Author: Mike Schumann

Did you notice that word IU wing Luke Goode included in his senior day video? “I just want everybody to know that I gave my all this year, as it could be my last year,” he said. Could be? This is Goode’s fourth year of college basketball, three with Illinois and this year with Indiana.  But he only played 10 games during Illinois’ 2022-23 season.  And it’s that season that creates the possibility of a fifth year of college basketball for the Fort Wayne, Ind. native. Players who suffer injuries that force them to miss a significant portion of a…

Indiana’s first Big Ten Tournament game was locked in with their 66-60 win over Ohio State Saturday. The Hoosiers will be the No. 9 seed next week and will face No. 8 Oregon in a rematch of a game played earlier this week in Eugene. IU and the Ducks will tip at Noon ET Thursday on BTN.  It will be a 9 a.m. PT tip for Oregon.  The IU women’s team defeated Oregon earlier this week in the same 8/9 game and time slot. Oregon defeated IU 73-64 Tuesday in a game the Hoosiers led 64-63 with less than two…

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana defeated Ohio State at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall on Saturday afternoon by a final score of 66-60. Ohio State led 29-25 at halftime.  The Hoosiers were led in the game by Trey Galloway and Malik Reneau with 16 points apiece. The three keys to the game, highlights and final stats are below. Indiana (19-12, 10-10) will play as the No. 9 seed next week at the Big Ten Tournament against No. 8 Oregon at Noon ET on Thursday in Indianapolis. See also:  Senior Day videos For Ohio State’s Jake Diebler and Micah Parrish, GO HERE. THREE KEYS TO…

After a solid college career, Justice Ellison appeared to have a shot to get some consideration for a role at the professional level. He rushed for 848 yards (5.3 ypc) and 10 scores in his lone season as Hoosier.  All together over five seasons, he gained over 3,000 yards from scrimmage and amassed 26 total touchdowns.  And with all of that production, an NFL training camp invite didn’t seem out of the question. But at some point since Indiana’s final game at Notre Dame in mid-December, Ellison decided he’d had enough on the gridiron. So Ellison picked up the phone…

IU football coach Curt Cignetti is always on the hunt for complacency in his program. And coming off a record setting season, he knows better than anyone there is a risk his players won’t enter 2025 spring practice with the same focus and determination they had a year ago. Last year Indiana was coming off a 9-27 record over the three prior seasons.  With a new coach and overhauled roster, everyone top to bottom was focused on quieting the doubters and making a statement:  This is the new Indiana. The way Cignetti operates, every year is the new Indiana.  Every…

Saturday marks the final regular season home game for the IU basketball team. And with that comes the annual tradition of Senior Day, which includes a postgame ceremony where each of the seniors are recognized. Typically, each senior player and the head coach takes the microphone and addresses the crowd at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.  That’s a tradition that goes back to the Bob Knight era, and it often delivers memorable moments, including this legendary line from Knight: “When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here have passed, I want they bury me upside down, so my…

IU football has the moved the date of the 2025 spring game. The Hoosiers will wrap up their spring practice sessions with a spring game on April 17th at 8 p.m. ET.  The new date and time might be to accommodate television, although nothing has been announced in that regard.  The IU spring game was on The Big Ten Network last year.  This year’s game was previously set for Saturday, April 19th at Noon. Indiana’s first spring practice is this weekend.  Teams are allowed to have 15 spring practices. Under head coach Curt Cignetti, IU used a unique approach to…

There are eerie similarities between Mike Woodson’s last home game as an IU basketball player, and his final game inside Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall as a coach. Woodson’s senior season at IU, the 1979-80 campaign, started out with great promise.  Led by Woodson, Randy Wittman, Ray Tolbert, Isiah Thomas, Butch Carter, Ted Kitchel, Landon Turner and others, Bob Knight’s Hoosiers were the preseason No. 1 team. Wittman believes the 1980 team was better than his team that won the national title the following season. “The 1980 team was better than the ’81 team that won the national championship, without a…

Michigan State has won at least a share of the 2025 Big Ten men’s basketball regular season title. That came via a Thursday loss by Michigan to Maryland.  The Wolverines are now two games back in the loss column to MSU, and the Spartans only have two games left to play. With his latest accomplishment, Michigan State coach Tom Izzo has tied Indiana’s Bob Knight and Purdue’s Ward “Piggy” Lambert for the most regular-season titles in Big Ten history, with 11. The 70-year-old Izzo earlier this season passed Knight for the most conference victories and now has 358.  IU was…

In a physical game Tuesday evening in Eugene, Indiana shot five less free throws than it had in any game all season. For the most part the officials let things go both ways.  But there was one late sequence that seemed to illustrate a discrepancy that sent IU coach Mike Woodson over the edge. Trey Galloway tied up Nate Bittle with just over a minute remaining and was called for a foul that led to two free throws.  It looked like a play that could have easily been called a jump ball, and it came right after Galloway was bumped…