Author: Mike Schumann

Indiana has added a couple new walk-on players to the 2023-24 men’s basketball roster. Air Force transfer guard Jordan Rayford will join the team, along with with JUCO-transfer guard Jackson Creel. The 247Sports Indiana site appears to be the first outlet to have reported the news. Rayford was at a team event over the weekend.  The Daily Hoosier confirmed Rayford and Creel are in the student directory. Air Force lists Rayford at 6-foot-5 and 200 pounds.  He entered the transfer portal in March. Rayford sat out entire season due to shoulder surgery, so he should have four years of college…

Ryan Miller came to IU a year ago with a lot of promise.  But he’ll never see the field for the Hoosiers. The redshirt freshman tight announced over the weekend he’s stepping away from the game after suffering a series of injuries including two hip surgeries. Miller posted the following announcement on his Twitter page: As a freshman, Miller redshirted the 2022 season.  He missed the entire season due to injury after arriving in January and participating in spring practice. A tight end at Kenston High School (Cleveland, Ohio), Miller was ranked the No. 23 tight end nationally by ESPN…

Is Mike Woodson’s 44-26 overall record and 2-2 mark in the NCAA Tournament good enough to earn him a top-10 salary in college basketball? IU thinks so.  And there’s more to that than his winning percentage so far. Woodson now ranks tied for No. 8 in the country in total pay after being rewarded with a $1 million raise announced by the school on Friday. In the Big Ten, Michigan State’s Tom Izzo leads the way at around $6.2 million per year.  You might expect Purdue’s Matt Painter to be second, but instead it’s Illinois’ Brad Underwood, who makes $4.6…

Trey Walker didn’t play football in high school. But he’s now on a football scholarship in the Big Ten. IU once again found a fun way to break the news to a former walk-on he’s receiving a scholarship. Walker was a three-year letterwinner playing hockey at New Trier H.S. in Winnetka, Ill.  Movie character Happy Gilmore was a hockey player turned golfer, and that’s where IU turned for inspiration on Saturday inside Memorial Stadium. https://twitter.com/IndianaFootball/status/1693031253627510998?s=20 Listed at 6-foot-5 and 255 pounds, Walker joined the program in 2019.  He has appeared in seven games, including five in 2022.  He’s been a…

Indiana will get an official visit from one of the top shooting guards in the 2024 class. Arkansas based guard Annor Boateng will come to Bloomington Sept. 29 according to a report by Joe Tipton of On3. Along with Indiana, Boateng is considering Arkansas, Auburn, Georgia Tech, LSU, Missouri, Ohio State, and Virginia Tech.  IU, Arkansas and Missouri are thought to be his main schools. Indiana offered Boateng a scholarship in April and have been pursuing him heavily ever since, including regular communication with head coach Mike Woodson. The Daily Hoosier caught up with Boateng earlier this month at the…

IU basketball will have three members of the Montverde Academy team on campus Sept. 8-10. Class of 2024 point guard Curtis Givens III will join his teammates Liam McNeeley and Derik Queen in Bloomington that weekend. All three will be there on official visits. Indiana’s pitch to Givens is that he could come to Bloomington and replicate the season of former Montverde point guard Jalen Hood-Schifino. “With Indiana, the culture and the fans really stand out,” Givens told The Daily Hoosier of his early impression of IU this summer. “And the coaches, with how they let their players play. But…

Class of 2024 4-star shooting guard Austin Swartz has a new date for his Indiana official visit. The 6-foot-4 Swartz will now head to Bloomington on Sept. 15. The news was reported by Jamie Shaw of On3, and Swartz confirmed the news with The Daily Hoosier. Swartz originally scheduled his IU visit Aug. 18-20, but that ended up in a recruiting dead period window once the NCAA updated its calendar. According to Shaw’s report, Swartz still intends to take the following visits along with Indiana: Miami, Aug. 25 Georgia, Sept. 1 Florida State, Sept. 8 UConn, Sept. 22 Virginia Tech,…

IU Athletics announced on Friday Mike Woodson has received a more than $1 million per year raise. Woodson’s original 2021 deal was for $3 million per year. The release from IU with details is below. ————————— BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – After guiding the Indiana men’s basketball program to its first back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in a decade, IU head coach Mike Woodson has earned a $1 million per year raise on the contract he originally signed in 2021. Woodson will earn an average of $4.2 million annually on the remaining four years of his contract. The salary adjustment makes the third-year…

The September visitor list continues to grow for Indiana. Class of 2025 Illinois sharpshooter Aleks Alston will visit Bloomington on Sept. 23 according to multiple reports. The 6-foot-9 Alston attends Kenwood H.S. (Chicago) and could play on the wing at either forward spot at the next level.  Indiana offered Alston in April. Alston played with the 16u Mac Irvin Fire on the Nike EYBL circuit, where he made 40-of-99 from three-point range this spring.  According to MaxPreps, Alston shot 49 percent from three for his sophomore season of high school basketball. According to the On3 Industry Average, Alston is a…

“That kid is going to be a really good football player here.” That was the first thing Tom Allen said to co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Chad Wilt about walk-on linebacker Matt Hohlt back in February of 2022. This week Allen and Wilt stood in the program’s team room and announced to the full squad just how good Hohlt has become. It’s one of the best traditions in college football, when walk-ons get a full ride. On Thursday evening in Bloomington it was time to give out a scholarship in the IU program, and there was no one more deserving…