Going into his ninth season as a college basketball head coach and third at Indiana, Archie Miller has entered uncharted territory. While he has assembled entirely new assistant coaching staffs when he took over the jobs at Dayton and IU, Miller has never dealt with replacing an assistant mid-tenure. With former Hoosier assistant Ed Schilling moving on, Miller now has that task in front of him, and the stakes are quite high. After assembling just a 35-31 record over his first two seasons in Bloomington, things have transitioned from optimism to a bit head scratching among Indiana fans. Miller needs…
Author: Mike Schumann
Indiana women’s basketball got some late fireworks on Friday as an already deep and talented roster got deeper for the 2020-21 season. Guard Ali Patberg has been granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA. An All-Big Ten Second team honoree in 2018-19, Patberg will now be eligible to suit up for IU through the 2020-21 season, marking what will be her third season with the Hoosiers. Patberg hails from Columbus, Ind. and transferred to IU from Notre Dame in 2017. The 2015 Indiana Miss Basketball missed her freshman season in South Bend with a knee injury and played…
One of the top AAU programs that Indiana has been involved with this year is the PSA Cardinals. The Cardinals are one of the top teams on the Nike EYBL Circuit and are expected to be a strong contender for the Peach Jam title. These extended look videos give you game action to provide a sense for what AAU action is like and shows more than just the highlights for IU recruiting targets. The names to look for in the video below are: #13 Hassan Diarra (6-foot-2 guard / 2020) #21 AJ Griffin (6-foot-6 guard / 2021) #11 AJ Hoggard…
One of the top players in the Midwest in the class of 2021 is Fort Wayne’s Caleb Furst. Furst, who attends Blackhawk Christian School, is ranked as the No. 33 player in the country according to the 247Sports Composite and the number two player in the state of Indiana. Indiana offered the 6-foot-9 forward a scholarship in October. Furst has been to Bloomington on multiple occasions and he attended a game in February against Ohio State. For his sophomore season, Furst averaged 19.3 points, 10.3 rebounds, and 3.2 assists per game. Blackhawk won the 2019 Class 1A Indiana state championship,…
Indiana’s all-time assist leader was delivered good news on Independence Day. According to a report by James Ham of NBC Sports California, the Sacramento Kings have decided to keep Ferrell and waive former Kansas point guard Frank Mason. After the Kings signed former Pacer Cory Joseph earlier in the week, it appeared likely that either Ferrell or Mason would be let go. Sacramento had until Thursday to either guarantee Ferrell’s $3.2 million salary for the 2019-20 season or waive him. The team opted for the former, and will retain the 26-year-old point guard for a second season. Now the challenge…
Juwan Morgan is trying to flex his muscles in the NBA Summer League and find a long term home in basketball’s ultimate destination. More on the literal side of that in a minute. Morgan signed a summer league contract with the Utah Jazz very soon after the 2019 NBA Draft. The league’s annual summer competition kicked off in Utah this week, and Morgan appeared in two of the Jazz’s three games in Salt Lake City. After not appearing in Utah’s first game, Morgan played 14 minutes in game two on Tuesday night. The Waynesville, Missouri native grabbed five rebounds, including…
One of the fastest rising available point guards in the class of 2020 is New York based R.J. Davis. In need of a primary ball handler in the 2020 class, Indiana is prioritizing the 6-foot Davis, with both Bruiser Flint and Archie Miller out on the east coast watching him this weekend according to social media reports. Davis said this about Indiana in a recent article on Zags Blog: Indiana: “They’re trying to get me down to campus. They love my game as well as the other coaches recruiting me. They just love the way I run the show and play…
The results are in for the 2018-19 Learfield IMG College Directors Cup, an award that recognizes institutions maintaining a broad-based athletics program, achieving success in many sports, both men’s and women’s. For the 2018-19 athletics year, IU finished No. 32 in the country, reflecting the second biggest year-over-year move up the rankings among Big Ten schools. Indiana ranked sixth in the league in the 2018-19 standings. That’s the good news. The question will be — with men’s soccer, men’s and women’s swim and dive and baseball all dealing with major losses on their respective rosters — can the momentum be…
Former IU one and done forward Noah Vonleh is on the move again. According to various reports, Vonleh has signed a one year, $2 million free agent contract with the Minnesota Timberwolves. The 23 year old Vonleh was drafted ninth overall by Charlotte in 2014 after spending one season at Indiana. He has played on four different teams in five NBA seasons, most recently with the Knicks, where he started 57 of 68 games. The 2018-19 season in New York was a breakout campaign for the 6-foot-9 forward as the former Hoosier put up 8.4 points and 7.8 rebounds per…
The highly touted Indiana football class of 2019 is now on campus and training for the upcoming season. We will have videos over the next several days of many of the Hoosier freshmen and other newcomers. Defensive tackle DeMarcus Elliott hails from Garden City, Kansas where he attended both high school and a year of junior college. Elliott helped Garden City reach the 2018 JUCO national title game after a season that saw him produce 19 tackles, including 4.5 for a loss, and one sack. Elliott arrives at IU at 6-foot-3 and 325 pounds. https://youtu.be/NbGz4JhSzPo https://youtu.be/QVqIOwzZ3RA See more IU…