Indiana is hosting a team camp on Saturday at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall and Cook Hall. The Mike Woodson Team Shootout features several of the areas top prospects and high school teams, including several IU basketball recruiting targets in the classes of 2025 through 2027. Here is a summary of the schools and players involved. Most teams will play three games at either Assembly Hall or Cook Hall. We’ve noted players who were invited to the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association top-100 Camp later this month. Players IU has been involved with or are on the radar from a recruiting standpoint…
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Forty athletes will represent the Indiana swimming and diving program at U.S. Olympic Team Trials between June 15-23, seeking qualification for the 2024 Paris Games. Thirty-one Hoosiers will compete in the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Indianapolis, June 15-23. For the first time ever, the event will be staged on a football field as Lucas Oil Stadium plays host to the qualifying event. Meanwhile, nine divers are set to participate in the U.S. Olympic Diving Trials, running June 17-23 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Fans can watch both meets on NBC platforms. Peacock will stream preliminaries, while final sessions are available both…
The 2028 Olympic Games will be in the United States. But legendary former IU swimmer Lilly King says she’ll be a spectator in Los Angeles. In a press conference prior to the 2024 U.S. Olympic trials, the 27-year-old King confirmed that if she qualifies for the 2024 Games in Paris, they would be her final Olympics. “I will be watching in Los Angeles (in 2028) and I’m good with that decision,” King said. “I will not be going another four years, I’ll be cheering on the team.” King did not announce her retirement from the sport, however. Right now she…
Former IU basketball player and assistant coach Mike Roberts has been named as an assistant coach for the UTEP men’s basketball team, head coach Joe Golding announced Friday. Roberts most recently coached at Cincinnati from 2021-23. He also previously held full-time coaching positions at Indiana (2019-21), UNC Greensboro (2012-19), Rice (2008-12) and Cal (2007-08). Roberts entered the coaching profession as a graduate assistant under the late Naismith Hall of Famer Bob Knight at Texas Tech (2005-06) before serving as a video coordinator at Cal (2006-07). Roberts played at Indiana from 2000-05, including being on the 2002 NCAA Tournament runner-up team.…
Indiana is still putting out offers in the class of 2025. On Friday, one of the biggest risers of the spring, Maryland-based guard Acaden Lewis, announced an offer from the Hoosiers. The IU staff watched Lewis as recently as this week at the NBPA’s Top-100 Camp, where he was named one of the top-10 performers by On3. The Baltimore, Md. product attends Sidwell Friends H.S. in Washington, D.C. The 6-foot-3, 170-pound junior guard led the Quakers to a 27-4 record and both the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference title and the DCSAA Class AA tournament championship this past season. Lewis averaged 14.5…
Basketball would eventually take center stage in Mike Woodson’s life. But it would be fair to say things got off to a slow start. The Indianapolis kid in a household of 14 didn’t get serious about the game until middle school. “I started late,” Woodson told Clark Kellogg on an episode of Home Court that debuted on BTN Plus this week. “When I was in the 7th grade, I tried out for the basketball team. And the coach said ‘Alright Woody, if you can dribble down make the layup, dribble back and make the layup, in 10 seconds, you’re on…
As we reported last week, several aspects of the seating chart at Memorial Stadium got an overhaul during the offseason. Two of the main components of the update involved creating a united student section in the north end zone, and bumping fans of the visiting team to a less desirable area. Here’s how IU Senior Associate Athletic Director Jeremy Gray described the thought process of the school related to those changes: “Our student section has a been a disjointed mess for years. We were too nice to visiting team’s fans. So uniting the student section and giving Maryland fans the…
When asked late in his final season of college basketball what his goals were after school, former IU guard Xavier Johnson didn’t hesitate. He wants to find a way to play in the NBA. Although he scored 1,825 points in his career at IU and Pittsburgh, a wave of injuries over the last two years made that goal seem out of reach. But Johnson is getting looks. On Thursday he’ll workout for the Indiana Pacers in Indianapolis, that franchise reported. He’s a late replacement for USC guard Boogie Ellis, and will be joined at the workout by Jalen Bridges of…
Bryce Taylor wasted no time when the hometown school opened the door. Offered a week ago by Indiana, the Bloomington South H.S. product announced his commitment to the Hoosiers on Wednesday. He’s rated the No. 24 kicker and a 5-star in the 2025 class by Kohl’s. He’s also rated the No. 1 kicker in Indiana in his class by some outlets. Here’s how Kohl’s describes Taylor: Taylor earned a 5 star rating at the Underclassman Challenge. He scored 14 points on field goals and 108.8 points on kick offs. Taylor has the leg talent college programs are looking for. He…
IU basketball-themed TBT squad Assembly Ball announced current Hoosiers Team and Recruiting Coordinator Jordan Hulls be both a player and the coach for the team later this summer. In addition to his coaching duties, Hulls will join Yogi Ferrell, Juwan Morgan, Miller Kopp, Troy Williams and Devonte Green as players on the team. More players are expected to be announced. Hulls was a starter on IU’s 2013 Big Ten title team, and one of the best shooters in program history. He finished his career 30th on the all-time scoring list with 1,318 points, fourth in career 3-point percentage (44.1%), and…