Indiana has offered class of 2025 combo guard Darius Adams. Andrew Slater announced the IU offer to the New Jersey product on Twitter. Adams will team this season with long-time in-state IU guard target Jalen Haralson at prep power La Lumiere in LaPorte, Ind. In two seasons at Manasquan H.S. (Manasquan, N.J.), Adams scored 1,097 points. This past season, he averaged 20.4, 7.8 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 1.4 steals while earning the Shore Sports Network Player of the Year Award and Third-Team All-State honors from NJ Advance Media. Adams led Manasquan to a 53-10 record during his two seasons. For…
Author: Mike Schumann
In 2014 Yogi Ferrell and Noah Vonleh were both all-Big Ten performers in Bloomington. A decade later, the pair will be reunited in of all places, China. Both Ferrell and Vonleh will play the 2023-24 season for the Shanghai Sharks, the Chinese club has announced. The 6-foot Ferrell won a pair of Big Ten titles (2013, 2016) at IU in connection with his freshman and senior seasons. He is Indiana’s all-time assist leader and first in three-pointers made in Big Ten games. Ferrell played in more games (137) at IU than anyone else. Ferrell went undrafted in 2016 but spent…
IU basketball freshman Jakai Newton’s college basketball career has hit a snag before it started. The guard suffered a knee injury more than a year ago and has dealt with some twists and turns since. On Wednesday the IU basketball program said in a release Newton had a procedure related to the original injury. “Indiana freshman guard Jakai Newton underwent a procedure to treat a pre-existing injury today. There is no timetable for his return at this point,” the release said. The Georgia native suffered a knee injury that required surgery in the late spring of 2022. He didn’t play…
Their battles on the hardwood were fierce, but their friendship has proven to be much stronger. For 20 years, Purdue’s Gene Keady and IU’s Bob Knight led opposing teams in the top basketball rivalry in basketball crazed Indiana. While many IU fans grew to dislike Keady’s legendary combover, jacket-throwing tirades and the physical style his teams played with — there was no such vitriol when it came to Keady and Knight away from game. They were friendly throughout their coaching tenures, even before Keady arrived at Purdue, and their relationship only grew into retirement. Keady’s long overdue induction into the…
Class of 2025 in-state 5-star guard Jalen Haralson will take another visit to Indiana. Haralson will visit Bloomington on Sept. 2 when IU football opens the 2023 season against Ohio State, according to Jake Weingarten of StockRisers. The 6-foot-6 Haralson played for Fishers H.S. in the northeast Indianapolis suburbs the last two seasons, but he recently announced a transfer to prep powerhouse La Lumiere (LaPorte, Ind.) for his junior season. Haralson made multiple visits to Bloomington during the 2022-23 season and is one of the program’s priority class of 2025 targets. Playing for Fishers, Haralson averaged 23.4 points, 7.7 rebounds,…
Race Thompson signed an NBA Summer League contract with the New York Knicks in June. But the six-year IU basketball power forward never made an appearance, leaving fans wondering what happened. On Tuesday afternoon, the Minnesota native revealed how his Summer League opportunity was derailed. “Fractured my right tibia plateau two months ago,” Thompson wrote on his Instagram account. “Imma be back and better than ever, trust that! Been off the grid and wanted to give a little update.” Thompson had multiple workouts during the spring with NBA teams, including his hometown Minnesota Timberwolves. He eventually signed with the Knicks,…
Greenfield, Ind. guard Braylon Mullins has a lot of momentum building in his recruitment, and that includes with Indiana. The 6-foot-5 Mullins, who was one of the top shooters on the Adidas 3SSB Circuit this summer, has two scheduled visits to IU over the next two months. Mullins will visit Bloomington on Sept. 16 and Oct. 20. The latter visit is in connection with Hoosier Hysteria. The Daily Hoosier has also confirmed 2025 in-state forward Trent Sisley will visit IU for Hoosier Hysteria. A class of 2025 guard, Mullins also took an unofficial visit to Indiana for a game during…
For the second year in a row, IU basketball will face the defending national champion. The Empire Classic announced on Monday Indiana will face UConn on Nov. 19 in New York. That’s the first of two games in two days at Madison Square Garden. The Hoosiers will face either Louisville or Texas in the second contest on Monday, Nov. 20. The IU vs. UConn game will tip at 1 p.m. ET according to a release. Here is the full Empire Classic schedule: Nov. 19 – Semifinals 1 p.m. ET – UConn vs. Indiana 3 p.m. ET – Texas vs. Louisville…
The ongoing scandal at Northwestern that brought about the firing of football coach Pat Fitzgerald this summer brought back memories of 2016 in Bloomington. Fitzgerald was fired after an investigation into hazing within his program. And seven years ago, then IU football coach Kevin Wilson was operating under a cloud of alleged player mistreatment that led then Athletic Director Fred Glass to cut the coach loose after six seasons. Glass cited “philosophical differences” as the reason behind his decision, but it was later reported allegations of player mistreatment played a central role. Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer seemingly had…
Indiana held a closed scrimmage on Saturday at Memorial Stadium, and it coincided with the Big Ten Network’s annual stop at fall camp in Bloomington. The BTN crew of Dave Revsine, Gerry DiNardo and Howard Griffith aired a lengthy segment on Saturday and shared several thoughts from watching the scrimmage. The scrimmage was IU’s first truly live contact this month, with a lot of competition between the presumptive first and second team units. Here are some of the highlights noted by the BTN crew. NO ONE STANDING OUT AT QB As you likely know, IU has an ongoing quarterback competition…