Author: Mike Schumann

Two years ago Northwestern achieved its longest-winning streak ever in Bloomington. On Tuesday evening, the Wildcats can claim their longest-winning streak all-time in the 118-year Big Ten series. Indiana has dominated the series against Northwestern, 120-57.  The Hoosiers didn’t lose at all to the Wildcats from 1971 to 1981, or from 1988 to 2003.  But the tables have turned over the last five years. At five, Northwestern has currently tied its longest-ever run of wins against IU, and can set the all-time mark at six on Tuesday.  The Wildcats can also extend their winning streak in Bloomington to four.  The…

With Selection Sunday now less than three weeks away, we are once again taking a weekly look at IU basketball’s chance to make the Big Dance. And there’s just no way around it — the Hoosiers are squarely on the March Madness bubble. Indiana remains likely in the NCAA Tournament despite an 0-1 week that featured a blowout loss that was not helpful to the cause.  One thing is certain — they’ll need more wins to stay comfortably in the field.  At least two, probably three. Once again, the NET rankings serve as the primary sorting tool for Division I…

While his stay in Bloomington will be brief, Lamar Wilkerson continues to etch his name in the IU basketball record book. On Friday evening in West Lafayette, Wilkerson set the new program single-season record for 3-pointers made in Big Ten contests. Wilkerson is up to 55 made threes in league games.  He passed program legend Steve Alford’s 54, set in 1987, the first season the 3-point arc came into existence for college basketball.  Wilkerson has made 55 of 147 attempts from long range this season in conference games.  Alford made 54 of 108 threes in Big Ten games in 1987.…

This one was never really in doubt. Purdue scored the first six points of the game, and extended the lead to double digits for good with 6:52 left in the first half.  The Boilermaker lead would swell to 17 points at halftime, 22 points just over two minutes into the second half, and 32 points with 5:43 left in the game. Let’s take a deeper look at how Indiana lost 93-64 in West Lafayette with our latest edition of The Report Card. The Hoosiers (17-10, 8-8) will host Northwestern on Tuesday. —————————————- OFFENSE (C+) Indiana started the game like a…

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Indiana lost to Purdue Friday evening at Mackey Arena by a final score of 93-64. The three keys to the game and final stats are below.  Highlights will be added shortly. Purdue led 46-29 at halftime.  IU was led in the game by Lamar Wilkerson with 20 points. For Darian DeVries and Tucker DeVries postgame, GO HERE. Indiana (17-10, 8-8) returns to action on Tuesday when the Hoosiers host Northwestern. THREE KEYS TO THE GAME 1. Slow offensive start.  Over the first 12 minutes plus of the game, Indiana was just 5 of 14 from the…

The Daily Hoosier can confirm multiple Friday reports — Indiana and Curt Cignetti have once again reached new contract terms. The latest deal increases Cignetti’s average annual salary to $13.2 million per year, and appears to come as a result of a “Good Faith Market Review” clause in his prior deal that requires IU and Cignetti to negotiate new terms that keep him among the three-highest paid college football coaches each time Indiana makes the College Football Playoff semifinals. Based on recent reporting, only Georgia’s Kirby Smart and LSU’s Lane Kiffin have deals with an average salary at or in…

Former IU football safety Louis Moore’s college career is over.  He will be at the NFL Draft Combine next week. But somehow, his eligibility case involving the NCAA is ongoing. Last summer Moore filed suit against the NCAA after the organization deemed he had exhausted his college eligibility.  He got a temporary injunction in the courtroom, which allowed him to play the entire 2025 national championship season for Indiana. Since he no longer required court protection to play college football, last month Moore dismissed his own lawsuit against the NCAA. The NCAA filed an appeal related to the temporary injunction,…

The loss of Stephen Daley after the Big Ten Championship game was massive in the eyes of the IU football coaching staff. Immediately after the program’s first ever league championship game win, Indiana defensive coordinator Bryant Haines had no reason to suspect anything was wrong with his star defensive end. After all, Haines had just seen Daley “I hugged Stephen Daley as soon as the game ended.  So I knew that the game was over, the clock said 00:00 and we were Big Ten champs,” Haines said on 103.7 The Buzz in Arkansas last week.  “So I remember that, and…

Whenever IU coach Curt Cignetti saw Michigan State wide receiver Nick Marsh, he came away impressed. That includes watching Michigan State film to prepare for the Spartans, and to prepare for other Big Ten teams. Oh, and on the field against Indiana too. Marsh scored touchdowns against Indiana in each of the last two seasons.  He had seven catches for 64 yards and a score in Bloomington this past season, and five catches for 78 yards and a score in 2024 in East Lansing. “I’ve seen Nick Marsh two years in a row, up close and personal,” Cignetti said last…

Although his brother was playing with the Hoosiers in 2024, Fernando Mendoza says he had never been to the state of Indiana before his official visit to IU. And while many believe Alberto Mendoza’s presence in Bloomington made his brother’s transfer from Cal to IU a lock, Fernando says it wasn’t that simple. “There’s a lot of other spots I was looking at seriously,” Fernando said on a Dallas radio interview this week. In fact, Fernando was uncomfortably close to becoming a Georgia Bulldog. “Really what it came down to was Indiana and Georgia,” Fernando said.  “Kirby (Smart), great recruiter,…