Indiana jumped into four-star shooting guard Tamar Bates’ recruitment immediately after his March 29 de-commitment from Texas, following coach Shaka Smart’s decision to leave the Longhorns for Marquette. Assistant coach Kenya Hunter led the charge, and he, head coach Mike Woodson and the rest of the staff made the pitch for how the 6-foot-5, left-handed sharpshooter would fit in as exactly what they needed to bring a more modern style of basketball to Indiana. But the Hoosiers made him one guarantee, and one guarantee only. “Coach Woodson stressed to me that I will become a better man,” Bates said by…
Author: Dustin Dopirak
Indiana announced Monday that it has scheduled a home-and-home football series with Notre Dame in 2030 and 2031. The Hoosiers play at Notre Dame Stadium on Aug. 31, 2030 and will host Notre Dame on Sept 27, 2031. It will be the first time the two schools meet since Sept. 7, 1991. That 1991 meeting was also the end of a long drought of games between the two teams. The previous meeting came in 1958. Indiana has a 5-23-1 all-time record against Notre Dame and has lost six straight in the series. The last Indiana win came on Oct. 21,…
At the end of spring practice, Indiana is rated No. 25 in ESPN’s Football Power Index rankings, which are based on a metric that “measures a team’s true strength on a net points scale; expected point margin vs. an average opponent on a neutral field.” Based on ESPN’s metrics, the Hoosiers would beat an average opponent by 11.0 points on a neutral field. For perspective, the No. 1 team in preseason FPI, Alabama, has an FPI of 28.0. Indiana is ranked fifth among Big Ten teams in FPI behind Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin and Iowa. Ohio State is fifth…
Indiana University announced Friday that Dr. Pamela Whitten, currently the president of Kennesaw State University in Georgia, will replace Dr. Michael McRobbie as university president beginning July 1. She is the first woman to ever be named president of IU. Prior to being named president at Kennesaw State in 2018, she was the senior vice president for academic affairs and provost for the University of Georgia. She also worked in the medical departments of Kansas and Michigan State She has Ph.D. in communication studies from Kansas, a master’s degree in communication from Kentucky and a bachelor’s degree in management from…
New Indiana assistant coach Yasir Rosemond will be paid $300,000 per year according to a memorandum of understanding provided to the Daily Hoosier by the Indiana athletic department. It is a two-year deal, but the contract extends automatically every year on June 30, starting June 30, 2022 unless Rosemond is given notice of non-renewal. Rosemond will also be given $20,000 for moving expenses and allowed to purchase $2,000 annually in adidas gear. He is also provided a courtesy car and university benefits. He will receive a bonus equal to one-month salary if the Hoosiers reach the NCAA Tournament. He gets…
Kenya Hunter had barely lived in Bloomington for seven months before he found himself wondering if he was going to have to move again. His initial hiring came later in the annual hiring cycle than it usually would because of the COVID-19 pandemic’s shake-up of the NBA calendar. The New York Knicks had fired David Fizdale in December of 2019 and were playing under interim coach Mike Miller when the season was suspended in March of 2020. When the league announced the parameters of its re-start bubble and it became clear the Knicks wouldn’t be a part of it at…
Armaan Franklin’s transfer portal decision ultimately came down to either staying at Indiana or going to Virginia. He had heard enough of what he wanted to hear from incoming Hoosiers coach Mike Woodson to feel comfortable about the idea of staying in Bloomington and knowing it wouldn’t negatively affect his career. “There wasn’t anything I didn’t like about Indiana,” Franklin told The Daily Hoosier on Wednesday after keeping quiet publicly for the first several days after his decision. “… I don’t think there was a bad decision for me to make.” But Indiana’s leading perimeter scorer in 2020-21 ultimately decided…
Former Alabama, Georgia and Oregon assistant coach Yasir Rosemond was hired to fill the third and final assistant coaching spot on new Indiana coach Mike Woodson’s staff. Rosemond has not been on a Division I staff since 2019 when then Alabama coach Avery Johnson was fired and Nate Oats was hired as his replacement. Rosemond was not retained to be part of Oats’ staff. Rosemond spent two years on Johnson’s staff, and the Crimson Tide reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament in 2017-18. Prior to that, Rosemond spent three years on staff at Georgia under Mark Fox, helping…
Tom Allen still has every reason to believe that Michael Penix will be ready by Sept. 4 when Indiana plays Iowa in the 2021 season opener. And if he is ready, the second-team All-Big Ten pick will be the Hoosiers’ starting quarterback, no questions asked. But in spring practice, the Indiana coach saw everything he wanted to see out of redshirt sophomore Jack Tuttle, who took over the starting job when Penix was injured and took almost all of the first-team snaps in spring practice. Tuttle’s load got even heavier early in spring freshman Dexter Williams, who was expected to…
Dane Fife showed up for his first Zoom press conference as an Indiana assistant coach armed with jokes and wisecracks, self-deprecating and otherwise. The former Indiana guard and 10-year assistant coach at Michigan State under Tom Izzo had crossed paths with enough of the media members on the call over the years to be able to deliver some playful cracks, and he did, calling out one beat reporter for the sunburn he’d developed on vacation in Florida and another for the hair spiking out above his visor, asking if it was real hair. A third, who is bald, joked that…