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…
Author: Mike Schumann
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…
Bloomington neighborhood kids be warned: While he looks nice, Mike Woodson wants you to stay off his lawn. The second year Indiana head coach is apparently something of a sodfather during the offseason. While he is still trying to put new hardware in the IU basketball trophy case, Woodson has already claimed a landscaping title in his subdivision. And he apparently can’t stop telling his daughter Mariah about it. She went to Instagram to vent. “My dad takes his yard so seriously,” she wrote in a post on the social media platform. “He won yard of the month in his…
It got bloody at times in those early Gunn one-on-one battles out on the playground. Young C.J. tried his best, but with a two-year edge, his older sister Lauren had the early advantage. Both trained by their father Chris to be competitive first and foremost, neither wanted to give an inch on the asphalt courts in Fishers, Ind. And so things got a bit interesting at times. “Where me and my sister grew up, we used to bike down to this elementary playground, and our dad used to take us out there,” C.J. said. “And me and my sister used…
They got the ball rolling, but in the end, life and complications got in the way. It appeared the first IU basketball themed team would compete this year in The Basketball Tournament, the million dollar, winner-take-all event televised live on ESPN. Former IU players Devonte Green and Josh Newkirk were announced in May as competitors for a team named “Assembly Ball.” Other former IU players said they would participate as well. And enough money was raised to make it happen. But the rest just got too messy to reach the finish line. One star player was dealing with an injury,…
6-foot-10 forward Raleigh Burgess thought his 16u Indiana Elite squad had a good shot at winning the Adidas 3SSB title last week in Rock Hill, S.C. when we caught up with him a week ago, and in the end they came through. Burgess is joined by fellow IU target Travis Perry, Iowa commit Cooper Koch, and in-state rising phenom Flory Bidunga on an Indiana Elite team that was just too good inside and out to handle. “Good guards, great size, everyone has a great attitude, and the culture (of his Indiana Elite team) is just everything,” Burgess told The Daily…
UPDATE: The Indiana players intended to play in the Pro-Am but will no longer be participants. The original story follows. —————————— IU basketball players Xavier Johnson, Tamar Bates, Anthony Leal and Miller Kopp will all be in action in Noblesville, Ind. on Tuesday evening as part of a new event. The four are participating in a competition called the Dizzy Run Pro-Am, the brainchild of former Indiana Mr. Basketball and Virginia national champion Kyle Guy, along with former Harlem Globetrotter Derick Grant. The event is being held in the Finch Creek Fieldhouse, at 16289 Boden Rd, Noblesville, IN, 46060. According…