Author: Mike Schumann

Former IU basketball player Race Thompson has signed an NBA G League deal with Memphis, he announced on Tuesday. This will be Thompson’s second chance to play professionally in the United States. Thompson signed an NBA Summer League contract with the New York Knicks last June. But the six-year IU basketball power forward never made an appearance after he fractured his right tibia plateau. Thompson completed most of his rehab in Bloomington. He was around the IU team for most of the 2023-24 season, even traveling with them at times. He was fully recovered this summer and played for the…

Eric Gordon had one of the best individual seasons by a freshman in IU basketball history. While he was in Bloomington for less than a calendar year, his ties to the school, from his recruitment, his performance for IU, and the drama surrounding the 2007-08 team, made it all unforgettable. Gordon joined fellow Indiana natives last week on the Club 520 Podcast, including host and former Pike H.S., Wake Forest and NBA star Jeff Teague. During the interview (language, not suitable for children) Gordon talked about his recruitment to Indiana and his lone season in Bloomington. Gordon first verbally committed…

A pair of priority class of 2025 IU basketball recruiting targets are set to come off the board in the next 10 days, and both appear to be trending away from the Hoosiers. 7-foot center Eric Reibe will announce his college decision on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. ET. Reibe has received predictions in the last week he’ll pick UConn at all three national recruiting outlets (On3, Rivals and 247Sports).  Some of those picks have been made by local publishers, but they also include a UConn prediction by On3’s national analyst Jamie Shaw. Reibe was IU’s only true center target in…

Indiana will be playing in the Noon ET time slot for a second weekend in a row when Washington comes to Bloomington on Oct. 26. Perhaps that 9 a.m. PT kick time for the West Coast Huskies will be an advantage for Indiana?  The game will be televised on the Big Ten Network. Indiana leads the all-time series against Washington 2-1.  The last meeting came in Seattle in 2003.  Washington won that one, while the Hoosiers won both ends of a home-and-home series in the 70s. Coming off an appearance in the national championship game last season, Washington is 4-3…

Let the high expectations officially begin.  The Indiana Hoosiers are back in the AP Top-25. Mike Woodson’s fourth IU squad will open the season in the No. 17 spot according to the preseason AP poll released on Monday afternoon. This is the first time Indiana has been ranked since the final poll in March of 2023.  The Hoosiers spent 16 weeks ranked during that 2022-23 season.  And that campaign was the first time the program had been ranked since the early portion of the 2018-19 season. No. 17 is Indiana’s best ranking since February of 2023. The AP began compiling…

Indiana fans will be disappointed to learn how the 2024-25 season has been forecasted by popular college basketball analytics site Kenpom.com. The site flipped its rankings to the 2024-25 season on Sunday evening, and the Hoosiers are slotted at No. 39 nationally and just tenth in the Big Ten. Purdue is the top team in the Big Ten and tenth overall, followed by Illinois and UCLA.  Houston is the overall No. 1 team. In a Substack post last year describing the preseason rankings, Pomeroy described the key components: “As far as the guts of my system, I include the last…

It will be a top-25 matchup when Indiana hosts Nebraska on Saturday. The 6-0 Hoosiers moved up two spots in the new coaches poll released on Sunday afternoon.  They’re now No. 18 in the update following week seven games. Meanwhile, Nebraska (5-1) is now ranked as well.  The Cornhuskers are No. 25 in the new coaches poll.  Both Nebraska and IU were on byes in week seven. Oregon (2), Penn State (3), Ohio State (5), Illinois (21) and Michigan (22) are the five other teams from the Big Ten ranked in the coaches poll. Meanwhile, in the AP Top-25 released…

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…