BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – One area in which Indiana’s football team will need help in 2025 will be at running back. On Friday, Curt Cignetti and his staff made the first step to address that.

UAB running back Lee Beebe has decided to transfer to Indiana. On3.com’s Pete Nakos was the first to report the move.

Beebe was the leading rusher for the Blazers in 2024 as he amassed 884 yards and averaged 5.3 yards per carry. He scored seven rushing touchdowns. He also had 30 catches for 219 yards and one receiving touchdown.

Beebe’s best game of his career came against Rice on Nov. 23 when he rushed for 161 yards. Beebe got stronger as the 2024 season went along. Three of his Beebe’s four best rushing efforts in 2024 came in November.

Pro Football Focus scored Beebe as the 108th-best running back in the country.

Beebe, who is listed at 5-foot-10 and 220 pounds, will have two years of eligibility remaining. Over his career at UAB, he has rushed for 1,276 yards, averaged 5.8 yards per carry and has 11 rushing touchdowns. He has accounted for 1,593 total yards in his career.

Beebe joins a 2025 Indiana backfield that only has one experienced player in it – Kaelon Black. Justice Ellison, Ty Son Lawton and Solomon Vanhorse are out of eligibility at the end of the season. Elijah Green has elected to transfer. Khobie Martin has only had 14 career carries and Kyler Kropp has not played at all.

True freshman running back Sean Cuono is part of the class of players signed on Dec. 4. It is likely that Indiana will continue to try to augment its backfield.

LINCOLN, Neb. — For the fourth time on the 2024 calendar, Nebraska blew out Indiana in a basketball game. The Cornhuskers rolled to an 85-68 victory at Pinnacle Bank Arena, and made the Hoosiers look bad in the process.

Again. And again.

The Hoosiers (8-3, 1-1 in the Big Ten) had no answer for Nebraska’s Brice Williams, who went off for 30 points, and they completely collapsed down the stretch. A one-point game with 7 minutes to go turned into a rout when the Huskers finished the game on a 17-1 run. It’s the fourth straight time Nebraska has beaten the Hoosiers, and all four have been by 15 points or more.

And this is Nebraska we’re talking about.

Indiana was a wreck defensively, allowing 85 points or more for the third time this season, all losses. Nebraska shot 61.2 percent from the field, and were just 8-for-14 from three-point range. Considering they made 40 threes in the three wins last season, that was a modest number of makes and not much of a storyline, outside of the two late threes by Williams and Juwan Gary that iced the game.

But they still scored 85 points, scoring 36 points in the paint and making 17 free throws.

“It didn’t just start late. We had no defensive presence to start the game either,” Indiana coach Mike Woodson said. “We have to get that fixed, because especially on the road you have to establish your defense. I know defense wins, especially when you’re not making shots, and we weren’t very good defensively.”

The three-pointer storyline was really more on the Indiana side. The Hoosiers camde into the game only attempting 17 threes per outing, which ranks 344th nationally out of 355 teams. On Friday, they took 35 attempts — but only made eight. They were just 3-for-20 from deep in the second half.

It was the first time in the Mike Woodson era — covering 115 games — that the Hoosiers had taken 35 three-point attempts. The previous high under Woodson was 27 in a double-overtime 112-110 loss at Syracuse on Nov. 30, 2021. The last time Indiana topped that was Jan. 19, 2016 when a Tom Crean-coach Hoosier team took 36 shots in a 103-69 win over Illinois. They made 19 that night.

Imagine that.

“I thought we had good looks (from three-point range) tonight, we just didn’t make them,” Woodson said in the understatement of the night. “I don’t care if you take 30, 40, 50 threes, when you take them, you’ve got to make them. They took the inside play away, and I thought we did a good job of sacrificing the ball. We make some of those and it’s a different game.”

The entire cast was culpable. Luke Goode made three deep balls, but missed seven others. Trey Galloway was 3-for-9. Kaanan Carlyle was 0-for-5, Bryson Tucker 1-for-5 and Myles Rice 1-for-4.

The Hoosiers dug themselves a big hole early, falling behind 13-3, but they scrapped their way back into it fairly quickly when a Luke Goode three gave them a 23-19 lead with 11:09 to go in the first half. The teams traded blows most of the rest of the half, but a late 11-2 Nebraska run gave them a 44-41 advantage at the break.

Nebraska got up nine early in the second half, but then the Hoosiers answered again. Myles Rice had the last of his four steals, and scored on a runout to tie the game at 62-62. Goode made another three at the 6:51 mark to pull Indiana within one (68-67).

It was their last field goal of the game.

During that final 6:51, Indiana went 0-for-12 from the field and had four turnovers. The errors were a bit of a surprise bcause they only had five for the game before that mark. The cold streak was not a surprise. They went scoreless the final four minutes of the first half, too.

