Author: Mike Schumann

With Selection Sunday now less than five weeks away, we are once again taking a weekly look at the Hoosiers’ chance to make the Big Dance. Indiana remains solidly in the NCAA Tournament field after a 1-1 week in the Big Ten.  But they’ll need more wins, including tonight vs. Oregon, to stay comfortable. Once again, the NET rankings serve as the primary sorting tool for Division I men’s basketball, and they play an important role in establishing a team’s resume. The 2025-26 men’s basketball season marks the eighth year of the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) rankings, which replaced the…

Game Day Essentials: Indiana (16-8, 7-6) vs. Oregon (8-15, 1-11) Tip Time: 8:30 p.m. Eastern, Monday Location: Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall (17,222), Bloomington, Ind. Television: FS1 (Kevin Kugler and Nick Bahe) Radio: IU Radio Network (Don Fischer, Errek Suhr, John Herrick) Stream: Fox Sports Point Spread:  Indiana is around an 11.5-point favorite KenPom Projected Score:  Indiana 78  Oregon 67 History: Indiana leads, 3-2 Last Meeting: Oregon won 72-59 on March 13, 2025 Tickets (via our StubHub affiliate link) Oregon’s Dana Altman Dana Altman gave IU coach Darian DeVries his first opportunity in coaching at Creighton.  DeVries worked under Altman for nine years. Altman…

IU basketball has made a new offer in the class of 2028. Michai White announced an offer from the Hoosiers on his Instagram page. White is a 6-foot-1 and 170-pound sophomore point guard from Hackensack, N.J. A consensus top-30 4-star in his class, White is the No. 16 player in 2028 based on the industry average, and the No. 4 point guard. As a freshman White attended St. Benedict’s in Newark and averaged 26 points per game.  He now attends national prep school Brewster Academy. In nine games on the EYBL Scholastic Circuit this 2025-26 season, White has averaged 12.3…

You take wins over Wisconsin any way you can get them. Indiana got off to a fast start, building a 7-0 lead, and then a 26-12 margin with 8:26 left in the first half.  Wisconsin got back to within four before halftime, but IU rebuilt the lead to 52-39 with 13:01. That’s when things started to get away from the Hoosiers, and Wisconsin went up 72-68 before Indiana salvaged the game in overtime. Let’s take a deeper look at how Indiana won 78-77 in Bloomington with our latest edition of The Report Card. The Hoosiers (16-8, 7-6) will return home…

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana defeated Wisconsin Saturday afternoon at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall by a final score of 78-77 in overtime. The three keys to the game, highlights and final stats are all below. Indiana led 36-30 at halftime.  The Hoosiers were led in the game by Lamar Wilkerson with 25 points.  Sam Alexis added 19. For Darian DeVries, Conor Enright and Sam Alexis postgame, GO HERE. Indiana (16-7, 7-6) returns to action Monday evening when it hosts Oregon. THREE KEYS TO THE GAME 1. Wilkerson clutch free throws.  Indiana trailed 72-68 with less than a minute to go in regulation…

Chalk this up as something to keep an eye on. Verbally pledged to Texas Tech, 5-star defensive tackle Jalen Brewster appears to be reopening his recruitment. The 6-foot-3 and 300-pound Brewster is the No. 1 overall player in the 2027 class according to Rivals.  He’s the consensus No. 1 overall defensive lineman in the junior class. Brewster was asked by Rivals whether he was still solid with his verbal commitment to Texas Tech, and Brewster told that outlet he is not.  That comes after Texas Tech defensive line coach Zarnell Fitch’s contract was not renewed by the school this week.…

Indiana shocked the college football world on New Year’s Day. How did one of the game’s titans get completely dominated by one of the worst programs in history? That dynamic — traditional SEC power vs. traditional Big Ten doormat — might have contributed.  Alabama linebacker Nikhai Hill-Green shed some light on his team’s mindset going into the game. In short, it sounds like the team had been watching too much analysis by ESPN’s Paul Finebaum. “I think there was a little bit of a sense of, this (Indiana) isn’t an SEC team,” Hill Green said on the Bama Standard Network.…

Veteran guard Eric Gordon is headed from Philadelphia to Memphis, along with a 2032 second-round pick swap. That was originally reported by Shams Charania of ESPN on X. A 18th-year NBA veteran, Gordon is averaging 5.5 points per game and shooting 57.1% overall this season as a seldom-used reserve for the 76ers. He last appeared in a game on Dec. 23 and is mostly a veteran voice for Philadelphia’s young star guards. The trade moves Gordon from a Sixers team solidly in the playoff to a Memphis squad in need of answers to make the postseason.  The Grizzlies will be…

Former IU basketball star Trayce Jackson’s time with Golden State has come to an end. According to a report by ESPN’s Shams Charania, he has been traded. “The Golden State Warriors have traded center Trayce Jackson-Davis to the Toronto Raptors for a 2026 second-round pick via the Lakers, sources tell ESPN,” Charania wrote on X. TJD is in the middle of his third NBA season, all with Golden State until this evening.  His minutes and production have dropped off this season. Through 36 games in 2025-26 with one start, Jackson-Davis is averaging 4.2 points and 3.1 rebounds over 11.4 minutes…

What will Indiana football look like when the program has the pick of the recruiting litter? The word scary comes to mind in more ways than one. Coming off a national championship season that occurred before Indiana had been able to fully capitalize on its success from a recruiting standpoint, the Hoosiers could be scary good for years to come. But the infusion of more talent brings about the risk the culture coach Curt Cignetti has created will be negatively impacted.  Will highly decorated 4 and 5-stars have the same chip on their shoulders as Cignetti’s misfits? That’s scary too. …