Author: Mike Schumann

Despite significant push back by the players, the Big Ten appears set to pull the plug on the 2020 fall football season. Radio Show host Dan Patrick reported on Monday morning that 12 of the 14 presidents from the Big 10 have voted against having a fall college football season.  The presidents of Iowa and Nebraska want to play according to Patrick. Later on Monday, the Detroit Free Press reported that the decision has been made by the league, with an announcement coming on Tuesday. “The Big Ten has voted to cancel the 2020 college football season in a historic…

Trey Kaufman never left the state of Indiana for his final and abbreviated AAU basketball season.  The pandemic made the normal Adidas Gauntlet national schedule for his Indiana Elite 2021 team impossible. Travel restrictions are in many ways defining Kaufman’s recruitment as well, as the Sellersburg, Ind. product enters his senior year of high school. The 6-foot-8 Kaufman has received offers from all over the country during the pandemic, including North Carolina, Virginia, Clemson, Wake Forest, and Texas A&M. Trouble is, Kaufman has never been to any of those schools. The NCAA has banned all in-person visits since March, and…

Indiana is trying for a second bite at the apple with a high profile class of 2021 target. A source tells The Daily Hoosier that the Indiana coaching staff is inquiring about former Louisville commit Bryce Hopkins. The 6-foot-7 Hopkins announced on Sunday that he has decommitted from Louisville, citing concerns about upcoming sanctions according to a report by 247Sports. Hopkins is the No. 33 player in the country in the class of 2021 according to the 247Sports Composite.  IU offered Hopkins a scholarship in June of 2019, and he took an unofficial visit to Bloomington last August.  Hopkins committed…

The best AAU programs in Indiana met on Saturday in Noblesville, Ind. In the marquee matchup, the 2021 Indiana Elite squad blew out the Indy Heat 100-74. Below are more than 14 minutes of highlights from the game. See also:  Game story Here are some names to know from the highlights: Indiana Elite (White) 2 – Jayden Brewer (Open) 4 – Trey Kaufman (Open) 11 – Connor Hickman (Bradley) 21 – J.R. Konieczny (Notre Dame) 23 – Jayden Taylor (Butler) 32 – Logan Duncomb (Indiana) Indy Heat (Black) 2 – Blake Wesley (Open) 3- Caleb Furst (Purdue) 4 – Meechie…

“We did okay but their bigs killed us.” That was 2021 Indy Heat guard Blake Wesley’s assessment of a surprising 100-74 blowout win by the 2021 Indiana Elite in an unprecedented matchup of the state’s top AAU programs in Noblesville, Ind. Those killer bigs are names familiar to Indiana fans. Indiana commit and Indiana Elite center Logan Duncomb told The Daily Hoosier last week that he was looking forward to Saturday’s contest against the Indy Heat after a lot of playful trash talking preceded the game. He wasn’t kidding. Duncomb was dominant on Saturday in a head-to-head matchup with Purdue…

Discouraging news as it relates to a fall college football season continues to break on Saturday. David Jesse of the Detroit Free Press appears to have been the first to report through multiple sources that Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren prefers to attempt to play the football season in the spring. Jessse’s report also indicates that a meeting by Big Ten university presidents on Saturday includes discussion of the fate of fall sports including football. The news follows the decision by the Mid-American Conference to move its football season to the spring.  The MAC is the first FBS conference to…

As he has throughout the spring and summer, class of 2022 guard Isaac McKneely continues to indicate that Indiana is showing heavy interest. Although the Hoosiers have not offered the Poca, W.V. product to this point, the IU coaching staff has been involved for a long time.  McKneely took an unofficial visit to Bloomington in December in connection with the basketball game against Arkansas. McKneely averaged 22 points per game as a sophomore, and he converted on 45-percent of his 3-point attempts.  The Poca H.S. / Wildcat Select (Adidas) product has received several high major offers this spring and summer…

The prospects for a college football season took a step back on Saturday morning. Just days after the Big Ten conference announced a revised schedule for the 2020 season, the league issued a statement putting all football programs back in the first two days of the acclimatization period.  In essence, this means that that teams are not permitted to have padded practices. According to Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports, the Big Ten presidents met today. Thamel indicated that there is some presidential momentum for canceling the fall football season. The first Big Ten football game is scheduled for Sept. 3…

Indiana football was in the news in the days that followed the murder of George Floyd, Head coach Tom Allen was one of the first college football coaches to speak out publicly. “My heart is telling me I need to say something,” Allen told Bruce Feldman of his growing discomfort with the situation in a late May story by The Athletic. While Allen was garnering national for a social media post, it was behind the scenes in Bloomington where the real magic was happening. “I just want to be there for them,” Allen told The Athletic. “I told them that I…

UPDATE: Tony Jones of the Athletic reported that Morgan has avoided structural damage to his knee: https://twitter.com/Tjonesonthenba/status/1291852739190722560?s=20 The original story follows. Former IU basketball star Juwan Morgan injured his right knee after hauling in an offensive rebound in an NBA game in Orlando on Friday afternoon. The injury occurred with 2:32 left, and the Utah Jazz forward was taken to the locker room. ESPN writer Tim Bontemps reported that the injury looked serious. “Jazz forward Juwan Morgan just went down with a scary looking knee injury,” Bontemps reported on his Twitter page.  “Stayed down for awhile and had to be…