“We kind of took a couple out of rythm and we didn’t defend well down the stretch, and that’s a recipe for disaster when you put those both together,” Rice said. “We got to be better down the stretch and play better as a team. ”

Indiana had no answer for Williams, a 6-foot-7 senior from Huntersville, N.C. who been a Hoosier kille during this losing streak. He had 30 points on 10-of-15 shooting, and also made 8-of-11 free throws. His straight-line drives to the basket were an issue all night. He also had six rebounds and five assists.

”He got downhill, got to the free throw line and he made a couple of tough shots,” Woodson said of Williams. “Once he got going, it was tough to slow him down. A lot of it was in isolation off the bounce, and we’ve got to get better with that, guarding guys off the dribble.”

Rice had 20 points to lead the Hoosiers. The steals led to some easy baskets, but he was also in attack mode all night.

“I just saw in transition that they were running with their backs to the rim and it was a chance for us to get easy shots at the rim. I though the flow of the game was right there for me, and it kind of led to us coming back a little but, but we’ve just got to be better down the stretch.”

The December portion of the Big Ten schedule is now complete, and 12 of the 18 teams split their games. Only Michigan, Michigan State and UCLA won both. Conference play will. resume for the Hoosiers on Jan. 2 with a home game against Rutgers. They have two nonconference games left, on Dec. 21 against Chattanooga, and Dec. 29 against Winthrop.

The former Indiana University basketball team doctor accused of sexually assaulting players back in the 1990s invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination dozens of times during a recent deposition when he was asked whether he performed rectal examinations on young athletes, according to the transcript of his testimony.

Dr. Bradford Bomba Sr., who testified on Dec. 4 via video, also twice invoked his Fifth Amendment right when asked if then-coach Bob Knight told him to do “digital rectal exams on his players.” However, he did answer several questions about his general scope of duties and time working for the university.

Bomba, 88, had been ordered to submit to a deposition by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mario Garcia, who is presiding over a federal lawsuit filed in October by two former players, Haris Mujezinovic and Charlie Miller, against the university’s trustees. Neither Knight, who died last year at age 83, nor Bomba are listed as defendants.

They claim Bomba repeatedly sexually assaulted them and their teammates under the guise of doing physical examinations and that the school was aware this was happening but did nothing to stop him.

Bomba first invoked the Fifth Amendment when he declined, through his lawyer, to answer whether he ever performed a physical exam on a player “anywhere other than on campus.”

The now-retired doctor also declined to answer a question about whether he ever reported the “abuse of a student athlete to anyone,” and another question asking if he knew what Title IX is.

Mujezinovic and Miller are suing the IU trustees under Title IX, a federal law that requires all universities that receive federal funds to put safeguards in place to protect students from sexual predators.

Bomba did testify at the deposition that IU provided him with a questionnaire that needed to be completed and that he documented the procedures he did on those forms, which were then returned to the university. He also agreed, under questioning, that he and Knight had been “close friends.”

Kathleen Delaney, who represents Mujezinovic and Miller, said in the lawsuit that there could be “at least one hundred” alleged victims. She had no immediate comment Friday on the deposition, which Bomba’s guardians had unsuccessfully attempted to delay by claiming he was not competent to testify.

“I’m pleased that the Court required Dr. Bomba, Sr. to testify,” Mujezinovic, who watched the deposition by video, said in a statement first reported by The Herald Times. “He did not even try to justify what he did to me and others under the guise of ‘medical care.’ Watching him testify was a difficult experience for me, but an important step in the pursuit of justice.”

“This is important evidence confirming that the University knew what was going on and did nothing to protect us from what I now understand was sexual abuse,” Miller said in his statement. He too watched the deposition by video.

Indiana University is represented by the Indianapolis-based Barnes & Thornburg law firm and three of the firm’s lawyers were monitoring the deposition but, according to the transcript obtained by NBC News, did not pose any questions.

Also watching the deposition was IU’s “in-house counsel” Anthony Prather, the transcript showed.

Indiana University hired Bomba to provide medical care to all of its sports teams from 1962 to 1970, and from 1979 until the late 1990s he was the basketball team’s doctor, according to the lawsuit.

Mujezinovic and Miller said in the lawsuit that they “were routinely and repeatedly subjected to medically unnecessary, invasive, and abusive digital rectal examinations” by Bomba.

Bomba had played football for Indiana University and was nicknamed “Frankenstein” by coaches and players “due to the large size of his hands and fingers,” the lawsuit added.

“Dr. Bomba, Sr.’s routine sexual assaults were openly discussed by the Hoosier men’s basketball players in the locker room in the presence of IU employees, including assistant coaches, athletic trainers, and other Hoosier men’s basketball staff,” according to the lawsuit.

Mujezinovic, who spent two seasons at Indiana from 1995 to 1997, and Miller, who played for the Hoosiers from 1994 through 1998, are seeking unspecified damages. They have also urged former teammates to come forward and join their lawsuit.