Author: Mike Schumann

Below is what IU basketball coach Darian DeVries said during his postgame radio interview with Don Fischer following his team’s 81-75 loss at USC on Tuesday evening in Los Angeles. For the three keys to the game, highlights and final stats, GO HERE. On the disappointing loss “I just didn’t think we had quite the same, juice and energy to start the game and we just never could kind of get in a synch, every time we kind of crawled back in it, we just couldn’t get enough stops to sustain anything. And we had some really good looks, I thought…

LOS ANGELES — Indiana lost to USC Tuesday evening at Galen Center by a final score of 81-75. The three keys to the game, highlights and final stats are below. USC led 35-30 at halftime.  The Hoosiers were led in the game by Lamar Wilkerson with 33 points. For postgame quotes from coach Darian DeVries, GO HERE. Indiana (15-8, 6-6) returns to action on Saturday when it hosts Wisconsin. THREE KEYS TO THE GAME 1. Nobody but Lamar.  Indiana guard Lamar Wilkerson had a huge game with 33 points.  But no one else had a productive evening in the scoring…

IU football coach Curt Cignetti is bringing back Tino Sunseri as his quarterbacks coach based on multiple Tuesday evening reports. The news follows the decision by 2025 quarterbacks coach Chandler Whitmer to leave for the NFL. Sunseri left Indiana following the 2024 season to become the offensive coordinator at UCLA.  Sunseri and UCLA mutually agreed to part ways just four games into the 2025 campaign. Sunseri has had a long run of success with quarterbacks, including Kurtis Rourke at Indiana in 2024. Sunseri came to Indiana from James Madison where he worked under Cignetti. Under his direction, the 2023 season…

2026 is a year to celebrate perfection at IU. At halftime of Indiana’s game against Oregon next Monday, members of the 1976 undefeated team will be honored. Players from the team expected to be there are Quinn Buckner, Scott May, Kent Benson, Bobby Wilkerson, Jim Crews, Scott Eells, James Roberson, Tom Abernethy, and Mitchell Radford – honoring Wayne Radford. The players will also take questions from the media prior to the game, along with AD Scott Dolson. Indiana has been wearing a 1976 jersey patch all season in honor of the 50-year anniversary of college basketball’s last undefeated season. The…

Any way you slice it, the emergence of Nick Dorn has made Indiana’s offense much more potent. Consider this as perhaps the best indication — at 6.0, Dorn has the highest offensive box score plus/minus on Indiana’s team.  That’s also the 64th highest OBPM in Division I, and No. 16 in the Big Ten. So it goes without saying, to introduce that kind of offensive pop in the lineup midseason has been a major boost for the Hoosiers. The headline stat for the 6-foot-7 and 225-pound Dorn is his three-point shooting.  He’s made 44.3% of his 106 attempts.  And those…

IU football droughts are going to come to an end at the NFL Draft this spring. Quarterback Fernando Mendoza should be the first Hoosier chosen in the first round since Thomas Lewis in 1994. Indiana’s 31-year run without a first-round pick is currently the longest such streak in the FBS.  And Mendoza appears almost certain to be IU’s first overall No. 1 pick since Corby Davis in 1938. 2026 could also end up being the draft when the most Hoosiers are selected. The most players Indiana has had drafted in a single year was seven in 1976 — during an era…

Indiana has given its NCAA Tournament resume a significant boost over the last week. With Selection Sunday now less than six weeks away, we are once again taking a weekly look at the Hoosiers’ chance to make the Big Dance. The headline:  IU is clearly an NCAA Tournament team at this moment. Once again, the NET rankings serve as the primary sorting tool for Division I men’s basketball, and they play an important role in establishing a team’s resume. The 2025-26 men’s basketball season marks the eighth year of the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) rankings, which replaced the RPI prior…

IU football picked up its first offensive line commit in the 2027 class. Michigan City H.S.’s Jeremiah Jones announced his commitment to the Hoosiers this weekend. “Thank you to the coaches at Indiana for this opportunity,” Jones said. “I’m blessed to say I’ve been offered by and have chosen to commit to Indiana University. Excited to be a Hoosier!!” The 6-foot-6 and 284-pound offensive tackle hails from Michigan City, Ind.  He’s the first in-state recruit in IU’s 2027 class. Jones also had offers from Miami (Ohio), Toledo and Western Michigan.  He is not currently ranked, although that often changes when…

Indiana is starting to build an NCAA Tournament resume. The Hoosiers trailed UCLA for most of the first half, and fell behind 36-27 with less than a minute to go until the break before Reed Bailey completed a 3-point play to give them momentum going into the locker room.  IU asserted their will in the second half, gradually overcoming the deficit and then building a 10-point lead on multiple occasions.  But they’d give that away in the final two minutes, and then go back-and-forth for two tense overtime sessions. Let’s take a deeper look at how Indiana won 98-97 in…

Indiana defeated UCLA 98-97 in double overtime at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles. The three keys to the game, highlights and final stats are below. UCLA led 36-30 at halftime.  The game was tied at 76 at the end of regulation, and 84 at the end of the first overtime.  Indiana was led by Nick Dorn with 26 points.  Lamar Wilkerson and Reed Bailey both added 24. Indiana (15-7, 6-5) will stay in California and take on USC Tuesday evening. Stay tuned to The Daily Hoosier for more coverage of the game. THREE KEYS TO THE GAME 1. Hoosiers navigate…