Author: Mike Schumann

His sixth grade teacher urged him to go in 1975 and ultimately footed the bill. A gracious young Mike Woodson left with a T-shirt and a promise. “I remember my sixth grade teacher, which I couldn’t afford at that time to go to Bob Knight’s camp, pay for me to come down and I ended up winning a three-on-three contest at Coach Knight’s camp with two other kids,” Woodson recalled. “Coach gave me a T-shirt and told me he would follow me my senior year in high school and that’s all I needed to hear. And I had a great…

We wrap up our position-by-position overviews with the quarterbacks. The group looks far different than it did in November, when injuries forced IU to go to the fifth quarterback on the depth chart and a walk-on started against Purdue. Coming out of spring practice, IU has several healthy alternatives to run new offensive coordinator Walt Bell’s system. The competition for the starting job is open going into fall camp in August, but the early favorite is Missouri transfer Connor Bazelak. Bazelak threw for 5,084 yards with 23 touchdowns, 17 interceptions, and a 66.4 completion percentage in 20 starts (24 games)…

There was no easing into high school basketball for Heritage Hills H.S. freshman Trent Sisley. The 6-foot-7 forward had offers from Indiana and Purdue before he played his first game, and with the talent to back those offers up, Sisley was the center of attention every night in Southern Indiana. Double-teams, physicality, you name it, they tried it. “You learn how to play through that stuff,” Sisley told The Daily Hoosier. The numbers Sisley produced tell the story.  He did more than play through it — he thrived. As a high school freshman Sisley averaged 19.9 points, 9.2 rebounds, 1.6…

Former Indiana husky Marcelino McCrary-Ball has signed an undrafted free agent deal with the San Francisco 49ers the NFL franchise announced on Monday evening. While he played the hybrid safety/linebacker spot at IU, the 49ers list McCrary-Ball as a 6-foot and 214-pound linebacker in their release. The Roswell, Ga. product finished his IU career with 241 tackles, 166 solo, 5.5 sacks (43 yards), 16.5 for loss (74 yards), four interceptions, one forced fumble, one fumble recovery, 17 pass breakups, and 10 quarterback hurries in 53 games (44 starts) at husky. As just a 17-year-old in 2016, McCrary Ball flashed major…

After stepping in on an interim basis to close out the 2021-22 season, Jeremy Gray will step in full-time time to replace the legendary Chuck Crabb. Indiana University Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Scott Dolson announced today that Gray will serve as the full-time public address announcer for both IU men’s and women’s basketball games at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall beginning with the 2022-23 seasons. Gray replaces Crabb, who served in that same role for 45 years before retiring in late January. Following Crabb’s retirement, Gray stepped in and fulfilled the remaining public address responsibilities for the 2021-22…

In the span of a week in early March, class of 2024 forward Cooper Koch saw it all in the Big Ten. There were court storms on consecutive nights at Wisconsin and Illinois, the IU and Purdue rivalry in West Lafayette, and then he saw Ron Harper, Jr. crush souls in Bloomington with a buzzer beater in Indiana’s home finale. As the son of a former Iowa player, there was already a built-in bias towards the Big Ten, and that week certainly did nothing to diminish the Peoria, Ill. (Notre Dame H.S.) product’s feelings about the league. Big Ten schools…

Watch below as Indiana 2023 commit Gabe Cupps (0 – black) and target Xavier Booker (23 – white) went head-to-head at the Bill Hensley Run-N-Slam in Fort Wayne, Ind. on Saturday. Cupps and his Midwest Basketball Club squad came up short in this contest, but it was the only game they lost over the weekend as they finished 5-1 and claimed the Platinum Division crown at the event. A few others to know in the video:  Kentucky 2023 commit Reed Sheppard is No. 3 in black.  Indiana has had contact with No. 12 in black, 2023 guard Maki Johnson, but…

Defensive end Ryder Anderson will get a chance to make the Green Bay Packers’ roster starting at their rookie minicamp in May the IU football program announced on Sunday. Anderson joined the Hoosiers as a transfer from Ole Miss on Jan. 12, 2021.  He led Indiana’s defensive linemen with 48 tackles, 28 solos, 3.5 sacks (21 yards), and 8.5 for loss (30 yards).  He forced one fumble and added four quarterback hurries  and started all 12 games at end. The 6-foot-6 and 266-pound Texas product was honorable-mention All-Big Ten (coaches). At Ole Miss Anderson played in 37 games (14 starts)…

Indiana made a spring transfer portal add on Sunday when former Tennessee wideout Andison Coby announced his commitment. He appeared in five games for Tennessee and had one reception for five yards in 2021. The 6-foot-2 Coby was a three-star junior college wide receiver who enrolled at Tennessee in January 2021 and then participated in spring practice with the Vols.  He played the 2020 season at Northeast Mississippi Junior College and finished with 24 catches for 422 yards and seven touchdowns. Coby prepped at Coral Springs High School (Coral Springs, Fla.) before finishing his high school career at American Heritage…

Two more Hoosiers have signed NFL undrafted free agent deals on Saturday. Tight end Peyton Hendershot will join Ty Fryfogle in Dallas, and safety Raheem Layne has signed with the Los Angeles Chargers.  Both deals were announced by the IU football program. Hendershot finished his career as the Hoosiers tight ends receptions (136) and yardage (1,479) leader. The three-time All-Big Ten selection finished second with 14 touchdowns. Layne played in 50 career games with 38 (13 starts) at cornerback and 12 (12 starts) at safety. He totaled 147 tackles, 114 solo, 3.5 for loss, one interception, seven pass breakups, two…