Author: Mike Schumann

With a break from transfer portal visitors, the IU staff is wasting no time turning its attention towards a very talented in-state class of 2025. They’ve got a very full day planned on Tuesday. IU basketball head coach Mike Woodson and all three of his assistants will visit each of Trent Sisley, Braylon Mullins and Jalen Haralson today, a source confirms to The Daily Hoosier. Hailing from Heritage Hills H.S. in southern Indiana, Sisley is a consensus 4-star forward and the No. 86 overall player in the 2025 class according to the On3 Industry Average. Mullins, a spring and summer…

A well known IU legacy athlete has entered the transfer portal. Illinois reserve wing Luke Goode is looking for a new home, according to multiple reports. Goode is the son of former IU football wide receiver Craig Goode, and the nephew of former Hoosiers star quarterback Trent Green.  Another uncle, Curt Goode, also played football for IU. The 6-foot-7 Goode enters the portal with three years of Big Ten experience under his belt. In 20.1 minutes per game in 2023-24, Goode averaged 5.7 points and 3.6 rebounds per contest for the Illini.  His shooting splits were 45.5% from two, 38.9%…

Former Indiana forward Kaleb Banks has found a new home. The 6-foot-8 Banks announced on Sunday he is headed to Tulane where he’ll join head coach Ron Hunter.  The Green Wave had a disappointing 14-17 season in 2023-24. The Georgia product averaged 2.6 points and shot 39.2 percent from the field as a sophomore at IU. He was one of Indiana’s key players in a win over Louisville with eight rebounds, three blocks and three steals. And he added a 12-point, five rebound effort in a win over Kennesaw State in late December. His role significantly declined over the course…

Indiana’s top-ranked portal haul won’t include Connor Essegian or Ryan Conwell. Essegian announced on Sunday he’ll stay in the Big Ten, as the Indiana native is transferring from Wisconsin to Nebraska.  Essegian took a visit to Indiana last week and Nebraska was his next stop. Meanwhile another Indiana native, Conwell announced on Friday he’s headed from Indiana State to Xavier.  Although he was highly coveted, the Hoosiers did not appear to gain serious traction with Conwell.  That might have been influenced at least in part by guard commitments that were secured early. So far Indiana gained transfer portal commitments from…

Florida Gulf Coast transfer wing Zach Anderson is on the IU campus on Sunday, he reported on his Instagram page. Anderson finds himself in friendly confines.  He scored 19 points and grabbed seven rebounds while making 5-of-7 from three at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in November. The 6-foot-7 Anderson was named Third-Team All-Atlantic Sun Conference in March. Anderson, a native of Apopka, Fla., averaged 12.8 points on the season. He connected on 48.2 percent of his shots including 45.9 percent from three (on 111 attempts). He scored in double-figures in 13 of 16 games against Atlantic Sun competition, including a…

If there was one thing that clearly broke Indiana’s 2023-24 season, it was faulty roster construction. For whatever the reasons, Mike Woodson and his staff failed to land big-time guard talent in the transfer portal last spring, and that mishap, along with the injuries suffered by Xavier Johnson, haunted them throughout the year on both ends of the floor. It seems clear lessons were learned. The Hoosiers wasted no time, even skipping the NIT, to jump in the transfer portal with two feet. With significant financial tailwinds in the name, image and likeness era, Indiana has attacked the offseason with…

From Atlanta to the Pac-12 to Indiana. For the second time in a week, IU basketball has picked up a significant commitment from the transfer portal via that unlikely path. Stanford transfer guard Kanaan Carlyle announced via his social media accounts he is transferring to Indiana. The 6-foot-3 Carlyle earned honorable mention All-Pac-12 Freshman Team honors in 2024. The guard from Atlanta averaged 11.5 points, 2.7 rebounds and 2.7 assists on the season, and 12.5 points per night in Pac-12 play. A combo guard, Carlyle shot 38.6% from the field overall, and 32% from three on 100 attempts. Carlyle has…

Watch as IU football tight end Zach Horton met with the media this week. Horton transferred from James Madison to IU in December. The 6-foot-4 and 254-pound Horton contributed 266 yards receiving and six touchdowns for JMU in 2023. He earned a spot on the All-Sun Belt First Team Offense. The junior entered the transfer portal with 39 receptions, 425 yards and eight touchdowns for his career. He has played in 23 games with 11 starts. https://youtu.be/X-GNTEY04_o (video provided by IU Athletics) For complete coverage of IU football, GO HERE. The Daily Hoosier –“Where Indiana fans assemble when they’re not at Assembly”…

Kentucky transfer wing Adou Thiero named Indiana to his final five schools on Friday, according to a report by Jeff Borzello of ESPN. Indiana joins Pittsburgh, Arkansas, Kentucky and North Carolina as Thiero’s finalists. The odds seem to be a bit stacked against the Hoosiers, with hometown Pitt involved, along with a possible return to Kentucky or the potential to follow John Calipari to Arkansas.  Thiero did enter the transfer portal more than a week before Calipari left Kentucky for Arkansas, and IU was in contact right away. The 6-foot-8 Thiero is regarded as a high-motor wing.  He played in…

Soon after Indiana landed Arizona center Oumar Ballo, another post prospect considering the Hoosiers removed IU from his list of contenders. Kentucky, Mississippi State, and St. John’s are the final schools for Drexel center Amari Williams, according to multiple Thursday evening reports. Williams was scheduled to visit Indiana this weekend. Stanford guard Kanaan Carlyle is still expected on campus beginning Friday, and Grace College center Elijah Malone completed his visit on Thursday.  Indiana appears to still be a solid contender for both Carlyle and Malone. Minnesota transfer big man Pharrel Payne took a visit to IU recently, but his process…