Author: Mike Schumann

Okay, we lied. We’re going to take one more look at the way too early college basketball hype stuff, only because bracketology adds an interesting angle to the various 2022-23 college basketball prognostications we’ve seen thus far, following the decision by Trayce Jackson-Davis to return and the passage of the NBA Draft withdrawal deadline. The NCAA Tournament is what it’s all about, after all. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you know by now that virtually every national outlet sees Indiana as the favorite in the Big Ten conference next season. But what does that mean from a bracketology…

Indiana has offered Cincinnati, Ohio based center Raleigh Burgess. The 6-foot-10 Burgess announced the offer after taking an unofficial visit to Bloomington on Tuesday. https://twitter.com/raleigh_burgess/status/1536866948776087552?s=20&t=B3uLE9BV503nuSUqbZbWFA As a sophomore for Sycamore H.S., Burgess averaged 10.5 points, 6 rebounds and 1.8 blocks in 21.6 minutes per contest.  He shot 62.6 percent from the field overall including 34.8 percent from 3-point range (on 23 attempts).  Sycamore finished 21-3 during the 2021-2022 season and a 13-2 record in conference play, winning the Greater-Miami league. For spring and summer basketball Burgess plays for the Indiana Elite Adidas 3SSB program.  He is teammates with fellow IU…

Indiana junior guard Trey Galloway had surgery Tuesday related to a groin injury suffered during the 2021-22 season, The Daily Hoosier has confirmed. Galloway injured his groin in a game against Wisconsin in February and returned for the Big Ten and NCAA Tournaments. While his full recovery period is to be determined, the surgery is not expected to cause Galloway to miss any fall practice or time during the 2022-23 season. Galloway missed 15 games due to two different injuries last season– a fractured wrist suffered against St. John’s in November, and the groin issue. Overall he played in 20…

13 of IU’s 22 programs earned perfect 1,000 APR scores for the 2020-21 academic year, according to the latest NCAA Academic Progress Report (APR) data released today. The 13 IU programs that earned a perfect APR score for the 2020-21 academic year are men’s basketball, women’s basketball, women’s cross country, men’s golf, women’s golf, men’s soccer, softball, men’s swimming, women’s swimming, men’s tennis, women’s tennis, volleyball, and wrestling, IU Athletics said in a release. Three IU programs also earned special recognition for their perfect multi-year scores of 1,000 – men’s and women’s golf and women’s tennis. To earn a perfect…

“My thing is I like to get a team in position first before we start chasing the big boys.” That was Mike Woodson a year ago when asked about his philosophy on putting together a nonconference schedule. The schedule Woodson designed in year one reflected that sentiment of not rushing into tough games before his team was ready.  The Hoosiers faced the high-majors they contractually had to — St. John’s, Syracuse and Notre Dame — and the rest of the nonconference slate involved mid and low major foes. But Woodson was in no mood to afford the same luxury of…

A year ago Mike Woodson made a quick trip back to New York soon after he was hired and introduced as the new head coach of Indiana. The former Knicks head coach and assistant was greeted by his former players one-by-one with hugs and smiles on the court at Madison Square Garden, providing a quick window into the respect pros in the NBA have for him. You could find the same sentiments verbalized from some of Woodson’s former Knicks players from when he was head coach of the franchise.  Several of them commented on him during an episode of Knicks…

It should come as no surprise, but the return of Trayce Jackson-Davis has given a major boost to Indiana’s odds to hang a sixth banner. In fact, a winning bet on IU winning a title in Houston next April only pays half as much as it before the All-Big Ten forward said he would play his senior year in Bloomington. But the odds are still fairly long.  The Hoosiers have gone from 66-1 to win the 2023 NCAA Championship to 33-1 since Jackson-Davis announced his return last month. According to odds published by BetOnline.ag, only 11 teams have better national…

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 Michigan.  The Wolverines are coming off a largely disappointing 2021-22 season that saw them go from Big Ten preseason co-favorite and national top-10 selection, to the NCAA Tournament bubble.  But they…

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 Trayce Jackson-Davis, who is training for his fourth year with IU basketball. THE 2021-22 NUMBERS Jackson-Davis started all 35 games for Indiana in 2021-22.  He led the team in scoring (18.3), rebounding (8.1), field goal percentage (58.9%), free throws made (147), free throws attempted (218) and blocked shots (81), was second on the team with 66 assists and added 22 steals. The Greenwood, Ind. product was voted Second Team All-Big…

Update:  Indiana offered Newell on his visit on Monday.  The original story follows. ——————- Indiana will have a prospect from a familiar high school program in for an unofficial visit on Monday. On3’s Joe Tipton is reporting 2024 forward Asa Newell will take an unofficial visit to IU.  Newell was already in Indiana for the Crossroads Invitational camp this weekend. The 6-foot-9 power forward attended Fort Walton Beach (Fla.) Choctawhatchee as a sophomore, but he has transferred to national prep powerhouse Montverde Academy.  Newell averaged 14 points and 8.7 rebounds as a sophomore. Newell is currently ranked No. 37 in…