Maintaining success has never been more difficult in college basketball. The combination of the transfer portal and the NBA Draft makes each offseason both eventful and potentially transformative for most programs. Now that the smoke has mostly cleared following the 2021-22 season, we’ll go team-by-team in the Big Ten to assess which programs are set up for success, and who might take a step back. ———— Next up is Penn State. In his first season head coach Micah Shrewsberry led the Nittany Lions to 14-17 record overall and a 7-13 mark in the Big Ten. Overall Penn State has had…
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We have hit the home stretch with the class of 2023, and a pair of Indiana targets have scheduled late July official visits to Bloomington. Forward/Center Arrinten Page and combo-guard DeShawn Harris-Smith are both coming at the end of the month according to multiple reports (Page, Harris-Smith) by 247Sports. The Daily Hoosier is able to confirm both reports. Page is a 6-foot-9, top-50 4-star prospect out of Georgia. Indiana offered him a scholarship in April. For more background on Page, GO HERE. Harris-Smith is a 6-foot-4, top-125 4-star prospect out of Virginia. Indiana offered him a scholarship last weekend. For…
One of the most iconic figures in the history of IU Athletics and the sport of diving passed away on Saturday morning. Indiana Athletics and its swimming and diving program announced the passing of legendary IU and USA Diving coach Hobie Billingsley. He was 94 years old. Billingsley’s legacy is that of one of the most important and influential personalities to grace the sport of diving while earning the reputation as one of the sport’s greatest ever coaches. Billingsley coached at Indiana from 1959-89, winning six NCAA and 23 Big Ten team championships in that span. He coached individuals that…
With Indiana’s offseason roster changes behind us, we bring back our annual tradition of taking a closer look at the players expected to return to the program. Next up is point guard Xavier Johnson, who is training for his fifth year of college basketball and second with IU. THE 2021-22 NUMBERS After transferring to IU from Pittsburgh, Johnson started all 34 games he played in during the 2021-22 season. The Virginia product finished second on the team averaging 12.1 points, and led the team in assists (172, 5.1 per game) and steals (40, 1.2 per game). He was also second…
He was the highest ranked quarterback Indiana has ever successfully recruited. And now after one season, Donaven McCulley is officially a wide receiver. After months of speculation, the 6-foot-5 and 210 pound Indianapolis product is now listed on IU’s official roster as a wide receiver. In a Twitter post by head coach Tom Allen, McCulley was included in a photo of the wide receivers at a pool party at his house on Thursday. https://twitter.com/CoachAllenIU/status/1547746203625959425?s=20&t=Jk7dXmY0wZTAL6ADxZ8OXg According to a Thursday evening report by the Indianapolis Star, the decision to move to receiver was McCulley’s. Longtime IU radio voice Don Fischer suggested the…
If finding somewhere he could be in the starting five from day one was his priority, Malik Reneau surely could have located that opportunity on the college basketball landscape. But with multiyear frontcourt starters Trayce Jackson-Davis and Race Thompson back, along with returning talent like Jordan Geronimo in the mix, Indiana might have been one of the last places to go for a player just hunting for guaranteed minutes. Reneau knew the situation in Bloomington when he committed in April. “It’s definitely a developmental opportunity, but I’m in there, and I’m trying to play too, so it’s going to be…
Watch as Indiana freshman forward Malik Reneau sat down with the media on Thursday afternoon via Zoom. Reneau arrived at Indiana from Montverde Academy, where he was a 4-star and ranked No. 28 nationally according to the 247Sports Composite. See also: Reneau senior season highlights For more summer Q&A sessions with IU basketball players and coaches, GO HERE. https://youtu.be/zQngTuSVc_8 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.
The quest to replenish the frontcourt has taken Indiana to a now familiar place — the basketball hotbed that is the state of Georgia. There the staff is taking a close look at 6-foot-8 forward/center from Grayson H.S. (Loganville, Ga.) Jayden Williams. IU had multiple coaches in attendance for some of his games at the Adidas 3SSB stop in Rock Hill, S.C. last week. Williams is listed as a 5-star prospect and the No. 11 player overall in the class of 2024. For spring and summer basketball, Williams plays for the Atlanta Celtics on the Adidas 3SSB Circuit. That’s the…
AAU basketball will wrap up in the next few weeks, and with that will come a wave of recruiting visits as college staffs and players alike have a bit more time on their hands in August and into the fall. Coming out of the first July live recruiting period, several top IU prospects have said they either have firm plans to visit Bloomington or would like to make that happen. Class of 2023 Massachusetts-based forward T.J. Power is coming off a massive weekend that saw him average more than 30 points per game while shooting better than 51 percent from…
Maintaining success has never been more difficult in college basketball. The combination of the transfer portal and the NBA Draft makes each offseason both eventful and potentially transformative for most programs. Now that the smoke has mostly cleared following the 2021-22 season, we’ll go team-by-team in the Big Ten to assess which programs are set up for success, and who might take a step back. ———— Next up is Ohio State. Chris Holtmann is entering his sixth season as the man in charge in Columbus. The Buckeyes finished the 2021-22 campaign with a 20-12 overall record including a 12-8 mark…