Highlights of the 18-game schedule include games at Assembly Hall against new league members UCLA (Jan. 4) and USC (Jan. 18), a trip out west to play Oregon (Jan. 24) and Washington (Jan. 27), Senior Day on Feb. 27 against Maryland and a rivalry game against Purdue to close out the year on March 2.

The Hoosiers added five new players to the roster including key transfers — sharpshooting guard Shay Ciezki (Penn State) and veteran big Karoline Striplin (Tennessee) — and highly-rated recruit, Faith Wiseman. Wiseman, who is from Martinsville, was the No. 61 ranked recruit in ESPN’s top 100.

The Big Ten announced the full 18-game conference schedule for the upcoming 2024-25 season on Thursday. Indiana begins conference play on Dec. 7 at Penn State.

An Indiana woman faces up to six years in prison for a hate crime after pleading guilty to stabbing a Chinese American teen in the head.

Billie Davis, a 58-year-old woman, has pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime for repeatedly stabbing an 18-year-old Chinese American student on a Bloomington Transit bus in Indiana in 2023. On Jan. 11,