Author: Mike Schumann

Redshirt freshman guard Jakai Newton has entered the transfer portal, he announced Monday evening. Newton was Mike Woodson’s first high school commit, but he was never able to make a meaningful impact during two seasons in Bloomington. The Georgia native played in four games and averaged 1.5 points per appearance in 2024-25. Newton dealt with multiple injuries during the season and had midseason surgery.  He also missed the entire 2023-24 season due to an injury. Newton is the fourth IU player to enter the portal since the end of the season, following Mackenzie Mgbako, Malik Reneau and Gabe Cupps. For…

Forward Mackenzie Mgbako will be looking for a new home after two seasons in Bloomington. On Monday afternoon, Mgbako posted on social media he intends to both evaluate where he stands as it relates to the NBA, and enter the transfer portal. In his post Mgbako says he also intends to keep an eye on the developments at Indiana. In 2024-25 Mgbako started 31-of-32 games played.  He was one of four Hoosiers to play all 32 games.  The New Jersey product averaged 12.2 points, 4.6 rebounds, and 1.1 assists per game.  Mgbako shot 43.7% (139-of-318) from the floor, 32.9% (47-of-143)…

High-major college basketball coaches are often compared most to those who enter their respective conferences at the same time. For Archie Miller, that meant Brad Underwood at Illinois and Chris Holtmann at Ohio State were often mentioned in the same breath. And for Mike Woodson, it was Micah Shrewsberry at Penn State and Ben Johnson at Minnesota who started Big Ten jobs at the same time. At least two other coaches will take over at Big Ten schools along with Indiana’s Darian DeVries, it was announced on Monday.  Both Iowa and Minnesota have announced or are expected to announce their…

With revenue sharing about to take hold in college athletics, it’s not an easy time to go on a spending spree. But under the leadership of President Pam Whitten and AD Scott Dolson, that’s exactly what Indiana has done over the last six months. It started when Indiana renewed football coach Curt Cignetti’s contract in November.  IU signed him to a new eight-year contract with an average annual compensation of $8 million, as well as an additional annual $1 million retention bonus.  That makes him one of the 20-highest paid coaches in college football. Cignetti also negotiated significant raises for…

New IU basketball coach Darian DeVries learned from two March Madness regulars. Oregon’s Dana Altman and Creighton’s Greg McDermott both advanced to the round of 32 this week as DeVries was announced as the next man up in Bloomington. DeVries was an assistant coach at Creighton for 18 years, with half of that time coming under Altman, and half under McDermott.  He joined Creighton as a graduate manager and spent a total of 20 years at the school. During his time there, he was part of 19 postseason appearances and 12 NCAA Tournament bids. Both Altman and McDermott took questions…

Six times the IU basketball head coaching position opened up beginning in 2000 when Bob Knight was fired. And to varying degrees, each time former IU star guard Steve Alford was thought to be a candidate to take over in Bloomington. But it doesn’t appear Alford was a top candidate in the latest search that ended with Darian DeVries being named the 31st head coach of the program. And with that comes a realization it isn’t in the cards for the 60 year old Alford to ever be the Indiana coach. That’s something he’s at peace with. “I always go…

Former DePaul guard Conor Enright is a player very familiar to new IU coach Darian DeVries. Enright and DeVries were together for three seasons at Drake before each went their separate ways ahead of the 2024-25 campaign. Is a reunion in store?  Enright entered the transfer portal earlier this week, and is a name to know as DeVries looks to rebuild the IU roster. The 6-foot-2 Enright played in 23 games for DePaul this season before suffering a season-ending shoulder injury that required surgery in February.  He attempted to play through the injury for several weeks before shutting things down.…

One of the first phone calls new IU basketball coach Darian DeVries made on Tuesday was to class of 2025 signee Trent Sisley. Sisley told The Daily Hoosier that call came about 30 minutes after the news broke DeVries would be the new head coach in Bloomington. And after originally committing to the program and signing in the fall when Mike Woodson was still head coach, Sisley let DeVries know he’s keeping his commitment to the Hoosiers. Sisley’s father Matt told TDH Thursday evening the family is familiar with DeVries because his older son Blake played against Drake multiple times. …

It remains to be seen who new IU basketball head coach Darian DeVries will bring along or hire to join him on his inaugural 2025-26 staff. But if he brings any of his three top assistants from this past season’s West Virginia crew, they’ll be a name likely familiar to Indiana fans. Kory Barnett capitalized on an opportunity out of high school to be a walk-on player at Indiana.  He was hired by DeVries last May as an assistant coach after spending the five prior seasons at Nevada and six seasons at UCLA, working for former IU star Steve Alford…

Bosnian shooting guard Harun Zrno has reopened his recruitment, On3’s Joe Tipton reported on Wednesday. Tipton reported on X Zrno will continue to consider IU going forward.  A recommitment by Zrno will require mutual interest from him and new IU head coach Darian DeVries. The 6-foot-7 Zrno took a visit to Indiana in January and committed later that same month.  But his commitment came just a couple weeks prior to the announcement of Mike Woodson’s planned end of season retirement. He also visited Wisconsin, Creighton and Virginia in January during a two-week stay in the United States. Indiana is now…