They are right. These rankings are way too early. We shouldn’t even acknowledge them. But when national folks are clearly just taking last year’s rankings and layering on some quick notes about recruits and transfers, well, we can stay silent no more! CBS Sports is the latest to take a shot at a so-called “way too early” men’s college basketball Top 25. NBC had something similar a couple days ago. IU was not included in either set of rankings. The main problem with even attempting rankings at this point is that there are so many question marks related to the NBA…
Author: Mike Schumann
Post-season baseball is here as the Big Ten Tournament begins on Wednesday. No. 5 seed Indiana will face No. 4 seed Illinois at 10:00 PM EST / 9:00 PM CT in Omaha, Nebraska. All of the Big Ten Tournament games will air on BTN. Illinois is starting right-hander Quinn Snarskis. He is 6-1 with a 3.06 ERA. IU is starting right-hander Jonathan Stiever. He is 5-4 with a 3.04 ERA. Both starting pitchers had strong outings when the teams faced each other in late April in Bloomington. Indiana won the regular season series with the Illini 2-1. You can see…
For more than 100 years, the history of the jersey number zero at Indiana was just that — zero, nothing, no one, zilch, nada. It is somewhat surprising to learn that no one had ever worn the jersey number zero at Indiana since the program started in 1901 until a walk-on made the leap in 2009. Today we take a fun look back at the very brief history of the jersey number zero at IU in light of the suggestion on social media that class of 2018 five-star recruit Romeo Langford will sport that number next season. KORY BARNETT -…
– UPDATED May 20, 2018 – As of May 20, 2018, the following Indiana University Athletics programs were nationally ranked in the Top 25, either currently, at the end, or in the preseason of their respective seasons: BASEBALL – #19 The Hoosiers slipped out of most polls after losing 9 of 11. They are now back on a 6 game win streak and are likely to start moving back into the rankings heading into the Big Ten Tournament. MEN’S SOCCER – #2 (end of season) Indiana made it to the 2017 national championship match and lost a heartbreaker. MEN’S SWIMMING…
Remember all that talk about a 5 game losing streak, and what is wrong with Indiana baseball? That was so last week. On its Senior Night, the Hoosiers finished off a 3-game sweep of Maryland, winning 13-3 at Bart Kaufman Field in Bloomington. IU won its sixth in a row overall to wrap-up the regular season. Indiana heads to post season play at 37-15 overall, and 14-9 in the Big Ten. IU is firmly in the eight-team Big Ten Tournament that starts next week. The Hoosiers will finish 5th overall in the regular season conference standings. While Maryland put up…
If you ask just about anyone who they think is the most likely in the class of 2019 to attend Indiana, their response is Greenwood, Indiana native Trayce Jackson-Davis. The 6-foot-9 power forward is rated as a 5-star recruit based on the 247 Sports composite, and he is the 20th best player in the country according to that service. The 5-star rating reflects a significant move up the charts for Jackson-Davis, as he has made big strides over the last few years. As a freshman he used his size to primarily be a presence with rebounding and defense. Since then…
Catcher Josh Phegley has had some bad luck in recent years with injuries. The former Indiana catcher has only appeared in 82 games over the last two seasons for the Oakland A’s. That lack of availability might be part of the reason why the A’s went a different route this spring and Phegley ended up with Oakland’s Triple A affiliate in Nashville. While it probably wasn’t the path back to the majors that he was expecting or seeking, Phegley was called up by Oakland on Thursday and joined the A’s in Toronto for a four game series. Oakland placed catcher Bruce…
It is the final piece of the 2018-19 Indiana basketball season puzzle. If he stays, the season looks quite promising. If he goes, there might be more questions than answers. Several announcements have been coming out over the last few days regarding various decisions vis-a-vis the NBA Draft. IU’s Second Team All Big Ten forward Juwan Morgan has until May 30th to decide whether he will forego his senior season and pursue professional basketball. Multiple reports have indicated that Morgan has had workouts with NBA teams. These workouts can take on a lot of different looks on a team-by-team basis,…
The updated 2019 Top247 rankings were released Thursday by 247Sports. We’ve said it before and it bears repeating — Archie Miller is going “all-in” on his class of 2019. Based on the updated ratings it is once again clear that Indiana is focusing its recruiting at the highest levels. We believe that Indiana is in legitimate contention for at least eight 5-star rated players in the class, and the top 11 players that it is pursuing are all in the Top 100. While in years past the Hoosiers have had to dip into the lower rated and even unrated groups, that doesn’t…
Back in August of 2015, Indiana University donor Mickey Mauer contacted Louisville Athletics Department personnel via e-mail. That e-mail was first channeled through the IU Athletic Department, and its content alerted Louisville of a scandal involving its basketball program. That scandal, involving the Louisville basketball program’s use of strippers and prostitutes to entice recruits, resulted in significant ridicule and shaming of its head coach Rick Pitino. The scandal broke in October 2015 when Katina Powell, an escort that was central to the matter, wrote a book detailing her relationship with the Louisville basketball program. In the book she alleged that…