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How To Watch Indiana Men’s Basketball Against UCLA
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana took a step in the right direction with its 71-67 win at No. 11 Michigan State on Tuesday, but the Hoosiers still have work to do to prove that they belong among the Big Ten’s NCAA Tournament contenders.
Indiana hasn’t won two games in a row since an 82-69 win over Southern California on Jan. 8 concluded a five-game win streak. During that streak, USC was the only team Indiana defeated that is in the top half of the league.
UCLA, Indiana’s opponent at 8 p.m. ET on Friday, is fifth in the Big Ten. Consecutive wins over two top five teams in the Big Ten hasn’t happened for Indiana since the 2023 season when Indiana knocked off Illinois and Michigan State in succession.
Any team has to walk before it can run. Indiana took the first step on Tuesday. The next step requires a win to make sure both victories have the maximum impact on Indiana’s resume.
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How To Watch UCLA at Indiana
• Who: Indiana Hoosiers (15-10, 6-8) vs. UCLA Bruins (18-7, 9-5).
• What: Indiana hosts UCLA in a Big Ten Conference home game.
• When: 8 p.m. ET, Friday, Feb. 14.
• Where: Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, Bloomington, Ind.
• TV: FOX.
• Announcers: Jason Benetti (play-by-play), Robbie Hummel (analyst)
• Radio: IU Radio Network (Bloomington: 105.1 WHCC-FM; Indianapolis: 107.5 WFNI-FM or 1070 WFNI-AM, or see media guide for other radio affiliates).
• Radio announcers: Don Fischer (play-by-play), Errek Suhr (color), John Herrick (pregame, halftime, postgame).
• Recent results: Indiana broke a five-game losing streak with a 71-67 victory at No. 11 Michigan State on Tuesday. UCLA lost 83-78 at Illinois on Tuesday.
• Home, road and neutral trends: Indiana is 11-3 at home, 1-2 in neutral site games and 3-5 in official road games. (The NCAA counts the game against Penn State at the Palestra as a road game.) UCLA is 13-1 in home games, 1-3 in neutral site games and 3-4 in true road games.
• Series history: Tied 6-6. UCLA won the last meeting in the 2007 NCAA Tournament. Indiana lost beat UCLA in the 1992 NCAA Tournament.
• Point spread: As of Thursday night, UCLA was favored by 1.5 points at FanDuel.
Leading scorers
Indiana Hoosiers
• Guards (as officially listed): Myles Rice (11 ppg, 3 rpg, 2.9 apg), Luke Goode (8.7 ppg, 2.8 rpg), Trey Galloway (7.6 ppg, 4 apg), Kanaan Carlyle (4.6 ppg), Anthony Leal (3 ppg).
• Forwards/centers: Oumar Ballo (13.7 ppg, 9.6 rpg, 2.4 apg), Mackenzie Mgbako (13 ppg, 4.8 rpg), Malik Reneau (12.7 ppg, 5.7 rpg), Bryson Tucker (5.7 ppg, 3 rpg), Langdon Hatton (2.2 ppg).
UCLA Bruins
• Guards: Sebastian Mack (10 ppg), Skyy Clark (7.7 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 2.8 apg), Dylan Andrews (7.7 ppg), Lazar Stefanovic (4.9 ppg), Trent Perry (3.8 ppg), Dominick Harris (1.1 ppg), Jack Seidler (0.5 ppg).
• Forwards/centers: Tyler Bilodeau (14.3 ppg, 4.5 rpg), Eric Dailey Jr. (11.7 ppg, 4.2 rpg), Kobe Johnson (8.4 ppg, 5.8 rpg), Aday Mara (5.7 ppg, 3.6 rpg), William Kyle (3.3 ppg).
Kenpom rankings
Projected score: UCLA 70, Indiana 69.
Indiana Hoosiers
• Overall: 53.
• Adjusted defensive efficiency: 48
• Adjusted offensive efficiency: 65
• Strength of schedule: 139
• Preseason: 39
UCLA Bruins
• Overall: 26.
• Adjusted defensive efficiency: 11
• Adjusted offensive efficiency: 44
• Strength of schedule: 307
• Preseason: 26.
Meet the coaches
• Mick Cronin, UCLA: Mick Cronin is in his sixth season at UCLA. He’s compiled a 133-60 record and coached the Bruins to the 2021 Final Four. Overall, Cronin is 498-231 lifetime in 22 seasons as a head coach dating to the 2003-04 season. Cronin coached Cincinnati for 13 seasons, compiling a 296-147 record with the Bearcats from 2006-19. Prior to that, Cronin coached Murray State from 2003-06. He was 69-24 with the Racers. A Cincinnati native, Cronin began his coaching career as a high school assistant at Woodward High School in Cincinnati. He was named to the University of Cincinnati coaching staff in 1996 and was there to 2001. From 2001-03, Cronin was an assistant at Louisville.
• Mike Woodson, Indiana: Woodson is in his fourth season at Indiana with a 78-50 overall record and a 37-37 mark in regular season Big Ten play. Indiana reached the NCAA Tournament in Woodson’s first two seasons, peaking with a Round of 32 appearance in 2023, but the Hoosiers missed the tournament last year. Woodson, 66, has NBA head coaching experience with the Atlanta Hawks from 2004-10 and the New York Knicks from 2012-14. Woodson played at Indiana University from 1976-80, and was named the Big Ten’s Most Valuable Player as a senior under coach Bob Knight. He was the 12th overall pick in the 1980 NBA Draft, and played for various teams from 1980-91, averaging 14 points over 786 games.
