Author: Mike Schumann

Gabe Cupps isn’t scheduled to arrive at Indiana for more than a year, but already his spring schedule has sent him to the Hoosier State on multiple occasions. Playing for the Midwest Basketball Club, Cupps has spent two weekends in Fort Wayne and another in Noblesville over the last month. The Centerville, Ohio point guard has been a vocal supporter of IU basketball since he committed to the program in November, and when he finds himself in Indiana, he has noticed that love is reciprocated. “It’s awesome,” Cupps said of the support he is receiving from IU fans while on…

With the WNBA Draft and transfer portal deadlines behind us, it seems like a good time to look forward in women’s college basketball, and ESPN did just that when it published a so-called “way-too-early” top-25 for the 2022-23 season this week. Author Charlie Creme thinks Indiana will continue its recent run of nationally relevant high-level play.  He placed the Hoosiers in his top-25 at No. 11, and Creme believes despite some key losses, IU’s transfer portal additions might make them a more well-rounded team next season. “Losing Nicole Cardano-Hillary, Ali Patberg and Aleksa Gulbe won’t be easy, but the additions…

Wichita State transfer Dexter Dennis took an official visit to Indiana a few weeks ago, and went straight to Clemson from there. Since then his list of potential landing spots for his final season of college basketball has only seemingly grown. The 6-foot-5 Dennis announced a final-six on Wednesday that included Indiana and Clemson, along with Kansas State, Vanderbilt, Texas A&M and Georgia Tech.  A return to Wichita State appears to be off the table. Dennis started in 27 of Wichita State’s 28 games and finished second on the team in minutes per game with 31.1. He averaged 8.4 points…

T.J. Power has had high major offers and interest for a while.  But things went to another level during the first recruiting live period in early April. After a repeat performance two weeks later, a new wave of offers and interest has followed. Playing for Boston-based BABC on the Nike EYBL Circuit, the 6-foot-9 Power averaged 18.3 points on 44.3 percent shooting from three and added 8.3 rebounds, 4.5 assists, and 1.5 blocks per game in the northern Indianapolis suburbs two weeks ago. Indiana has had coaches watching Power play this spring, and they jumped into the fray on Wednesday…

Former Indiana head coach Archie Miller had never really gone in depth publicly on what went wrong during his four year stop in Bloomington. Until Wednesday. Now a first-year head coach at Rhode Island, Miller went one-on-one with inbound Indiana media school student Talia Goodman on the “Off the Carousel” series on the Field of 68. Goodman asked Miller if there was anything he would have done different during his time at IU.  Here is his full response: (The full interview by Goodman with Miller is below) “We recruited good players, we recruited good kids. I was happy to watch…

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…