Author: Mike Schumann

IU themed Assembly Ball has a first round opponent in the 2024 edition of The Basketball Tournament. They’ll face Valparaiso alumni team The Cru.  Assembly Ball was determined to be the No. 1 seed in the eight team regional in Indianapolis. Assembly Ball features former IU players Jordan Hulls (as a player and coach), Juwan Morgan, Devonte Green, Miller Kopp, Yogi Ferrell, Miller Kopp, Race Thompson and Troy Williams. Here’s the Butler regional bracket released today.  A matchup involving IU and Purdue alumni is possible in the second round.  Games will be played at Hinkle Fieldhouse: Assembly Ball’s first game…

As he told The Daily Hoosier on Saturday, Braylon Mullins had visit dates coming for some of college basketball’s marquee programs. On Tuesday afternoon, On3’s Joe Tipton first reported the news of two major visits for the Greenfield, Ind. class of 2025 top-50 shooting guard. Tipton is reporting Mullins now has dates set for official visits to UConn in early August, and North Carolina in mid-September. In total, Mullins now has five official visits set including previously announced stops at Indiana, Michigan and Tennessee.  That latter visit to Knoxville in mid-October is currently the last one he has scheduled. The…

The 2024 IU football season is going to be a tug-of-war between the historic futility of the program, and new head coach Curt Cignetti’s refusal to lose. How will it end? For a respected take we turn to the always highly anticipated Phil Steele’s College Football Preview Magazine. The digital edition of Steele’s 2024 yearbook was released earlier this month, and in it he paints a relatively rosy outlook for Indiana. Out of 18 teams, Steele ranks IU 12th in the Big Ten.  That’s obviously not a ringing endorsement, but it is a signal of at least the start of…

Class of 2025 wide receiver Davion Chandler has flipped his commitment from Illinois to Indiana, he has announced. “After lots of thoughts and prayers I have decided to decommit from Illinois and flip my commitment to Indiana,” he wrote in an X post. An Indianapolis product, who just committed to Illinois a couple weeks ago, Chandler was on a previously planned official visit to IU this weekend. The 6-foot and 170-pound Chandler will follow current Hoosiers Donaven McCulley and Omar Cooper as Lawrence North H.S. standout wide receivers who chose to play in Bloomington. “With IU it’s very close to…

Indiana is one of eight finalists for class of 2025 top-35 center Malachi Moreno, Joe Tipton of On3 is reporting. The 7-footer from Georgetown, Ky. will also consider Arkansas, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisville, North Carolina, Notre Dame, and Ohio State. Indiana offered Moreno in 2022, and he has been a priority recruit since.  He plays for the Indiana Elite 2025 Adidas 3SSB team along with fellow IU targets Trent Sisley and Braylon Mullins. Moreno was the ringleader for the concept of taking an official visit to IU the same weekend as Sisley and Mullins, which they will all three do so…

It’s probably no coincidence, Mike Woodson’s best IU basketball team — his second — was his best three-point shooting team. In three seasons at IU, Woodson has had two teams outside the national top-200 in three-point percentage, and one in the top-40. Woodson’s second team shot 36.8 percent from three, good for No. 39 in the nation.  And that squad finished second in the Big Ten, and earned a No. 4 seed in the 2023 NCAA Tournament. Sure, having Trayce Jackson-Davis and Jalen Hood-Schifino on that team made a big difference, but Woodson and his staff also relied on long-range…

Class of 2025 edge rusher Triston Abram announced his commitment to IU football on Sunday afternoon. The 3-star recruit was on campus for a visit this weekend. From St. Louis, the 6-foot-3 and 225-pound Abram attends Christian Brothers College where he had eight sacks and 14 tackles for loss as a junior. Abram is the No. 929 ranked overall player in the 2025 class, and the No. 78 edge. In addition to IU, Abram had offers from Memphis, Kansas State, Boston College, Georgia Tech, Cincinnati, Kansas, California, and others. This story will be updated. I’m Here and Ready to Work🔴⚪️‼️‼️…

IU football picked up a commitment from 2025 tight end Andrew Barker, he announced on Sunday morning. The 6-foot-4 product of Kokomo, Ind. announced the news on his X account.  He was on an official visit to Indiana this weekend. Barker is a 3-star, and the No. 94 tight end in the class according to 247Sports. As a junior at Kokomo H.S., Barker was named First Team All-State.  He had 23 receptions for 324 yards and four touchdowns, and also played some on the edge on defense. God is great!!!🔥🔥🔥#blessed pic.twitter.com/iOxCpq6lU7 — Andrew Barker (@andrewbarker_3) June 23, 2024 He had…

Class of 2025 guard Braylon Mullins was the headliner at this year’s Charlie Hughes Shootout in the northern Indianapolis suburbs. Head coaches from IU, Purdue, Notre Dame, Kentucky, Connecticut, Tennessee, Michigan, Michigan State, and Iowa at least, and assistants from many other schools were there to see the Greenfield Central H.S. product at some point on Friday and Saturday. As the center of attention and against one of the best defensive teams in the state, Mullins was unfazed.  He scored 32 on Indianapolis powerhouse Ben Davis H.S. to lead Greenfield Central to a win in their first game on Saturday.…

Indiana swimming and diving senior Carson Tyler has qualified for his first Olympics, winning the 10-meter event Saturday (June 22) at the U.S. Olympic Diving Trials inside the Allan Jones Aquatic Center in Knoxville, Tennessee. The two-time defending champion in the platform diving event, Tyler won the tower event with a score of 965.45, combining his scores from Thursday’s semifinal and Saturday’s final. Tyler earned at least 70 points on all six dives Saturday. His highest-scoring dive came in the fifth round from a back 3 ½ somersault tuck for a total of 90.75 as three judges each gave Tyler…