Author: Mike Schumann

Three former IU basketball stars will be suiting up for NBA Summer League action this month in California and Las Vegas. Games will take place at three locations, with the action beginning on Saturday. The California Classic Summer League, the Salt Lake City Summer League and NBA 2K25 Summer League will run over the next two-plus weeks starting in San Francisco, Sacramento and Salt Lake City before culminating with all 30 teams in Las Vegas for the 20th year of summer hoops there. The trio of former Indiana players expected to suit up are Trayce Jackson-Davis (Golden State), Romeo Langford…

The last four spots in the 12-team Olympic men’s basketball field for the Paris Games are being decided in winner-take-all qualifying tournaments going on right now in Spain, Latvia, Puerto Rico and Greece. And one former IU basketball star is making a push to represent his mother’s native country at the 2024 Games. Eric Gordon’s mother Denise is a Nassau, Bahamas native with a large family of descendants who live on the islands.  Eric and his family traveled regularly to the country during his childhood.  He also made an appearance there in 2021 when IU basketball played in a foreign…

July is typically a month when rising high school seniors begin to narrow their recruitments, and we’re beginning to see that with some of IU basketball’s main targets. If we had to name five 2025 prospects Indiana is clearly a top contender for we’d go with, in no particular order, Braylon Mullins, Jalen Haralson, Trent Sisley, Malachi Moreno and Bryson Tiller.  All but Tiller have included Indiana in their top or final schools recently, and it seems clear IU is one of Tiller’s main schools as well.  And all of them have taken or will take an official visit to…

According to a report by Rocco Miller, Indiana will host UNC Greensboro on Nov. 21. Under the direction of third-year coach Mike Jones, UNCG finished the 2023-24 season with a 21-11 record overall, including 12-6 in the Southern Conference.  Included in their 21 wins, the Spartans pulled off a road upset win at Arkansas a year ago. They finished the year ranked No. 147 overall according to KenPom.  In Bart Torvik’s projections for next season, UNCG is currently ranked No. 133. Key returning players for the Spartans from last year are Donovan Atwell (11.2 ppg), Jalen Breath (6.6 ppg) and…

The 2024-25 Miami Heat frontcourt will have a heavy IU basketball influence. In addition to first round draft choice Kel’el Ware, former Indiana star Thomas Bryant will play for the NBA franchise next season.  Marc Stein appeared to be the first of many to report the news. It’s the second time in three years the Heat will have two former Hoosiers.  Victor Oladipo and Cody Zeller both played for Miami in 2022-23. For Bryant, it will be a return season with the Heat. The 6-foot-10 Bryant is expected to return on a one-year contract at the NBA veteran minimum, around…

Adam Howard keeps moving up the ranks within the IU basketball program. From manager, to graduate manager, the Indiana native is now full-time on the IU staff. IU coach Mike Woodson announced on Tuesday the addition of Howard to become the program’s Assistant Director of Recruiting and Operations. “Adam comes from a great basketball pedigree,” said Woodson in a release. “His father, Todd, is a legendary coach in this state. Adam has been a great asset for us in recruiting and we are excited to keep him on our staff as we continue to push this program further.” In The…

Former IU basketball one-and-done star Romeo Langford has another opportunity lined up this summer. The New Albany, Ind. product appeared on the Philadelphia 76ers summer league roster released today. Langford is listed by Philadelphia at 6-foot-5 and 216 pounds. Now 24, Langford most recently played for the Salt Lake City Stars in the NBA G League, where he appeared in 17 games in 2023-24 and averaged 11.9 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.9 assists while shooting 46.1 percent overall and 37.9 percent from three. Langford was drafted 14th overall by the Celtics in 2019.  He has played in the NBA over…

Former IU basketball one-and-done star Jalen Hood-Schifino won’t play for the Los Angeles Lakers this summer. The Lakers reported Hood-Schifino underwent a successful lumbar microdiscectomy procedure on March 21.  He is still rehabilitating and was not included on their 2024 summer league roster released on Tuesday. Hood-Schifino appeared in just 21 games for the Lakers as a rookie and averaged 5.2 minutes and 1.6 points per game.  He spent time in the G League where he averaged 22 points and shot 43.2% from three. Injuries have plagued Hood-Schifino since his arrival in Los Angeles.   He also missed the first two…

We’re four months away from what is becoming a highly anticipated edition of IU basketball. The Hoosiers appear to be a lock to open the season in the top-25 after what most believe was a strong offseason of roster construction by head coach Mike Woodson and his staff.  In their way-too-early top-25 published on Monday, ESPN kept the Hoosiers locked in at No. 18. But Indiana has gone just 63-40 overall during Woodson’s first three years, including a 31-29 mark in the Big Ten.  That underwhelming performance and an overhauled roster leaves plenty of uncertainty surrounding the 2024-25 Hoosiers. Here…

Four years ago at this time he was just looking to make an NFL roster. Signed by the Tennessee Titans in 2020 after going undrafted out of Indiana, Nick Westbrook-Ikhine is now entering his fifth season with the AFC franchise.  And he is now the longest-tenured offensive player with the Titans. Over the last four seasons, Westbrook-Ikhine has played in 61 games, with 30 starts.  He has caught 94 passes for 1,276 yards and 10 touchdowns. Westbrook-Ikhine signed a new 1-year, $2 million deal with the Titans during the offseason, but he says he’s taking nothing for granted going into…