Author: Mike Schumann

Kentucky-based guard Tay Kinney has already visited Indiana multiple times. He came for Hoosier Hysteria last year, visited for a game during the 2023-24 season, and IU brought his high school team to Bloomington for their team camp in June. There’s clear mutual interest between the Kinney and Indiana, who offered the 6-foot-2 point guard when he visited for the Penn State game.  Although that may have been the low-point of the season for IU, the game still stands out to the national top-40 4-star guard in the class of 2026. “It was still a great crowd and everything,” he…

James Carpenter knows about humble beginnings in college football. From a 400 student high school (Roanoke Catholic) in Virginia, he was thought to be too short to play in the trenches — and had no college offers. Curt Cignetti discovered the 6-foot-2 Carpenter at a summer camp when he was still head coach at Elon.  Soon after Cignetti was hired by James Madison, his staff contacted Carpenter with the only thing he needed — an opportunity. Carpenter began his career at JMU in 2019 while the program was still a Football Championship Subdivision squad, and he was a walk-on for…

IU swimmer Anna Peplowski is the third Hoosier to earn an Olympic medal in Paris, and the first female athlete. The rising Indiana senior helped the United States women’s 4×200-meter freestyle team to a silver medal on Thursday afternoon. Peplowski did not swim in the final but she’ll get a silver medal, as is customary for all swimmers on a relay team who participate in the preliminaries or finals. The Illinois native clocked the second-fastest time earlier Thursday in the prelims to help position the U.S. in the finals. Named IU’s female athlete of the year for 2023-24, the freestyle…

In just over three months, Indiana will open the 2024-25 regular season with a home game against SIU Edwardsville. The game will tip on Wednesday, Nov. 6.  The time and television details have not yet been announced. The Cougars are led by a former IU basketball staff member. SIUE head coach Brian Barone was the Hoosiers’ director of basketball operations/video coordinator when he worked under former IU head coach Tom Crean.  Barone followed Crean from Marquette and spent two seasons (2008-09 and 2009-10) in Bloomington. The 2023-24 season will mark Brian Barone’s sixth season as SIUE’s men’s basketball head coach.…

The list of schools expected to get an official visit from in-state 2025 5-star guard Jalen Haralson has grown this week. According to a report by national 247Sports analyst DuShawn London, Haralson has added the following three visits to his previously announced stops: Missouri: September 21st Purdue: September 28th Kansas: October 19th These visits will be in addition to previously announced trips to Indiana (Aug. 31), Notre Dame (Sept. 7) and Michigan State (Sept. 14). The only three of his current top nine not slated to get a late summer or fall visit right now are Duke, Gonzaga and Auburn. …

There have been good runs. Bill Mallory in the late 80s and early 90s, John Pont in 1967-68, Lee Corso in 1979-80, and Tom Allen in 2019-20 all come to mind. But not since Bo McMillin in the 1940s has any coach of the IU football team amassed an overall winning record during his time in Bloomington. In the latest illustration of how Indiana’s 2024 season is the college football version of the immovable object vs. the unstoppable force, enter Curt Cignetti. You know, the “I win, Google me” guy. You’ve no doubt read some of the stats that back…

Blake Pieroni’s decision to forego retirement and swim in Paris paid off with his fourth all-time Olympic medal. The 28-year-old IU alumnus earned silver as part of Team USA’s 4 x 200m freestyle relay Tuesday.  Pieroni swam in the preliminary rounds. Pieroni previously won two medals at the Tokyo 2020 Games, gold in both the 4 x 100m freestyle relay and the 4 x 100m medley relay.  He also won gold in the 2016 Olympics at Rio de Janeiro in the 4 x 100m freestyle relay. In his collegiate career at IU, the Valparaiso, Ind. product earned 19 All-American honors,…

Indiana has added a 13th scholarship player to the 2024-25 roster. Via release, IU head coach Mike Woodson announced the addition of transfer center Dallas James to the Indiana men’s basketball program on Tuesday. James will utilize his fifth year of eligibility at Indiana after spending four seasons at South Carolina State. The 7-0, 200-pound big averaged 1.4 points and 1.7 rebounds to go along with 46 blocked shots with the Bulldogs. He shot 56.2% (41-of-73) from the floor during his four-year career. James graduated from South Carolina State with a 4.0 GPA with a major in electrical engineering technology.…

22. That’s the number of players Indiana added from the transfer portal this offseason from Group of Five (G5) conferences, or even lower levels of college football. 13 of that total followed new head coach Curt Cignetti from James Madison, while players from UMass, Old Dominion, Ohio, Kent State, Austin Peay and elsewhere have also arrived in Bloomington. And these aren’t just depth pieces to round out the roster. Players like quarterback Kurtis Rourke (Ohio), wideout Elijah Sarratt (JMU), linebacker Aiden Fisher (JMU), cornerback D’Angelo Ponds (JMU), defensive end Mikail Kamara (JMU), tight end Zach Horton (JMU), offensive lineman Nick…

Since Indiana’s 2023-24 season came to an end, all of the focus turned to filling holes on the roster via the transfer portal. But the Hoosiers have six players returning from last year’s squad, so it’s time to look back at how they performed, and the outlook for 2024-25. Next up in the series is 6-foot-8 and 217-pound Mackenzie Mgbako, who is returning to IU for his second season with the program. WHAT WENT WELL The best trend for a freshman is improvement over time, and after a choppy start, Mgbako was named the Big Ten’s co-Freshman of the Year. …