’s about response. Indiana just came through a brutal stretch — Michigan State, Iowa, Nebraska, Michigan…


  • When the Spotlight Returns: What IU Basketball Must Change

    Tonight, most of Indiana’s attention belongs somewhere else. IU football is playing for a national title — the biggest game in school history. It’s a night decades of fans never…


  • Two Builders, Same Winter

    What Iowa’s first year under Ben McCollum reveals about what Darian DeVries is building at Indiana Saturday’s game against Iowa isn’t just another Big Ten matchup. It’s a meeting between…


  • Tonight is a different kind of test

    Not just another road game. Not just another ranked opponent. This is Indiana walking into one of the most demanding environments in college basketball — the Breslin Center, against a…


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