
Metaphorically speaking, Indiana football has walked on the moon this season. Defying all odds against them, the Hoosiers have started 2025 14-0 and won the Big Ten title and Rose Bowl in one of North American sports' great storybook campaigns.
It's the kind of accomplishment that merits purple prose and upper-class adulation—and billionaire businessman Mark Cuban is providing the latter. On Wednesday, Cuban indicated to Alex Schiffer of Front Office Sports that he had upped his donation to Indiana's athletic department; the Hoosier alum donated to the athletic department for the first time last year.