Author: Mike Schumann

Only seven players that saw the floor from the 2018-19 Indiana basketball team will be back for the 2019-20 campaign as of this writing.  While formal practices have concluded, the work never stops for high major college basketball players.  Growth and development happens in the offseason, in individual workouts and permitted organized team activities. If you could talk to each of the seven returning players about their 2018-19 season and what they need to improve going forward, what would you say?  We play Archie for a day and give it a shot with “Exit Interviews.” DAMEZI ANDERSON Quick 2018-19 Recap: Anderson…

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The in-state recruiting class of 2021 is loaded, and one of the two players gaining the most notoriety at the top of the list is Fort Wayne’s Caleb Furst. Furst, who attends Blackhawk Christian School, is ranked as the No. 31 player in the country according to the 247Sports Composite.  He has interest from a number of programs around the Midwest in a recruitment that appears likely to keep expanding. Indiana offered the 6-foot-9 forward a scholarship in October.  Furst has been to Bloomington on multiple occasions and he attended a game in February against Ohio State. For his sophomore…

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The Adidas Gauntlet AAU circuit was in Indianapolis last weekend.  Below are videos from that event of class of 2020 Indiana basketball recruiting targets Anthony Leal, Zach Loveday and Keon Johnson. ANTHONY LEAL Leal is a 6-foot-5 shooting guard from Bloomington, Indiana.  According to the 247Sports Composite, Leal is ranked 82nd overall in the country (No. 20 shooting guard), and first in the state of Indiana. The Bloomington South High School product has offers from Butler, Stanford, Northwestern and others.  IU has not yet offered Leal. https://youtu.be/HsFBAnnv6Go ZACH LOVEDAY Loveday is a 7-foot-0 center from Gallipolis, Ohio.  He played his…

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UPDATE:  Harris tweeted out pictures in an Indiana uniform.  As his tweet states, he has not committed. https://twitter.com/MANZANT3/status/1119670255503200256 Indiana has a chance to close out its 2019 recruiting class with a strong late finish.  The Hoosiers signed Joey Brunk this week, and now perhaps their most likely remaining target on the board arrived in Bloomington on Friday. Indiana tried to get Fairfax, Virginia native Anthony Harris on campus last year for an official visit, but it never happened. Harris abruptly ended his recruitment with available official visits remaining in early October, committing to Buzz Williams and Virginia Tech. When Williams…

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Let’s get it out of the way — you can’t blame a teenager for chasing a dream. And we don’t. But there are life lessons along the path to those dreams.  You can’t ignore that either. A lot of top flight Indiana high school quarterbacks have chased their dreams beyond the borders of the Hoosier state over the last decade. In 2011, Columbus’ Gunner Kiel did it, breaking a commitment to IU to chase a dream at LSU.  That journey ultimately saw him spend a redshirt season at Notre Dame before pulling together a modest three years at Cincinnati. In…

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They say you can’t go home again. Perhaps a better way to say it is that you could go home again — but do you really want to? Former Indiana University basketball star Cody Zeller is back in his hometown of Washington, Ind. this week and it has apparently been eye opening for the NBA veteran. Zeller, who signed a 4-year, $56 million contract extension in 2016 has likely grown accustomed to a slightly different lifestyle than what he knew in Washington growing up. The 7-foot-0 big man just finished his sixth season in Charlotte and decided to visit family…

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Indiana will have two class of 2019 four-star guards on campus over the course of just a few days. As previously reported, 2019 four-star shooting guard Lester Quinones is planning to take an official visit to IU April 24-26. Before he arrives, class of 2019 four-star guard Anthony Harris will be in Bloomington. Based on reports by recruiting services Rivals and 247Sports, Harris will be taking an official visit at Indiana this weekend.  He will then take an official visit to North Carolina on Monday. Prior to committing to Virginia Tech, Harris had taken official visits to Duke, Wake Forest…

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Substantial insight was gained today with regard to Indiana’s 2019-20 Big Ten basketball schedule. Once again the Hoosiers will play 20 league games and will meet six of the conference’s 14 teams one time. Here are the opponents according to the IU basketball program via Twitter: https://twitter.com/IndianaMBB/status/1118590284626051073 Overall it appears to be a fairly favorable schedule. The clear good news is that Indiana will only play likely league favorite Michigan State one time, in Bloomington.  Iowa is another team that is expected to be good next year that IU will only see once at home.  Northwestern is a clear bottom…

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Cody Zeller came back to Bloomington on Tuesday to take a look at the new locker room at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall and the new player lounge that bears his name. A lot has changed since Zeller left Indiana for the NBA in 2013.  IU’s home court got a makeover and a new name, the new locker room, and that lounge to name a few. One thing hasn’t changed much. Indiana has never had a more talented big man playing the five since Zeller left, and more often than not it hasn’t even had a five playing the five. Whatever…

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It’s better late than never. After missing on class of 2016 recruit Joey Brunk, Indiana has landed the commitment of 2019 graduate transfer Joey Brunk. https://twitter.com/JoeyBrunk/status/1118257812839313409 Having just finished his redshirt sophomore season, Brunk will have two years of eligibility left. The 6-foot-11 center chose Butler over IU and others way back in 2015 before his senior year of high school.  He was rated as a 4-star recruit in the class of 2016. Brunk is immediately eligible for the 2019-20 season and fills a need on Indiana’s roster in a conference full of big post players. An Indianapolis native, Brunk…

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