After a strong showing to end his summer AAU season, Indianapolis based guard C.J. Gunn earned an offer from IU. The 6-foot-5 Lawrence North High School product announced the offer on his Twitter page on Thursday night. https://twitter.com/CJ_Gunn22/status/1296613533833207810?s=20 Led by head coach Archie Miller and assistant Tom Ostrom, IU has had a regular dialogue going with Gunn all summer. Gunn recently told The Daily Hoosier what stood out about Indiana. “Just the chemistry. It seems like the coaches really care about me,” Gunn said. “Just that they even took time out of their day to give me a Zoom call.…
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This one has been in the works for a while. Indiana offered class of 2022 West Virginia based guard Isaac McKneely on Thursday. McKneely reported the offer on his Twitter page. https://twitter.com/IsaacMcKneely/status/1296588238438780929?s=20 McKneely took an unofficial visit to Bloomington in December in connection with the basketball game against Arkansas. From there, the McKneely has had a regular dialogue with Archie Miller and the IU coaching staff. McKneely averaged 22 points per game as a high school sophomore, and he converted on 45-percent of his 3-point attempts. He added 4 rebounds and 3 assists per contest. The Poca H.S. product helped…
The renewal of the Indiana and Kentucky college basketball series is a popular topic for the fans and media, but until recently we hadn’t heard much from the head coaches. Kentucky head coach John Calipari shared his thoughts in an interview with IU alumnus Mark Cuban in April. This week, IU head coach Archie Miller weighed in. Miller was asked on the Aaron Torres Sports Podcast whether he believes the series will ever be reignited. “I do,” Miller said. “Number one, it’s a great game, and it’s going to generate great fanfare, it’s going to generate great camaraderie with the…
Indiana basketball head coach Archie Miller joined the Aaron Torres Sports Podcast this week to discuss a number of topics. Miller and Torres talked about the safety protocols the program has been following during the pandemic, whether a college basketball bubble will work, IU’s outlook for the 2021 season, the infamous Joe Lunardi Sesame Street comments, and much more. The nearly 40 minute interview with Miller is below. https://youtu.be/NCiX904B_Ao Find us on Facebook: thedailyhoosier You can follow us on Twitter: @daily_hoosier The Daily Hoosier –“Where Indiana fans assemble when they’re not at Assembly” Seven ways to support completely free IU coverage at no…
It is always a challenge to keep the top high school football talent in the state of Indiana home. That will be true once again with an in-state prospect ranked inside the national top-100 in the class of 2023. Recruiting service 247Sports released its first class of 2023 rankings, and Merrillville, Ind. linebacker Drayk Bowen cracked the top-100 as the No. 61 player in the country. The 2023 rankings will of course fluctuate in the coming years, but as it stands Bowen is just the fourth in-state player in the last five years to be included in the 247 top-100,…
The high only lasted a couple hours. That is just how it is in 2020. A quick dose of good news, followed by the latest kick in the gut. As they competed at their first day of fall training last week, IU’s soccer players and coaches did so knowing that the thrill might soon be gone. It didn’t take long. “On our first day of training we were definitely riding a high and then a couple hours later it was ‘by the way, you guys are not playing any games this fall,'” midfielder Joe Schmidt told reporters this week. Things…
After intense scrutiny from administrators, coaches, players, fans and the some members of the media, Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren has expanded on the league’s rationale for postponing fall sports. In an open letter to the Big Ten community, Warren laid out several factors that led the league’s university presidents and chancellors to vote for postponement. Warren also reiterated that the decision will not be revisited, while introducing the concept of a “winter” season if the conditions are acceptable. Warren’s full letter follows. An Open Letter to the Big Ten Community I write on this occasion to share with you…
Former IU basketball great Cody Zeller has been a regular on podcasts in 2020, but this one might be the best. Zeller gave an entertaining 45 minute interview with his friend Matthew West. The interview with Zeller starts at the 12 minute mark. Want us to share your interview with a current or former IU athlete, coach or recruit on our platform? Message us. Find us on Facebook: thedailyhoosier You can follow us on Twitter: @daily_hoosier The Daily Hoosier –“Where Indiana fans assemble when they’re not at Assembly” Seven ways to support completely free IU coverage at no additional cost to you.
When we last heard from Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren, the rationale for cancelling fall sports, including football, could not have been more clear. “Our overarching issue that we had to always keep at the top of our mind was that the health, safety, the wellness, both physical and mental for our student athletes, was going to be at the top of my list,” Warren told Dave Revsine on the Big Ten Network. Since that interview last week, the only thing that now seems clear is that player safety and wellness was not central to the decision. Truth be told,…
IU basketball legend Quinn Buckner recently joined the Tom’s Talks/76ers podcast network to talk about his history of winning at all levels of the game of basketball. Buckner was a state champion in high school in Illinois, a national champion at IU, an Olympic gold medalist, and an NBA champion with the Boston Celtics. Note: There is some introductory talk about the Pacers at the beginning. Go to the eight minute mark if you would like to skip ahead to Buckner discussing his career with Tom McGinnis, including plenty of discussion of his IU days. Want us to share your…