Author: Mike Schumann

The Big Ten Network released a video of each of Indiana’s 28 touchdowns from the 2020 season from multiple angles. The Hoosiers stormed through their Big Ten only schedule with a 6-1 regular season that included wins over Penn State, Michigan, Michigan State and Wisconsin.  IU came up short in the Outback Bowl against Ole Miss. Stevie Scott led the way for IU with 10 touchdowns.  Ty Fryfogle (7), Peyton Hendershot (4), Whop Philyor (3), Michael Penix (2), David Ellis (1) and Miles Marshall (1) were the other Hoosiers to find the end zone.  Penix threw for 14 touchdown passes…

Indiana wide receiver Camron Buckley met with the media this week to discuss his decision to transfer to IU from Texas A&M, and his thoughts on the upcoming season. Buckley missed the entire 2020 season due to injury. He suffered a season ending knee injury during fall camp in August, 2020, his final campaign at Texas A&M.  He graduated with a university studies degree in Dec. 2020. Buckley  caught 11 passes for 121 yards in 13 games in 2019. He turned in his best statistical campaign in 2018 when he collected 34 catches for 474 yards and one TD. Buckley…

Watch below as Deland McCullough II talks with the media about joining the IU football program and the upcoming season. Deland II was the second of three sons who have chosen to play for Indiana where their father is running backs coach Deland McCullough.  The family lived in Bloomington from 2011 to 2016 during Deland I’s first stint as IU running backs coach. Deland II is the oldest of four McCullough boys.  He will be joined on the IU football team in 2022 by his brother Dasan, and in 2023 by his brother Daeh. Arriving at IU from Miami (Ohio),…

Indiana coach Mike Woodson made his first class of 2023 scholarship offer on Thursday night.  And the offer went to a priority position in the incoming high school junior class. Illinois based point guard Jeremy Fears, Jr. announced on his Twitter page he had received the offer from IU upon concluding an unofficial visit in Bloomington. https://twitter.com/jeremy_fears/status/1403148908549881870?s=20 Fears, Jr. is a 4-star recruit in the class of 2023, hovering near the 5-star line.  247Sports lists him as the No. 23 overall player in the class, and the No. 7 point guard.  The 6-foot-1 Fears, Jr. hails from Joliet, Ill. and…

Indiana has had a strong run during the offseason plucking high end talent from well known programs out of the transfer portal. Could they be primed to now do the same for a second time from the high school ranks? Already IU has seen Deland’s McCullough’s class of 2022 top-50 4-star son Dasan flip from Ohio State to the Hoosiers.  Now the elder McCullough is looking to add to his position room next fall. Indiana offered Little Rock, Ark. running back James Jointer a couple weeks ago.  The 6-foot and 205 pound Jointer committed to Arkansas in March, but he…

As a freshman at McCutcheon he had the high school gyms in North Central Indiana buzzing during a memorable 2019-20 campaign. In the summer of 2020 he put on some dazzling performances for Indiana Elite’s 2023 AAU squad, including a memorable head-to-head tussle with now Purdue 2022 commit Braden Smith. One thing was clear — there was something very different about this kid.  And the results were predictable. Dravyn Gibbs-Lawhorn was labeled a 5-star recruit in the class of 2023, and in-state programs Indiana and Purdue offered scholarships. But since then things have gone pretty quiet.  And that is in…

Phil Bova’s three decade Big Ten officiating career mostly overlapped with Bob Knight’s time at Indiana.  So of course he has some stories to tell. Most notably, Bova was officiating the game on February 23, 1985 against Purdue when Knight threw a chair across the floor at Assembly Hall.  He goes in depth on that moment and tells several other stories about Knight and officiating in the Big Ten on the Dennis Manoloff Show. To purchase Bova’s book “Throwing Back the Chair” discussed on the podcast, GO HERE TO BUY ON AMAZON. For a complete library of podcasts and interviews…

We continue our class of 2023 names to know series with Ohio based point guard Lawrent Rice. Indiana has been in communication with Rice for a long time, going back to last summer, well beyond when Mike Woodson took over the program in late March. After watching him last month at the Run-and-Slam in Fort Wayne, Rice’s high major trajectory was obvious.  A high end athlete, Rice stands at 6-foot-3 and he has the great combination of ability to create his own shots and look for and set up his teammates.  Rice has good point guard attributes as a competitor,…

New Indiana running back Stephen Carr met with the media on Tuesday. Carr came to USC as the nation’s No. 3 running back in the 2017 class, according to the 247Sports Composite. A 5-star prospect out of Summit High School in Fontana, California, Carr played for then Trojans’ and now IU running backs coach Deland McCullough during his freshman campaign in Los Angeles. Listed at 6-foot and 215 pounds, Carr has rushed for 1,329 yards on 264 carries (5.0 average) with 12 touchdowns in four seasons with USC. Also proficient as a pass catcher, he has amassed 57 receptions for…

Auburn transfer defensive end/bull Jaren Handy met with the media on Tuesday afternoon. The 6-foot-5, 255-pound junior from Hattiesburg, Miss., recorded three tackles including two for loss and a sack in limited action as a reserve for the Tigers in 2020. The sack came against Alabama and the tackle for loss came against Northwestern in the Citrus Bowl. As a true freshman in 2019, Handy recorded seven tackles in seven appearances. He was an all-state player at Hattiesburg High School.  As a recruit in the class of 2019, Handy was a 4-star and ranked the No. 100 overall player in…