Author: Mike Schumann

Indiana, yes, Indiana, suddenly looks invincible. And the spotlight on Bloomington has never been brighter. For the second straight weekend, Memorial Stadium is sold out.  This time ESPN’s College GameDay is on site.  The Hoosiers are legitimate contenders for the College Football Playoff and the Big Ten Championship Game.  And the defending national runner-ups are in town. Here’s everything you need to know about Indiana’s matchup against Washington. WASHINGTON (4-3, 2-2) at No. 13 INDIANA (7-0, 4-0) Kickoff:  Noon ET, Saturday Location:  Bloomington, Ind., Memorial Stadium (52,626; field turf) Television: BTN — Guy Haberman (pbp), Yogi Roth (analyst), Rhett Lewis…

Indiana continues to explore possibilities in the class of 2025. On Friday they made an offer to 7-foot-1 international prospect Fridrik Leo Curtis. The product of Iceland reported the IU offer on his social media pages. Curtis attends Cambridge Arts, Technology and Science (CATS) Academy in Massachusetts.  He just got to the U.S. this fall to finish high school and then play college basketball.  He is already 19 and would be 20 upon arriving on a college campus next summer. On film Curtis shows skill, with the ability to handle the ball and make threes.  This is how he described…

Indiana guards Trey Galloway and Jakai Newton both sat out of the team’s public scrimmage at Hoosier Hysteria last weekend in Bloomington. That didn’t come as a surprise to anyone, as both players continue to rehab from injuries heading into the 2024-25 campaign. But both Galloway and Newton are playing full contact basketball behind the scenes.  And that obviously means both are close to having the remaining restrictions on their availability lifted. IU coach Mike Woodson has said repeatedly over the last few months the program is in no hurry to rush either player back from their respective knee injuries. …

Okay, okay, not if, but WHEN Lee Corso picks Indiana, what will he wear on Saturday? For those who live under a rock and somehow don’t know, ESPN College Gameday will be airing live from Bloomington on Saturday ahead of IU and Washington’s Noon ET kickoff. That means former IU football coach Lee Corso will be back in Bloomington. And Corso’s tradition when he makes his prediction for the Gameday contest is to don the headgear of the mascot of the team he picks.  In fact, Saturday will mark Corso’s 420th headgear prediction. It isn’t always headgear.  There have been…

Just days before his former IU football head coach is set to return to campus, former Hoosiers quarterback Tim Clifford has passed away according to the IU Football X account. The IU Hall of Famer died Wednesday and was 65 years old. Clifford won the Big Ten’s Most Valuable Player award in 1979 after leading Indiana to an 8-4 record, a solid fourth-place finish in the Big Ten, final national poll rankings in the Top 20 and the school’s first-ever bowl win, an exciting 38-37 triumph over BYU in the Holiday Bowl.  He completed nearly 56 percent of his passes…

Former IU baseball great and MLB star Kyle Schwarber will be the celebrity guest picker for ESPN’s College Football Gameday on Saturday in Bloomington. Each week Gameday chooses a celebrity connected to the host school or state to make a prediction for that weekend’s contest. ESPN announced the news Thursday afternoon on their social media accounts and released a video of Schwarber: 2x MLB ALL-STAR AND FORMER INDIANA HOOSIER KYLE SCHWARBER WILL BE OUR GUEST PICKER IN BLOOMINGTON 🙌@kschwarb12 pic.twitter.com/yYK9k2mAtI — College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) October 24, 2024 Schwarber just completed his 10th season in Major League Baseball.  With 284, he…

Curt Cignetti confirmed in person on Monday what you’ve no doubt heard by now:  Heisman Trophy contender Kurtis Rourke will not suit up when No. 13 Indiana hosts Washington on Saturday. And Rourke’s backup Tayven Jackson is stepping into a pressure cooker. The No. 13 Hoosiers are 7-0 and legitimate contenders for both the Big Ten Championship Game and the College Football Playoff.  ESPN’s College Gameday will be on campus, and Memorial Stadium is sold out. The scenes and stakes in Bloomington will be at or near the top of the all-time scale. And waiting for Jackson is a Washington…

Class of 2025 in-state guard Braylon Mullins announced at his high school on Tuesday he has committed to Connecticut. He’s the second big in-state miss in the high school senior class for Indiana, following Jalen Haralson’s commitment to Notre Dame a few weeks ago. IU does have a commitment from in-state 2025 forward Trent Sisley, and they’re still after a few more 2025 prospects.  But irrespective of how those recruitments go, they’ll have heavy losses and big holes to fill due to eligibility after the 2024-25 season. At least Oumar Ballo, Dallas James, Langdon Hatton, Trey Galloway, Anthony Leal and…

Indiana has offered class of 2027 in-state guard Jason Gardner, Jr. The Fishers, Ind. product was a guest of Indiana at Hoosier Hysteria over the weekend. Nationally, he is the No. 17 overall player in the 2027 class according to On3, and the No. 2 point guard. Gardner, Jr. is the son of Jason Gardner, Sr. — the former Arizona All-American and 1999 Indiana Mr. Basketball out of North Central H.S. in Indianapolis.  The elder Gardner is currently on the staff at Arizona as the Director of Player Relations. The 6-foot Gardner, Jr. is a strong and fast point guard…

IU basketball is a consensus top-20 program going into the 2024-25 season. The Hoosiers are ranked No. 18 in the preseason coaches poll released on Wednesday. They were ranked No. 17 in the preseason AP Poll released last week. Mike Woodson’s fourth IU squad appears to be his most talented.  All five of his projected starters (Oumar Ballo, Malik Reneau, Mackenzie Mgbako, Kanaan Carlyle and Myles Rice) received some measure of conference-level recognition following the 2023-24 season.  And he’ll have proven veterans off the bench such as Trey Galloway and Luke Goode, along with McDonald’s All-American freshman Bryson Tucker. The…