College coaches don’t ever come right out and say that Braden Smith’s size has been a concern. But for a sophomore point guard to average 18.5 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.7 assists per game and have no Division One offers despite playing against strong central Indiana competition — there has to be a story. His parents think they know what has been going on. “You’d be crazy to think his size has not been a factor,” his mother Ginny Smith told The Daily Hoosier. “I think Braden is on people’s list, but he has always been a wildcard because of…
Author: Mike Schumann
Missouri based class of 2021 guard Aminu Mohammed is one of just a few priority backcourt recruiting targets in the incoming senior class for Indiana. Mohammed averaged 34.8 points, 15.7 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 2.5 blocks per game to lead Greenwood Laboratory School to a 26-4 mark. Below are junior season highlights of the 6-foot-4 Mohammed. See also: Indiana making Mohammed a high priority | Mohammed planning to visit https://youtu.be/BRMpgKNpZjw Find us on Facebook: thedailyhoosier You can follow us on Twitter: @daily_hoosier The Daily Hoosier –“Where Indiana fans assemble when they’re not at Assembly” Seven ways to support completely free IU coverage at no…
BTN soccer analyst Dean Linke sits down with former Indiana men’s soccer standout Andrew Gutman and Maryland soccer coach Sasho Cirovski to relive Gutman’s 2018 goal against the Terps in the 2018 Big Ten Men’s Soccer Tournament, a play that helped clinch the MAC Hermann Trophy for Gutman. Gutman won the most prestigious award in NCAA College Soccer at the Missouri Athletic Club in St. Louis in January, 2019. With the honor, Gutman became the seventh Hoosier to be named the top player in NCAA Division I soccer. A unanimous First-Team All-American and selection as Big Ten Defender of the…
Set the DVR, get the popcorn, and get ready to binge watch IU. Again. For the second time since the pandemic started, the Big Ten Network will dedicate an entire day to Indiana. Several Hoosier teams will be featured on Thursday, June 11, including baseball, men’s soccer, football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball. Included in the day will be the premiere of a 30 minute program on Christian Watford’s 2011 buzzer beater against Kentucky. That will air at 9 p.m. ET, sandwiched between two reruns of that classic contest. A second documentary will also debut on Thursday. Not Pictured tells…
Seven years ago today the Indiana baseball team defeated Florida State 11-6 in an NCAA Super Regional at Tallahassee to advance to its first ever College World Series. IU was the first Big Ten team to advance to the World Series since Michigan in 1984. Sam Travis hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the fifth inning to break open a tie Will Coursen-Carr pitched four innings of relief for Indiana, allowing just an earned run in the ninth inning. Indiana scored four runs in the first inning. Travis had a sacrifice fly, Scott Donley had an RBI double,…
An unfortunate family tradition conspired to temporarily interrupt the incredible high school basketball career of Jalen Blackmon. The younger brother of former IU players James, Jr. and Vijay, Jalen suffered a knee injury that cost him the final 17 games of his junior season. Jalen injured his knee around the same age as both James, Jr. and Vijay. The 6-foot-2 Jalen was averaging 29.8 points for the Marion (Ind.) Giants through eight games when he was injured. He has scored 1,565 points through three seasons for his high school career. The knee injury cost Jalen more than his high school…
According to original reporting by Jon Blau of the Bloomington Herald Times, IU tight end Peyton Hendershot pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor criminal trespass charge on Tuesday at the Monroe County Court. Monroe County’s court records have been updated and confirm the Herald Times report. In connection with a plea deal, three other charges were dropped. Hendershot was also facing charges of domestic battery, criminal conversion and criminal mischief in connection with a February incident in Bloomington involving an ex-girlfriend. According to Blau’s reporting, Hendershot was sentenced to one year probation for the trespass offense, a Class A misdemeanor. He…
It appears that the college football season just might start on time. That’s real progress, because a couple months ago that scenario did not seem very likely. But with just under three months until the kickoff of the 2020 season, one of the more significant questions that remains is to what extent fans will be permitted to attend the games. The scenarios are all over the map. Literally. The Texas governor has already approved stadiums at 50 percent of capacity. Purdue president Mitch Daniels said recently that he doesn’t expect Ross Ade Stadium to be more than 25 percent full…
Perhaps he saw something he liked? Justin Smith will be playing for a team that Indiana faced three times in the last two seasons. The recent IU graduate announced on his Twitter page on Monday afternoon that he will play his final season of college basketball at Arkansas. https://twitter.com/justinsmith3_/status/1270038126887677955?s=20 Smith will become the sixth transfer to join the Razorbacks’ roster for the 2020-21 season as head coach Eric Musselman continues to rebuild that program. Including freshmen the team projects to have 10 new faces. Smith’s fit at Arkansas will be interesting. The 6-foot-7 forward wants to play out on the…
Mike Roberts knew he wasn’t going to get far with a rising phenom in the Atlanta suburbs named Bruce Thornton. Roberts has known Thornton’s Milton High School head coach Allen Whitehart for a long time, but as an assistant coach at UNC-Greensboro, it was quickly becoming clear this wasn’t a mid-major prospect. When Roberts took an assistant coaching position at his alma mater last summer, he knew he had a second chance. “Mike had already known about him (Thornton) before he went to Indiana, and he knew they didn’t have a chance when he was at UNCG,” Whitehart told The…