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…
Author: Mike Schumann
Fans all across the country have been coming out to get a glimpse of new WNBA star Caitlin Clark. The Indiana Fever have already set their home season attendance record, and road venues are shattering records left and right when Clark comes to town. The same thing happened at IU a year ago. Indiana drew a then record home crowd for Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes in 2023, with more than 13,000 fans. Just a few months ago when Clark came to Bloomington, IU recorded their second all-time sellout for a women’s game, and ticket prices soared on the secondary…
“I’m into production over potential.” New IU football coach Curt Cignetti has said variations of that phrase on multiple occasions during his seven months in Bloomington. And it showed as the new head Hoosier assembled his first roster in Bloomington. At several positions Pro Football Focus has said IU has players among the highest-graded returners in the Big Ten. When PFF says returners, they mean players returning to college football from any school and playing in the Big Ten in 2024. According to that measure, IU has three of the top-10 returning wide receivers (Elijah Sarratt, Donaven McCulley, Ke’Shawn Williams),…
Lilly King captured Olympic qualification in a second event Thursday night at U.S. Olympic Team Trials at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. But that was only the beginning of a memorable night for the legendary former IU swimmer. King finished second in the women’s 200-meter breaststroke in a time of 2:21.93. The three-time Olympian split 36.50 in the final 50 to overtake Alex Walsh and finish in front of her by 45 hundredths of a second. Per NBC, King will become the first U.S. swimmer to compete in the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke in three straight Olympics. Moments after King’s…
Class of 2025 edge rusher Keishaun Calhoun announced a verbal commitment to Indiana on Thursday evening. Calhoun had previously indicated he would announce a commitment on July 1. But he was at IU for a visit this week and posted the news on his X account. WHY WAIT ? WHY NOT IU?? LETS GOOO!! @IndianaFootball @CCignettiIU @Coach_PatKuntz @ChazLapoint @AllenTrieu @mickdwalker @adamgorney @MohrRecruiting @GregSmithRivals @SWiltfong_ @RivalsFriedman @GMHSFootball @CoachWestcamp pic.twitter.com/RVp0XioAzS — ✞ CORTEZ ✞ (@KeishaunCalhoun) June 21, 2024 The visit was the second this year for the from Groveport Madison H.S. (Groveport, Ohio) product. 247Sports currently ranks Calhoun as a three-star prospect…
Rocco Miller of bracketeer.org is reporting IU basketball will host Chattanooga in a 2024-25 nonconference game. The Mocs were the No. 140 team in the nation at the end of the 2023-24 season according to KenPom. Going into his third season at Chattanooga, head coach Dan Earl appears to have the team trending in the right direction. They finished the 2023-24 campaign with a 21-12 record and a 12-6 mark in the Southern Conference. That followed an 18-17 initial season for Earl. Chattanooga welcomes six newcomers via the transfer portal and two freshman. The new faces will join returning All-Southern…
Class of 2025 defensive back Zacharey Smith announced his decommitment from Pittsburgh late Thursday morning. Just minutes later, the Atlanta, Ga. (Hapewell Charter H.S.) product announced he has verbally committed to play at Indiana. The 6-foot cornerback was on campus for a visit in Bloomington this week. That was his second visit to IU after another visit in March. Smith played on both sides of the ball in 2023 and also returned kicks. He tallied three interceptions. Smith is currently unranked, but he has the kind of offer list that suggests that’s about to change. In addition to IU and…
Indiana fans can look for All-Big Ten center Kel’el Ware at the 2024 NBA Draft next week. It wouldn’t be a surprise to see Mike Woodson there with him. Widely expected to be a first round draft choice, Ware was invited to the NBA Draft green room, Jonathan Givony of ESPN reported on Wednesday. The green room is an area in front of the NBA draft podium where players wait for their named to be called by the league commissioner, Adam Silver. The players are typically joined at tables by their, families, former coaches and agents. They can invite up…
It seems IU basketball fans will have to wait until the fall to find out where coveted in-state guard Braylon Mullins will play in college. As we reported here a couple weeks ago, Mullins will take an official visit to IU the weekend of Sept. 20, along with his Indiana Elite AAU teammates Trent Sisley and Malachi Moreno. The class of 2025 IU basketball target has at least five more visits planned as part of a schedule that carries into October. According to a report by Joe Tipton of On3, Mullins will take unofficial visits in late June to Kentucky,…
The main national recruiting sites — 247Sports, On3, and Rivals — have all updated their class of 2025 basketball rankings over the last two weeks after watching rising senior prospects play on the shoe circuits throughout the spring. Below we take a look at where the fluid list of who we’re calling IU basketball’s main targets in the class stand at each of the outlets. For more on these players, visit our regularly updated IU basketball recruiting targets page. Note: ESPN has not updated their rankings in two months, so we excluded them from this update. (click each name for…