Indiana has offered another top prospect in the class of 2020 in Michigan native Isaiah Jackson. The 6-foot-9 forward announced the offer today via Twitter: https://twitter.com/IJackson22/status/1024381679761350656 According to the 247Sports Composite, Jackson is 17th ranked player in the class of 2020, and the top recruit in the state of Michigan. He has received offers from Michigan State, Louisville, UConn, and many others according to the recruiting service. Jackson has been a rising star since the spring, and his ranking has followed his ascension. He played up on The Family U17 team this Spring and Summer. That team finished as a…
Author: Mike Schumann
The July college basketball recruiting live periods have come and gone. For member of the class of 2019, their AAU careers have come to an end. It’s time to get serious. Lists will be trimmed, visits will be scheduled, and decisions will be made. With busy travel schedules and basketball tournaments now largely behind them, high-major recruiting targets are finally able to sit back and contemplate their futures with their families with much less distraction. Some Indiana fans are anxious. They look at the IU class of 2019 recruiting boards and see no commitments. Meanwhile schools like Kentucky, UCLA, Ohio…
The Indiana University men’s basketball program continues to extend offers in the class of 2020. The latest to be offered by IU is Missouri point guard Caleb Love. He announced the IU offer via Twitter on Sunday: https://twitter.com/caleb2love/status/1023697063253553153 Love is the second point guard that the Hoosiers have offered in the class, following Ethan Morton out of Pennsylvania. If IU ends up not obtaining a point guard commitment in the class of 2019, the position will almost certainly be highly emphasized in 2020. At 6-foot-3, the St. Louis product is ranked 36th nationally in the 2020 class according to the…
This is the fifth in a five-part series on the historic home courts of the Indiana University basketball program. Today we take a look at the current home of the Hoosiers — Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. Finally, an Arena Befitting a Blue Blood… By the mid-1960’s, despite Indiana being the only Big Ten team with more than one national title, the New Fieldhouse was the second smallest home court for basketball in the conference. It wasn’t for a lack of trying to upgrade to a state-of-the-art facility. By 1967, Indiana University had been trying to build a new 15,000 to…
The pace of offers in the Indiana University basketball recruiting class of 2020 is starting to accelerate. The latest prospect in the class to receive an offer from the Hoosiers is Nimari Burnett. The California-based four-star shooting guard announced the offer via Twitter on Friday evening: https://twitter.com/NimariBurnett/status/1023255749768577024 The 6-foot-3 Burnett has been a rising star over the spring and summer on the Nike EYBL circuit. Playing a year up, Burnett’s progression culminated in his being named to the Peach Jam All-Underclassmen team. D1circuit.com had this to say about Burnett in connection with the announcement of his Peach Jam honors: “Nimari…
Former Indiana stars Jordan Hulls, Will Sheehey and Christian Watford are competing for a piece of a $2 million prize in The Basketball Tournament. This year’s edition marks the fifth for the winner-take-all event. The former Hoosier duo of Hulls and Sheehey plays for Armored Athlete. They’ll face off Saturday against Boeheim’s Army, a group of former Syracuse players. The matchup is set for Saturday at 1 p.m. in Atlanta. Watford plays for a team called Eberlein Drive. They’ll play Saturday against GaelForce, a group of former St. Mary’s players. That contest is set for Saturday at 5 p.m. in Atlanta.…
The third and final July live period kicked off on Wednesday. For class of 2019 players, this is their final run in AAU basketball. We’ll continue to monitor IU related news and notes including who the coaches are watching. Continue to check back here through the weekend. Sunday, July 29 Just as it should be under the inside-out approach to recruiting, Archie Miller wraps up the July live period back in the Hoosier state watching the two players who are likely the top two targets at this point — Trayce Jackson-Davis and Keion Brooks, Jr. Brooks seems to have gone…
ESSENTIALS Hometown – Fort Wayne, Indiana (La Lumiere) Position – Small Forward Height – 6-foot-7 Weight – 190 247 Sports Composite Rating – 5-star Primary Competition – Kentucky, Michigan State, UCLA, North Carolina Timeline — Brooks announced a “top six” on September 25. A final decision could be made in the fall or into the spring. Indiana official visit — September 29 (Hoosier Hysteria) Indiana Connections — Brooks and his family have close ties with the IU coaching staff, and he has made multiple visits to Bloomington. Keion Brooks, Sr. was a star at Wright State under head coach and now IU…
Former Indiana Hoosiers in the NBA continue to find new homes as training camp rosters take shape in preparation for the 2018-19 season. Last week saw point guard Yogi Ferrell emerge from a whirlwind as a Sacramento King. Now, two more Hoosiers have found new teams after being released. Along with Thomas Bryant’s move to the Washington Wizards, that now makes four of the eight former Hoosiers in the NBA that will be with a new team. Yesterday former IU forward Noah Vonleh signed with the New York Knicks. https://twitter.com/nyknicks/status/1021854446647689219 New York will be Vonleh’s 4th team in what will…
When it comes to Indiana football, we have been hearing about “breaking through” for decades. To head football coach Tom Allen’s credit, he didn’t shy away from it — he embraced it, making it the team’s rallying cry in a public way for all to see. Of course breaking through is what any historically downtrodden program wants to do. Indiana’s seemingly IU-obsessed rivals to the north even adapted the motto in a way only Purdue could have — making it clear that once again the Hoosiers were on their minds. Purdue literally had an unlimited number of different possibilities to…