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Darian DeVries Looking To Add To Indiana’s Nonconference Schedule

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Darian DeVries was introduced as Indiana’s new basketball coach on Wednesday, and he already has an eye toward the Hoosiers’ 2025-26 schedule.
Indiana has difficult nonconference games scheduled against Marquette on Nov. 9 at the United Center in Chicago, as well as Kentucky on Dec. 20 at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Ky.
DeVries commented on his approach to nonconference scheduling Wednesday.
“Yeah, Big Ten conference play, we got 20 of those games, so you’ve got to get yourself ready for it, and we want to challenge ourselves in the best way possible to make sure we’ve got some very meaningful non-conference games,” DeVries said. “I know we have a couple already scheduled for this year. I think I’m allowed to say a couple of them. We have Kentucky scheduled, and I believe we have Marquette scheduled in Chicago. I believe those are the two that we have currently scheduled.”
“So we’ll continue to work on building on that, as well, and we’d love to get another one or two really good high-quality games and then add that to the 20-game Big Ten schedule. You have to do a good job of – you’ve got to get your home games, as well, but also make sure we do a great job of getting ourselves ready for Big Ten play and challenging ourselves before we start that.”

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Fort Wayne shooting kills boy; another boy, man wounded

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WISH) — A boy died, and another boy and a man were injured Thursday night in a shooting in a residential area east of downtown Fort Wayne, police say.
Both boys were 16 or older.
Police were called just before 9 p.m. Thursday to the shooting in the 3000 block of Pennsylvania Street. That’s a few blocks west of the State Road 930 interchange at East Washington Boulevard.
The wounded boy and man were taken to a hospital. Their conditions were not immediately known.
No additional information was immediately available.
Anyone with information was asked to contact the Fort Wayne Police Department at 260-427-1201, Greater Fort Wayne Crime Stoppers at 260-436-7867, or use the free P3 Tips app.
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Indiana’s Yarden Garzon talks what basketball has given her ahead of Women’s March Madness

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Indiana guard Yarden Garzon’s family lives in Israel. Her twin sister is serving in the Israeli military. Garzon, however, is here, preparing for the ninth-seeded Hoosiers’ first-round Women’s March Madness matchup against No. 8 Utah on Friday.
“She should be serving right now, but she has her visa to come play basketball in the U.S.,” teammate Sydney Parrish said Thursday. “I think, as a team and as a staff, we do as much as we can, putting our arms around her.”
Garzon, a junior, committed to Indiana in 2021. She was a four-star recruit, known for her sharpshooting abilities and rebounding skills as a guard. She decided to make Bloomington, Indiana, her home without knowing the implications that would entail.
“I’m trying to use my platform to raise awareness about my country and the situation,” Garzon said. “I do everything I can to put it on the biggest stage possible.”
Garzon gives her teammates pins to wear and also has worn a dog-tag necklace imprinted with the words “Bring Them Home,” in reference to Israel’s hostages taken by Hamas, after games.
“There’s a lot of fake news out there and I’m trying to clarify this on my social media,” Garzon said. “I’m trying to share as much as I can, and I feel like I’m doing a lot of stuff with the Jewish community, trying to make everyone feel a part of something.”
Garzon is the Hoosiers’ leading scorer, averaging 14.5 points per game. She holds the Indiana record for most 3-pointers made in a career with 217.
“Basketball helped me to be there for my country, so I feel like it’s great that I have this stage to do it,” she said.
Carter Braun is a student in the University of Georgia’s Sports Media Certificate program.
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Indiana mom allegedly boards school bus and attacks 14-year-old student for bullying her son

An Indianapolis mom allegedly barged onto her son’s middle school bus with her teen daughter and beat the boy’s alleged 14-year-old bully so badly that the child suffered a broken nose.
Latea Hentz, 36, her daughter, 17, and son, 13, were caught on the bus’s security camera and in viral videos taken by students allegedly attacking an 8th-grade student in Warren Township, a suburb of Indianapolis, on March 6, Fox 59 reported, citing court records.
As the incident unfolds, the Warren Township School bus driver can be heard telling Hentz that no parents were permitted on the bus.
However, Hentz allegedly told the driver she was coming on and to call the police as the three of them made their way over to the student.
Her daughter and son “immediately started fighting” the 8th grader, Fox 59 reported.
“Beat his a–, beat his a–,” Hentz screamed as she and her children punched the student in the mob attack.
Hentz and her daughter then allegedly began yelling threats at the other children on the school bus, who were pleading for the trio to stop their attack.
At one point, the 17-year-old allegedly turned to a 10-year-old girl on the bus and asked if “she wants some too,” the IndyStar reported, citing court documents.
Hentz and her children stopped beating the 8th grader as police arrived.
However, on the way out of the bus, she allegedly made an open threat to other students and said, “I’m going to tear this up,” and “I’m tired of you b–ch ass kids.”
She claimed to police that the victim was bullying her son for several weeks and had slapped him the day before the attack.
Hentz claimed that her son’s school was aware of the bullying but had done nothing to stop it.
Police said that the 14-year-old was beaten so severally by the Hentz and her kids that when he was taken to Riley Children’s Hospital for treatment, doctors determined his nose was fractured, and his left eye was bruised and swelled.
He was later interviewed by the Warren Township police’s child abuse department, where he revealed a different account of what happened leading up to and during the March 6 attack.
The victim, who is half-Mexican, told investigators that Hentz’s son had been picking on him and had been making “racist jokes” and making “comments about ICE,” according to court records.
He then claimed that “he had been jumped by a mom and her kids.”
Hentz had initially been charged with misdemeanor battery, disorderly conduct, intimidation, and trespassing following the incident.
However, on Tuesday, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office charged the mother with four felonies: Criminal Confinement, Battery Resulting in Moderate Injury, Intimidation, and Criminal Trespass.
Hentz’s two children are also facing possible criminal charges concerning the fight as officials continue to investigate the incident, according to prosecutors.
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