Former Indiana quarterback Ben Chappell was on the QB Docs podcast recently. Chappell was named the team’s 2010 Anthony Thompson Most Valuable Player. He closed out his career as IU’s career leader in completion percentage (61.1), completions (651), attempts (1,066), 300-yard games (nine), 250-yard games (13) and 200-yard games (18), ranked second in passing yardage (7,251) and passing touchdowns (45), and finished third in total offense (7,331). Chappell started the final 24 games of his career, made 27 starts overall and appeared in 39 total contests. Want us to share your interview with a current or former IU athlete, coach…
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With a point guard and center locked up in the class of 2021, Indiana is focused on filling the positions in between. What seems clear, and what the IU coaches are telling their remaining targets on the board, is that the Hoosiers are going for a home run 2021 class. That is Indiana head coach Archie Miller’s message to five-star guard Aminu Mohammed. “He (Miller) thinks that if they can add Aminu to go along with (2021 point guard commit) Khristian Lander, he thinks that would be one of the most talented backcourts in the country,” Mohammed’s guardian Shawn Harmon…
During a time when not much feels normal, class of 2022 quarterback Brady Allen is able to find familiarity with the IU football coaching staff. Although Indiana lost its offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach during the offseason, the replacement has been a constant in Allen’s recruitment for nearly two years. The 6-foot-5 ½, and 200 pound Allen has been a primary recruiting target of Indiana and new offensive coordinator Nick Sheridan since before the Fort Branch, Ind. product entered high school. Sheridan’s early involvement with Allen is good news for IU, as the new man in charge of the offense…
Indiana junior forward Justin Smith put his name in the NBA Draft as an early entrant according to a report by the league. The 6-foot-7, 230 pound Smith appeared in all 32 games for the 2019-20 season and started each contest. The Illinois native averaged 30.3 minutes per game, which was in increase from his 24.7 minutes as a sophomore — and a team high. He was one of three players to start every game along with Trayce Jackson-Davis and Al Durham. Smith shot 49.2 percent overall from the field, good for third on the team among those that played…
Former IU guard Yogi Ferrell was on The Baseline podcast this week. Ferrell touched on a number of topics including how he has spent the time since the pandemic started, his passion for helping foster kids as a result of his mom’s upbringing in the foster care system, and much more. The Indianapolis product is in his fourth season in the NBA. Ferrell has spent the last two years with the Sacramento Kings after starting his career with Brooklyn and Dallas. Ferrell is Indiana’s all-time leader in assists (633) and games played and started (137). He ranks sixth in points…
Indiana began its push to replenish its future backcourt with a scholarship offer to class of 2022 guard Skyy Clark on Tuesday. Clark is the first guard that Indiana has extended an offer to in the class of 2022 or beyond. The combo guard reported the offer on Twitter. https://twitter.com/skyyclark/status/1255207365416071168?s=20 Although he hails from California, the 6-foot-2, 185 pound Clark is transferring from Heritage Christian in Northridge, Calif. to Brentwood (Tenn.) Academy for the 2020-2021 school year. As s sophomore at Heritage Christian for the 2019-20 season, Clark averaged 24.9 points, 5.1 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 2.5 steals per game…
For two former Hoosier football stars, the chance to realize a dream still stands before them. Guard Simon Stepaniak and wide receiver Nick Westbrook will both be at NFL training camps this summer after being drafted and signed as a free agent, respectively. For head coach Tom Allen, Stepaniak and Westbrook’s journey to the NFL presents an opportunity to share with his team that is returning for the 2020 season. Allen had both players address the team on a video conference, and each shared stories about the perseverance and hard work that got them to this point. Stepaniak was drafted…
Like most of us, it is difficult for Indiana head basketball coach Archie Miller to comprehend that this new COVID-19 pandemic reality has gone on this long. When the Big Ten canceled its conference basketball tournament shortly after IU’s first round win over Nebraska on March 11, no one knew what the future held. But for Miller, still sitting here in a state of limbo as the calendar gets set to turn to May doesn’t seem possible. “If you had told me six weeks later this is sort of what we’ve been dealing with I would have been the first…
It was a record setting season for IU women’s basketball, and the individual awards followed for point guard Ali Patberg. Patberg, a first team All-Big Ten performer, joined Jenny Fischer of the NCAA to discuss her career. As a redshirt junior Patberg started in all 32 games and averaged a team-high 15.6 points in 2019-20. Her 5.3 assists per game were also a team-high and second in the Big Ten. Patberg recorded 4.6 rebounds per game, and she shot 49 percent from the floor, which ranked fifth in the Big Ten. https://twitter.com/ncaawbb/status/1254907025735237634?s=20 Find us on Facebook: thedailyhoosier You can follow us…
Indiana has their center and point guard in the junior class. Now they are looking to complete the rest of the 2021 puzzle. Head coach Archie Miller has established a pattern with the type of players that he recruits, and two of the common attributes are length and intelligence. Memphis wing Johnathan Lawson can check both of those boxes, and according to his uncle, IU is showing heavy interest. https://twitter.com/ChuckLawson901/status/1254890820479696902?s=20 The Commercial Appeal also noted Indiana’s interest in Lawson, who was named the Tennessee Gatorade Player of the Year for the 2019-20 season, and the Class AA Mr. Basketball. Playing…