It has been a while since we have seen good video of class of 2021 Indiana forward target Mason Miller. The Memphis-based 6-foot-9 Miller and other players that IU is involved with participated in the Hoop City Pro Week in July. Class of 2022 guard Skyy Clark also played in the Memphis event. Clark moved to Tennessee from California during the offseason. He will attend Brentwood Academy in the Nashville area. One other player in the videos, 2021 Memphis-based forward Johnathan Lawson, has also received interest from Indiana. Below is nearly 18 minutes of video of the three players. The…
Author: Mike Schumann
From perfectly healthy to the emergency room. From preparing for a college football season to battling breathing and heart issues. That is the story shared in a Facebook post by Debbie Rucker, the mother of Indiana freshman offensive lineman Brady Feeney. Feeney tested negative for COVID-19 when voluntary workouts began several weeks ago. Since then, he and several other players tested positive. Feeney battled the virus for 14 days according to Rucker’s post, and Indiana shut down the voluntary workouts for two weeks. Indiana restarted workouts on Friday, while Feeney continues to battle with complications. Rucker’s full post follows: “My…
Brownsburg, Ind. based class of 2021 offensive tackle Joshua Sales verbally committed to Indiana on Saturday. The 6-foot-6 and 300 pound Sales spoke with The First and 1G Podcast about his decision. Sales is one of the highest rated offensive line commits for Indiana during the recruiting rankings era. He will arrive in Bloomington next year with the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of six Hoosier offensive linemen who are currently on NFL training camp rosters. See also: More background on Sales and his junior season highlights. You can find all of the First and 1G podcast episodes…
For the first time we can take a clear look at the 2020-21 Big Ten conference men’s basketball race. All of the key NBA Draft early entry decisions have been made, and with that we present our first power rankings for the upcoming season. While it wasn’t easy to pick a favorite, there is a clear hierarchy in the league. This is how we see the Big Ten race shaking out for the 2020-21 campaign. THE TOP TIER 1. ILLINOIS The return of Ayo Dusunmu and Kofi Cockburn, along with other key contributors and strong freshmen guards, propels Illinois to…
When it comes to AAU basketball, the summer before your senior year of high school is the summer. National travel, the highest profile events, and the top competition. That is what Indiana class of 2021 verbal commit Logan Duncomb was expecting for his last run with the Indiana Elite AAU program. The pandemic induced reality has of course been much different. The AAU season should have kicked off in April, but Duncomb’s squad didn’t play their first game until late June. That’s actually a better outcome than some AAU programs around the country who are still waiting for a green…
Maurice Freeman gave his mother a birthday present on Saturday when he announced his college choice. Indiana fans got a gift too. A class of 2021 Virginia based safety, Freeman announced that he has verbally committed to IU on his Instagram page on Saturday afternoon. https://twitter.com/757reese/status/1289660002509000706?s=20 “I want to thank my coaches, my family, God, Freeman said on his Instagram Live stream. “I’m committed to Indiana University. I can’t wait. I’m a Hoosier!” Freeman attends Oscar Smith High School in Chesapeake, Virginia. He intends to skip his senior season of high school football as the state of Virginia postponed the…
Indiana continues to produce a strong in-state group of commits in the class of 2021. Brownsburg, Ind. offensive tackle Joshua Sales became the fifth Indiana based product in the class to verbally pledge to IU when he announced his commitment on Saturday. Sales broke the news on his Twitter page. https://twitter.com/JSales77/status/1289592495190360064?s=20 Sales recently told 247Sports’ Steve Wiltfong what he liked about the IU program. “I really like the culture of Indiana,” Sales told 247Sports. “It also helps being close to home and me having visited a couple times. On top of that the coaching staff there is amazing, Coach (Tom)…
Indiana is intent on rounding out the 2021 class with versatile, long athletes in the shooting guard through power forward roles.’ An under the radar player that IU has been tracking over the last few months is New York based wing Sean Durugordon. A versatile 6-foot-6 talent with a 7-foot wingspan, Durugordon averaged a double-double at Canterbury School last year with 23 points and 11.5 rebounds per game. He led his team to a 25-2 record and the NEPSAC-B championship while making 52 percent of his field goals, shooting 44 percent on 3-pointers, and hitting at a 78 percent clip…
After a two-week layoff, the Indiana football program has resumed voluntary workouts. IU had paused workouts on July 17 after six positive cases of COVID-19 within the program. While the team has resumed training, there is still uncertainty as to the status of the 2020 season. It is widely expected that a revised Big Ten only 2020 schedule will be released in the coming days. However, that schedule will by no means ensure that things moves forward, as rumors persist that the season will be postponed until the spring. IU would have started its fall camp next week, but the…
High major college basketball coaches don’t make evaluations and offer scholarships based on stat lines. If they did, Indiana head coach Archie Miller would have likely taken a wait-and-see approach with Connecticut based class of 2022 point guard Avery Brown. Brown averaged 6.6 points, 4.1 assists and 1.1 steals per game for the 2019-20 season at Northfield Mount Herman in Massachusetts. That’s a perfectly fine sophomore season for a good player in one of the country’s toughest leagues, the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC). NMH reached the Final Four in the National Prep Championship, while winning the NEPSAC…