PLAINFIELD, Ind. (WISH) — Suspects fled a Plainfield bank after it was robbed Tuesday afternoon, police say.
Plainfield Police Department was called at 2:10 p.m. Tuesday to the robbery of a bank in progress at Chase Bank, 807 Southfield Drive. That’s southwest of the intersection of Quaker Boulevard and Stafford Road/East County Road 450 South in the Hendricks County town.
Deputy Chief Ryan Salisbury of the Plainfield Police Department said detectives were working on the case.
The police department posted on social media on Tuesday night that no one was hurt in the robbery, and the suspects, who were not in custody, fled prior to the arrival of first responders.
INDIANAPOLIS — Sophie Cunningham wants to emphasize she’s perfectly happy with the Indiana Fever. She just wishes she could be locked down longer.
Cunningham, who signed a one-year, $665,000 deal with the Indiana Fever for 2026, said on her podcast, “Show Me Something,” on Tuesday night that she was frustrated with the free agency process in the condensed offseason.
She shook her head vehemently when her co-host West Wilson asked if the contract was better than she thought it would be, then said in part, “It’s tough because I came off an injury … I’m not even going to lie to you, that’s a little, kind of, frustrating.”
Fans on social media largely took that as she did not get interest from other teams, she didn’t want to return to the Fever, or she was unhappy with the salary she got.
She shut those thoughts down on social media Monday night, then expounded on her frustrations with local media at Fever training camp on Tuesday morning.
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“I think Twitter kind of blew up last night about a comment I made on my podcast. But that wasn’t what I meant at all,” Cunningham said. “I think if you listen to the full clip, you really understand that I just wanted to be somewhere for more than one year. I’m almost 30 years old. I want to have a home. I want to get established. And I would love to get established in a place like Indiana.”
The Fever prioritized as much financial flexibility as possible this offseason because of the new EPIC clause, which allows both Aliyah Boston and Caitlin Clark to renegotiate their fourth-year salaries up to the max with an extension. Boston’s salary was bumped to $1 million in 2025, and she will make the supermax from 2027-29. Clark is eligible to negotiate up to the max in 2027, and both Clark and Boston could be making the supermax starting in 2028.
Only Lexie Hull and Monique Billings got major multi-year deals with the Fever out of free agency. Hull signed for $765,000 in 2026 and $803,250 in 2027, per Her Hoop Stats, while Billings got $800,000 for both 2026 and 2027. Damiris Dantas is the only other player that got a multi-year deal out of free agency, but that was for the minimum cap hit of $277,500.
Kelsey Mitchell signed a one-year, $1.4 million supermax, Cunningham returned on a one-year deal, and Myisha Hines-Allen and Tyasha Harris each signed one-year deals.
Cunningham added that she got multi-year offers from other teams, but chose to stay with Indiana on a one-year deal.
She wanted to return to Indiana, she said, because of friendships she created with her teammates and the potential they showed, even after six separate season-ending injuries on the roster. She is also closer to her hometown of Columbia, Missouri.
“When you find a group of girls who really make you fall in love with basketball games and you enjoy it, you enjoy them, not only on the court, but off the court, like, you want to hold on to that,” Cunningham said. “ … it was never about the money, it was just about the years, because I wanted to be with them. And God forbid a girl loves her teammates, you know what I mean?”
Cunningham is also coming off a major knee injury after she tore her MCL in August 2025. She was ruled out for the rest of the 2025 season and got surgery in Indianapolis, then had a six-month rehab process before she was cleared in February.
Since then, she has been ramping back up as much as possible, including playing one-on-one, three-on-three, plyometrics, and everything she does to get ready for a regular season.
Still, she said, she’ll need to actually play to get back into full basketball shape.
“Basketball shape is just different,” Cunningham said. “You can run as many suicides as you want, you can get your butt kicked however you want, but until you’re out here playing, you’re never fully going to be in game shape until you’re playing games.”
Chloe Peterson is the Indiana Fever beat reporter for IndyStar. Reach her at chloe.peterson@indystar.com or follow her on X at @chloepeterson67. Get IndyStar’s Indiana Fever and Caitlin Clark coverage sent directly to your inbox with our Caitlin Clark Fever newsletter. Subscribe to IndyStar TV: Fever for in-depth analysis, behind-the-scenes coverage and more.
CLOVERDALE, Ind. (WKRC) – Authorities in Indiana found a semi trailer loaded up with hundreds of pounds of suspected cocaine.
According to a statement issued by the Indiana State Police (ISP), 27-year-old Harmandeep Singh of Bakersfield, California was taken into custody after nearly 400 pounds of suspected cocaine were reportedly found in the trailer of a commercial truck.
Per the statement, an ISP trooper seized the suspected cocaine during a traffic stop on Interstate 70 in Putnam County, authorities said.
The stop occurred Tuesday morning near the 37-mile marker, just east of Cloverdale, after a commercial motor vehicle was observed exceeding the posted speed limit.
Police said Singh displayed several indicators of possible criminal activity during the encounter. After obtaining consent to search the vehicle, troopers discovered multiple duffel bags and cardboard boxes in the trailer containing approximately 392 pounds (178 kilograms) of suspected cocaine.
Authorities estimated the street value of the drugs at about $9 million.
Singh was taken into custody and taken to the Putnam County Jail, where he is being held on a $30,000 cash bond.
He faces the following preliminary charges, per the post:
- Possession of a narcotic drug
Formal charges will be determined by the Putnam County prosecutor.
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Indiana State Police said drug interdiction remains a priority, with troopers focusing on major highways to disrupt the flow of illegal narcotics into the state.
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