The offers keep coming on a busy afternoon for the IU basketball program. Class of 2022 small forward Justin Taylor was at least the third player to report a scholarship offer from Indiana on Monday. The 6-foot-6 Taylor reported the offer on his Twitter page. https://twitter.com/jctbball12/status/1300557843540652034?s=20 Taylor is a junior at St. Anne’s-Belfield in Charlottesville, Virginia. As a sophomore he averaged 15.4 points, 5.3 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game. For his high school career Taylor has shot 41 percent from behind the arc thus far, but he dropped off to 34 percent in his second season. Taylor helped lead…
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The Kenya Hunter effect continues. For the second time today and third time in three days, Indiana has offered a prospect with ties to its new assistant coach. Frederick, Md. based guard Masai Troutman reported an offer from Indiana on Monday afternoon. https://twitter.com/MasaiTroutman/status/1300448306166980614?s=20 Troutman averaged 15.7 points, 6.7 rebounds, 1.3 blocks and 1.3 steals per game to help lead St. John’s Catholic to the MIAA B Conference finals. The 6-foot-5 guard isn’t ranked by the national recruiting services, but that appears likely to change soon. Troutman’s recruitment has taken a big jump in recent weeks, with offers coming in from…
New IU assistant coach Kenya Hunter’s impact on the program continues to be noticeable during his early days in Bloomington. Through Hunter, Indiana has gotten involved with one of the top guards in the class of 2022 in Maryland based prospect Rodney Rice. After a Zoom call on Monday that was reported by Stock Risers, the Hoosiers offered a scholarship. Rice announced the IU offer on his Twitter page. https://twitter.com/rodneyrice__/status/1300444255505264645?s=20 The 6-foot-4 Rice is ranked No. 70 nationally in the class of 2022 according to the 247Sports Composite. Maryland, Alabama, Louisville and Miami (Fla.) are some of the other top…
The football revival continued for Indianapolis based Lawrence North High School on Friday night, and class of 2021 IU bound quarterback Donaven McCulley is leading the way. In a 70-14 romp over Marion, McCulley went 18-of-22 for 339 yards and two touchdowns. He had another 31 yards rushing with a score on the ground. McCulley completed 4 of his passes for 103 yards to junior wide receiver and IU recruiting target Omar Cooper, Jr. Cooper has 7 catches for 241 yards and 2 touchdowns on the season. McCulley is now 27-of-35 for 599 yards and 6 touchdowns on the season…
Indiana survived a pair of class of 2021 basketball list cuts over the last few days. Meanwhile, a class of 2021 IU football commit had a big game on a national stage. Here are the details in today’s recruiting roundup. HOPKINS NARROWING THINGS DOWN, BUT HAS HE ALREADY DECIDED? Illinois based top-40 senior Bryce Hopkins’ recruitment has seen several twists and turns in the last month. The 6-foot-7 forward decommitted from Louisville and then saw a flurry of interest from programs around the country, including IU. Hopkins announced a top-nine on Sunday that included California, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa State,…
As soon as rumors started to swirl regarding assistant coach Bruiser Flint potentially leaving Indiana, many jumped to the same conclusion. It must relate back to that caught on camera moment involving Flint and head coach Archie Miller, right? One thing is certain about that intense conversation in West Lafayette back in February. People noticed. “I’m sure a lot of people have viewed it,” Flint said earlier this week on ESPN Louisville radio. https://twitter.com/NYeoman/status/1233199473939099651?s=20 With Indiana down big to Purdue, it seemed easy to extrapolate that the moment had significance. Perhaps there was a fracture in the relationship between the…
Indiana class of 2021 tight end commit Aaron Steinfeldt is off to a good start for his senior season at Bloomington North High School. The 6-foot-5 Stenfeldt is ranked No. 747 nationally by the 247Sports Composite. He is the No. 37 tight end in the country according to that same service. Steinfeldt had three catches for 96 yards and a touchdown in North’s 48-0 win over Bedford North Lawrence on Friday night. His highlights from both of North’s games this season are below. Steinfeldt is No. 84 in white in both videos. Find us on Facebook: thedailyhoosier You can follow…
Indiana is trying to leverage their new assistant coach to make a late push for one of the top guards in the class of 2021. Omaha, Nebraska based 5-star guard Hunter Sallis reported an offer from IU on Friday afternoon on his Twitter page. https://twitter.com/HunterSallis_/status/1299467009323827208?s=20 New Hoosier assistant coach Kenya Hunter spent five seasons at Nebraska and he recruited Sallis both while there and when he left for Connecticut according to sources. The competition is stiff for Sallis, who reported a top-12 earlier this week that included Gonzaga, Kansas, North Carolina, Kentucky, Oregon, Creighton, Auburn, Iowa St., Alabama, Michigan, Louisville…
The seemingly inevitable has arrived in Bloomington. After more than five months without competition and nothing on the near-term horizon, the IU Athletics Department announced on Friday measures intended to mitigate the impact of lost revenue due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Of particular note, every employee in the department is subject to at least a two-week unpaid furlough between Oct. 1 and June 30. “Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, IU Athletics has not participated in an intercollegiate athletic event in five and a half months, which necessitated tough decisions regarding our staff,” AD Scott Dolson said in a release. “Throughout…
When we last heard from Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren, he indicated that playing fall sports would not be revisited. Based on a report today by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Warren and the league are in fact reconsidering. Sort of. In the report, Jeff Potrykus indicated that a new late fall timeline is under consideration as a result of continuing pressure by players and their parents and improving COVID-19 testing alternatives. “According to two college football people familiar with the Big Ten, those talks have generated a new option, starting a Big Ten season of at least eight games the…