Author: Mike Schumann

The roster news continues for Indiana in what has been a hectic offseason since a March 11 loss to Rutgers in the Big Ten Tournament. In just the last few days redshirt senior center Joey Brunk entered the transfer portal and landed at Ohio State, and IU next received a commitment Monday from class of 2021 top-60 guard Tamar Bates. On Tuesday Northwestern transfer Miller Kopp committed to IU. The latest scholarship chart reflecting those changes is below.  With the addition of Kopp, IU is presently oversigned by one player for the 2022-23 season, although the transfer portal remains open…

Mike Woodson upgraded his arsenal of shooters on Monday. Class of 2021 guard Tamar Bates has committed to Indiana and will join the program for the upcoming 2021-22 season. The 6-foot-5 top-60 guard announced the news on his Twitter page on Monday morning. https://twitter.com/tbates_11/status/1384146790023254022?s=20 Bates is a native of Kansas City who who played a starring role for one of the nation’s top programs at Bradenton (Fla.) IMG this season. Bates asked to be released by Texas from his national letter of intent after former Longhorns’ head coach Shaka Smart departed. He chose Indiana over Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Marquette, Oregon,…

New Indiana assistant coach Dane Fife appeared recently on The Drive with Jack Ebling. The former star IU player and longtime Michigan State assistant coach spoke with Ebling for nearly 40 minutes about the coaching influences in his life and other topics. Fife has the rare combination of playing under Indiana legend Bob Knight, and working under Michigan State great Tom Izzo.  Moreover, his father Dan Fife is one of Michigan’s best ever high school coaches.  He talks extensively about all three. For more interviews with current and former IU players and coaches, GO HERE. Find us on Facebook:  thedailyhoosier You…

Watch below the junior season highlights for one of the top players in the state of Indiana, class of 2022 guard Will Lovings-Watts. The 6-foot-5 Lovings-Watts has had an ongoing dialogue with Indiana going back to his freshman year. The long and athletic guard averaged 16.3 points and 6.3 rebounds per game while shooting 58 percent from the field overall including 48 percent from beyond the 3-point arc.  He helped lead Jeffersonville to a 15-7 record and a sectional title in 2021. Lovings-Watts is currently ranked No. 177 nationally in the class of 2022 according to the 247Sports Composite.  The…

Indiana doesn’t have a long history of successfully recruiting players from South Carolina, but with a new staff of assistants the Hoosiers are venturing into untapped geography. Noah Clowney is one of two big men from the Southeast who received Indiana offers over the weekend as assistant coach Yasir Rosemond helps the program establish more of a presence in the area. Clowney announced an offer from IU on his Twitter page. https://twitter.com/NoahClowney/status/1383179772096827393?s=20 With Clowney, Indiana appears to be involved relatively early in a recruitment that appears destined to accelerate rapidly this spring and summer. While he has historically been described…

The top-seeded Indiana men’s soccer team earned the Big Ten Tournament Championship Saturday, defeating No. 2 seed Penn State on penalty kicks at Jerry Yeagley Field at Bill Armstrong Stadium in Bloomington, Ind. Following a 1-1 contest, the Hoosiers were victorious on penalty kicks, 3-2, to claim their third consecutive tournament title and fourth overall. Indiana becomes the first program to win three consecutive Big Ten Tournaments since Maryland claimed three in a row from 2014-16. With today’s victory, Indiana earns the Big Ten’s automatic qualifier into the 2020-21 NCAA Championship. Indiana’s Victor Bezerra was named Offensive Player of the…

Joey Brunk won’t be playing his sixth season at IU, but he will be playing against the Hoosiers in the Big Ten for the 2021-22 season. The Indianapolis, Ind. native announced on Saturday evening he intends to play his final season of college basketball at Ohio State.  Brunk broke the news on his Twitter page. Embrace your journey #gobucks pic.twitter.com/fctSouTBxN — Joey Brunk (@JoeyBrunk) April 18, 2021 The move to Columbus reunites Brunk with his former Butler head coach Chris Holtmann. Brunk committed to Butler in 2015 when Holtmann was the head coach at the Indianapolis based school.  Holtmann left…

New Indiana assistant coach Yasir Rosemond hit the ground running on Friday with a pair of offers to class of 2022 prospects based in the Southeast. The first we’ll take a quick look at is top-100 forward Kaleb Banks. The 6-foot-8 Banks announced an offer from IU and Rosemond on his Twitter page. https://twitter.com/Kalebb_3/status/1383188279642763265?s=20 Hailing from Fayetteville, Ga., Banks plays school ball for Fayette County.  As a junior there he averaged 23.5 points and 8.5 rebounds per game while shooting 63 percent from the field overall including 38 percent from behind the arc on 105 attempts.  He led Fayette to…

Intriguing names seem to pop into the transfer portal on a near daily basis. One of the latest is Oklahoma’s second leading scorer De’Vion Harmon, a combo guard  who hails from Texas. Adam Zagoria was the first to report Indiana’s interest in Harmon, and others including 247Sports followed. Harmon averaged 12.9 points, 3.4 rebounds. 2.1 assists, and 1.1 steals per game for the Sooners in 2020-21. The lefthander shot 47.7 percent from the floor overall including 33.0 percent from behind the arc, making 33 threes.  The 6-foot-2 Harmon finishes well at the rim and takes care of the ball reasonably…

Since what seems like forever the state of Indiana has produced enough local talent to provide the IU basketball program a solid foundation to build its roster from. In fact, the last two head coaches prior to Mike Woodson both used the phrase “inside-out” at their introductory press conferences to describe their seemingly logical Indiana first recruiting strategies. Ultimately, inside-out turned, well, inside-out, as Tom Crean and Archie Miller lost their ways to varying degrees landing kids from the Hoosier State.  Each coach built early momentum keeping the local talent home, but then Crean’s relationships with key local folks deteriorated,…