Two years ago, the last time the college baseball season advanced far enough for conference champions to be crowned, Indiana went into Ann Arbor in mid-May with a chance to lift itself toward the top of the Big Ten standings and succeeded. The Hoosiers took two of three from Michigan and eventually won the conference title by 1/2 game over the Wolverines. The Wolverines, however, came back with a miraculous month of June. They took advantage of defending national champion Oregon State’s upset losses to Cincinnati and Creighton to claim the Corvallis Regional, then swept No. 1 overall seed UCLA…
Author: Dustin Dopirak
The Big Ten released the conference opponent matchups for the 2021-22 basketball season Thursday, and Indiana learned it will be playing traditional conference powerhouses Michigan and Michigan State once each and Illinois and Iowa once each in Indiana coach Mike Woodson’s first year at the helm. The Hoosiers will play the following teams both at home and on the road: Purdue, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin. Illinois, Michigan and Rutgers will all play at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall without the Hoosiers having to play them on the road. Michigan State, Iowa and Northwestern will host Indiana but…
Auburn transfer defensive end Jaren Handy announced on his Twitter account Wednesday evening that he is transferring to Indiana. The 6-foot-5, 252-pound sophomore from Hattiesburg, Miss., recorded three tackles including two for loss and a sack in limited action as a reserve this season. The sack came against Alabama and the tackle for loss came against Northwestern in the Citrus Bowl. As a true freshman in 2019, Handy recorded seven tackles in seven appearances. He was an all-state player at Hattiesburg High School. As a recruit in the class of 2019, Handy was a 4-star and ranked the No. 100…
Todd Yeagley has been present for every one of Indiana’s 21 College Cup appearances going back to 1976, when he was all of 4 years old. As of Tuesday, however, the Indiana men’s soccer coach wasn’t sure if his father Jerry, who was head coach for the first 16 of the Hoosiers’ trips to the final four of the NCAA Men’s Soccer Tournament, would make it down to Cary, N.C. for the No. 3 seed Hoosiers 8:30 p.m. national semifinal game Friday against No. 2 seed Pittsburgh. The Hoosiers have already played three NCAA Tournament games in North Carolina with…
When he got to South Carolina powerhouse Dorman High School, Noah Clowney was carrying just 180 pounds on an ever growing frame, and in practice that was all he had to go up against the best post player in the state of South Carolina. P.J. Hall, now a 6-foot-10, 235-pound center at Clemson, paired with now-Butler point guard Myles Tate, led Dorman to back-to-back Class 5A state titles, and skinny Clowney had no chance at playing time with Hall ahead of him on the depth chart. “I used to get thrown around by P.J,” Clowney said. “I was a little…
When the skies darkened and lightning and rain came to attack and drench WakeMed Field in Cary, N.C., Indiana and Seton Hall had to retreat to their respective buses to wait it out without a locker room close enough to use and were stuck there for close to 40 minutes. The NCAA men’s soccer tournament quarterfinal was scoreless at the time with 3:12 to go in the first half. “There was no place to go,” Indiana coach Todd Yeagley said. “… That goes down as a first. I’ve been on buses waiting for things, maybe at halftime, but not for…
Indiana won three of its four games in Piscataway, N.J. this weekend, emerging with a 23-10 record and a 1/2 game lead on Michigan for first place in the Big Ten standings heading into a critical series between the two teams this coming weekend in Ann Arbor. Due to a pandemic-year scheduling quirk, the Hoosiers played two games against Rutgers, then two games against Nebraska in Rutgers’ home ball park over the weekend, playing a double-header on Saturday with one game each against the two opponents. The Hoosiers won their weekend opener over Rutgers 8-3 on Friday with catcher Collin…
Curtis Wheeler still doesn’t think people appreciate Julian Phillips’ skill set as much as they should. It’s hard to say a player like Phillips is under-appreciated when he’s the No. 30 player in his class according to the 247Sports.com composite rankings or when he has about 25 scholarship offers already in hand heading into his junior year summer — including offers from Indiana, Alabama, Florida, Florida State, Kansas and Texas Tech. But Wheeler thinks casual observers don’t fully understand just how versatile Phillips is. He’s listed on 247’s website at 6-foot-8, 200 pounds, but according to his coach at Blythewood…
Sophomore forward Mauloune Goumballe scored with 10 minutes and 22 seconds remaining to put Indiana ahead en route to a 2-1 win over Marquette in the NCAA Tournament Round of 16 on Thursday evening in Cary N.C. The No. 3 overall seed Hoosiers advance to the quarterfinals Monday where they will meet the winner of Thursday night’s game between No. 6 overall seed Seton Hall and Virginia Tech. Marquette’s A.J. Franklin gave the Golden Eagles the lead 43:19 into the game, putting a rocket into the left corner. However, the Hoosiers tied the game at the 70:47 mark when sophomore…
Kaleb Banks is still getting a feel for what it means to be the guy everyone’s watching every time he’s on the floor. The 6-foot-8, 215-pound wing from Fayette County High School in Fayetteville, Ga., wasn’t even a top-150 player a year ago in the 247Sports.com composite rankings for the Class of 2022, and he plays travel ball for the vaunted Atlanta Celtics program so he’s surrounded by other high-major talent. However, he dominated in high school this season, earning Georgia Class 4A Region 5 Player of the Year honors and leading Fayette County to the Class 4A state title…