Author: Mike Schumann

Make that four former IU basketball players on an NBA Summer League roster this month. Forward Miller Kopp is with the Oklahoma City Thunder, the team announced. He’s listed at 6-foot-7 and 215 pounds and will wear No. 42. The Thunder will be playing summer league games in both Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. Kopp played the 2023-24 season for the Oklahoma City Blue in the NBA’s G League. That team won the league title with Kopp averaging 6.3 points and 2.5 rebounds while shooting 31.1 percent from three. Kopp is also expected to play for Assembly Ball, the…

Indiana swimming and diving senior Ching Hwee Gan will be one of five swimmers to represent Singapore at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Singapore Aquatics announced on Monday. Gan received an Olympics Consideration Time (OCT) invitation based on her best time in the 1,500-meter freestyle, swimming a national record 16:10.61 in June. She also posted an OCT in the 800-meter freestyle, setting another national record in 8:34.01, and will get to compete in the second individual event. Gan will also participate in the women’s 4×100-meter medley relay. Gan has medaled in the 1,650-yard freestyle event at each of the last two…

Indiana has picked up a commitment from highly sought after class of 2025 athlete/cornerback Seaonta Stewart. The Cincinnati, Ohio product announced his decision at his high school on Monday afternoon. Stewart took an official visit to IU a couple weeks ago.  The Hoosiers offered in January, and he also visited around that time. “I feel like it was the right place for me. I like what the new staff has in plan for the future,” Stewart told Allen Trieu, a national reporter for 247Sports. At 6-foot-1 and 190 pounds, Stewart is listed as an athlete by most recruiting sites.  He’s…

Former IU baseball pitcher Tanner Gordon made his Major League Baseball debut on Sunday afternoon in Denver. Throwing for the Colorado Rockies, Gordon got off to a good start, with two strikeouts and a 1-2-3 inning in the top of the first. But Kansas City posted four runs against Gordon, all earned, in the second. Gordon settled in from there, throwing four straight scoreless innings.  He was chased out in the top of the 7th with one out after giving up a solo home run.  Colorado’s hitters provided no support, producing no runs during Gordon’s time on the mound. In…

Former IU basketball star Cody Zeller is on the move as part of a multi-player trade. The Atlanta Hawks acquired guard Dyson Daniels, forwards E.J. Liddell and Larry Nance Jr., and center Zeller (via sign-and-trade), a 2025 first-round pick (via Lakers), and a conditional 2027 first-round pick (least favorable of Bucks/Pelicans, protected top four) from the New Orleans Pelicans, in exchange for guard Dejounte Murray, it was announced today. An 11-year NBA veteran, Zeller has appeared in 552 career games (275 starts), averaging 7.9 points, 5.7 rebounds, and 1.3 assists in 20.9 minutes, suiting up for Charlotte, Portland, Miami, and…

As we do each year midseason, below is a look at the former IU baseball players who have seen action in Major League Baseball thus far this year. To date, three former IU players have seen action, with several more a step away. The two players still active are key players on two of the best teams in the big leagues this year.  Perhaps they’ll meet in a critical late inning head-to-head matchup in October? And will there be a new all-time home run king among former Hoosiers by season’s end?  Let’s take a quick look. Kyle Schwarber, Philadelphia Schwarber…

Three former IU basketball stars will be suiting up for NBA Summer League action this month in California and Las Vegas. Games will take place at three locations, with the action beginning on Saturday. The California Classic Summer League, the Salt Lake City Summer League and NBA 2K25 Summer League will run over the next two-plus weeks starting in San Francisco, Sacramento and Salt Lake City before culminating with all 30 teams in Las Vegas for the 20th year of summer hoops there. The trio of former Indiana players expected to suit up are Trayce Jackson-Davis (Golden State), Romeo Langford…

The last four spots in the 12-team Olympic men’s basketball field for the Paris Games are being decided in winner-take-all qualifying tournaments going on right now in Spain, Latvia, Puerto Rico and Greece. And one former IU basketball star is making a push to represent his mother’s native country at the 2024 Games. Eric Gordon’s mother Denise is a Nassau, Bahamas native with a large family of descendants who live on the islands.  Eric and his family traveled regularly to the country during his childhood.  He also made an appearance there in 2021 when IU basketball played in a foreign…

July is typically a month when rising high school seniors begin to narrow their recruitments, and we’re beginning to see that with some of IU basketball’s main targets. If we had to name five 2025 prospects Indiana is clearly a top contender for we’d go with, in no particular order, Braylon Mullins, Jalen Haralson, Trent Sisley, Malachi Moreno and Bryson Tiller.  All but Tiller have included Indiana in their top or final schools recently, and it seems clear IU is one of Tiller’s main schools as well.  And all of them have taken or will take an official visit to…

According to a report by Rocco Miller, Indiana will host UNC Greensboro on Nov. 21. Under the direction of third-year coach Mike Jones, UNCG finished the 2023-24 season with a 21-11 record overall, including 12-6 in the Southern Conference.  Included in their 21 wins, the Spartans pulled off a road upset win at Arkansas a year ago. They finished the year ranked No. 147 overall according to KenPom.  In Bart Torvik’s projections for next season, UNCG is currently ranked No. 133. Key returning players for the Spartans from last year are Donovan Atwell (11.2 ppg), Jalen Breath (6.6 ppg) and…