Author: Mike Schumann

One of Indiana’s first offers in the class of 2026 went to Jonathan Sanderson. And part of the reason why is the Hoosiers have a family connection with the top-50 4-star guard. Sanderson is the son of Jon Sanderson, who was named the director of men’s basketball performance at Vanderbilt a couple months ago.  The elder Sanderson previously held that same role at Michigan for 15 years, and he’s an alumnus of the Ohio State basketball program. Through his time in the industry, Sanderson’s father has built a relationship with IU basketball Director of Athletic Performance Clif Marshall. “Great guy. …

For the first time ever, there is an IU basketball alumni team at The Basketball Tournament (TBT). With eight former Hoosiers on the roster, Assembly Ball tips off Friday evening in the first round of the event. Here’s more information on television, rosters, the bracket and how TBT works. ——————————————- No. 1 Assembly Ball vs. No. 8 The Cru — round of 64 Tip Time: 8 p.m. Eastern, Friday Location: Hinkle Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, Ind. Television: Big Ten Network Streaming:  TBTLive Assembly Ball Roster Assembly Ball is the first ever IU alumni themed team to play in the TBT and features…

Basketball recruiting news continues to pour in from events across the country as AAU action is coming to an end and the top players in the class of 2025 are pivoting to list cuts and visits. You’ve known about 2025 center Malachi Moreno’s September Indiana visit for a while. Multiple outlets reported this week his visit list has swelled to five schools: Ohio St- 9/6 North Carolina- 9/13 Indiana- 9/20 Arkansas- 10/4 Kentucky- 10/11 Moreno says he also wants to visit the other three schools in his top eight — Iowa, Louisville and Notre Dame — but it won’t come…

Class of 2025 7-footer Eric Reibe is in the process of narrowing things down. The Maryland-based center announced his top-11 schools through multiple national outlets on Thursday and included Indiana. The other 10 programs on the list are UConn, Kentucky, UNC, Kansas, Creighton, Oregon, Harvard, West Virginia, Ohio State, and Stanford. Indiana offered Reibe more than a year ago, back in May of 2023.  Their interaction with him has been relatively quiet since.  But the lefty center’s profile has been on the rise this spring and summer, in part because he is a good shooter. A native of Germany, he…

We’re down to three-and-a-half months to the start of the 2024-25 college basketball season. And after completely overhauling their roster during the offseason, Indiana appears by almost all accounts to be a national top-25 caliber team and a Big Ten title contender. But with so many teams, and rosters in flux across the league, it’s difficult to compare and contrast the programs.  That’s especially true in the Big Ten, where Bart Torvik currently projects all 18 teams to fall within the No. 16 to N0. 74 spots nationally this upcoming season. There doesn’t appear to be a strong conference favorite,…

Six of the eight former IU basketball players on the roster for Assembly Ball, the alumni team in The Basketball Tournament, have been in Bloomington the last few days preparing for the event. Jordan Hulls, Yogi Ferrell, Troy Williams, Juwan Morgan, Devonte Green and Race Thompson have been practicing in Cook Hall and appeared at events at Upstairs Pub and BuffaLouies.  Christian Watford has also played in integral role in organizing the team, and he’s been in Bloomington as well. Below are several photos posted on social media of the former players. Assembly Ball plays their first game in the…

IU baseball outfielder Devin Taylor has a chance to challenge Kyle Schwarber’s standing as the highest draft choice in program history. Just a day after the completion of the 2024 MLB Draft, Baseball America published a projection of the 2025 Draft. That outlet projects Taylor will be the No. 4 overall choice next summer.  Schwarber was the No. 4 overall choice in 2014. This is what Baseball America had to say about Taylor: Taylor was the first Hoosier to earn ABCA All-America status since 2014, when former IU standouts Schwarber, Sam Travis, Dustin DeMuth and Joey DeNato achieved the same…

Indiana has been after 2025 point guard Mikel Brown for more than two years. And their initial scout and projection on a then young and unranked 5-foot-10 prospect has proven to be prescient. Now 6-foot-3, Brown is a 5-star in the rising senior class according to the On3 Industry Average.  He’s the No. 12 overall player, and the No. 2 point guard nationally according to that outlet. And of course, all of that means his recruitment is very competitive. A Florida product, Brown was in Indiana with Overtime Elite during the NBA All-Star weekend, and he had planned to make…

IU football tight end James Bomba is the program’s 2024 nominee for the prestigious annual Allstate AFCA Good Works Team. A native of Bloomington, Bomba received a scholarship prior to the 2022 season.  He became the third generation of his family to earn a football scholarship to Indiana.  His father, Matt Bomba (1990-92), was a walk-on that earned a scholarship, while both of his grandfathers, Brad Bomba (1954-56) and Bob Van Pelt (1964-66), were on scholarship at IU. Bomba appeared in 11 games with seven starts in 2023.  For his career he has played in 20 games and has produced…

Dante Nori chose not to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather.  They both played baseball at Indiana.  He chose Mississippi State. But as it turned out, Nori will be skipping college altogether, and there’s a good chance he’ll be reunited with an IU baseball legend in the near future. And it’s someone he knows well. Nori was chosen in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft on Sunday.  With the 27th overall pick, the Philadelphia Phillies chose the Northville, Mich. product. Soon thereafter, Nori received a text message from Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber, Todd Zolicki…