Author: TDH Staff

When Kelel Ware’s name is called this week, it will be the the third time in two years a former IU basketball player has been chosen in the NBA Draft. And when Ware is chosen it will be the first time since 2014 that former Hoosiers were drafted in consecutive years. Overall, by our count 78 players from Indiana have been chosen in the NBA draft.  That includes 27 chosen in the first round (including head coach Mike Woodson), two as the overall number one selection, and four as the overall number two selection. The Indiana men’s basketball program ranks…

IU women’s basketball coach Teri Moren and Team USA Basketball have at least one thing in common. They just win. And with Moren leading the way, the U18 National Team claimed an 80-69 win over Canada in the championship game at the FIBA U18 Women’s AmeriCup on Sunday night. The squad breezed through group play with convincing victories over Brazil (97-51), Puerto Rico (102-22) and Mexico (116-20). They also secured a semifinal win versus Dominican Republic (125-27) and in the quarterfinals against Argentina (109-32). USA went 6-0 in competition at the event and also qualified for the FIBA U19 World…

Indiana’s significant presence on the men’s and women’s swimming teams headed to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris grew on Sunday, the final day of qualifying at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Blake Pieroni was the final addition to the 26-man roster as the sixth-place finisher in the 200-meter freestyle. He will represent Team USA on the 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Additionally, incoming transfer Matt King was named to the Olympic team as the sixth-place finisher in the 100-meter freestyle. King will begin training at IU in the fall following his Olympic debut. IU associate head swimming coach Cory Chitwood was…

The wait is over for Josh Matheny and Anna Peplowski. The Indiana swimming and diving seniors were announced as members of the U.S. Olympic Team by USA Swimming Saturday night at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Both athletes posted qualifying performances earlier in the week – Matheny was the No. 2 finisher in the men’s 200-meter breaststroke on Wednesday, and Peplowski finished fifth in the 200-meter freestyle on Monday. However, neither met the criteria for immediate selection (event win or top-four finish in 100m or 200m free) and had to await selection as USA…

Watch as IU women’s basketball coach Teri Moren sat down with Rick Pizzo of the Big Ten Network from the coaches meetings in California. Moren is in her 11th season as head coach of the program in 2024-25. The program’s all-time winningest coach holds a record of 226-99 in 10 years leading the Hoosiers. For complete coverage of IU women’s basketball, GO HERE.  https://youtu.be/i0LLsV6zDXg   The Daily Hoosier –“Where Indiana fans assemble when they’re not at Assembly” Find us on Facebook:  thedailyhoosier You can follow us on Twitter:  @daily_hoosier Seven ways to support completely free IU coverage at no cost to you.

Listen as legendary IU basketball and football radio voice Don Fischer joined Gerry Dick on the Business and Beyond podcast. Fischer discusses his life story, his relationship with Bob Knight, the current state of IU Athletics, and his future on the microphone as the voice of the Hoosiers. Fischer has been the play-by-play voice of Indiana Men’s Basketball and Football since 1973. He has broadcast more than 2,000 Indiana University games, including 12 bowl games, five NCAA basketball Final Fours, four NCAA basketball championship games and two NIT championship games. For a complete library of interviews and podcasts with current and…

IU basketball coach Mike Woodson was in Fort Wayne on Wednesday at an event for the local Boys and Girls Club. Woodson was the keynote speaker for the event at the Clyde Theatre. Here’s some of the local media coverage of the event, including a one-on-one with WANE 15’s Glenn Marini. For complete coverage of IU basketball, GO HERE.     The Daily Hoosier –“Where Indiana fans assemble when they’re not at Assembly” Find us on Facebook:  thedailyhoosier You can follow us on Twitter:  @daily_hoosier Seven ways to support completely free IU coverage at no cost to you.

Indiana native and 2025 IU basketball target Jalen Haralson made the USA Basketball Men’s U17 National Team following five days of training camp in Colorado Springs. The U17 national team, chosen from the 34 participants, will compete at the 2024 FIBA U17 Men’s World Cup, scheduled for June 29-July 7 in Istanbul. Selections were made by the USA Basketball Men’s Developmental National Team Committee.  Haralson, a 6-foot-6 guard/wing from Fishers, Ind., placed IU in his top-nine schools earlier this year.  He will take an official visit to IU the weekend of Aug. 31, and he plans to decide on a…

2020 Olympic silver medalist Jessica Parratto earned a trip to her third Olympics on Tuesday (June 18) at the U.S. Olympic Diving Trials inside the Allan Jones Aquatic Center in Knoxville, Tennessee. Parratto and partner Delaney Schnell won the women’s synchronized 10-meter – the event they earned a silver medal in at the 2020 Tokyo Games – with a score of 607.14 points. Parratto enters the 2024 Paris Games a three-time Olympian, adding to an elite list of IU women to reach three Olympics in diving. She joins Ingeborg Pertmayer (1964, 1968, 1972) and Cynthia Potter (1972, 1976, 1980). The…

Five-time Olympic medalist Lilly King pulled off a hat trick in her home state. King, a native of Evansville, Ind. and former IU swimmer, finished first in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke final at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. King finished the race with a time of 1:05:43 and had the only time under 1:06. Her performance in the final ranks as the fourth fastest time in the world this season.  King wore an IU cap during the race. Indiana University’s all-time leading medal-winner among women’s athletes, King becomes IU’s first women’s…