Indiana 2022 target and four-star recruit Isaac McKneely told 247Sports.com Monday that he will announce his college choice at 2 p.m. Saturday. The Hoosiers are one of eight finalists for McKneely, a 6-foot-4 combo guard from Poca (W.Va.) High School. The other seven programs involved are Illinois, Kentucky, Louisville, North Carolina, Purdue, Virginia and West Virginia. He is the No. 51 overall prospect in the 2022 247Sports Composite Rankings, and the No. 9 combo guard. McKneely’s strength is his outside shot, which is something the Hoosiers desperately need more of. He spends his springs and summers with Wildcats Select, an Adidas…
Author: Dustin Dopirak
Former Indiana offensive coordinator Matt Canada will be taking over as offensive coordinator of one of the NFL’s most prestigious franchises. The Pittsburgh Steelers have promoted Canada from his position as quarterbacks coach to offensive coordinator after deciding not to renew the contract of Randy Fichtner. The news was first reported on Monday by Jeremy Fowler of ESPN and later confirmed by the Steelers. Canada, an Indiana graduate who played quarterback at New Palestine High School and was on the IU staff from 1994-96 and from 2004-10, has spent time at Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, North Carolina State, Pittsburgh, LSU and…
Indiana outfielder Grant Richardson was named a third-team preseason All-American by D1Baseball.com on Monday. It’s Richardson’s third preseason All-America honor. He was named to the first team by College Baseball Newspaper and Perfect Game. In 14 games in his sophomore season before the season was cancelled due to COVID in March, Richardson produced a .424/.453/.797 slash line with 25 hits, eight doubles, two triples, five home runs and 17 RBIs in 59 at-bats. As a freshman in 2019, the 6-foot-2, 186-pound left-hander slashed .264/.335/.491 with nine home runs and 37 RBIs. Named the Preseason Player of the Year in the…
By Dustin Dopirak — Archie Miller went into Sunday’s game against Rutgers with no illusions. Indiana was coming off a stunning upset on the road against No. 4 Iowa in which it suffocated the nation’s most efficient and second-most prolific offense, holding the Hawkeyes to 26.5 percent shooting in the second half. But defending Iowa and defending Rutgers are not similar tasks because the Hawkeyes’ guards look to make 3s and the Scarlet Knights’ guards go all out to get to the rim and finish. Plus they can create turnovers and they’re a problem in transition. The fact that Rutgers…
By Dustin Dopirak — Jordan Geronimo and the coaches in his orbit always had a sense that, for him, college basketball could come with a more painful than normal adjustment period. Geronimo came equipped with both the body and the mind for the Big Ten with a muscled-up 6-foot-6, 220-pound frame, a 7-foot wingspan and a pogo-stick vertical to go with it. His coaches raved about his basketball IQ and his energy level and he got the attention of high-major Division I schools when he proved during the summer between his junior and senior years that he could knock down…
By Dustin Dopirak — In his team’s first seven Big Ten games, Archie Miller gradually got the sense that his team was losing its identity. After its double-digit home loss to Purdue last week, that feeling became impossible to ignore. Miller knew his Hoosiers had flaws, especially on the offensive end, but he believed he had a team that could be sturdy enough on defense to always give itself a chance. However, from the Big Ten opener on Dec. 23 through that loss to the Boilermakers, he saw more and more breakdowns, less and less adequate ball pressure, and more…
By Dustin Dopirak — Ryder Anderson wasn’t exactly sure where he was Tuesday in the course of his seven-hour trip from Oxford, Miss., to Bloomington. He just knew his 2016 Dodge Charger was pointed north and it was getting colder as he drove. “It’s 45 degrees where I am now,” he told a reporter. “Is it colder than that up there?” It was in fact a few degrees colder in Bloomington Tuesday and that is something that is going to take some getting used to for Anderson. He announced his decision to transfer from Ole Miss to Indiana on Jan.…
By Dustin Dopirak — Much of Archie Miller’s value as a basketball player came from his ability to hit outside shots. Sure, he had an uncommon basketball IQ and was a solid all-around point guard. But at 5-foot-11, 160 pounds, he needed something else to get on the floor in the ACC as he did at North Carolina State, and that was hit outside shot. In four plus seasons with the Wolfpack — including his second year when he played three games and had to take a medical redshirt — he hit 218 3-point shots, just shy of two per game.…
By Dustin Dopirak Archie Miller’s team is tired, and he can tell. A lot of the fatigue is mental, the product of an exhausting year in American life and the challenges of being a college basketball team at the time of COVID-19, but some of it is physical. Indiana starts two forwards, and they happen to be the only healthy post players on the roster with senior Joey Brunk out due to back surgery. One of them, sophomore Trayce Jackson-Davis, ranks third in the Big Ten with 34.0 minutes per game, and the other Race Thompson, is not far behind…
IU’s Assembly Hall will host First-Four matchups and First Round games in the NCAA Tournament, according to an NCAA release Tuesday laying out the schedule for the event being held entirely in the state of Indiana. Assembly Hall and Mackey Arena will split the First Four games and will also be sites for first-round matchups on March 18. On March 19 and 20, Indiana’s and Purdue’s arenas will host Round of 64 games along with Indianapolis venues Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Hinkle Fieldhouse Indiana Farmers Coliseum and Lucas Oil Stadium. Multiple outlets have reported that Indiana, Purdue and Butler will not…