Class of 2025 defensive back Zacharey Smith announced his decommitment from Pittsburgh late Thursday morning. Just minutes later, the Atlanta, Ga. (Hapewell Charter H.S.) product announced he has verbally committed to play at Indiana. The 6-foot cornerback was on campus for a visit in Bloomington this week. That was his second visit to IU after another visit in March. Smith played on both sides of the ball in 2023 and also returned kicks. He tallied three interceptions. Smith is currently unranked, but he has the kind of offer list that suggests that’s about to change. In addition to IU and…
Author: Mike Schumann
Indiana fans can look for All-Big Ten center Kel’el Ware at the 2024 NBA Draft next week. It wouldn’t be a surprise to see Mike Woodson there with him. Widely expected to be a first round draft choice, Ware was invited to the NBA Draft green room, Jonathan Givony of ESPN reported on Wednesday. The green room is an area in front of the NBA draft podium where players wait for their named to be called by the league commissioner, Adam Silver. The players are typically joined at tables by their, families, former coaches and agents. They can invite up…
It seems IU basketball fans will have to wait until the fall to find out where coveted in-state guard Braylon Mullins will play in college. As we reported here a couple weeks ago, Mullins will take an official visit to IU the weekend of Sept. 20, along with his Indiana Elite AAU teammates Trent Sisley and Malachi Moreno. The class of 2025 IU basketball target has at least five more visits planned as part of a schedule that carries into October. According to a report by Joe Tipton of On3, Mullins will take unofficial visits in late June to Kentucky,…
The main national recruiting sites — 247Sports, On3, and Rivals — have all updated their class of 2025 basketball rankings over the last two weeks after watching rising senior prospects play on the shoe circuits throughout the spring. Below we take a look at where the fluid list of who we’re calling IU basketball’s main targets in the class stand at each of the outlets. For more on these players, visit our regularly updated IU basketball recruiting targets page. Note: ESPN has not updated their rankings in two months, so we excluded them from this update. (click each name for…
Things are moving quickly with the recruitment of 2025 4-star shooting guard Davis Fogle. The Anacortes, Wash. product has received multiple high major offers in the last couple months, including Indiana last weekend. Now the 6-foot-7 Fogle is beginning to turn his attention towards visits, and according to a report by national 247Sports reporter Travis Branham, IU is expected to host Fogle. “The recruitment of Davis Fogle is ramping up,” Branham wrote this week. “He has set an official visit to go see the Gonzaga Bulldogs on June 28-29. The Washington native won’t stop there. He is also planning trips…
Indiana had a highly-ranked member of the class of 2026 on campus Tuesday for an unofficial visit. Top-20 forward Anthony Thompson posted pictures on his X account from his photo shoot in an IU uniform. bled in red. #notcommitted@IndianaElite pic.twitter.com/S8lHxj0o0P — Anthony Thompson (@ant_thompson26) June 19, 2024 A 6-foot-7 Ohio product, Thompson also visited IU in February when the Hoosiers hosted Northwestern. That’s when Mike Woodson offered a scholarship. “Indiana is a great basketball school, and all the fans show it at Assembly Hall,” he told On3’s Jamie Shaw in March. “I think that they play really controlled on offense.…
Class of 2025 priority IU basketball target Trent Sisley hasn’t come out and announced a list of final schools just yet. But the perceived list of his top options hasn’t wavered much over the last year. All the signs going back to last summer were that Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame and Michigan State were the top players for the Santa Claus, Ind. (Heritage Hills H.S.) product. As we reported earlier this month, Sisley will take an official visit to Indiana on the weekend of Sept. 20, along with his Indiana Elite AAU teammates Malachi Moreno and Braylon Mullins. On Tuesday,…
Indiana will get a senior-year official visit from highly coveted 5-star guard/wing Jalen Haralson in a couple months. According to a report by Dushawn London for the 247Sports national desk, Haralson will visit IU the weekend of August 31. He’ll then visit Notre Dame and Michigan State the following two weekends. August 31 in Bloomington is the season opener for IU football against Florida International. Indiana and head coach Mike Woodson have been pursuing Haralson since before he played his first high school basketball game as a freshman at Fishers H.S. in the northeast suburbs of Indianapolis. He now attends…
IU football is getting an official visit this weekend from Venice, Fla. (Venice H.S.) four-star wide receiver Winston Watkins, Jr. He previously took an unofficial to IU in April. The visit this weekend replaces a scheduled trip he had to Ohio State. Watkins recently visited Ole Miss and South Carolina. He was previously committed to Colorado. Watkins also has offers from Alabama, Florida, Florida State, Michigan, Penn State, Ohio State and many others. He is the cousin of long-time NFL wideout and former Clemson star Sammy Watkins. The 5-foot-10 and 175-pound Watkins is ranked by the On3 Industry Ranking –…
One of the many things expected to change at Indiana under the direction of new head coach Curt Cignetti was the football uniforms. And the multi-year tribute to the Bill Mallory era appears to be a thing of the past. In photos released by the IU football program this week on its social media accounts, the black details from recent years are gone. Instead, under Cignetti, Indiana is opting for a clean all red and white look. Cignetti has suggested several times since he was hired by IU he believes having the state in the school name matters. And…