Author: Mike Schumann

The Big Ten is soon to be eighteen according to multiple reports. Oregon and Washington are set to join the growing conference in 2024.  They will follow USC and UCLA, and make a total of five schools that have left the Pac-12 over the last year. The Big Ten will grow to 18 members, the largest in college football history.  There are additional reports of more additions to come.  Stanford, Cal, Florida State, Clemson, Miami, North Carolina and Notre Dame have all been mentioned as Big Ten candidates in various reports. The reports indicate Oregon and Washington will not immediately…

Coming off an All-American freshman season, Jaylin Lucas is expected to be all over the field for Indiana in 2023. So it stands to reason he’s on the Paul Hornung Award preseason watch list.  The award goes to the most versatile player in major college football. Lucas was the first Hoosier in program history and first freshman in Big Ten history to earn the conference’s Rodgers-Dwight Return Specialist of the Year. The running back/return specialist was the only player in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) with multiple kickoff returns for a touchdown in 2022. The Louisiana product led the Big Ten…

We can start with some quick housekeeping in the class of 2024. Indiana offered rising senior wing Marcus Allen in April, but that never seemed to gain serious traction.  The Miami, Fla. product was an AAU teammate of priority IU 2024 target Liam McNeeley over the summer. On Wednesday multiple outlets reported Allen will announce a college decision on Aug. 7.  Indiana could still see him in the Big Ten.  His finalists are Arkansas, Miami, Missouri, Michigan, Ohio State and Stanford. You can read more about Indiana’s main 2024 targets, including their top schools, visit plans, highlights and recruiting updates…

Class of 2024 wing Tyler Betsey named his top-seven schools on Wednesday. The top-40 Connecticut product will choose between Indiana, Duke, UConn, Alabama, Cincinnati, Creighton and Villanova. Betsey spoke at length with Rivals’ national analyst Rob Cassidy, and he said his June visit to IU was the best one he has taken thus far. “The visit was great. I would honestly say it was my best visit so far,” Betsey told Cassidy.  “They were all super comfortable with my family. It was almost like we were all family. We were all comfortable with Mike Woodson and the staff. It was…

One 2024 domino is set to fall on Sept. 14. Class of 2024 4-star guard Jaeden Mustaf will announce his college decision on that date, he told Joe Tipton of On3. Since narrowing his recruitment in the spring, Mustaf has been focusing on Indiana, Maryland, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Arkansas and N.C. State.  He’s visited four of those programs and is scheduled to visit his father’s alma mater Maryland in early September. Mustaf visited Indiana in June and walked away impressed with Mike Woodson and the IU program. “Indiana, that’s a blue blood program,” Mustaf told The Daily Hoosier after…

IU football junior punter James Evans was selected for the Ray Guy Award preseason watch list, the Augusta Sports Council announced on Wednesday. The New Zealand product currently holds the program’s all-time punting average mark at 43.1 yards after he finished No. 2 on the single-season punt average charts (44.3) in 2022, tied with Jim DiGullio (1992). He finished 2022 ranked No. 2 in punting average (44.3) and No. 3 in total punts (75) in a season, tied with Tyson Beattie (2005). In his career, Evans has 17 career punts inside the 10-yard line and 43 downed inside the 20-yard…

Mike Woodson pulled off a recruiting coup when he landed Mackenzie Mgbako in May. Listed at 6-foot-8 and 215 pounds by Indiana, Mgbako is the highest rated recruit IU basketball has landed since Romeo Langford.  He decommitted from Duke in April, and one month later he was a Hoosier. A 2023 McDonald’s All-American, Mgbako arrived at IU this summer as a 5-star recruit, ranked No. 8 on Rivals, No. 9 on ESPN, and No. 10 on 247Sports. Mgbako got to IU in early June and completed an eight-week program with the team and staff.  Several of his teammates and Woodson…

The IU basketball staff is hosting a coaches clinic for the first time under Mike Woodson. The two day event will be held Sept. 29-30 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington and will afford the opportunity for the IU coaches and support team to build relationships with a network of coaches while sharing their deep collective insights. Indiana’s team of coaches and staff have over 190+ years of NBA and college basketball experience.  Headlined by Woodson, the rest of the staff participating will include former IU players and Indiana natives Calbert Cheaney, Randy Wittman, and Jordan Hulls. Current assistant…

Indiana has offered class of 2025 wing Amari Allen, he announced on his Twitter page on Monday evening. IU also offered his AAU teammate Kai Rogers on Monday.  The duo play for the Wisconsin Playground on the UAA Circuit. The 6-foot-7 and 200-pound Allen is from Wisconsin, and he enrolled at IMG Academy in Florida a year ago.  As most sophomores do on national teams like IMG, Allen had more of a reserve role in 2022-23.  IU has pursued a number of IMG products since Mike Woodson took over, including Tamar Bates and Bryson Tucker.  Allen was teammates at IMG…

Indiana has offered class of 2025 center Kai Rogers, he announced on his Instagram page on Monday evening. The 6-foot-10 Rogers is a player who has been on the IU radar going back at least to the early part of the spring.  He attends Wauwatosa West H.S. (Wauwatosa, Wis.). For travel basketball Rogers plays for Wisconsin Playground on the UAA Circuit where he averaged 13.3 points on 63 percent shooting, and added 7.9 rebounds and 2.0 blocks. He is a spring and summer AAU teammate of another player the staff offered on Monday, 2025 wing Amari Allen. Indiana is at…