Author: Mike Schumann

Mike Woodson has his big fella for the 2024-25 season. Arizona transfer 7-foot center Oumar Ballo has announced he will attend Indiana for his final season of college basketball. At 7-foot and 260 pounds, Ballo was one of the best centers in the country this past season at Arizona. He averaged a double-double with 12.9 points, 10.1 rebounds and 1.3 blocks per game while leading the Wildcats to the Sweet 16. The Koulikoro, Mali product will attempt to follow in the footsteps of Kel’el Ware and Trayce Jackson-Davis as centers who played for Mike Woodson and went on to the…

Indiana lost both a quarterback and receiver on Tuesday morning as the college football transfer portal reopened. The Hoosiers had three young quarterbacks with at least three years of eligibility remaining, and all of them appear to be waiting in the wings behind veteran Kurtis Rourke this season. So it wasn’t going to come as a surprise to see one of them leave via the portal. Broc Lowry was fourth on the depth chart this spring behind Rourke, Tayven Jackson and Tyler Cherry, and he entered the portal Tuesday. Lowry appeared in four games in 2023, and redshirted his initial…

Bloomington native Connor Hickman decided against playing his final season of college basketball at Indiana. The day after a visit to Bloomington, Hickman announced he is transferring to Cincinnati. A guard from Bradley, Hickman was thought to be down to IU and Cincinnati.  He visited Cincinnati on Monday. Indiana got a commitment on Saturday from Washington State transfer guard Myles Rice.  Their main guard targets at this point appear to be Kanaan Carlyle of Stanford and Ryan Conwell of Indiana State.  This development might increase IU’s focus on Leland Walker of Eastern Kentucky, and Connor Essegian of Wisconsin. Earlier on…

There will no final season homecoming for Iowa’s Tony Perkins. The Indianapolis native announced on Monday he will play his final season of college basketball at Missouri. IU was thought to be a strong contender for Perkins before recent developments. The news comes just a couple days after Indiana landed Washington State point guard Myles Rice out of the transfer portal. Indiana is also a favorite to land Stanford transfer guard Kanaan Carlyle, a strong contender for Bradley’s Connor Hickman, and they already have Trey Galloway and Gabe Cupps returning with experience as primary ball handlers. Rice, and Carlyle if…

Indiana has made a spring addition via the transfer portal. Austin Peay cornerback Cedarius Doss announced on Sunday he is transferring to IU.  He should have two seasons of eligibility remaining. The 5-foot-8 and 176-pound Doss was a 2023 PFF FCS All-America, and the highest-graded corner in FCS.  He’ll be reunited in Bloomington with his former Austin Peay teammate, linebacker Josh Rudolph. Doss ranked 27th in the FCS and second in the UAC with three interceptions during the 2023 season, that mark also led Austin Peay. Doss ranked fifth in the UAC with 10 total passes defended and ranked 14th…

Washington State transfer guard Myles Rice has committed to Indiana. The new broke during Rice’s official visit to Bloomington.  He made the announcement on his Instagram page. The 6-foot-3 and 180-pound Rice  averaged 14.8 points per game and led the Cougars to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 16 years. Rice added 3.8 assists, 3.1 rebounds, and 1.6 steals per game. His shooting splits were 43.9 percent overall including 27.5 percent from three, and 81.1 percent from the stripe. https://youtu.be/rn362p8XcHQ Rice currently lives in Atlanta and has ties to IU assistant coach Yasir Rosemond. The 6-foot-3 and 180…

It has become cliché to say in 49 other states it’s just basketball, but this is Indiana. But IU basketball fans proved this winter that expression has merit. The IU men’s basketball team saw 296,427 fans attend their games during 2023-24 season, good for the highest attendance in the Big Ten, and the sixth-highest total in the country. Meanwhile, the IU women’s basketball team saw 175,105 attend their games, good for the second-highest in the Big Ten and the fifth-highest in the nation. The total of nearly a half million fans (472,132) was the highest combined men’s and women’s attendance…

Some of the best players from the Pac-12 are expected to play in Bloomington next season. 247Sports national analyst Travis Branham is predicting Indiana will land Arizona transfer center Oumar Ballo. He is scheduled to arrive on the IU campus for a visit on Sunday. Some outlets say Ballo is the top overall available player in the transfer portal. At 7-foot and 260 pounds, Ballo was one of the best centers in the country this past season at Arizona. He averaged a double-double with 12.9 points, 10.1 rebounds and 1.3 blocks per game while leading the Wildcats to the Sweet…

Indiana has picked up a commitment from class of 2025 linebacker Travares Daniels on Friday afternoon. He announced the news on his social media accounts. The development comes after Daniels visited Indiana multiple times over the last few months. The 6-foot-1, and 200-pound linebacker from St. Thomas Aquinas H.S. (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) is graded as a 3-star by ESPN.  He finished his junior season with 70 tackles, seven tackles for loss, five passes defensed, and four sacks. The Hoosiers offered Daniels in mid-January, and his recruitment was led by defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Bryant Haines. “This new coaching staff…

For the second day in a row, a Pac-12 transfer guard from Atlanta is trending towards Indiana. Coincidence? Probably not. On Friday, Stanford transfer guard Kanaan Carlyle has picked up multiple predictions to land at IU out of the portal. The developments follow a wave of Thursday predictions for Atlanta based Washington State transfer guard Myles Rice to choose Indiana.  Both players have a connection to IU assistant coach Yasir Rosemond. National 247Sports analyst Travis Branham believes Carlyle will be a Hoosier, even before his scheduled April 19 visit to Bloomington. Carlyle is the No. 1 ranked combo guard in…