Author: Mike Schumann

There will no final season homecoming for Iowa’s Tony Perkins. The Indianapolis native announced on Monday he will play his final season of college basketball at Missouri. IU was thought to be a strong contender for Perkins before recent developments. The news comes just a couple days after Indiana landed Washington State point guard Myles Rice out of the transfer portal. Indiana is also a favorite to land Stanford transfer guard Kanaan Carlyle, a strong contender for Bradley’s Connor Hickman, and they already have Trey Galloway and Gabe Cupps returning with experience as primary ball handlers. Rice, and Carlyle if…

Indiana has made a spring addition via the transfer portal. Austin Peay cornerback Cedarius Doss announced on Sunday he is transferring to IU.  He should have two seasons of eligibility remaining. The 5-foot-8 and 176-pound Doss was a 2023 PFF FCS All-America, and the highest-graded corner in FCS.  He’ll be reunited in Bloomington with his former Austin Peay teammate, linebacker Josh Rudolph. Doss ranked 27th in the FCS and second in the UAC with three interceptions during the 2023 season, that mark also led Austin Peay. Doss ranked fifth in the UAC with 10 total passes defended and ranked 14th…

Washington State transfer guard Myles Rice has committed to Indiana. The new broke during Rice’s official visit to Bloomington.  He made the announcement on his Instagram page. The 6-foot-3 and 180-pound Rice  averaged 14.8 points per game and led the Cougars to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 16 years. Rice added 3.8 assists, 3.1 rebounds, and 1.6 steals per game. His shooting splits were 43.9 percent overall including 27.5 percent from three, and 81.1 percent from the stripe. https://youtu.be/rn362p8XcHQ Rice currently lives in Atlanta and has ties to IU assistant coach Yasir Rosemond. The 6-foot-3 and 180…

It has become cliché to say in 49 other states it’s just basketball, but this is Indiana. But IU basketball fans proved this winter that expression has merit. The IU men’s basketball team saw 296,427 fans attend their games during 2023-24 season, good for the highest attendance in the Big Ten, and the sixth-highest total in the country. Meanwhile, the IU women’s basketball team saw 175,105 attend their games, good for the second-highest in the Big Ten and the fifth-highest in the nation. The total of nearly a half million fans (472,132) was the highest combined men’s and women’s attendance…

Some of the best players from the Pac-12 are expected to play in Bloomington next season. 247Sports national analyst Travis Branham is predicting Indiana will land Arizona transfer center Oumar Ballo. He is scheduled to arrive on the IU campus for a visit on Sunday. Some outlets say Ballo is the top overall available player in the transfer portal. At 7-foot and 260 pounds, Ballo was one of the best centers in the country this past season at Arizona. He averaged a double-double with 12.9 points, 10.1 rebounds and 1.3 blocks per game while leading the Wildcats to the Sweet…

Indiana has picked up a commitment from class of 2025 linebacker Travares Daniels on Friday afternoon. He announced the news on his social media accounts. The development comes after Daniels visited Indiana multiple times over the last few months. The 6-foot-1, and 200-pound linebacker from St. Thomas Aquinas H.S. (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) is graded as a 3-star by ESPN.  He finished his junior season with 70 tackles, seven tackles for loss, five passes defensed, and four sacks. The Hoosiers offered Daniels in mid-January, and his recruitment was led by defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Bryant Haines. “This new coaching staff…

For the second day in a row, a Pac-12 transfer guard from Atlanta is trending towards Indiana. Coincidence? Probably not. On Friday, Stanford transfer guard Kanaan Carlyle has picked up multiple predictions to land at IU out of the portal. The developments follow a wave of Thursday predictions for Atlanta based Washington State transfer guard Myles Rice to choose Indiana.  Both players have a connection to IU assistant coach Yasir Rosemond. National 247Sports analyst Travis Branham believes Carlyle will be a Hoosier, even before his scheduled April 19 visit to Bloomington. Carlyle is the No. 1 ranked combo guard in…

Class of 2024 wing Bryson Tucker committed to Indiana a couple weeks ago, and in the process became one of the program’s highest-rated recruits of all-time during the rankings era. The Daily Hoosier caught up with Tucker’s father Byron to get more background on the 5-star McDonald’s All-American. Here’s our Q&A with the elder Tucker: ———————————————— Q:  Indiana first got involved with Bryson way back in 2021.  What was the back story there? Byron Tucker — (IU assistant coach) Kenya Hunter saw Bryson when he was playing for Mount St. Joe’s up in Baltimore.  He was on to Bryson really…

IU fans will get their first look at the Curt Cignetti era in just under a week. The Indiana football program will host the IU Football Spring Game on Thursday, April 18 at Memorial Stadium. Kickoff for the event is slated for 8 p.m. ET and will be broadcast on the Big Ten Network with Matt Schumacker (pbp), Rhett Lewis (analyst) and Pat Boylan (sideline) calling the game for the network. The team will begin warm-ups at 7:30 p.m. The game will mark the conclusion of Indiana’s spring practice sessions. IU started spring practice on March 21.  The spring game…

Indiana appears to be trending towards capitalizing on a long-term relationship with Atlanta based point guard Myles Rice. The Washington State transfer was scheduled to visit Auburn this weekend but that has been canceled according to a report by On3 national analyst Jamie Shaw. In his report, Shaw said “a source this afternoon told me that Rice has canceled his visit to Auburn. The same source said they now suspect Rice to ultimately choose Indiana.” Shaw has placed a prediction that Rice will transfer to IU. 247Sports national analyst Travis Branham also made a prediction on Thursday that Indiana will…