Indiana was never down by more than six in the second half, but they couldn’t seem to get over the hump. When they finally did go in front on an Aleksa Gulbe 3-pointer with 4:26 left in the game, the floodgates opened. The Hoosiers closed the game on a 14-0 run to take down a pesky Minnesota squad 80-70 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. Gulbe led the No. 5 Hoosiers (15-3, 7-1) with a career-high 28 points on 11-of-15 shooting including 4-of-4 from three, and Grace Berger nearly had a triple-double with 19 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists. Minnesota…
Author: Mike Schumann
Mike Woodson has said he believes his father worked himself to death trying to take care of him and his 11 siblings on the near northeast side of Indianapolis in the ’50s and ’60s. And when Chester Woodson passed away in 1971, a 13-year-old Michael Dean Woodson followed suit — he put his head down and got work. Just as he was starting to get serious with the game of basketball, a young Woodson also started to take on jobs to help keep the family afloat, all while trying to keep up at school. The demands on Woodson’s time outside…
Indiana has offered class of 2025 guard Darryn Peterson, he reported on his Twitter page on Wednesday evening. Peterson is a 6-foot-5 freshman guard at Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy in Cuyahoga, Ohio. For AAU basketball he played last spring and summer for Adidas affiliated Wildcats Select based out of Pennsylvania. He played up two age groups for most of 2021 and at times three. There isn’t much in the way of rankings for the class of 2025 to this point, but given his skill level and ability to shine against older competition, Peterson looks like a clear top-25 prospect. 247Sports…
Juwan Burgess will seek a sixth season in college football elsewhere. A redshirt senior in 2021 for Indiana, Burgess played in 11 games as a reserve safety and on special teams. He registered 14 tackles including one for a loss. Over his four year playing career he appeared in 42 games and had 76 tackles including five for loss to go with three passes defended, two forced fumbles and three fumble recoveries. He redshirted the 2017 season. His best year was 2019 when Burgess started seven games, had 29 tackles, and shared the team lead with two forced fumbles and…
Indiana head football coach Tom Allen announced on Wednesday the signing of defensive lineman J’mari Monette and quarterback Brendan Sorsby to National Letters of Intent to play for the Hoosiers in 2022. Monette and Sorsby close out IU’s signing class at 32 student-athletes. Twenty-two of the 32 signed National Letters of Intent, while 10 transfers will suit up for Indiana in the fall. The 10 include quarterback Connor Bazelak (Missouri), linebacker Jared Casey (Kentucky), defensive lineman LeDarrius Cox (Ole Miss), running back Josh Henderson (North Carolina), outside linebacker Myles Jackson (UCLA), linebacker Bradley Jennings Jr. (Miami), defensive lineman Patrick Lucas…
Indiana has made a late addition to its recruiting class of 2022 on the traditional national signing day. Alexandria (La.) High School defensive lineman J’Mari Monette has signed to play in Bloomington for the Hoosiers IU announced on its Twitter page on Wednesday. According to the 247Sports Composite, Monette is a 3-star prospect, the No. 1139 overall player in the class of 2022 and the No. 139 defensive lineman. “He’s a big, athletic defensive lineman,” Tom Allen said of Monette on Wednesday. “Played defensive end in high school, played a little inside, we expect him to be a three-technique. Just…
Indiana is relatively healthy right now and has been throughout Mike Woodson’s first season in Bloomington. After Trey Galloway returned from wrist surgery last month, the Hoosiers have had 12 or 13 scholarship players available for just about every game. Of course the notable exception at this moment is Rob Phinisee, who is dealing with plantar fasciitis. After Phinisee was unable to finish the Penn State game last week, Woodson said his senior point guard was “day-to-day” when it came to returning to the floor, but he was seen the next day at Maryland in a walking boot and getting…
Disaster appears to have been averted on the recruiting front. Two of Indiana’s top-rated recruits in program history say they intend to stay in Bloomington despite their father leaving the program. Class of 2022 top-100 4-star linebacker Dasan McCullough announced on Tuesday “I’m Home” in a graphic on his Twitter page that included a photo of him wearing an Indiana hat. His father Deland McCullough, who was Indiana’s running backs coach in 2021, is reportedly leaving IU to take the same position at Notre Dame. To his son’s post Deland McCullough responded “Yes indeed!” The 6-foot-5 and 235 pound Dasan…
Coming into Mike Woodson’s first season as the Indiana head coach, there was a lot of talk about his preferred 4-out, 1-in offensive system. As that first season progressed and the strengths and weaknesses of the team emerged, however, 4-out largely went, well, out, and a new term — “buddy ball” — was heard with regularity as IU started to play more of a two-man post game with star forwards Race Thompson and Trayce Jackson-Davis. But with Jackson-Davis and Thompson spending more time in the paint, Woodson found himself straying from the offensive system that made him a successful NBA…
A combination of rust and a major void at center meant Indiana couldn’t keep up with No. 6 Michigan on Monday evening. Coming off a 15-day layoff and playing without leading scorer and rebounder Mackenzie Holmes, the No. 5 Hoosiers fell 65-50 in Ann Arbor in a top-10 showdown. A disastrous third quarter that saw Indiana score just six points created one too many deficits to overcome. “Disappointed that we didn’t play very well tonight,” head coach Teri Moren said. “We’re not a program that makes excuses, but I do think we looked like a team that had been off…