Former IU hurler Aaron Slegers recently joined the Turn a Pair podcast to relive his Indiana career and discuss his life as a professional pitcher. A former walk-on turned fifth round MLB draft choice, Slegers helped Indiana win the 2013 Big Ten regular-season championship and the conference tournament. He was named the Big Ten Conference Baseball Pitcher of the Year after going 9-2 with a 2.04 ERA in 2013. Slegers had several strong outings as IU advanced to the 2013 College World Series. The 6-foot-10 Slegers has bounced between the majors and AAA level each of the last three seasons…
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Very few professional athletes have been as ubiquitous as Cody Zeller during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Mother’s Day was no exception. Zeller joined a Charlotte Hornets video conference with his mom to review childhood family photos. The Washington, Ind. native was averaging career highs in points (11.1) and rebounds (7.1) per game before the NBA season was postponed. https://youtu.be/5SIXu35_Mf0 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 additional cost to you.
Indiana picked up a new addition to its offensive line on Sunday afternoon. Riverside Community College tackle Chris Bradberry announced that he has committed to play for IU this fall. The junior college product broke the news on his Twitter page. https://twitter.com/Brad72Chris/status/1259578539407335424?s=20 A class of 2017 recruit, Bradberry started his college career at San Jose State before transferring to junior college. The 6-foot-6 and 290 pound Bradberry is a native of Rancho Cucamonga, California. He attended Etiwanda High and was a second-team All-Baseline League selection his senior season. Bradberry will be immediately eligible and have two years of eligibility remaining.…
It has been a tragic Mother’s Day weekend for a member of the IU football program. According to a WTHR report, Cassondra M. Wilson, the mother of IU redshirt junior wide receiver Cam Wilson, was the victim of a fatal shooting at an apartment in Columbus, Ind. on Friday night. Cam Wilson’s father Troy Wilson was found deceased in Indianapolis on Saturday. Indianapolis Metro Police investigators considered Troy Wilson a person of interest in the investigation of his ex-wife Cassondra’s death, according to the WTHR report. Indiana head coach Tom Allen released a statement on Sunday. “Our thoughts and prayers…
Below are some recent highlights of class of 2022 Indiana offer recipient Chris Livingston. Livingston averaged 32.5 points, 12.4 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 2.9 steals and 1.4 blocks per game as a sophomore for Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio. He scored 50 points in a game once and went for 40 points or more six times. Indiana offered the 6-foot-5 guard last August. A five-star recruit, Livingston is the No. 3 player overall in the class of 2022 and the No. 1 overall shooting guard. He will be playing up a year for AAU if it occurs this summer. Go…
After losing an in-state defensive end verbal commit in the class of 2021 last week, Indiana will be working hard to fill that opening. When it comes to other in-state targets in the incoming senior class, the top rated defensive end on the board is Pike (Indianapolis) High School’s Kyran Montgomery. The 6-foot-4 and 215 pound Montgomery is a higher-end three star rated recruit. He is currently ranked No. 406 overall in the class according to the 247Sports Composite, the No. 24 weak-side defensive end nationally, and the No. 6 player in the state. Montgomery had 99 tackles, including 22 tackles…
Listen to former IU star guard Jordan Hulls go in depth on the One and One Podcast. In the wide-ranging 50 minute discussion Hulls covered a number of topics spanning from his childhood in Bloomington to his professional career. Hulls scored 1,318 points during his Indiana career. He averaged 9.8 points per game and shot 44.1 percent from three-point range during his four season at IU and helped lead the Hoosiers to an outright Big Ten title in 2013. 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…
There is at least one reason to believe that Indiana just might emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions better prepared than most college football teams around the country. The Hoosiers return a relatively high amount of their production from the 2019 season. If continuity is a valuable commodity, IU should be in good shape for the 2020 campaign. But a former Indiana head coach and current Big Ten Network analyst sees cause for concern in Bloomington due to the loss of spring practice and other organized team activities. “Indiana is certainly one of the (Big Ten) teams (that will be…
The high major offers are starting to roll in for an intriguing east coast talent in the class of 2022. 6-foot-10 forward Kyle Filipowski has been offered by UCLA, Providence and Vanderbilt in recent weeks, and he is firmly on the Indiana radar. An eye-catching sophomore season at Wilbraham & Monson Academy helped to solidify Filipowski as a high major talent. He averaged 20.1 points, 10.5 rebounds, and 1.0 block per game while shooting 55 percent from the floor overall including 35.4 percent from three-point range. Filipowski went over 1,000 points for his career during the 2019-20 season. Wilbraham &…
Former Indiana basketball head coach Tom Crean is known for being a little bit of a quirky guy, and a story that his former player Cody Zeller told this week provides the perfect illustration of that. Inspired by his brothers-in-law Jim and John Harbaugh, Crean sent his team managers out on a mission to bring live bats back to Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. Confused? Listen to Zeller tell the story the Titus and Tate podcast. https://twitter.com/CBBonFOX/status/1258502117595082752?s=20 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…