Author: Dustin Dopirak

By Dustin Dopirak —  For a prospect whose most valuable skill is his ability to put the ball in the bucket, C.J. Gunn has relatively modest scoring numbers. The Lawrence North junior averaged 7.1 points per game as a sophomore and is right around 15 points per game this season. But according to his coach Jack Keefer, a coaching legend in Indiana high school basketball, that says more good than bad about the 6-foot-5 shooting guard and four-star prospect, who announced his commitment to Indiana Sunday evening during halftime of the Super Bowl. Gunn isn’t the only talented player on…

By Dustin Dopirak — Archie Miller never considered another option. The shot clock was off. The game was tied. The Indiana coach had to pick one of his guards to take the ball and make a play, either to create his own shot or find someone who could if he was denied. In such situations, he wants the ball in the hands of Armaan Franklin. And it did not matter to Miller one bit that his sophomore guard and leading perimeter scorer for the season had missed eight of his nine shots up until that point on Sunday and had…

By Dustin Dopirak — Armaan Franklin isn’t 100 percent, but the Indiana sophomore guard is refusing to act like he’s any less healthy than he was before spraining his ankle against Maryland on Jan. 4. Franklin has re-aggravated the injury a few times since he suffered it initially, most notably against Rutgers on Jan. 24 when he wasn’t playing anything like himself in the second half. However, Franklin has played at least 33 minutes in every game since he returned to the lineup on Jan. 14 and is trying not to take it easy in practice either. “I just get…

Indiana junior cornerback Jaylin Williams was arrested on charges of operating while intoxicated and OWI endangerment, both misdemeanors.  Jon Blau of the Bloomington Herald-Times was the first to report the news. An officer at the Monroe County Jail confirmed the charges to The Daily Hoosier and said that Williams was booked into the jail at 1:33 AM and released on $1,000 surety and $500 cash bond at 7:04 AM. An Indiana spokesman also confirmed the arrest and released a statement on behalf of the program. “Indiana University athletics and the IU football program are aware of the arrest of Jaylin…

Indiana saw two of its locations shift from its original 2021 Big Ten schedule and saw most of the rest of its dates shuffled when the conference released its revised schedule on Friday. The Hoosiers had already changed their schedule online earlier in the year to reflect that they would host Michigan State and travel to Ann Arbor to play Michigan. The locations were the opposite in the original release. The Hoosiers still open the road at Iowa on Sept. 4 before a three-game non conference slate. They host Idaho on Sept. 11 and Cincinnati on Sept. 18 before going…

The Big Ten men’s basketball tournament will move from Chicago to Indianapolis with games to be played at Lucas Oil Stadium, Anthony Calhoun of WISH-TV reported Thursday morning. The move has been anticipated for most of the past month, especially since the NCAA announced that Indiana would host the entire NCAA Tournament. Illinois has more stringent COVID-19 protocols than Indiana, and playing the tournament in Indy could allow teams that make the tournament to stay in town. Indiana coach Archie Miller expressed his support for the move earlier this week in a Zoom press conference with the media. “I think…

Former Indiana All-Big Ten catcher Josh Phegley announced his retirement from Major League Baseball on Wednesday after eight years in the Majors with the Chicago White Sox, Oakland As and Chicago Cubs. The 33-year-old Phegley was a backup catcher for most of that period, but played in 106 games for Oakland in 2019, hitting .239 and slugging .411 that year with 12 home runs and 62 RBIs. However, he was seldom used by the Cubs in the COVID-shortened 2020 season, appearing in just 11 games and managing just one hit in 16 at-bats. Phegley retires with a career .225 average…

By Dustin Dopirak — It was strangely fitting that Indiana’s last hope to save itself from wasting a gift-wrapped opportunity against a top-15 team Tuesday night hinged on skillfully missing a free throw. The Hoosiers had certainly missed enough by accident at that point to think that maybe missing one on purpose might actually work out in their favor. Of course, it also required grabbing an offensive rebound, which is something Indiana hadn’t done in overtime or at any point since the 7:24 mark in the second half. They wouldn’t get one this time either as IU sophomore guard Armaan’s…

By Dustin Dopirak — Keon Handley’s son and quarterback Eric Handley took a helmet to the knee during Fairfield (Ala.) Prep’s September game against John Carroll Catholic of Birmingham, and the elder Handley found himself suddenly in need of someone to run his offense. As he usually does when he needs something done and done right, he turned to senior Malachi Bennett and asked him to step from wide receiver to behind center where he would play quarterback with a run-heavy package. “I pulled Malachi to the side and said, ‘I’m putting the game on your back,’” Handley said. “‘I…

By Dustin Dopirak — Indiana practiced in between Archie Miller’s Zoom press conference with reporters Tuesday afternoon and his radio show on Tuesday evening, and in that period there was a change in the status of two of its injured guards. Freshman Trey Galloway missed the two games before the Hoosiers’ nine-day layoff with a back injury and didn’t practice at all for the next week. However, Miller said Galloway got his first action Monday and that Indiana would monitor him to see if he would be available for Tuesday’s 9 p.m. home game against No. 12 Illinois. “Trey has…