Author: Mike Schumann

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana defeated UNC Greensboro on Thursday evening at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall by a final score of 69-58. The Hoosiers led at halftime 36-27.  They were led in the game by Myles Rice with 20 points and six assists.  Bryson Tucker added 14.  Oumar Ballo had a team high 11 rebounds. The three keys to the game, highlights and final stats are below. Indiana (4-0) will travel to The Bahamas and face Louisville on Wednesday in the first round of the Battle 4 Atlantis. See also:  Mike Woodson postgame press conference THREE KEYS TO THE GAME 1.…

Indiana will be down two reserve guards when they host UNC Greensboro tonight. Classmates Gabe Cupps and Jakai Newton will both be unavailable according to the Big Ten’s availability report released this afternoon. Neither player has had a significant role early in the 2024-25 campaign. Cupps was listed as questionable against South Carolina, and he dressed for the game.  But the sophomore guard never saw the floor.  He played in the first two games but has yet to score a point this season.  The nature of Cupps’ injury or other reason for being out is unclear to this point. This…

Nico Radicic hasn’t been asked to do much this year. But the redshirt freshman kicker from Texas has done everything that’s been asked of him. And in Indiana’s first tight game of the season, Radicic’s two field goals provided the difference in a 20-15 win over Michigan. His second make against the Wolverines, a 41-yarder with just 2:34 left in the game, forced Michigan to have to score a touchdown to win.  With that kick Radicic moved his way into a tie for No. 8 on the program’s consecutive field goals made list, at nine-straight tries to open his career.…

Indiana guard Myles Rice played a starring role in Indiana’s 87-71 win over South Carolina on Saturday. The redshirt sophomore point guard posted 23 points on 7-of-10 shooting, and he added four rebounds and three assists. South Carolina was intent on limiting Rice’s effectiveness by keeping him out of the paint and forcing him to shoot pull-up jump shots.  The method utilized by the Gamecocks was a ball screen defensive tactic known as drop coverage. First, what is drop coverage?  It’s when the help defenders on ball screens don’t extend out to the perimeter to take away jump shots, and…

Indiana quarterback Kurtis Rourke is still wearing something on his right thumb.  Whether it’s tape, a bandage or something else that could be seen when he met with the media on Tuesday evening isn’t entirely clear. But the 24-year-old has clearly progressed from the injury he suffered against Nebraska a month ago. When Rourke first played following his broken thumb at Michigan State, he wore a glove and utilized a stint.  The gameday setup was clearly scaled down against Michigan the following week. And now with the benefit of a week off, Rourke is happy with where things stand with…

Indiana vs. Ohio State will officially be a top-5 matchup on Saturday. The Hoosiers held at No. 5 in the latest update of the CFP rankings released by the Selection Committee Tuesday evening live on ESPN. IU will face No. 2 Ohio State in Columbus this Saturday (Noon ET, FOX). Two projected conference champions — Miami and Boise State — are ranked lower than IU but each claim one of the top four spots in the bracket.  That bumps No. 5 ranked IU to the No. 7 seed in the bracket. In the latest projection, IU would host No. 10…

It seems nothing gets the teeth of college football’s old guard gnashing like a good season by Indiana. You’re probably old enough to remember 2020, when the CFP Committee gave the Hoosiers no respect, while the Big Ten broke their own rules to keep IU out of the Big Ten Championship game. Fast forward to 2024, and Indiana has folks steaming once again.  The 10-0 Hoosiers are No. 5 in the CFP, clearly lower than any power-brand Big Ten team would be ranked with an unblemished record.  Look no further than the two one-loss Big Ten teams above them in…

Coming into the Michigan game, Indiana was one of the best teams in the country when it came to protecting the quarterback. IU is still No. 14 nationally with just 11 sacks allowed through 10 games, but four of those came in one game — against the Wolverines in IU’s last outing. Michigan recorded 16 total quarterback pressures — half of Kurtis Rourke’s 32 drop backs — including five hits on the indispensable IU star quarterback. Was this a case of Indiana’s offensive line being out of sorts after losing starting guard Drew Evans for the season during the week…

If Curt Cignetti can flip Indiana from 3-9 to 10-0, imagine what he could do at Florida, Oklahoma or Auburn? That’s what a lot of people were thinking as Indiana continued to rack up impressive win after impressive win. And IU AD Scott Dolson knew every top program in America looking to make a change would have Cignetti at or near the top of their list. What if Cignetti got an offer that more than doubled his IU salary at one of the game’s traditional power brands? Dolson wanted to defuse the situation by getting ahead of the poachers.  The…

Indiana continued to expand their class of 2027 offer list over the weekend. Mike Woodson and staff formally offered Illinois-based guard Davion Thompson, he announced on his X account. Thompson attends Bolingbrook H.S. in Bolingbrook, Ill.  The 6-foot-2 lefty combo guard was incredibly efficient for his age in 2023-24.  He averaged 19.2 points per game as a high school freshman while shooting 59 percent overall and 45 percent from 3-point range.  Thompson added five rebounds and led his team to the sectional finals and a 27–5 record. On film Thompson has high-level shot mechanics and gets to his spots off…