Author: Mike Schumann

Indiana continues to expand its class of 2026 offer list under the direction of the new coaching staff. On Monday evening Caleb Gaskins announced an offer from IU. According to the On3 Industry Average, Gaskins is a 5-star prospect, the No. 11 overall player in the class, and the No. 4 small forward. The 6-foot-8 Gaskins transferred to Miami, Fla. Christopher Columbus H.S. to play his junior season after transferring from Montverde Academy.  He teamed up at Columbus with five-star Duke commit Cam Boozer, his twin brother and Duke commit Cayden Boozer and 2026 five-star Jaxson Richardson. As a junior…

Indiana is already off to a strong start in the high school recruiting class of 2026. Coach Curt Cignetti and his staff have secured seven verbal commitments, and in each case the Hoosiers have beat out respectable Power Four programs to secure those pledges.  The emerging class has a chance to be special based on historic IU football recruiting norms. Based solely on the average player rating of their commits, Indiana currently has the No. 32 class in 2026 according to the On3 Industry Average. And predictions emerging over the last week suggest Indiana can keep building this class with…

Could a run of bad luck completely flip the narrative surrounding IU football in 2025? Well sure, too much bad luck can sink any ship. How much was good luck a factor in Indiana’s 11-2 season and historic run to the College Football Playoff in 2024?  A data analysis by ESPN’s resident analytics guru Bill Connelly suggests the Hoosiers were the beneficiaries of some good fortune in 2024. In general the analysis is probably solid.  It conceptually makes sense, anyway.  But below we’ll tell you why Connelly’s analysis, while looking at the complete landscape of 134 BCS teams, misses the…

Both current IU player Tayton Conerway and former Hoosier Mackenzie Mgbako placed their names in the NBA Draft early entry list. But neither was invited to next week’s draft combine in Chicago. The NBA released the list of 75 players who have been invited to the 2025 NBA Draft Combine, which will take place from May 11-18 at Wintrust Arena and the Marriott Marquis in Chicago. Conerway and Mgbako will have until May 28 to formally stay in or take their names out of the draft.  Without an invite to the combine, their draft outlook doesn’t look promising.  But both…

According to a report, Mike Woodson might be not be ready to retire. He is a leading candidate to become Doug Christie’s top assistant with the Sacramento Kings, sources tell Sam Amick of The Athletic. It was announced the 67-year-old Woodson was stepping down from his IU post in February.  He coached the remainder of the 2024-25 season.  He coached the Hoosiers for four seasons and finished with an 82-53 record, including a 41-39 mark in the Big Ten.  His Indiana teams made the NCAA Tournament twice. Woodson coached in the NBA for 25 years before coming to Indiana in…

Indiana has found needed help at slot receiver for 2025. Cal transfer Jonathan Brady will reunite with Fernando Mendoza in Bloomington this year. Over three college seasons, the 5-foot-10 and 180-pound Brady has played 41 games. He has amassed 98 career receptions for 1,317 yards and 10 touchdowns. He had no drops on 49 targets this year, and has only has three drops on 149 career targets. A versatile weapon, Brady has also rushed 23 times for 140 yards during his career, returned 11 punts for 101 yards, and 17 kickoffs for 317 yards. In 2024, he had 36 catches,…

Indiana has one of the more accomplished defenders in the transfer portal on campus. Rutgers transfer weakside linebacker Mohamed Toure posted a photo in Bloomington on his Instagram page on Friday evening. At 6-2 and 236 pounds, the now seventh-year linebacker was on the Butkus Award preseason watch list ahead of the 2024 season. That was after Toure had 93 tackles (10 for loss) and five sacks in 2023.  He posted a career-high 11 stops versus Maryland and had an interception against Ohio State.  He was named a Comeback Player of the Year semifinalist, earned honorable mention All-Big Ten recognition…

Indiana picked up a commitment from in-state 3-star defensive lineman Blake Smythe on Friday evening. The Franklin Community H.S. (Franklin, Ind.) product is the No. 73 defensive lineman in the nation according to the On3 Industry average. Smythe picked IU over five other finalists — Purdue, Wisconsin, Illinois, Louisville and Michigan State. Indiana offered Smythe a scholarship in January.  He made multiple visits to IU including for the 66-0 win over Purdue in November. The 6-foot-3 and 290-pound Smythe projects to play along the interior of the defensive front under the direction of assistant coach Pat Kuntz. Smythe will be…

A lot changed as Tom Allen led Indiana through two of the program’s best seasons in 2019 and 2020. Of course the transfer portal and name, image and likeness completely altered the landscape of college athletics right after those seasons. Perhaps that sea change alone would have been enough to knock Allen’s Hoosiers back down to the far from glamorous reality the program had known for most of its existence. But back down at the micro level in Bloomington, Allen couldn’t keep his coaching staff together once the rest of college football noticed what the Hoosiers were doing. Offensive coordinator…

Indiana forward Luke Goode could be finding out soon whether his request for a fifth season of college basketball has been approved. And a recent development provides a bit of optimism he’ll get a favorable result. Players who suffer injuries that force them to miss a significant portion of a season can petition the NCAA for a fifth year of eligibility via a medical hardship waiver.  Goode filed his waiver request pertaining to his sophomore season at Illinois very soon after the conclusion of the IU’s 2024-25 season. Historically there have been two key criteria to obtain the waiver. First,…