Former Indiana wide receiver and NFL Network broadcaster Rhett Lewis has been named the Hoosiers new football radio analyst, IU Athletics and IU Sports Properties announced on Monday afternoon. Lewis will replace Buck Suhr, who announced his retirement following the 2021 season. Lewis played for Indiana from 2001-05. He graduated with a B.S. in sports broadcasting in 2005 and a M.S. in sports administration in 2006. “You don’t stop being a Hoosier when you take the helmet off for the last time,” Lewis said in a release from IU Athletics. “The passion ‘For the Glory of old IU’ always remains.…
Author: Mike Schumann
Indiana University men’s basketball coach Mike Woodson has announced that Steven Surface, who has worked with the program the past six years, has been promoted to Director of Basketball Operations. He will be involved with the daily operations and organization of the program, scheduling, team travel, compliance, on-campus recruiting, summer camps and team meals. Surface replaces Benny Sander, who left last month to join former IU head coach Archie Miller at Rhode Island. “Steven has shown that he is an invaluable member of our staff and his transition in taking on new responsibilities should be seamless,” noted Woodson in a…
An fan favorite is calling an end to his overseas basketball career and coming back to the IU basketball program. Indiana University men’s basketball coach Mike Woodson has announced that Bloomington native and 2013 Big Ten champion Jordan Hulls will become the Hoosiers Team and Recruiting Coordinator, the school said on Monday. Hulls will begin his tenure following the conclusion of his season, his ninth as a professional, in the German BBL League where he has played for MHP Riesen in Ludwigsburg, Germany since 2020. Hulls is taking the role vacated by Brian Walsh, who was recently promoted to assistant…
Indiana will have a chance to make it a trifecta with national prep school powerhouse Montverde Academy this summer. Class of 2023 5-star forward Kwame (K.J.) Evans told Rival’s national analyst Rob Cassidy over the weekend he plans to take an official visit to Bloomington in June. “Arizona is next up in June. After that, it’s Indiana,” Evans told Cassidy, discussing his visit plans for the group of schools he is considering. Evans named a top-five earlier in the spring of Oregon, Kentucky, Indiana, Auburn and UCLA, but that list has since expanded to include Arizona, a program Evans is…
Indiana entered the offseason knowing it would have some attrition via the transfer portal. With 16 players signed when the season ended and just 13 scholarships available, something had to give prior to the 2022-23 season. And it did. Four from this past season — Khristian Lander, Michael Durr, Parker Stewart and Rob Phinisee joined the around 1,500 college basketball players who hit the transfer portal this spring. All four were in the portal soon after the season, signaling decisions that didn’t require a lot of deep thought. Were they forced out? Again, something did have to give, but we’ll…
Indiana had a visitor from the Bluegrass State on Friday. Hailing from a high school of just 260 students, Lyon County, Ky.’s Travis Perry is on pace to become the state of Kentucky’s all-time leading scorer. “Had an awesome time on my unofficial visit to Indiana University!,” Perry wrote in a Twitter post on Friday. “Great day meeting all the coaches and seeing the beautiful campus and facilities. Thank you to the coaches for the invite and hospitality!” Although he will just be entering his junior year of high school, Perry has already scored over 3,000 points during his prep…
Indiana big man Trayce Jackson-Davis received an important invite in his quest to play in the NBA. The All-Big Ten performer was invited to participate in the 2022 NBA Draft Combine May 16-22 according to multiple reports. The combine will include executives and scouts from all 30 teams. Each year each NBA team submits a list of the players they would like to see invited, typically those with the highest odds of getting drafted. Players who are invited to the Combine see their odds of being drafted go up substantially. According to a 2019 report by Syracuse.com, an average of…
Watch Below as former Indiana guard Matt Roth spoke with WANE 15 News about accepting the head coach position at Blackhawk Christian in Fort Wayne, Ind. Roth came to IU from Washington Ill. and played in Bloomington from 2008 to 2012 under Tom Crean. During IU’s 2011-12 season he shot a Big Ten best 54.5 percent from 3-point range (2nd best ever at IU) and 59.2 percent in league games (an IU record). He tied for 10th all-time in IU career 3-point field goal percentage (41.4 percent). Further below is a video compilation of Roth making 3-pointers for IU. He…
The Daily Hoosier caught up with class of 2023 forward JQ Roberts at the Bill Hensley Run-N-Slam in Fort Wayne, Ind. over the weekend. As a junior, the Bloomington High School North product averaged 14.4 points and a team high 9.1 rebounds per game during the 2021-22 season, as he helped lead the Cougars to the semistate round of the Indiana Class 4A tournament in March. This spring Roberts is running once again with the 2023 Indiana Elite program on the Adidas 3SSB Circuit. Indiana offered Roberts in October and they have stayed in contact. Here’s the latest with the…
After six weeks of chaos, Indiana’s 2022-23 roster seems to be down to just a couple moving parts, the most significant of which is Trayce Jackson-Davis’ NBA Draft decision. The Greenwood, Ind. product put his name in the Draft last month, and he has since been preparing in California for the opportunity to show NBA teams what he is capable of at the next level. Jackson-Davis was invited to the NBA Draft Combine, which runs from May 16-22 in Chicago. He will have until June 1 to decide whether to stay in the Draft or return to college for his…