Author: Mike Schumann

Call it wishful thinking. Back in May when it was announced that Evan Fitzner would transfer to Indiana, we speculated, no, we hoped that the final scholarship claimed by the St. Mary’s forward was available because walk-on Zach McRoberts had turned it down. There is no doubt that McRoberts deserved it. The Carmel, Indiana native started the last 17 games of the 2017-18 season and shot a team-high 39.4 percent from 3-point range.  Best known for his defensive prowess, McRoberts was among the Big Ten leaders in steals with 1.4 overall, and 1.7 in Big Ten play. McRoberts was also Academic…

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The 2018-19 Indiana University men’s basketball season is right around the corner.  To help get you ready, The Daily Hoosier is profiling every player on the 2018-19 IU roster.  You can see all of our 2018-19 player profiles in one place here.  If you are looking for the 2018-19 IU basketball schedule, you can find that here. Indiana might just have the best group of walk-ons in the country.  Of course everyone knows about Zach McRoberts, but there are a few other highly talented players that support this team in practice and can contribute in games if duty calls. Vijay…

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Indiana University head coach Tom Allen and quarterback Peyton Ramsey met with the media following Indiana’s 42-16 loss to Iowa on Saturday afternoon.  The Hoosiers fell to 4-3 on the season and have lost three of their last four games.  Indiana will host Penn State next Saturday at 3:30 Eastern. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY8vy_9jKVs&t=18s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LcK2xmo3Lo You can follow us on Twitter:  @daily_hoosier Find us on Facebook:  thedailyhoosier Want to receive all of our content via one e-mail in your inbox every day?  It’s free.  Join our daily mailing list here. Please consider supporting The Daily Hoosier by shopping on Amazon via this link to the Amazon home…

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On a day when Indiana was honoring college football hall of famer George Taliaferro, it was going to take a legendary effort for the underdog Hoosiers to pull the upset over Iowa. Instead, a bigger and more disciplined Iowa team imposed their will.  IU penalties and mistakes took care of the rest. Early struggles out of the gate put the Hoosiers in a hole. IU overcame their first mistake of the game, when a fumble on the run/pass option exchange between Peyton Ramsey and Stevie Scott nearly stalled the Hoosiers’ first drive.  But the Hoosiers recovered the ball in first…

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After a long stretch of mediocrity, and sometimes worse, it may be difficult to imagine Indiana football in the midst of national rankings and 8 win seasons.  Today we look back to just such a time. It was October 29, 1988.  On a crisp and sunny late October southern Indiana day before a sellout crowd at Memorial Stadium, The 5-1-1 Indiana Hoosiers hosted the 4-2-2 Iowa Hawkeyes.  Indiana was coming off its first loss of the season at Michigan and was looking for a bounce back game before a national television audience. Indiana got off to an inauspicious start, as…

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Indiana University basketball class of 2019 five-star recruiting target Trayce Jackson-Davis announced his final three schools via Twitter on Friday evening: https://twitter.com/TrayceJackson/status/1050884308842483718 The announcement may come as somewhat of a surprise to Hoosier fans.  Perhaps the better way to look at it is that Jackson-Davis is cleansing his list of schools (Iowa, Wake Forest, Purdue) that were never serious possibilities to begin with.  Beyond that, it is likely that nothing significant has changed here. The Greenwood, Indiana based power forward wrapped-up his official visits last weekend with a trip to Michigan State.  Some viewed an Indiana commitment as imminent following…

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When the 2018 Indiana schedule was released, you just knew this game would have special meaning.  Homecoming, and an Iowa program that Indiana needs to start winning against to get where it wants to go. With the passing of IU legend George Taliaferro this week, the game takes on an even bigger meaning, and the Hoosiers will be replacing their traditional helmet decals with his No. 44 in honor of the college football hall of famer and trailblazing pioneer. The Hawkeyes are right where they always are — around the top 25, as the occupy the next tier beneath the…

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It isn’t overstating it to call Saturday’s noon kickoff against Iowa the game of the year for Indiana.  Either the Hoosiers figure out a way to win a game that they are expected to lose, or the cycle of fast starts followed by a slow spiral into the pit of misery continues. Will the Hoosiers be fighting, scratching and clawing for six wins by the end of the season, or is an eight win season a real possibility?  For help with what to expect, we go behind enemy lines to see what the Iowa media is saying about the big…

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The 2018-19 Indiana University men’s basketball season is right around the corner.  To help get you ready, The Daily Hoosier is profiling every player on the 2018-19 IU roster.  You can see all of our 2018-19 player profiles in one place here.  If you are looking for the 2018-19 IU basketball schedule, you can find that here. While Damezi Anderson was Archie Miller’s first in-state commit, and Jerome Hunter was his first class of 2018 commit, Race Thompson was just first. He only beat Anderson and Hunter by a matter of days when it came to committing to Indiana, but…

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