Author: Mike Schumann

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. When graduate transfer Evan Fitzner committed to Indiana back in May, it felt to many like an afterthought.  It has, after all, been an interesting college career for the San Diego native. Fitzner played his most minutes during his redshirt freshman year (2015-16),…

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Indiana University head football coach Tom Allen joined the legendary voice of IU Athletics Don Fischer to take a look back at Penn State and preview Friday’s contest against Minnesota. Indiana stands at 4-4 on the season and is currently riding a three game losing streak. Discussed on the show were the GoFundMe initiatives for Matt Stauder and Reakwon Jones.  Here are links to those: Matt Stauder Reakwon Jones Stauder joined the program towards the end. (Note:  The video starts about three minutes in.  You may need to turn off the mute button on the video itself.) https://www.facebook.com/IndianaFootball/videos/1126076324228509/ Video credit…

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Each and every year when Indiana and Michigan meet, we are repeatedly reminded of the infamous Hoosier losing streak to the Wolverines.  You will surely hear about it in a few weeks when the Hoosiers travel to Ann Arbor.  The streak now stands at 31 years, dating back to 1987. The players on the current IU team weren’t born yet.  Not even close.  The player’s parents might not have started high school yet.  It has been a while. But it all came together on one magical fall day in Bloomington.  Let’s take a quick look back at October 24, 1987,…

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Reese Taylor is redefining what it means to be “Mr. Football.” As a senior in high school, he won that honor as a state championship winning quarterback at Ben Davis in Indianapolis. As a true freshman at Indiana, he hasn’t played a snap at quarterback — but that is just about the only position on the field that has eluded him to this point.  And now that too is just one step away from changing. In connection with breaking the news on Monday that quarterback Michael Penix was out for the season with an ACL injury, IU head coach Tom…

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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. Quentin Taylor has been working behind the scenes for IU basketball for a long time.  With the program since the Big Ten championship winning 2015-16 season, he is IU’s longest tenured walk-on. Just getting the invite to be a walk-on for the IU…

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Sometimes it is about more than a game.  Sometimes there is more going on in a young man’s life than football. While we were arguing about quarterbacks, X’s and O’s, and why IU seemed so darn flat against Iowa, Reakwon Jones was wondering if his friends and family were alive, and if they still had a roof over their head.  It turns out they didn’t. When Category 4 Hurricane Michael hit the Florida panhandle on the Wednesday leading up to the Iowa game with winds of 155 miles per hour, Jones was supposed to be getting ready for the Hawkeyes. …

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Indiana University head football coach Tom Allen met with the media on Monday to review Penn State and preview Minnesota. The breaking news of the day was the season ending injury to quarterback Michael Penix. Allen also named the following players of the week: Offense: Stevie Scott Defense:  Marcelino Ball Special teams: Chris Gajcak Scout: Josh Brown, Jordan Jusevitch, Johnny Pabst, Luke Shayotovich, Jacolby Hewitt, Justin Berr As is customary each week, offensive coordinator Mike DeBord also appears at the end of the video. Note:  You may need to turn off mute on the video to pick up the sound.…

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If there was a quarterback controversy brewing in Bloomington, it ended abruptly on Saturday afternoon. In his weekly Monday media availability, Indiana University head football coach Tom Allen indicated that true freshman quarterback Michael Penix tore his ACL on Saturday against Penn State. Penix saw his first action of the season against Penn State since the Ball State game.  For the game he went 9 for 19 passing for 94 yards.  He added 24 rushing yards on two carries and suffered the knee injury on one of those attempts. On the season Penix went 21 of 34 on passing attempts…

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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. Things started fast for Devonte Green in the 2017-18 season.  The first gold jersey, the leading scorer at Hoosier Hysteria, and the leading scorer, rebounder and assist man in the first exhibition against Marian. Right or wrong, the expectations for Green soared as…

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As Indiana took a 21-20 lead over No. 18 Penn State late in the third quarter yesterday, Indiana fans had good reason to be excited.  After a less than inspiring effort the week before against Iowa, this Hoosier football team had clearly not quit on head coach Tom Allen and this 2018 season. If that enthusiasm for the tenuous lead over the Nittany Lions was peppered with a heavy dose of apprehension, there is certainly historical justification for it.  As we saw just moments later when Penn State returned the ensuing kickoff 95 yards, any such doubts were surely warranted.…

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