Author: Mike Schumann

Indiana fifth-year point guard Xavier Johnson has closure on the legal proceedings stemming from his April arrest related to a late-night traffic incident. According to Indiana public court records, Johnson appeared in court in person on Tuesday and plead guilty to the charge of reckless driving at and unreasonable high speed so as to endanger safety, a Class C misdemeanor. Johnson’s felony charge of resisting law enforcement was dismissed. Dustin Dopirak of the Bloomington Herald-Times first reported the news. Johnson received a 60 days suspended sentence, and he is subject to a term of unsupervised probation for 360 days.  Johnson…

Mike Woodson could not have been more clear a year ago. Whenever he was asked about the rollout of his system prior to his first season as the IU basketball head coach, Woodson would quickly remind his team was mainly focused on the defensive end. For those who wanted to hear more about how he was going to fix the broken offense, it became a predictable response.  But the results on the defensive end say Woodson was right to emphasize defense first. A lifetime in the game has allowed Woodson to quickly dissect the strengths and weaknesses of a team. …

Indiana got one of 2023 guard DeShawn Harris-Smith’s last visits, but his next trip to Bloomington appears likely to be made in an opposing uniform. On3 national analyst Jamie Shaw joined on Monday a growing chorus of voices who believe Harris-Smith will end up with Maryland. If their intel is accurate, Harris-Smith would be the second straight Washington D.C. metro area prospect IU lost to the Terrapins, following wing Jamie Kaiser just a couple weeks ago.  It would also highlight a reversal in recruiting fortunes by Maryland under first-year head coach Kevin Willard. “Willard and his staff built a great…

IU basketball forward Trayce Jackson-Davis is one of five to earn the prestigious honor of being named a Blue Ribbon preseason All-American. The Greenwood, Ind. product is the first Hoosier to earn the distinction since Thomas Bryant prior to the 2016-17 season. “Trayce has the opportunity to build quite a legacy for himself and our program,” said IU Coach Mike Woodson in a release. “He’s worked extremely hard this summer and we are counting on him to be a leader by example who sets the tone for everyone else on our team.” The Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook is an…

The Daily Hoosier is previewing each position group during the final days leading up to the opening kickoff of the 2022 Indiana football season on Sept. 2 against Illinois (schedule here). Today we take a look at the cornerbacks. THE ROSTER THE SURE THINGS There aren’t many bold proclamations that can be made about this team, but few teams in the country can put as much talent and experience on the edge as Indiana.  Seniors Tiawan Mullen and Jaylin Williams are locks to start. Mullen is coming off an injury-riddled 2021 season, but Indiana fans know what the former first…

You didn’t think we could complete the series without a look at Indiana did you? Last but not least are the Hoosiers, a team many are calling the Big Ten favorite in 2023. Head coach Mike Woodson accomplished the main goal most IU fans had for his first season — getting back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2016.  Indiana went 21-14 in Woodson’s first season at the college level after he spent 25 years as an NBA assistant and head coach.  The 21 wins were also the most by the program since 2016.  Despite the NCAA…

Over the next two weeks leading up to the Sept. 2 opener against Illinois, The Daily Hoosier will take a look at some new players on the 2022 football roster who should see substantial roles, along with returning players who are expected to play or produce at a much higher rate. The competition for playing time at receiver has been wide open at fall camp following the departure of starters Ty Fryfogle and Miles Marshall. Cam Camper is an easy name to remember, and it’s a name you hear daily at and around IU football’s fall camp. The 6-foot-2 JUCO…

Kentucky High School Athletics Association officials couldn’t get out of their own way to support the state’s flood relief efforts. An impressive list of the region’s top high school talent had assembled to play in the Midwest Charity Classic on Aug. 27 in Lexington, including IU commit Gabe Cupps and several Indiana recruiting targets. The event was to be a nationally televised game hosted by ESPN college basketball analyst Seth Greenberg at Frederick Douglass High School. Funds raised from the event were to go toward Kentucky flood-relief efforts.  A historic and deadly flooding event in the eastern part of the…

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 Wisconsin.  The Badgers did in 2021-22 what they seemingly always do — win.  Wisconsin posted its 23rd season with a .500 or better record in the Big Ten over the last…

After earning honorable mention All-Big honors as a 17-year-old freshman at Indiana, the odds seemed good he would follow in the footsteps of his older brothers and reach the NFL. But after a turbulent six-year college career that included two season-ending injuries, things weren’t so clear. His name wasn’t announced during the 2022 NFL draft, but still, Marcelino McCrary-Ball’s phone, and opportunity, rang on the third day of the draft. He was on the beach with his brother’s family when he got a call from San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch. There are few guarantees in the NFL, but…