Author: Mike Schumann

Former IU football quarterback Fernando Mendoza has signed his first NFL contract with the Las Vegas Raiders Mendoza was selected in the first round by the Raiders in April’s NFL Draft. According to Spotrac, Mendoza signed a 4-year, $57,270,598 contract with Las Vegas, including a $38,111,344 signing bonus, $57,270,598 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $14,317,650. The Raiders took Mendoza with the No. 1 overall pick. He will continue to wear No. 15 in the NFL. He is one of five former Hoosiers at Raiders training camp, joining Roman Hemby, E.J. Williams, Jonathan Brady and Ian Thomas. Raiders rookies…

Indiana’s first commit in the 2028 class is one of the nation’s top rising junior quarterbacks. Lukas Prock announced Thursday afternoon he has committed to IU over fellow finalists Florida, Michigan, Notre Dame and Ohio State. Following the commitment of 2027 5-star Monshun Sales, IU has now landed the top-two highest-rated recruits in program history — in less than a week.  Prock comes in second after Sales, and they project to connect on the field as a quarterback-receiver duo in a few years. “I have a ton of belief in Coach Cignetti that he is going to sustain the success…

In his first season as a head coach in the Big Ten, IU basketball’s Darian DeVries watched the best teams in the league pound the offensive glass. Four of the Big Ten teams who at least made the Sweet 16 in March Madness and finished in the top seven in the conference standings were among the top-55 nationally in offensive rebounding rate.  That includes Elite Eight teams Michigan, Illinois and Purdue.  Second place Michigan State was the other. Meanwhile IU struggled to earn second chances.  Indiana ranked 16th among Big Ten teams in conference games with just a 24.4% offensive…

Indiana has offered class of 2028 big man Hudson Hatch. A product of Charleston, South Carolina, Hatch attends Christ School in Arden, North Carolina.  That’s the same school that produced IU freshman wing Trevor Manhertz.  They were teammates last year. Christ School plays a national schedule in the EYBL Scholastic league.  In 11 games there as a sophomore he averaged 7.3 points and 5.2 rebounds. The 6-foot-10 Hatch has a 4-star ranking from ESPN. For travel basketball Hatch plays for Team Loaded on the Adidas 3SSB Circuit. He hit the game-winning three to lead that team to the 16u championship…

Six former Hoosiers saw the floor in NBA Summer League action this month across three different locations. Here’s how they performed: Sam Alexis, Oklahoma City Appeared in three games in Las Vegas and posted 3.3 points in 10.2 minutes per contest.  He shot 57.1% from the field whiled adding 3.0 rebounds, 1.7 steals and 1.7 blocks.  Also played in a game in Salt Lake City and posted two points, five rebounds and an assist in 9.7 minutes. Reed Bailey, Phoenix Played in three games, averaged 6.5 minutes, and did not score.  He averaged 1.0 rebounds per game. Tucker DeVries, Boston…

Former IU basketball big man Sam Alexis showed up in Peru today to join the IU basketball team at the FISU America games. What is that all about?  Is former still the right description for Alexis? With Turkish center Samet Yigitoglu unable to play for Team USA, head coach Darian DeVries wanted to add more frontcourt depth on the trip, and allow Aiden Sherrell to play some this week at power forward — the role he’ll likely have for most of the 2026-27 season. “Adding Sam just gives us some more versatility without two of our other bigs, just to…

Former IU basketball forward Sam Alexis has joined the 2026-27 Hoosier squad for its international games in Peru this week. Indiana is playing as Team USA in the FISU America games.  Event rules allow players from other teams to join Team USA.  Baylor had a player from Yale last year. The 6-foot-9 Alexis only played four seasons of college basketball and could pursue a fifth year via the courts if he so chooses.  The NCAA recently passed a prospective five-year eligibility rule but did not extend that option to players who exhausted their eligibility in the 2025-26 year under the…

It seems IU football coach Curt Cignetti is having a Field of Dreams effect on newly hired college football coaches. If you make viral comments, the wins will come? New Kentucky head coach Will Stein, the former offensive coordinator at Oregon, did just that at his SEC media day podium appearance this week. Stein was asked why he thinks it’s possible to win at Kentucky, a program that has just three double-digit win seasons and two conference titles in its history. Stein couldn’t respond “Google me” because he’s never been a head coach.  So he just left out the Google…

IU basketball will represent the USA in the fourth edition of the FISU (International University Sports Federation) America Games in Lima, Peru over the next week. The event will feature 15 sports and span 13 days of competition from July 20 through August 1. USA men’s basketball will open group play against Peru, the host nation, at 6 p.m. ET on Tuesday, July 21, at the VES Sports Centre. The final group-stage contest will be played against the Virgin Islands at 6 p.m. ET on Thursday, July 23, at the VES Sports Centre. Elimination rounds will begin on Saturday, July…

Was Arkansas head coach John Calipari trolling Indiana fans Monday afternoon? “You know we like to play anybody, anywhere, anytime,” Calipari said in a recorded statement on social media soon after a neutral site nonconference game between IU and Arkansas was announced. The Hoosiers and Razorbacks will play on Nov. 17. Anywhere, John? After all, Calipari was solely responsible for the 14 year disruption of the Indiana/Kentucky non-conference series, a pause that began following a 2011 buzzer beater by Indiana’s Christian Watford that set off a court storm for the ages. After that, Calipari refused to bring his team back…