Author: Mike Schumann

The Indiana University men’s basketball team did not receive an invite to the National Invitational Tournament on Sunday night.  Head coach Archie Miller has previously stated that the team will not play in any other post season play beyond the NIT or NCAA tournaments. As we had previously described, the Hoosiers were considered a long shot to receive an at-large bid to the NIT field. With that, the Hoosiers’ season is officially over.  Indiana finished the year at 16-15 overall and 9-9 in Big Ten play.  IU finished in sixth place in the Big Ten and lost their first Big…

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Quick.  Name the bubble teams that were left out of last year’s NIT.  Name anyone that was even IN the NIT other than Indiana and Georgia Tech.  Most of you have got nothing.  We’re right there with you. You have to wonder why the Not Invited Tournament takes itself so seriously.  Sure you could put Wagner and Arkansas Pine Bluff in the giant losers bracket that is today’s NIT.  You could analyze the RPI and strength of schedule until you are blue in the face and make sure you have it just right.  Yep, you could do all that. Or you…

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Indiana University basketball recruiting target Romeo Langford played two regional games on Saturday as New Albany won both games and rolled on to the semi-state round of the Indiana state high school basketball tournament.  The Bulldogs improved to 25-1 on the season and they have now won 22 games in a row. New Albany will now face undefeated Warren Central (30-0).  According to the IHSAA’s website, that game will be played at 3:00 ET next Saturday afternoon.  The Warriors dominated Terre Haute South 83-48 to advance to the semistate. In the first game, New Albany handled Bloomington South by a…

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Twenty years.  It had been twenty years since Indiana last won an outright Big Ten title.  Since then the Hoosiers had seen four different head coaches including the firing of the legendary Bob Knight.  The program had fallen into complete ruin under Kelvin Sampson and suffered through three years of hell as Tom Crean attempted to resurrect it. Twenty years meant that the players on the 2012-13 Indiana Hoosiers were either not yet born or still in diapers in 1993 when IU mowed through the competition with a 17-1 Big Ten record.  Needless to say, it had been a while.…

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At 5-9 and 160 pounds, Archie Miller was never going to strike fear in the hearts of his opponents with his size.  But give him an inch from behind the 3-point line, and suddenly, opposing teams were horrified.  As the son of a high school basketball coach, Archie Miller grew up in a gym.  As we’ve seen with Hoosier legends such as Steve Alford and Jordan Hulls, if you spend enough time in a gym as a kid — you can learn how to shoot the rock. When you watch video of him playing (which you can do below), two…

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Spring practice started for the Indiana University football team on March 3rd.  Since then the team has released a number of videos including interviews with head coach Tom Allen, and player profiles of Jonathan Crawford, Nick Westbrook, Jacob Robinson and Wes Martin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL0aF8kkuzw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc2jUnMOUXw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npezXJuGdGE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svZlavMt1Dw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9UFngKEA0o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvA1dN8IJtg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCRk4s0cMQU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zbSFq7riUA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCHcvh6FSyM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W20OMZdSFAM You can follow us on Twitter:  @daily_hoosier Find us on Facebook:  thedailyhoosier Video credit:  Indiana University

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It was a running joke all throughout my time at IU from 1991 to 1995 and beyond.  I’ll never forget the first time I laid eyes on the Hoosiers’ former home ballpark — Sembower Field.  As a freshman living at the Paul V. McNutt Quad (himself a former IU baseball player prior to becoming the Indiana governor), I went months without realizing that IU’s baseball stadium was literally across the street.  I had to walk by it every day to head towards campus and yet I never noticed it.  The hilltop location was apparently just enough to obscure it from…

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In 49 states, it’s just a game.  In the state of Indiana, we need our own power rankings.  Every week we’ll help settle the ongoing debate regarding who are the best college basketball teams in the state of Indiana. Here are the state of Indiana NCAA Division 1 men’s college basketball power rankings for the week ended March 4, 2018: Current Indiana teams in Joe Lunardi’s Bracketology:  Purdue (2), Butler (9). 1. Purdue Boilermakers (28-6, 15-3) (B1G) – Their standing here has never really been in doubt all season.  What is still in doubt is whether this fully capable team…

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Indiana University basketball recruiting target Romeo Langford played two sectional games over the weekend as New Albany rolls on to the regional round of the Indiana state high school basketball tournament.  The Bulldogs improved to 23-1 on the season and they have now won 20 games in a row. On Friday night New Albany handled sectional host Seymour by a score of 82-42.  For the game Langford scored 32 points while his teammate Sean East, who hit 9 of his first 11 3-point attempts, added 31. That victory set up a rematch with Floyd Central.  On December 8th the Highlanders took…

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Indiana University’s football program has sent a record five participants to the NFL’s scouting combine in Indianapolis.  Former Hoosier stars Simmie Cobbs, Chris Covington, Rashard Fant, Tegray Scales and Ian Thomas are all at the annual event at Lucas Oil Stadium. The schedule by position is as follows: » Saturday, Mar 3: QB, WR, TE [COBBS and THOMAS] » Sunday, Mar 4: DL, LB [COVINGTON and SCALES] » Monday, Mar 5: DB [FANT – UPDATE, FANT WILL NOT PARTICIPATE.  SEE BELOW] TRACKING THE HOOSIERS Below we will monitor the performance of each of the five Hoosiers.  The best performance at…

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