Indiana will host St. John’s in connection with the 2021 Gavitt Games. The news was first reported by Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports. The game will be held on Nov. 17 in Bloomington. The Hoosiers are 5-2 all-time against St. John’s, with the last meeting coming in 2016 in connection with the Maui Invitational. The Hoosiers won that matchup 83-73. St. John’s last win in the series was a 1999 NCAA Tournament contest. Future Indiana Pacers’ star Ron Artest had 13 points and five steals in that game. The Red Storm were 16-11 in 2020-21. Led by now third year…
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Class of 2023 forward Xavier Booker took an unofficial visit to Indiana on Wednesday. He left the Bloomington campus with a scholarship offer from head coach Mike Woodson and the IU program. Booker announced the offer on his Twitter page. https://twitter.com/RealXman23/status/1407830445098668042?s=20 Booker is a player we have covered here going back to April when he started to emerge on the travel circuit with his George Hill All Indy U-16 squad. The Cathedral High School (Indianapolis, Ind.) product soared up the Rivals’ 2023 rankings earlier this month, from unranked all the way to the No. 35 spot nationally in the class.…
As was to be expected, Indiana continues to look to Georgia for prospects since the hiring of assistant coach Yasir Rosemond. The latest player from that state to emerge on the IU radar is combo guard Jakai Newton, who the Hoosiers offered earlier this week. Newton announced the offer on his Twitter page this week. https://twitter.com/jakai_newton/status/1407502136586420225?s=20 Hailing from Covington, Georgia, Newton attends Newton High School. For travel basketball he runs with the Atlanta Express on the Under Armour Circuit. The 6-foot-3 Newton was recently ranked No. 90 in the 2023 class by Rivals in the most expansive rankings for the…
They won’t have to deal with that bitter taste in their mouths very long. Just weeks removed from their runner-up showing in the NCAA Tournament, the IU men’s soccer program can already look ahead to another season. Indiana men’s soccer head coach Todd Yeagley announced the schedule for the 2021 season on Tuesday afternoon. The schedule will feature 11 home games and a non-conference slate for the first time since the 2019 campaign. The list of opponents includes four teams ranked inside the top-60 of the final RPI rankings from a season ago. “We are very excited to welcome our…
Justin Taylor isn’t wasting any time. Just days removed from wrapping up his planned campus visits, the class of 2022 top-100 wing has announced his final five schools and a commitment date. According to a Twitter post by Joe Tipton, Taylor is down to a final five of Virginia, North Carolina, Indiana, Virginia Tech and Syracuse. The 6-foot-6 Taylor will announce his decision this Saturday, June 26. Hailing from Charlottesville, Virginia, Taylor is a 4-star recruit, currently ranked No. 84 overall nationally in the 2022 class. Taylor visited all five of his final schools. Indiana was his most recent visit,…
Indiana locked up its quarterback for the class of 2022. Rockwall, Texas based incoming senior signal caller Josh Hoover announced his commitment to Indiana on Tuesday. The 6-foot-1 and 206 pound Hoover passed for 3,556 yards, 36 touchdowns and 12 interceptions with a 63% completion rate for his 2020 junior season with Rockwall-Heath. Hoover is a 3-star recruit and ranked No. 528 overall in the class of 2022 according to the 247Sports Composite. He is the No. 36 overall quarterback in the class according to that same service. A two sport athlete in football and baseball, Hoover was named the…
Indiana isn’t finished identifying prospects in the class of 2022. On Tuesday morning the Hoosiers offered incoming senior big man Ernest Udeh, Jr. of Orlando, Fla. Udeh announced the IU offer on his Twitter page. https://twitter.com/ernestudehjr/status/1407328863517040643?s=20 The 6-foot-10 Udeh is currently ranked No. 113 overall in the class of 2022 according to the 247Sports Composite. He is the No. 14 center in the class. Udeh appears set to rise up those rankings in the coming months. Just in the last two weeks he has received offers from Indiana, Kansas, Cincinnati, Tennessee, Illinois, Alabama, Stanford and Miami, Fla. In addition, Udeh…
Watch below as IU football freshman wide receiver Jordyn Williams meets with the media for the first time. An ESPN four-star prospect, Williams played his first three years at Westover High School in Albany, Ga., before moving to Trinity Christian in Cedar Hill, Texas, to play for Deion Sanders, who served as offensive coordinator. He caught 50 passes for 1,466 yards and 10 touchdowns as a senior. Williams was an early enrollee and participated in 2021 spring practice with Indiana. See also: Williams senior season highlights https://youtu.be/YECPrWdlmyQ Video credit – IU Athletics More 2021 freshman and transfer introductory Q&As: Joshua…
Mike Roberts grew up in Terre Haute, Ind. before moving out to Oregon for high school when his father took a job on the West Coast. But eventually, after a brief stop in New Hampshire, Roberts found his way back in Indiana when he started his college basketball career at IU. And so began a series of circular moves that likely has Roberts’ head spinning at this point. He went to work at Texas Tech as a graduate assistant under Bob Knight in 2005 before heading back out west to California, before heading back to Texas to serve as an…
Indiana went the local route for its latest class of 2023 scholarship offer. After watching him play on Saturday, IU offered a scholarship to Indianapolis based guard Myles Colvin. Colvin announced the offer on his Twitter page. https://twitter.com/mylesjcolvin/status/1406325482283573255?s=20 This particular offer is an interesting one for Indiana. Colvin’s father Rosevelt Colvin was a star defensive end at Purdue in the late ’90s before going on to win a couple Super Bowls with the Patriots. His sister Raven is a freshman for the Purdue volleyball team. The Daily Hoosier caught up with Colvin briefly after the IBCA Top 100 Showcase in…