Author: Mike Schumann

Bracketology in July? Sure, why not. Now that rosters are mostly set for the 2023-24 college basketball season, we’ll take a peek at what the game’s best-known bracketologist has to say about the 2024 NCAA Tournament. The man former IU coach Archie Miller once compared to Sesame Street’s Oscar the Grouch, ESPN’s Joe Lunardi published a new prognostication of the 2024 field of 68 last week. The good news for Indiana fans — Lunardi sees the Hoosiers making the Tournament for the third straight year after missing out for five consecutive years prior to that, including all four of Miller’s…

We always like to see what the sports books have to say during the preseason, because they may have the least biased opinion out there. And it should come as no surprise — IU women’s basketball is expected to compete near the top of the national conversation once again. According to BetOnline, the Hoosiers have 14/1 odds to win the 2024 NCAA crown. That represents the sixth best odds in the country, and second best in the Big Ten.  Ahead of IU are defending national champ LSU (3/1), along with UConn (5/1), Iowa (7/1), South Carolina (9/1) and Utah (9/1).…

Class of 2024 5-star forward Liam McNeeley will visit Indiana for the second time. The Montverde Academy and Plano, Texas product will come to Bloomington for a senior year official visit Sept. 8-10, he confirmed with The Daily Hoosier.  The 247Sports Indiana site first reported he had set a date. He also visited IU a year ago in September. “The energy that Indiana has as a state and school is just crazy,” McNeeley told The Daily Hoosier about his first visit.  “The fans show so much love, the coaches show so much love.  It’s hard to not like Indiana.” McNeeley…

Indiana landed one player on each of Pro Football Focus’ first, second and third All-Big Ten preseason teams announced on Tuesday. Two of the players — kick returner Jaylin Lucas, and punter James Evans, come from the special teams.  They join wideout Cam Camper, who suffered a midseason knee injury a year ago. Here is a quick summary of the 2022 seasons for each of three Hoosiers named to the PFF squads.  Further below you can see the number of players who received PFF recognition by team. Indiana opens the 2023 season on Sept. 2 against Ohio State in Bloomington. …

Indiana fans have been through the highs and lows with head coach Tom Allen. Following an eight win 2019 season, Allen was the national coach of the year in 2020 as he led the Hoosiers to a 6-1 regular season with wins over Penn State, Michigan, Michigan State and Wisconsin. That two year run has been sandwiched by the kind of frustration IU football fans are accustomed to.  There were back-to-back five wins seasons in 2017 and 2018, and the last two years have been downright miserable. The fans have ridden the wave of emotions in a predictable manner.  Allen…

IU’s top point guard target in the rising senior class named his top eight schools on Monday. Kentucky, Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina, Maryland, UConn and St. John’s will battle it out for New York based primary ball handler Boogie Fland. The 6-foot-3 Fland is the No. 7 overall player in the class of 2024 according to the On3 Industry Average, and he’s the No. 1 point guard in the class. Fland visited Indiana in mid-June and walked away impressed. “I love their environment, love the coaching staff, the fans are nice, everything about it is cool,” Fland told The…

We are 16 weeks away from the start of the 2023-24 college basketball season. Around this time every year we begin to see preseason outlooks from the national pundits who cover the sport. CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein issued his annual Big Ten outlook on Monday, and it should come as little surprise he’s got Purdue slotted in as the league favorite, with Michigan State the preseason No. 2 squad.  That’s a top two we expect you’ll see on repeat as the national coverage rolls out in the coming weeks. After Purdue and Michigan State, we suspect you’ll see a wide…

Steph Curry, Chris Paul, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, Steve Kerr. For a rookie, joining the Golden State Warriors is akin to attending an NBA fantasy camp.  The stars are everywhere. But it’s no fantasy for Trayce Jackson-Davis.  The Warriors are all business.  They’ve won four of the last nine NBA titles.  And the former IU All-American was targeted by Golden State because they know he can step in and contribute to a fifth ring. Jackson-Davis had a pre-draft workout with Golden State and interviewed with the front office.  For a franchise in NBA title or bust mode, they quickly realized…

Indiana football fans would like nothing more than to erase the memory of one of the more heartbreaking losses in program history. Tennessee can no longer claim it won the Gator Bowl over IU following the 2019 season, but nothing really changes in the Indiana record book. And certainly the pain remains. On Jan. 2, 2020 in Jacksonville, the Hoosiers appeared on track to win their first bowl game since 1991. With 8:50 remaining on the clock in the fourth quarter, Indiana had a 22-9 lead and was in possession of the football.  One more long drive by IU was…

When we caught up with Flory Bidunga last week, it didn’t sound good for Indiana. Now it feels pretty safe to say the 6-foot-9 class of 2024 5-star center won’t be playing at IU. A couple months ago Bidunga had an official visit set to Indiana that appeared to be his last before an early August decision.  But last week he said he would only take additional visits “if he had time.”  And this week Bidunga all but ended Indiana’s recruitment. “No more visits, I’m done,” Bidunga told Rivals’ Rob Cassidy on Friday at an event in Las Vegas. Based…