Indiana men’s basketball fans will soon have their first look at next season’s team with an exhibition matchup against Canadian school Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf on July 15 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.
With this contest a week away, the Hoosiers are still determining their nonconference schedule. College Hoops Today’s Jon Rothstein reported Wednesday that Indiana and the University of Missouri are set to finalize an agreement to meet in Bloomington on Dec. 18.
Rothstein also reported that there will be no return game to Columbia, Missouri, in the future.
The nonconference matchup is the Hoosiers’ sixth reported game on their schedule. Matchups against the University of Kentucky and Syracuse University headline the nonconference slate.
The Hoosiers and Tigers have played 18 games against each other in program history. The teams have split the series at nine wins apiece, with the last matchup coming in the 2004-05 season. Missouri has won the last three games, two of which at Assembly Hall.
Indiana’s last win in the series came during the 1999-2000 season with a 73-68 victory in Columbia. The Hoosiers haven’t yet won a game against the Tigers in Assembly Hall, as the last home win for Indiana came in 1968, when games were played in Gladstein Fieldhouse.
The Tigers finished with a 20-13 overall record and a 10-8 mark in Southeastern Conference play last season. As a 10-seed in the NCAA tournament, Missouri lost 80-66 to the University of Miami in the first round.
According to 247 Sports, Missouri brought in the 14th-best transfer portal class in the nation and fifth-best in the SEC. 247 Sports rated forwards Bryson Tiller (University of Kansas), Kennard Davis Jr. (Brigham Young University) and Jamier Jones (Providence College) as four-star transfer portal recruits.
Missouri will enter the fourth season of Dennis Gates’ tenure as head coach. The Tigers lost key contributor senior guard and forward Mark Mitchell to graduation. Mitchell averaged a team-high 18.3 points per game last season. Graduate student guard Jayden Stone, the team’s second-leading scorer with 13.5 points per game, also graduated.
Indiana finished the 2025-26 season with an 18-14 overall record and a 9-11 mark in Big Ten play, missing the NCAA Tournament for the third consecutive season. The team’s season concluded with a 74-61 defeat to Northwestern in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament on March 11.
Indiana has announced exhibition contests against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Western Kentucky University before the regular season begins. The North Carolina game will take place at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on Oct. 18, while the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana will hold the Western Kentucky matchup on Oct. 25.
