Author: Mike Schumann

Former IU basketball star Trayce Jackson’s time with Golden State has come to an end. According to a report by ESPN’s Shams Charania, he has been traded. “The Golden State Warriors have traded center Trayce Jackson-Davis to the Toronto Raptors for a 2026 second-round pick via the Lakers, sources tell ESPN,” Charania wrote on X. TJD is in the middle of his third NBA season, all with Golden State until this evening.  His minutes and production have dropped off this season. Through 36 games in 2025-26 with one start, Jackson-Davis is averaging 4.2 points and 3.1 rebounds over 11.4 minutes…

What will Indiana football look like when the program has the pick of the recruiting litter? The word scary comes to mind in more ways than one. Coming off a national championship season that occurred before Indiana had been able to fully capitalize on its success from a recruiting standpoint, the Hoosiers could be scary good for years to come. But the infusion of more talent brings about the risk the culture coach Curt Cignetti has created will be negatively impacted.  Will highly decorated 4 and 5-stars have the same chip on their shoulders as Cignetti’s misfits? That’s scary too. …

Indiana’s late season surge hit a speed bump. The game was tied at 30 with less than two minutes remaining in the first half, but that’s when things started to slide for IU.  From that point to a 55-41 USC lead with 11:42 left — a 25-11 USC run over about 10 minutes — was the stretch when IU dug a hole it couldn’t get out of.  The Hoosiers scrapped and got back to within two with 31 seconds left.  But that’s as close as they’d get. Let’s take a deeper look at how Indiana lost 81-75 in Los Angeles…

Below is what IU basketball coach Darian DeVries said during his postgame radio interview with Don Fischer following his team’s 81-75 loss at USC on Tuesday evening in Los Angeles. For the three keys to the game, highlights and final stats, GO HERE. On the disappointing loss “I just didn’t think we had quite the same, juice and energy to start the game and we just never could kind of get in a synch, every time we kind of crawled back in it, we just couldn’t get enough stops to sustain anything. And we had some really good looks, I thought…

LOS ANGELES — Indiana lost to USC Tuesday evening at Galen Center by a final score of 81-75. The three keys to the game, highlights and final stats are below. USC led 35-30 at halftime.  The Hoosiers were led in the game by Lamar Wilkerson with 33 points. For postgame quotes from coach Darian DeVries, GO HERE. Indiana (15-8, 6-6) returns to action on Saturday when it hosts Wisconsin. THREE KEYS TO THE GAME 1. Nobody but Lamar.  Indiana guard Lamar Wilkerson had a huge game with 33 points.  But no one else had a productive evening in the scoring…

IU football coach Curt Cignetti is bringing back Tino Sunseri as his quarterbacks coach based on multiple Tuesday evening reports. The news follows the decision by 2025 quarterbacks coach Chandler Whitmer to leave for the NFL. Sunseri left Indiana following the 2024 season to become the offensive coordinator at UCLA.  Sunseri and UCLA mutually agreed to part ways just four games into the 2025 campaign. Sunseri has had a long run of success with quarterbacks, including Kurtis Rourke at Indiana in 2024. Sunseri came to Indiana from James Madison where he worked under Cignetti. Under his direction, the 2023 season…

2026 is a year to celebrate perfection at IU. At halftime of Indiana’s game against Oregon next Monday, members of the 1976 undefeated team will be honored. Players from the team expected to be there are Quinn Buckner, Scott May, Kent Benson, Bobby Wilkerson, Jim Crews, Scott Eells, James Roberson, Tom Abernethy, and Mitchell Radford – honoring Wayne Radford. The players will also take questions from the media prior to the game, along with AD Scott Dolson. Indiana has been wearing a 1976 jersey patch all season in honor of the 50-year anniversary of college basketball’s last undefeated season. The…

Any way you slice it, the emergence of Nick Dorn has made Indiana’s offense much more potent. Consider this as perhaps the best indication — at 6.0, Dorn has the highest offensive box score plus/minus on Indiana’s team.  That’s also the 64th highest OBPM in Division I, and No. 16 in the Big Ten. So it goes without saying, to introduce that kind of offensive pop in the lineup midseason has been a major boost for the Hoosiers. The headline stat for the 6-foot-7 and 225-pound Dorn is his three-point shooting.  He’s made 44.3% of his 106 attempts.  And those…

IU football droughts are going to come to an end at the NFL Draft this spring. Quarterback Fernando Mendoza should be the first Hoosier chosen in the first round since Thomas Lewis in 1994. Indiana’s 31-year run without a first-round pick is currently the longest such streak in the FBS.  And Mendoza appears almost certain to be IU’s first overall No. 1 pick since Corby Davis in 1938. 2026 could also end up being the draft when the most Hoosiers are selected. The most players Indiana has had drafted in a single year was seven in 1976 — during an era…

Indiana has given its NCAA Tournament resume a significant boost over the last week. With Selection Sunday now less than six weeks away, we are once again taking a weekly look at the Hoosiers’ chance to make the Big Dance. The headline:  IU is clearly an NCAA Tournament team at this moment. Once again, the NET rankings serve as the primary sorting tool for Division I men’s basketball, and they play an important role in establishing a team’s resume. The 2025-26 men’s basketball season marks the eighth year of the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) rankings, which replaced the RPI prior…