Author: Mike Schumann

ROCK HILL, S.C. — Mike Woodson and assistant coaches Kenya Hunter, Yasir Rosemond and Brian Walsh are all on location at the Adidas 3SSB on Friday morning. The main attraction is the Indiana Elite 2025 team featuring priority targets Braylon Mullins, Trent Sisley and Malachi Moreno.  That team plays at 11 ET and could have a second game on Friday if they win in tournament action. Woodson and the staff were seated for a 9:45 a.m. ET game involving the Indiana Elite 2026 squad featuring 5-star wing Anthony Thompson and other prospects. The Adidas 3SSB features several more Indiana prospects,…

The reunion of Yogi Ferrell and Juwan Morgan later this month during The Basketball Tournament should only be the beginning for the 2015-16 IU basketball teammates. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica announced on Monday they’ve signed Morgan to a one-year deal.  Ferrell played for the Montenegro based club last season and has re-signed with them for 2024-25. Morgan played last season in Russia with Zenit St. Petersburg, where he averaged 7.4 points and 4.7 rebounds in 15 VTB League games.  He started the 2023-24 campaign with another Russian team, Runa Basket Moscow, averaging 13.6 points, 6.6 rebounds and 1.4 steals in 28…

Be on the lookout for the cream and crimson wearing red, white and blue in two weeks. Twenty Indiana University athletes and coaches will participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics, the school said in a Thursday release. Indiana has tied its second-largest group of Olympians all-time, having produced 20 Olympians in 1976 and a record 23 in 1968. Hoosiers will represent nine different countries, marking a school record. The 2024 Paris Games will officially kick off with the opening ceremony July 26 at 1:30 p.m. ET, with IU athletes competing the next day. NBC and Peacock will provide live video…

ROCK HILL, S.C. — The Daily Hoosier caught up with class of 2025 4-star forward Trent Sisley this week at the Adidas 3SSB Finals. Sisley has been in the news a lot lately with a narrowing of his recruitment and a transfer to Montverde Academy. Our full Q&A with Sisley is below. ———————————– TDH:  You announced the transfer to Montverde for your senior year.  I assume that’s a basketball development move.  What do you want to get out of that move developmentally? Sisley:  “Yeah, like you said, it’s all about bettering myself, developing.  Coach (Kevin) Boyle, great coach, well respected,…

Indiana has made their first formal scholarship offer in the class of 2027. Baba Oladotun announced an offer from IU on his X page on Wednesday afternoon. Listed at around 6-foot-9 and 175 pounds by most outlets, Oladotun hails from Silver Springs, Md. (James Hubert Blake H.S.) Oladotun plays for Team Durant on the Nike EYBL Circuit.  As is the case with most recruitments in the Washington D.C. metro area, look for IU assistant coach Kenya Hunter to take the lead. While there are no official rankings yet for the class of 2027, Oladotun is widely viewed as a likely…

As the Indiana football program and first-year head coach Curt Cignetti inch closer to the start of the 2024 season and a new-look Big Ten schedule, Memorial Stadium will undergo some enhancements to its gameday experience prior to the opening kickoff versus FIU on Aug. 31. Some of the upgrades have been covered here and will include a new team entry, upgraded dining options via IU’s partnership with Levy, the addition of more outdoor suites, relocation of Memorial Stadium’s in-house DJ and a more fan-accessible location for The Rock. Relocation of Hep’s Rock With approval from the Hoeppner family, Hep’s Rock, a…

ROCK HILL, S.C. — Class of 2025 big man Malachi Moreno will have things figured out in a few months. The national top-25 4-star center announced his final eight schools a couple weeks ago — Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisville, North Carolina, Notre Dame, and Ohio State. There are many who believe there are two schools who stand out above the rest for the 7-footer from Georgetown, Ky. — Kentucky and Indiana. The Wildcats are the home team for Moreno.  Georgetown is less than a half an hour from Lexington, and he’ll tell you UK is a program that he followed…

In 2024-25, Indiana will have the exact same number of nonconference games against mid and low-major opponents that they’ve had in each of Mike Woodson’s previous three seasons as head coach: seven. But somehow this edition of the Hoosiers’ nonconference slate announced on Tuesday has the fan base a bit more restless than in years past. We suspect that’s in part due to a vocal minority of Hoosier fans who aren’t happy with anything Woodson touches right now.  Only winning will solve that. And it’s also likely due to the fact that there isn’t a marquee nonconference home game on…

Indiana picked up a commitment from class of 2025 interior offensive lineman Baylor Wilkin on Tuesday evening. He announced the decision on his social media pages. Wilkin was at IU on multiple occasions in June, both for a camp and later in the month for an official visit.  Indiana was his first Power Four offer. The 6-foot-4 and 275-pound Findlay, Ohio product has a 3-star ranking at 247Sports. Last month, Wilkin told 247Sports national reporter Allen Trieu IU offensive line coach Bob Bostad, and the business school stood out to him. Wilkin has been a bit of a late bloomer. …

Indiana’s two programs that generate the most profit for the athletic department are likely to be impacted by upcoming changes to the name, image and likeness rules in different ways. The most notable prospective change fueled by a lawsuit settlement agreed to by the NCAA is expected direct payments by schools to athletes beginning in 2025. In the first year of the settlement, it’s expected that each school can share 22% of the average Power 5 school’s revenues, which is currently projected to be significantly more than $20 million per school, per year. And it isn’t clear yet how those…