Indiana basketball taking traveling exhibition show to Evansville

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana basketball has added a preseason game against Western Kentucky at the Ford Center in Evansville at 4 p.m. Oct. 25, 2026, to its 2026-27 schedule. The multi-use arena in Evansville has a capacity of 11,000 fans.

The announcement gives IU a second exhibition game for this season in addition to the game it finalized for Oct. 18 against North Carolina in downtown Indianapolis.

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Indiana basketball still hasn’t announced its full nonconference schedule for 2026-27, but the Hoosiers’ known matchups include neutral-site games against Kentucky (Lucas Oil Stadium) and Syracuse (Gainbridge Fieldhouse), along with reported games at Assembly Hall against Eastern Illinois, Bellarmine and Bowling Green.

Fans will get their first look at the Hoosiers’ new-look roster when the team travels to Peru later this summer to take part in the FISU America Games from July 20 to Aug. 1.

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Calbert Cheaney (40) set Indiana and Big Ten records with 2,613 career points between 1989-93. Both records stand in 2026.

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Calbert Cheaney (40) set Indiana and Big Ten records with 2,613 career points between 1989-93. Both records stand in 2026.

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Indiana players Keith Smart and Steve Alford celebrating after the team defeated LSU to advance to the 1987 NCAA Final Four. The Hoosiers won the national championship over Syracuse on a late Smart shot. Alford scored 2,438 points between 1983-87.

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Indiana’s Trayce Jackson-Davis goes up and under Michigan’s Hunter Dickinson during the first half on Sunday, March 5, 2023, in Bloomington, Indiana. Jackson-Davis scored 2,258 points between 2019-23.

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