Author: Mike Schumann

When Indiana offered Virginia-based forward Nate Ament a year ago, he was a highly-ranked prospect on the radar of several top programs. Now he’s a consensus top-10 5-star in the 2025 class, and the main schools recruiting him are most of the biggest brands in college basketball. At 6-foot-9 with versatile inside-and-out skills, Ament is the prototype for the modern game. Although he enjoys one of the more competitive recruitments in the country, Ament is trying to stay level headed. “I’m just taking it one day at a time.  I’m grateful,” he told The Daily Hoosier in Rock Hill S.C. …

Indiana baseball’s Nick Mitchell was chosen Monday in round four of the 2024 Major League Baseball Draft, while former Hoosiers Carter Mathison and Connor Foley went in the fifth round. All three are Indiana natives. An outfielder, Mitchell was chosen with the 136th overall pick by the Toronto Blue Jays.  His fellow outfielder Mathison went with the 162nd pick to the Phillies, while Foley was taken by the Diamondbacks with the 164th pick. Earlier in the day, pitcher Luke Sinnard was chosen by Atlanta in the third round, giving IU four players chosen in the first five rounds.  That’s a…

IU baseball pitcher Luke Sinnard has come full circle after suffering a serious injury at the 2023 NCAA Regional in Lexington. Although he missed the entire 2024 campaign following Tommy John surgery, the 6-foot-8 righthander from Hendersonville, Tenn. was selected with the 99th overall pick in the third round of the 2024 Major League Baseball Draft by the Atlanta Braves. Now fully recovered, Sinnard pitched for scouts in Bloomington and made a trip to the 2024 MLB Draft Combine where he was a standout with his spin rate and velocity numbers. In 2023, Sinnard, set the Indiana single-season strikeout record…

Indiana doesn’t have a long, storied history of successfully recruiting players from South Bend, Ind. But it has happened. Damezi Anderson is the most recent example, but you had to go back to the 70s to find a South Bend product who went to IU before him.  And the northern Indiana city has certainly produced talent in recent years, with NBA guards Blake Wesley and Jaden Ivey both playing high school basketball in the area in the last five years. Of course South Bend is the home of Notre Dame, and it is closer to Purdue and the Michigan schools…

Last week saw all of the top national talent in the class of 2025 in action at various events. And starting on Thursday, college coaches were out for the first July live period. All of that activity brought news as it relates to Indiana’s top targets in the rising senior class. Priority 2025 guard Jalen Haralson has visits scheduled to Indiana, Notre Dame and Michigan State already, and he told Adam Zagoria this weekend he wants to expand that list to include Auburn, Duke, Kansas, Gonzaga and Purdue.  Haralson has a top-nine that includes all of those schools.  He wants…

Most sport books are putting the over/under for IU football’s projected win total in 2024 at 5.5. But football analytics outlet Pro Football Focus (PFF) has a bit more promising outlook for the Hoosiers. First the not so pretty.  PFF has slotted Indiana in at just 87th nationally in their power rankings, with a two percent chance to win the Big Ten. But the outlet is projecting 6.7 wins for Curt Cignetti’s first IU team.  They say Indiana has a 72% chance to reach bowl eligibility. Helping the cause is a 2024 strength of schedule that ranks 58th in the…

ROCK HILL, S.C. — Mike Woodson and assistant coaches Kenya Hunter, Yasir Rosemond and Brian Walsh are all on location at the Adidas 3SSB on Friday morning. The main attraction is the Indiana Elite 2025 team featuring priority targets Braylon Mullins, Trent Sisley and Malachi Moreno.  That team plays at 11 ET and could have a second game on Friday if they win in tournament action. Woodson and the staff were seated for a 9:45 a.m. ET game involving the Indiana Elite 2026 squad featuring 5-star wing Anthony Thompson and other prospects. The Adidas 3SSB features several more Indiana prospects,…

The reunion of Yogi Ferrell and Juwan Morgan later this month during The Basketball Tournament should only be the beginning for the 2015-16 IU basketball teammates. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica announced on Monday they’ve signed Morgan to a one-year deal.  Ferrell played for the Montenegro based club last season and has re-signed with them for 2024-25. Morgan played last season in Russia with Zenit St. Petersburg, where he averaged 7.4 points and 4.7 rebounds in 15 VTB League games.  He started the 2023-24 campaign with another Russian team, Runa Basket Moscow, averaging 13.6 points, 6.6 rebounds and 1.4 steals in 28…

Be on the lookout for the cream and crimson wearing red, white and blue in two weeks. Twenty Indiana University athletes and coaches will participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics, the school said in a Thursday release. Indiana has tied its second-largest group of Olympians all-time, having produced 20 Olympians in 1976 and a record 23 in 1968. Hoosiers will represent nine different countries, marking a school record. The 2024 Paris Games will officially kick off with the opening ceremony July 26 at 1:30 p.m. ET, with IU athletes competing the next day. NBC and Peacock will provide live video…

ROCK HILL, S.C. — The Daily Hoosier caught up with class of 2025 4-star forward Trent Sisley this week at the Adidas 3SSB Finals. Sisley has been in the news a lot lately with a narrowing of his recruitment and a transfer to Montverde Academy. Our full Q&A with Sisley is below. ———————————– TDH:  You announced the transfer to Montverde for your senior year.  I assume that’s a basketball development move.  What do you want to get out of that move developmentally? Sisley:  “Yeah, like you said, it’s all about bettering myself, developing.  Coach (Kevin) Boyle, great coach, well respected,…