Trevell Mullen, a four-star cornerback from Coconut Creek High School in Pompano Beach, Fla. and the younger brother of Indiana All-American Tiawan Mullen, announced on Sunday that he has committed to Indiana. “I’d like to thank all the coaches that reached out to me and recruited me throughout the whole process,” Mullen posted on his Twitter account. “With that being said, after speaking with God and my family, I will be announcing that I am committed to Indiana University. #LEO.” Mullen made the announcement upon the conclusion of his official visit to the Bloomington campus. “The culture, they treated me…
Author: Dustin Dopirak
The stages don’t get any bigger and the lights don’t get any brighter in high school football than they do in Texas. Indiana freshman wide receiver Jordyn Williams has succeeded in that environment and with a famous coach drawing even more eyes to his program. After three seasons at Westover High School in Albany, Ga., he transferred to Trinity Christian High School in Cedar Hill, Texas so he could play in that environment. His offensive coordinator there was Deion Sanders, who was there because his son Shedeur Sanders was the quarterback before both went to Jackson State. Their first game…
To watch a highlight video of Coen Carr is to be in awe of what a 16-year-old body is capable of. The clips on YouTube are mostly homogenous displays of raw athleticism, but they are spectacular displays — one fastbreak dunk after another, after another. Contained within them are some NBA Slam Dunk Contest classics — between-the-legs jams, left-handed tomahawks, reverse rock-the-baby dunks in which he goes from one side of the rim to the other. It’s an astounding collection of in-game jams from a player who has only been able to dunk for a little over a year. “The…
Indiana All-American Michael Brinegar finished second in the 800 meter freestyle at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials on Thursday night to earn a berth to the Olympic Games later this summer in Tokyo. Brineger finished in 7 minutes, 49.94 seconds, just behind first-place finisher Bobby Fink at 7:48.22. They became the first U.S. qualifiers in the men’s 800-meter freestyle, as the event is being run for the first time at the Olympics. Brinegar has twice been named All-American in the 1,650-freestyle, earning 10th place in the event at the NCAA Championships in 2021 and second place in 2019.
James Evans wasn’t ready for wearing a helmet. The Indiana freshman punter was aware he was in for a lot of adjustments moving to the United States from New Zealand and beginning a football career in the Big Ten after spending most of his youth playing rugby. He’d learned how to punt at Prokick Australia, the same kicking and punting program that produced former Indiana punter Haydon Whitehead, so he understood what the basic function of his job would be and shown proficiency in it, but the rest of the game was still very much foreign. Especially headgear. One of…
Indiana linebacker Micah McFadden was named a preseason second-team All-American by the Walter Camp Foundation, according to a release from the foundation on Thursday. McFadden finished third in the Big Ten in 2020 with 10.5 tackles for loss last season and led the conference with six sacks. He led Indiana with 58 tackles, including 44 solo tackles, and he also recorded two interceptions. He was named first-team All-Big Ten by the coaches and media and third-team All-American by the Associated Press. McFadden was one of eight Big Ten players named to the Walter Camp Foundation’s two All-America teams. Ohio State…
Crispus Attucks wing and 2023 recruit Jalen Hooks has set June 22 as the date for his unofficial visit to Indiana, according to a post on the Crispus Attucks boys’ basketball program Twitter account. Hooks will also take unofficial visit to Cincinnati on June 21 and Pittsburgh on June 28 according to the post. The 6-foot-7, 195-pound Hooks is a four-star recruit and the No. 55 player in the Class of 2023 according to 247Sports.com. He averaged 11.1 points, 8.4 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.7 steals for Crispus Attucks as a sophomore in the 2020-21 season. Indiana has not yet…
Former Indiana NCAA champion Lilly King earned the opportunity to defend her 100-meter breaststroke Olympic Gold Medal with a first-place finish in the event at the Olympic Trials on Tuesday night in Omaha, Neb. She finished in one minute, 4.79 seconds, defeating second-place finisher Lydia Jacoby of Alaska by .49 seconds. The win came after King set a U.S. Olympic trials record in the semifinals, finishing in 1:04.72. She owns the Olympic record with a time of 1:04.93 set in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. King won national titles in both the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke in…
Within days of its loss to Arizona in the Elite Eight, it was clear that Indiana’s women’s basketball team would be team run-it-back for 2021-22, taking full advantage of the fact that 2020-21 didn’t count against anyone’s eligibility. Two days after the loss, guard Ali Patberg decided to return for a seventh year in college basketball. Not long after that, George Mason transfer point guard Nicole Cardano-Hillary announced that she would stay for a fifth year, her second at Indiana after transferring from George Mason. The Hoosiers were already due another year from All-Big Ten first team picks Grace Berger…
Former Indiana defensive tackle Larry Black Jr., now a defensive line coach at Toledo, will be working with the Cincinnati Bengals this summer through the Bill Walsh NFL Minority Coaching Fellowship program, according to a Bengals release. In four seasons at Indiana from 2009-12, Black Jr. recorded 127 tackles including 27.5 for loss and eight sacks. He was signed by the Bengals as an undrafted free agent in 2013 but broke his leg in training camp. The Bengals kept him in the reserve/injured list that year before he was waived at the end of training camp in 2014. He began…