Author: Mike Schumann

The spotlight on Bloomington next weekend just grew a little brighter. FOX will be bringing their Big Noon Kickoff tailgate show to Memorial Stadium in advance of the No. 18/20 Hoosiers’ matchup with Nebraska. Big Noon Kickoff will set up outside the stadium next Saturday morning.  The show provides a live preview of the day’s top games in college football plus detailed analysis of the game kicking off on-site at Noon on FOX.  That’s IU and Nebraska next Saturday. Rob Stone anchors the desk which includes former college football stars Mark Ingram II, Matt Leinart, Brady Quinn, and three-time national…

Don’t look now, but here come the Hoosiers. After a choppy start to the 2024 season, Indiana (5-3-5, 3-1-2 B1G) extended its undefeated streak to five matches (3-0-2) Friday night at Bill Armstrong Stadium with a 2-0 win over Penn State.  Freshman midfielder Charlie Heuer found the back of the net twice in the second half. The Hoosiers snapped Penn State’s own five-game unbeaten run. IU has scored 12 goals during its five-match unbeaten run. In the eight games prior, the Hoosiers had scored seven goals.  Over its last four seasons, Indiana is 20-4-6 (.767) in the month of October.…

We should know plenty about IU basketball after their first game at the Battle 4 Atlantis in the Bahamas. The Hoosiers need a strong showing at the event, and they’ll get a good test to start the three-day tournament when they face cross-border foe Louisville.  That game comes just 10 days after IU hosts South Carolina, so by then we should have a pretty good handle on how well Mike Woodson has built his impressive talent haul into a cohesive team. Indiana has a 12-9 all-time series lead over Louisville after they rallied for a 74-66 win over Kenny Payne’s…

For the first time since 2021, an Indiana game at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington will be sold out. The program reported on Thursday afternoon there are no tickets remaining for their Oct. 19 home game against Nebraska. IU’s Memorial Stadium seats 52,626 fans. The game will be the first sellout since the 2021 game vs. Ohio State. IU also sold out the Cincinnati game earlier that year. No. 18/20 Indiana (6-0) and Nebraska (5-1) kick at Noon ET a week from Saturday (FOX). Fans still looking for tickets to the game can use our StubHub affiliate link by GOING HERE.…

One of the more interesting developments to follow early in the 2024-25 IU basketball season will be how head coach Mike Woodson utilizes Oumar Ballo and Malik Reneau. Forwards Mackenzie Mgbako and Luke Goode have both said this fall they anticipate being utilized at times in a stretch-four role, and Reneau has said he has been playing some center.  Woodson has corroborated all of that to some extent. And so really it is the extent of those roles that becomes a central question as the Hoosiers are now just a couple weeks away from their exhibition opener at Tennessee on…

The Big Ten Conference announced tip times and television designations for the men’s basketball season on Wednesday afternoon. The Hoosiers will be featured on BTN or B1G+ 12 times this season, including home conference tilts against Minnesota (Dec. 9), USC (Jan. 8), and Penn State (Jan. 26). B1G+ will carry the lone home exhibition against Marian (Nov. 1) and the home game against Eastern Illinois (Nov. 10). FOX and FS1 will showcase Indiana seven times, including primetime game slots at Nebraska (Dec. 13), at Iowa (Jan. 11), at Ohio State (Jan. 17), at Purdue (Jan. 31), and against UCLA (Feb.…

Curt Cignetti said when he was hired he planned to “wage a tenacious battle against complacency.” From the Nick Saban school of coaching, Cignetti isn’t one to go overboard with compliments.  You’re either getting better or worse each day, never staying the same, he says. And as a former quarterback himself, Cignetti watches the position with an especially critical eye. But on an appearance this week with Rhett Lewis on Under the Hood, Cignetti was effusive in his praise for Indiana quarterback Kurtis Rourke. And how could he not be happy with the two-time Big Ten Offensive Player of the…

Details have surfaced regarding Indiana’s previously announced Oct. 27 charity exhibition against Tennessee in Knoxville. The game will tip on that Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. ET at the Food City Arena in Knoxville, Tenn. The Tennessee basketball website says the game will air on the SEC Network+.  SEC Network+ is accessible with your TV provider credentials and is available via the ESPN APP on smartphones, tablets, connected streaming devices or espn.com/watch. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster via this link. NCAA rules mandate that for an exhibition game between two Division I teams, the host school must sell tickets and…

Former IU basketball player Miller Kopp is trending towards another season in the NBA G League. On Tuesday the Oklahoma City Thunder announced they’ve signed the 25-year-old to their training camp roster. Kopp played the 2023-24 season for the Oklahoma City Blue in the NBA’s G League, and this latest deal secures the franchise’s rights to sign Kopp to another deal with the Blue. That team won the league title last season with Kopp averaging 6.3 points and 2.5 rebounds while shooting 31.1 percent from three. Kopp was with the NBA franchise in July for the Summer League and played…

There were no real surprises as class of 2025 center Eric Reibe narrowed his list of schools to five. The 7-footer told multiple outlets on Tuesday he’ll focus on Indiana, Kansas, Connecticut, Creighton and Oregon to wrap-up his recruitment. Reibe just completed his final official visit to Oregon over the weekend. A product of Germany who attends Bullis School in Potomac, Md., Reibe is expected to announce a college decision this month. According to multiple reports, IU coach Mike Woodson is visiting Reibe on Wednesday. Reibe visited Indiana a couple weeks ago along with fellow IU target Braylon Mullins, and…