With the all three IU assistants watching at the NBPA top-100 camp in Orlando, Indiana saw enough to offer class of 2024 big man James Brown. The Chicago product announced the offer on his social media pages on Thursday evening. The 6-foot-10, 220-pound rising junior from St. Rita H.S. is ranked No. 27 nationally in the 2024 class according to the 247Sports Composite. The 4-star prospect is the No. 5 center in the nation according to that same outlet. Brown is regarded as a highly-skilled and efficient big man on the block who can score over either shoulder, step-out and…
Author: Mike Schumann
And you thought those trips to Rutgers and Nebraska were far? Pac-12 schools USC and UCLA have been approved as members of the Big Ten in a unanimous vote by the league’s presidents and chancellors on Thursday evening, according to multiple reports. The move appears to be in response to the SEC’s annexation of Texas and Oklahoma as conferences continue to expand in both members and geographic reach. And with that comes more bargaining power. The Big Ten is in the process of negotiating its next round of TV contracts. Those deals were already expected to bring the league $1…
Indiana has added a kicker on scholarship to its 2023 class with the addition of Texas based Nicolas Radicic. The Coppell, Texas (Coppell H.S.) product is rated as a 5-star kicker and he will participate in the 2023 Army All-American bowl. Radicic recently attended the Kohl’s May 2022 Texas Showcase Camp. This is what that prestigious kicking organization had to say about him after the event. “He once again showed that he is one of the more pure ball strikers in his class. His timing and athleticism allow him to maximize his energy into the football and create great hang-time…
The components of Indiana’s 2022-23 nonconference schedule continue to leak out. The Daily Hoosier can confirm a report by Rocco Miller that the Hoosiers will face Elon as part of the upcoming season. According to Miller’s report, the game will be played in December at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. This will be the first ever meeting between Indiana and Elon. Hailing from the Colonial Athletic Conference, Elon finished the 2021-22 season ranked No. 247 at KenPom with a 10-22 record. They were led last season by former IU basketball manager Mike Schrage. He left that role to become a special…
In the first half of a game against Cathedral on Saturday afternoon, Fishers rising sophomore Jalen Haralson fell to the floor and clutched his leg after stumbling on a breakaway layup. As he made his way over to the sidelines with help and tested what appeared to be a serious injury, one thing seemed certain — his day was over. This was just summer basketball, after all. But moments later Haralson checked back into the game, and after a few trips up and down the floor he seemed to regain his rhythm. The 6-foot-6 point guard was carving-up defending state…
Indiana picked up a commitment from class of 2023 defensive back Travon West on Wednesday afternoon. The Piedmont, S.C. 3-star announced the news on his Twitter page after a ceremony at his high school. “Everybody’s just a family (at Indiana),” West told the Independent Mail in a report after the announcement. “They’re real big on family up there. That’s just somewhere I know that I’ll fit in at for the next three, four years. I won’t ever feel left out because it’s always family over football over there. And I could see a big part of that when I went…
Designing the nonconference schedule for IU football is a delicate art with competing interests. On the one hand, you want to have enticing games that draw fans. On the other hand, with nine Big Ten conference games each year, and Indiana trying to ensure bowl eligibility as the floor, the program can’t afford to make the three nonconference contests too challenging. The solution seems to be a hybrid approach, with a couple winnable games on paper, and a more challenging game each year. With the news yesterday that IU has scheduled a game against UMass five years from now, all…
It is well documented at this point — Indiana guard Tamar Bates’ freshman season didn’t go according to plan. His appearance in 32 games with 3.9 points and 1.3 rebounds per contest would have been a fine season for 95 percent of high-major freshmen. But as a top-30 national prospect who wowed fans in The Bahamas last summer and started the season with double-figure points in three of his first eight games, the bar was set a bit higher for Bates. And he would have been the first to tell you that. If there was one thing Bates wasn’t in…
If things don’t go well for Kansas in Bloomington next year, Bill Self can’t say he didn’t know what he was getting himself into. The head coach of the defending national champion Jayhawks was asked earlier this month the toughest place he’s ever had to coach. Although he’s been a head coach for 29 years, Self didn’t hesitate. “The best home court that I’ve ever been to was Indiana,” Self said at a coaching clinic in Houston. “When we were at Illinois, they had, I don’t know if you guys remember, they had a kid named Jared Jeffries. They went…
Indiana has formally entered the mix for an up-and-coming guard out of Georgia. Class of 2025 shooting guard Akai Fleming announced an offer from IU on his Twitter page on Monday evening. This is how 247Sports national analyst Brandon Jenkins described Fleming after watching him at an event earlier this month: “A 6-foot-4 long and skinny two-guard, Fleming as the early tools in his toolbox to be a high major target down the line,” Jenkins wrote. “He can slice through a defense, has a great early feel playing off a ball screen, and shows signs of elite athletic ability and…