Indiana football head coach Tom Allen joined The Fan Morning Show this week to discuss the latest with the team as they wait for the 2020 season to begin. Allen talked with hosts Jeff Rickard and Joe Staysniak about several topics — What they are working on now Classroom situation and interacting with the student body The team’s readiness to play on short notice What the coaches were told about why season was postponed Observations on player development IU was originally scheduled to open this season today at Wisconsin. Want us to share your interview with a current or former…
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OG Anunoby called game on Thursday night, and saved Toronto’s playoff hopes in the process. With the Raptors trailing 2-0 in the series and down 103-101 with a half second left, Anunoby was open on the wing. Anunoby took a perfect pass from Kyle Lowery and quickly hoisted a shot from behind the arc just before the clock ran out to deliver a game-winning three for Toronto as the buzzer sounded. https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/1301690870006272000?s=20 https://twitter.com/NBA/status/1301698546299744261?s=20 Anunoby was calm and composed both after he made the shot and in the post-game interview. It was a demeanor that IU fans grew accustomed to during…
Asheville, North Carolina is not Maui, but perhaps still better than Indiana in November? According to a report by CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein, the annual event in Hawaii might be moving more than 4,500 miles east. https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/status/1301537111447949313?s=20 If the event has in fact found a new home on the mainland, organizers will still have at least one additional complicating factor to contend with. The PAC-12 conference has canceled all athletics until January 1, meaning Stanford would not be allowed to participate unless the league walks back that decision. The Maui Invitational was scheduled to begin on Nov. 23, but it…
After a wave of class of 2022 guard offers, Indiana has found its next frontcourt target. IU has offered Maryland based junior center Favour Aire. The Daily Hoosier has learned that Indiana extended the scholarship offer to Aire earlier this week. Aire is the latest of several prospects that new IU assistant coach Kenya Hunter is recruiting from Washington D.C.’s so-called “DMV” basketball hotbed. Specifically, Aire hails from one of the more fertile areas in the country when it comes to hoops talent — Prince George’s County. The 6-foot-10 plus Aire is relatively new to the United States, arriving from…
The possibilities for playing the 2020 Big Ten football season are all over the map right now. In the last couple weeks, Oct. 10, Thanksgiving week, early January and late January start dates have all been floated. Now imagine you are strength and conditioning coach trying to prepare a team to be ready for week one. Whenever that is. The college football calendar has been set in stone for generations, until 2020. And strength and conditioning programs have been precisely engineered with those calendars in mind to have football players in peak condition for the season. Of course all of…
Indiana’s class of 2022 priority targets continue to emerge. IU head coach Archie Miller offered top-40 guard Jordan Hood-Schifino on Wednesday. Hood-Schifino announced the offer on his Instagram page. Hood-Schifino originally committed to Pittsburgh in December, 2019, but backed out this summer. As with Miller and new assistant Kenya Hunter, Hood-Schifino is from the Pittsburgh area. The 6-foot-5 Hood-Schifino is still being recruited by Pittsburgh along with Kansas, Florida and others. Prior to committing to Pittsburgh, Hood-Schifino had offers from Florida, Clemson, Wake Forest, Georgia Tech, Ole Miss, Wichita State, South Florida, Virginia Tech, Illinois and Charlotte. Although he is…
Recruiting site 247Sports has updated its rankings for the basketball class of 2021. Indiana has at least seven active recruitments ongoing in the class, and one commitment. Below we summarize where each player stands in the latest rankings along with some updated commentary on their recruitment as it relates to IU. After a summer where there was little to no competitive AAU basketball around the country, the rankings probably carry less significance than normal. But the update still serves as a good opportunity to check in on where things stand with IU’s top targets, and how each player has developed…
The IU basketball program formally introduced new assistant coach Kenya Hunter today. The program broke some news in its announcement when it clarified that Hunter will be a co-associate head coach along with fellow assistant Tom Ostrom. Statements from both head coach Archie Miller and Hunter are below. Hunter’s background prior to arriving in Bloomington is further below. Hunter arrives at IU after two seasons at UConn under head coach Dan Hurley. He was on the opposing bench when Indiana defeated the Huskies at the Jimmy V Classic in December. Hunter worked primarily with UConn’s big men during his time…
IU basketball legend Isiah Thomas joined long-time NBA player Thurl Bailey on the Thurl Talk podcast. Thomas goes in depth on his early life and also discusses his life during the pandemic, the current social unrest, and impressions of The Last Dance. At IU, Thomas started every game he played. He was a member and leader of two Indiana teams that won Big Ten Championships. During his second and final season at IU, Thomas led the Hoosiers in scoring and set a single-season school record for assists with 197. In the 1981 national championship game, Thomas led all scorers with…
Alex Dickerson hit them early, far, and often on Tuesday night. The former IU slugger had a three home run and five extra base hit night in Colorado as the Giants routed the Rockies 23-5. Here are all three of Dickerson’s home runs. The first landed in the upper deck at Coors Field and was one of the longest shots there in the Statcast era. https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1300959425319108609?s=20 https://twitter.com/SFGiants/status/1300964406004768768?s=20 https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1300993225650573312?s=20 On the night, Dickerson finished 5-for-6 with 3 home runs, 2 doubles, a walk and 6 runs batted in. He scored 5 times. Dickerson hit his third home run in the sixth…