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“Well, it meant everything.” Senior Inés García Prado kept it short and sweet when asked what scoring on senior day meant to her. When Celia Arroyo Cabezudo drove the ball up the backline and dropped a pass into the middle for Prado to drive home the final goal of the game, you could see just how much that goal meant to Prado. Prado’s first goal of the season finished off an absolutely dominant game from the Hoosiers.

On a sunny Labor Day afternoon, the Indiana Hoosiers were looking to pick up their 850th program win and end their non-conference schedule with a win over the University of Denver. Head Coach Todd Yeagley kept the starting 11 mostly the same despite Collins Oduro getting his first start of the season. Oduro, who had missed the first two games of the season, gave Yeagley’s front line an extra spark in the game tonight.

By: Jayson Li BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - On a humid Friday night in Bloomington, the No. 6 Indiana Hoosiers knocked off the Cal Poly Mustangs 2-0 in their adidas/IU Credit Union Classic match, the third clean sheet performance of the season. Unlike against Louisville, where Indiana struggled to get even a shot up in the first half, they barely wasted 90 seconds to get on the board.

Last year, Head Coach Curt Cignetti and company opened up the season against Old Dominion as 23.5-point favorites. The Hoosiers came out with a shaky 27-14 victory over the Monarchs. Little did anyone know at the time that shaky season-opening victory would be the beginning of a historic run that ended with Indiana atop the college football world. Hunter turned into the hunted A year later, the questions surrounding Indiana are much different.

By: Andrew Price BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - “When we can play our game, it’s just really hard to get the ball from us.” Indiana Head Coach Kayla Bashore had that to say after a decisive 4-0 victory on Friday afternoon against the New Hampshire Wildcats. It was a sweltering afternoon in Bloomington, Indiana, as two winless teams battled for their first victory of the season. It was the Hoosiers who came out firing early.

By: Cam Sassano BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - The men’s and women's cross country teams kicked off their season on a hot Friday morning at the Sam Bell Invitational with an incredible start to the season, taking first and second place in both the men's and women's races. The story of the meet was none other than Indiana’s own Katy Zang.

Despite the end of Indiana’s season, it may be looking at another Golden Age. On Wednesday, Indiana women’s basketball completed the largest comeback during Teri Moren’s tenure in Bloomington, after erasing a 20-point deficit in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament against the University of Nebraska. Indiana’s March magic, however, ran out earlier than anticipated, as the Hoosiers’ season ended on Thursday against the Ohio State University 83-59.

Indiana senior guard Shay Ciezki wore a soft smirk on her face as the National Anthem sounded in Assembly Hall. She was moments away from playing her final home game in an Indiana uniform against her former team, Penn State University. “As I was praying, I kind of just felt a little bit of how funny God is sometimes,” Ciezki said after the game.

After a tough time out west, Indiana Women’s Basketball came back to Bloomington to host the Oregon Ducks. It was a 4th Quarter thriller between the Hoosiers and the Ducks, with momentum shifting at the end of the game. Indiana secured a 72-65 win to keep them in the Big Ten Tournament discussion. Indiana got scoring going early, seeing numbers from six different Hoosiers. Once again, the star for the Hoosiers: Shay Ciezki.

On Friday night, the No. 21 Indiana Hoosiers welcomed the Purdue Boilermakers to Wilkinson Hall for what would become a thrilling battle between rivals. In the end, the home team narrowly emerged victorious, winning 20-16 on senior night and closing the Big Ten dual season with a triumph. Both teams sent ranked wrestlers into action throughout the evening, ranging from true national championship contenders to those fighting to prove they’re worthy of a spot in the sport’s penultimate tournament.