Author: Mike Schumann

As a young boy growing up in Bloomington, IU guard Anthony Leal remembers days like today vividly. When IU basketball was playing in the postseason, everything else kind of stopped. That included the classrooms at the local elementary schools, when teachers would put Indiana’s Big Ten and NCAA Tournament games on the television during the day. Basketball is on the curriculum in Indiana. Leal’s childhood included IU’s outright Big Ten titles in 2013 and 2016.  So like many in the IU fanbase, he grew accustomed to the success. “Growing up, it was a given that they were going to be…

ALBANY, N.Y. — Watch below as Indiana freshman point guard Jalen Hood-Schifino took questions in the Indiana locker room on Thursday afternoon. Hood-Schifino was named Big Ten Freshman of the Year last week. See also:  Woodson and the IU players take the podium in Albany. https://youtu.be/Md9_zbw1e0s?t=17 The Daily Hoosier –“Where Indiana fans assemble when they’re not at Assembly” Find us on Facebook:  thedailyhoosier You can follow us on Twitter:  @daily_hoosier Seven ways to support completely free IU coverage at no cost to you.

Rob Senderoff was asked publicly on Thursday about his time at Indiana that ended with his resignation related to NCAA recruiting violations 16 years ago. But the former assistant coach at IU under Kelvin Sampson didn’t have much to say about his brief 17 month stay in Bloomington. Senderoff was hired by Sampson in May of 2006.  After rules violations related to impermissible phone calls involving him and Sampson surfaced, he reached a settlement with IU a couple weeks later and resigned in October of 2007. Now the head coach of Kent State, Indiana’s opponent on Friday evening, Senderoff was…

Scoring production from the wing is a priority for Indiana going forward, and Towson transfer Nick Timberlake seems to fit the bill. According to Jake Weingarten of Stock Risers, IU is one of many schools in pursuit of the East Coast based sharpshooter. This season for the Tigers, Timberlake averaged 17.7 points and 3.9 rebounds per game while shooting 45.5 percent from the field overall and 41.6 percent from three (on 221 attempts).  He also shot 84.5 percent from the free throw line. Timberlake’s numbers improved against higher end competition.  According to KenPom, he made 46.6 percent from three against…

Indiana didn’t have an answer for Kent State guard Trevor Huffman as he led the Golden Flashes with 24 points in a 2001 NCAA Tournament first round upset over the Hoosiers. When Huffman hit a three-pointer to open the game for Kent State in the 2002 rematch, it looked like the Michigan native might just torture IU once again. But it would be the last lead of the day for Kent State. At a sold out Rupp Arena in Lexington, Ky., senior guard Dane Fife made sure the Hoosiers had a response with the Final Four on the line. And…

IU basketball fans will get a behind the scenes look at the program during their time in the 2023 NCAA Tournament. CBS Sports and Warner Bros. Discovery Sports’ joint coverage of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship will include NCAA March Madness Confidential, providing exclusive, behind-the-scenes access to six NCAA Tournament teams – Texas, Arizona, Indiana, Saint Mary’s, Creighton and Memphis. Production crews began embedding with the teams on Selection Sunday and will chronicle their NCAA Tournament journeys. Here is a brief look at Indiana’s locker room on Selection Sunday. https://twitter.com/MM_MBB_TV/status/1635696791902625792?s=20 Throughout the Tournament, features will run across multiple…

After a massive second half of his senior season, Trayce Jackson-Davis is Indiana’s first AP first team All-American since Victor Oladipo. Joining Jackson-Davis on the first team are Jalen Wilson (Kansas), Zach Edey (Purdue), Marcus Sasser (Houston), and Brandon Miller (Alabama). Jackson-Davis averaged per game career highs in points (20.8), rebounds (10.9), assists (4.1), blocks (2.7) and steals (.9) while shooting 57.8 percent from the field. Over his last 16 games of the 2022-23 season, Jackson-Davis averaged 23.7 points, 11.8 rebounds, 4.8 assists, 2.8 blocks and 1.1 steals per contest. He also recorded just the third triple-double in IU basketball…

You can’t really call it a vengeance tour. Very few people involved with IU basketball in 2008 are even still around the program. But the IU fans remember.  And for them at least, the name Kelvin Sampson is synonymous with pain, frustration, embarrassment, and three years of misery. Sampson, of course, was the IU basketball head coach in 2008 when the team was placed on probation following an NCAA investigation into impermissible phone calls.  And if Indiana advances to the Sweet 16 on Sunday, there’s a good chance they’ll face Sampson and his No. 1 seeded Houston Cougars next week.…

The NCAA made the peculiar decision to open the transfer portal the day after the NCAA Tournament field was announced. Yes, the portal opened for undergraduates on Monday, just as 68 staffs around the country are preparing for their opening round games in the Big Dance. For Indiana and every other program in the NCAA field, this week will be about dividing up and conquering both the NCAA Tournament and the transfer portal. So that means we’ve got to dual-track it too. We’ll call this our “lay of the land” post, to be followed up with all of the notable…

For the first time in program history, IU women’s basketball is a No. 1 seed. The Hoosiers will host the first two rounds of the 2023 NCAA Tournament, beginning on Saturday.  They’ll face the winner of a play-in game between No. 16 seeds Monmouth and Tennessee Tech.  The Saturday tip time has not yet been announced. If the Hoosiers advance they’ll play the winner of an 8/9 game between Oklahoma State and Miami (Florida). IU is the second highest No. 1 seed in the tournament, behind South Carolina.  The Hoosiers would not have to face the Gamecocks until the national…