No. 5 Indiana will honor four players in its regular season home finale on Saturday when it hosts No. 22/25 Iowa. Tipoff is set for 4 p.m. Eastern. No. 5/6 INDIANA (19-4, 11-2 B1G) VS. No. 22/25 IOWA (16-7, 10-4 B1G) Saturday, February 19, 2022 • 4 p.m. Eastern Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall • Bloomington, Ind. Broadcast: BTN Plus Indiana needs one more victory to notch its 11th 20-win season in school history. It would be the seventh-straight season with 20 wins or more, the longest streak in program history. Indiana will honor four players as part of Senior Day…
Author: Mike Schumann
It has become a late season tradition in recent years. As the Indiana basketball season turns sour, a small but nasty vocal minority of the IU fan base turns ugly on social media. “Fu$%ing horrendous coaching,” said one commenter on Twitter in response to the official IU men’s basketball Twitter account’s posting of the final score of the Wisconsin game on Tuesday evening. “Mike Woodson ain’t it,” said another. “Woody has been mostly trash this year,” said the next. Those were just the first three of a 181 comment toxic sludge cesspool thread no player, parent or coach should ever…
After watching Illinois run his team off their home court in the second half, Mike Woodson was asked about composure. “I’m not even going to comment on the composure,” he said. Fast forward ten days and Woodson didn’t have to be asked specifically about composure, he offered that it was an issue after his team melted down against Wisconsin in the closing minutes. “I thought we froze,” he said in reference to a lack of offensive execution by his team on their late game possessions that saw IU make just 1-of-10 shots to close the contest. Negative scoring runs are…
First place Indiana pulled away in the fourth quarter to defeat Northwestern 69-58 on Thursday evening in Bloomington. The No. 5 Hoosiers (19-4, 11-2) welcomed back leading scorer and rebounder Mackenzie Holmes, who appeared in her first game since Jan. 5 after having a procedure on her knee. Aleksa Gulbe led IU with 20 points and 12 rebounds. Nicole Cardano-Hillary added 17 points and four assists, and Grace Berger had 15 points and six assists. Holmes started and chipped in six points and six rebounds in 24 minutes of action. Coming off a Monday loss, head coach Teri Moren was…
One of Indiana’s most productive receivers of all-time has passed away. The Daily Hoosier has confirmed with the Allen County Coroner’s office a report by the Indianapolis Star that former IU football wide receiver Damarlo Belcher has died. The coroner’s office indicated to The Daily Hoosier Belcher’s cause of death is still under investigation. His body was found Tuesday in a car in the parking lot of Fairfield Manor apartment building at Fairfield and West Creighton avenues in Fort Wayne, according to a report by WANE. Belcher was 33 years old. He finished his career (2008 to 2011) in Bloomington…
Watch below as class of 2023 IU basketball point guard commit Gabe Cupps led his team to a win over national power Huntington Prep over the weekend. Through 22 regular season games Cupps was shooting 49.8 percent from the field overall including 47.2 percent from three on 89 attempts. He has also made 83.6 percent of his 67 free throw attempts. Cupps has a spectacular 7.2 to 1.1 assist to turnover ratio, and he has added 2.1 steals per game. The floor general is averaging 15.2 points per game. Centerville finished the regular season 22-0 and is now a perfect…
IU is still taking a look at guards in the class of 2022. Senior guard Adou Thiero of Quaker Valley High School in Leetsdale, Penn. visited Indiana for the Wisconsin game on Tuesday. “Had a great time, glad they invited my family and I to watch the game,” Thiero told The Daily Hoosier. Thiero tells The Daily Hoosier he doesn’t have an offer from IU at this time, but the plan right now is for him to come back for a full official visit. His main point of contact at IU has been with director of recruiting Brian Walsh. Positionally…
Watch as new Indiana football associate head coach and running backs coach Craig Johnson met with the media on Tuesday evening in Bloomington. Johnson replaces the outgoing Deland McCullough and arrives at IU with 38 years of experience, including 20 in the collegiate and 18 in the professional ranks. For more on Johnson’s background, GO HERE. https://youtu.be/NFYZGOrfCSw Video credit – IU Athletics The Daily Hoosier –“Where Indiana fans assemble when they’re not at Assembly” Find us on Facebook: thedailyhoosier You can follow us on Twitter: @daily_hoosier Seven ways to support completely free IU coverage at no cost to you.
Listen as iconic voice of the Indiana Hoosiers Don Fischer and retired IU Athletics administrator Kit Klingelhoffer join IU spokesperson Chuck Carney on the IU News podcast for a trip down memory lane to discuss their favorite memories about Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. The pair discusses their first impressions of the building, most memorable games, loudest moments, potential replacement, and much more. Indiana University is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the opening of Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall during this 2021-22 basketball season. For a complete library of podcasts and interviews with current and former IU players, coaches and others, GO…
Indiana is firmly on the NCAA Tournament bubble now after a 74-69 loss to Wisconsin in Bloomington. The Hoosiers led for most of the first half and by as many as seven points with 5:33 remaining until halftime before squandering the lead to trail 32-31 at the break. IU once again seized control in the second half and claimed another seven point lead. They led 66-61 with 3:52 remaining before again giving it away at the end. Let’s take a deeper look at how the Hoosiers lost with another edition of The Report Card. IU (16-9, 7-8) will next travel…