Indiana’s fall exhibition slate will take the Hoosiers back to one of basketball’s most famous buildings.
The school announced that Indiana will face Butler in an exhibition game on Sunday, Oct. 11, at Hinkle Fieldhouse. Butler will return the game with an exhibition in 2027 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.
That matchup is part of a busy preseason stretch for Indiana. The Hoosiers also are scheduled to play North Carolina in Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on Sunday, Oct. 18, with the time still to be determined, and Western Kentucky in the Ford Center in Evansville at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct.
- In addition, Indiana is taking part in five exhibition-type games this summer tied to the FISU America Cup Games.
Indiana and Butler last met in the regular season on Dec. 19, 2020, when the Hoosiers won 68-60. Armaan Franklin had 20 points, then a career high, while shooting 5-for-7, and Trayce Jackson-Davis added 21.
The all-time series now stands at 40-15 in Indiana’s favor. The schools first played on Feb. 8, 1901, when Butler won 20-17.
At Hinkle Fieldhouse, Indiana is 17-9 all-time against Butler, according to IU records. The Hoosiers’ most recent game there came on Nov. 27, 1993, their season opener that year. Butler won that one 75-71 behind 24 points from guard Travis Trice, who went 7-for-10 from 3-point range, and 19 points from Jermaine Guice.
Butler enters the matchup under first-year coach Ronald Nored, a 2012 Butler graduate. The Bulldogs went 16-16 last season, the final season of Thad Matta’s coaching career.
Indiana, meanwhile, is in year two under Darian DeVries and has overhauled its roster with portal additions and incoming freshmen alongside sophomore forward and Indiana native Trent Sisley.
The portal class is headlined by 6-foot point guard Markus Burton, who led the ACC in scoring as a sophomore in 2024-25, and 6-foot-11 power forward/center Aiden Sherrell, who led the SEC in blocked shots as a sophomore in 2025-26.
The Hoosiers also added 6-foot-3 guard Bryce Lindsey from Villanova, 6-foot-5 wing Jaeden Mustaf from Georgia Tech, 7-foot-2, 270-pound center Samet Yigitoglu from SMU and 6-foot-5 sophomore guard Darren Harris from Duke.
Indiana’s freshmen are 6-foot-6 wing Vaughn Karvala, ranked No. 51 nationally by 247Sports, from Bella Vista Prep in Arizona; 6-foot-8 wing Trevor Manhertz, ranked No. 65, from Christ School in North Carolina; 6-foot-4 combo guard Prince-Alexander Moody, ranked No. 80, from Bishop McNamara in Maryland; and 7-foot center Clemens Sokolov from Germany.
Hinkle Fieldhouse itself remains one of the sport’s most recognizable stages. It opened in 1928 and seats 9,100.
The building has hosted scenes from Hoosiers, the 1954 Milan Miracle state championship game, and the championship run of Oscar Robertson’s Crispus Attucks team, which became the nation’s first all-black high school to win a state title. Countless postseason high school games have also unfolded there.
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