Author: Mike Schumann

On Saturday Indiana announced all of the spring 2025 graduating athletes. The full release from IU Athletics follows. ——————————————— Indiana Athletics Celebrates Spring Graduates BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The Indiana Department of Athletics honored 120 graduates on Saturday, May 10, upon commencement from Indiana University. “Congratulations to the Indiana University Class of 2025! Commencement is a special day, and I am particularly excited for our student-athletes who can now call themselves Indiana University graduates,” said IU Vice President and Director of Athletics Scott Dolson. “I look forward to welcoming them back as alumni and lifelong fans of IU Athletics and this great university.…

Longtime IU Athletics physician and former All-Big Ten football player Brad Bomba, Sr. has passed away.  He was 89. His grandson and IU football player James Bomba posted about his passing Friday on Facebook: “It’s with a heavy heart that I share the passing of my grandpa. He was the backbone of our Bomba family. His presence felt larger than life. Filling every room with warmth and wisdom. Even though he is no longer physically with us, his spirit will live on in all the lives that he impacted. Rest in peace, Grandpa. Until we meet again.” Bomba was on…

Indiana will get a June visit from class of 2026 wing Sammy Jackson according to Dushawn London of 247Sports. His visit is set for June 13-14 and will be followed by a visit to Texas on June 16-17. Jackson also announced an offer from IU on Friday evening. The 6-foot-7 Jackson attends Roman Catholic H.S. in Philadelphia.  He helped lead Roman to the PIAA 6A title game and averaged 13.4 points, 4.9 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.2 steals per game.  He made 51 threes on his junior season. Based on the average of the national recruiting sites, Jackson is a…

The NCAA Men’s Basketball Rules Committee at its meeting this week in Indianapolis proposed changes to help enhance the flow of the game for the 2025-26 season. Recommendations include a coach’s challenge at any point in a game to review out-of-bounds calls, basket interference/goaltending and whether a secondary defender was in the restricted-area arc. Committee members also recommended modifications to the rule on continuous motion on field goal attempts. Other enhancements to help with the flow of the game included new emphasis for the basketball officials for 2025-26. Points of emphasis will include directives to address delay-of-game tactics, limit time…

Indiana’s wave of class of 2026 news continued into Thursday evening as Kansas-based center Ethan Taylor announced he’d received an offer from the the IU staff. The 7-foot-1 and 245-pound Taylor specifically thanked new IU assistant coach Rod Clark when announcing his offer on X. Taylor also has high major offers from Missouri, Oklahoma, Purdue and Tennessee so far.  Clark was an assistant coach at Tennessee until recently and he’s from the Kansas City area.  Tennessee offered Taylor last June. Looking at the national recruiting sites, Taylor is a consensus 4-star, and on average ranked No. 49 overall in the…

The new Indiana staff has re-offered class of 2026 point guard Tay Kinney this week. Kinney is the No. 18 overall player in the 2026 class according to the latest On3 industry average.  He’s a consensus national top-5 point guard in the class. The prior IU staff offered Kinney a scholarship in February of 2024. In December Kinney announced his recruitment is down to 15 schools — Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Cincinnati, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kansas State, Kentucky, Louisville, Notre Dame, Oregon, Purdue, Tennessee, and Xavier. The school to note of those 15 appears to be Tennessee, where new IU assistant…

Indiana offered class of 2026 combo guard Prince-Alexander Moody on Thursday. He announced the offer on his X page. After a great conversation with @Coach_DeVries I just received an offer from @IndianaMBB Go Hoosiers!! Thank you Coach DeVries, I am grateful! Thank you Lord! 🙌🏾🙌🏾 I will Stay Da Course @RayBrew4 🙏🏾🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/DInfp6a9Di — Prince -Alexander Moody (@prince_a_moody) May 8, 2025 The 6-foot-4 and 180-pound Moody attends Bishop McNamara H.S. in Maryland. According to the average of the national recruiting sites, Moody is a 4-star recruit, the No. 108 overall player in the 2026 class, and the No. 27 shooting…

Indiana is capitalizing on relationships in the Washington D.C. metro area to get involved in one of the most competitive recruitments in the class of 2026. Jordan Smith, Jr. announced on Thursday afternoon he received an offer from the new IU staff. Smith is a 5-star prospect according to ESPN, 247Sports and Rivals.  He’s a consensus national top-10 prospect and the No. 1 shooting guard in the glass. Playing for Paul VI (Fairfax, Va.), Smith helped lead his nationally ranked high school team to a 27-6 record against national and top regional competition. On film the 6-foot-2 Smith looks the…

With spring practice out of the way and majority of roster reconstructions complete, it’s time to look ahead to rankings for the 2025 football season. Indiana was nowhere to be found in any preseason models last year — human or computer. But after an 11-2 season that included an 8-1 Big Ten record and a CFP appearance, the perception of IU football has changed dramatically under the direction of second-year head coach Curt Cignetti. ESPN’s Mark Schlabach published his “2025 post-spring Way-Too-Early Top 25 rankings” on Thursday and slotted Indiana in as the preseason No. 17 team.  If IU is…

IU football coach Curt Cignetti has spent his entire life around college football, and he’s seen plenty of change along the way. But there’s been nothing like the last five years, as name, image and likeness (NIL) and the transfer portal have completely reshaped the landscape of college athletics. Cignetti didn’t lead a team on the field as head coach until he was 50, so while some coaches around his age (63) have stepped away in the face of this new era, he’s just hitting his prime as the leader of a Power Four program.  And that has meant this…