Author: Mike Schumann

Campus Ink and Indiana University have announced an agreement that will provide Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) merchandising opportunities for all IU student-athletes, the school announced on Friday. In the fall, the NIL Store powered by Campus Ink will launch a complete merchandising store for Indiana student-athletes, featuring officially licensed ‘shirseys’ and apparel. Every athlete will possess a personalized digital locker room which will house their merchandise. Founded in 1947, Campus Ink announced an investment from famous IU billionaire alumnus Mark Cuban in March. “I’m really excited that the leading NIL company, Campus Ink, and the best university on the…

The four members of Indiana’s recruiting class of 2022 officially arrived on campus on Thursday.  Below is a video and some pictures of their arrival. The celebrated class is ranked No. 8 nationally according to the 247Sports Composite. Hailing from Pittsburgh, 6-foot-5 point guard Jalen Hood-Schifino is a 5-star and ranked No. 22 according to the 247Sports Composite. From Miami, 6-foot-8 power forward Malik Reneau is a 5-star and ranked No. 27. From Fayetteville, Ga., 6-foot-8 hybrid forward Kaleb Banks is a 4-star and ranked No. 84. From Indianapolis, 6-foot-5 shooting guard C.J. Gunn is a 3-star and ranked No.…

Indiana already has one player from southwest Ohio in Logan Duncomb, and a commit in Gabe Cupps.  It’s an area where IU has good connections, and another player they are keeping a close eye on is 2024 power forward Tyler McKinley. Indiana hasn’t offered McKinley to this point but the staff should be able to get a good look at him at the program’s team camp in Bloomington this weekend.  The Cincinnati, Ohio product will be playing there with his Walnut Hills H.S. team. As a sophomore at Walnut Hills, McKinley earned Division I All-Ohio honorable mention honors as he…

We promise we’ll stop with sharing college basketball preseason prognostications here in June, still more than five months away from the start of the season. And further below, we’ll provide you with a cautionary tale. But it continues to be amazing how the tide has turned for an Indiana program that was 16-10 in late February and on a five-game losing streak, and then seemingly on its way to the NIT after a lackluster first 28 minutes against Michigan at the Big Ten Tournament. Just a few months later, we can’t find an outlook for the 2022-23 Hoosiers that places…

In April of 1999, former Indiana Mr. Basketball and McDonald’s All-American Luke Recker announced he was transferring away from the IU basketball program. The news came at a time when transfers were rare in college basketball.  There was no transfer portal, and players had to sit out a season if they chose to move on to another school. Recker had scored nearly 1,000 points in two seasons at IU, and he was third team All-Big Ten as a sophomore.  The idea of transferring was painful for the Waterloo, Ind. product. “This is the toughest decision I have ever made,” he…

Who will be the stars of the 2022 IU football team? Believe it or not, the Hoosiers kick off the season three months from today under the lights against Illinois, and that means we have unofficially started preseason awards and recognition season. Indiana will be on a mission to prove their 2-10 2021 season was the fluke rather than the 2019 and 2020 campaigns that saw the Hoosiers go a combined 14-7. According to Athlon Sports, six Hoosiers will headline that effort to put IU back in contention for a bowl game.  Half of them dealt with injuries in 2021…

By now you’ve seen the predictions, Indiana is emerging as a favorite to win the Big Ten in 2022-23. Several factors are contributing to that notion. First, Indiana has a top ten national recruiting class coming in this fall, and it is viewed as one of if not the best in the Big Ten, right along with Ohio State, Illinois and Michigan.  A least two members of the class, top-30 prospects Jalen Hood-Schifino and Malik Reneau, are widely viewed as players who can come in and contribute meaningfully from day one. Second, the Hoosiers are bringing back All-Big Ten forward…

When we spoke with fast-rising class of 2023 forward T.J. Power a couple weeks ago for a lengthy Q&A, he had a lot on his plate. As a high academic, baseball and basketball star, with an exploding recruitment, he still does.  But his baseball season is over, and at least as it relates to junior year official visits, things are coming into focus. As he told us over the weekend, Power is planning an official visit to IU June 8-10 (update:  he’ll take the visit in the fall according to a report by Andrew Slater).  He’s currently at Virginia on…

When we watched Liam McNeeley a few weeks ago at the Nike EYBL event in the north Indianapolis suburbs, it was clear he was player who didn’t back down from much. Tough-mind, physical and aggressive, McNeeley can influence the game in a number of ways on both ends of the floor with a versatile array of skills and intangibles. At the third EYBL session in Louisville, McNeeley was give the chance to play up, and the class of 2024 5-star fit right in at the 17u level. The Plano, Texas product averaged 10.4 points, 5.4 rebounds, 2.6 assists, 1.8 blocks,…

The return of Trayce Jackson-Davis brought a wave of optimism from fans and media alike when he announced his decision more than a week ago, with many proclaiming that Indiana had catapulted into the Big Ten favorite role. With a little more time to digest what the return of Jackson-Davis truly means, and most of the rosters around college basketball now largely settled, it makes sense to start taking 2022-23 projections a bit more serious. With that in mind, we take a look at the latest “Way Too Early” top-25 released by ESPN’s Jeff Borzello on Tuesday. Borzello slotted IU…