Author: Mike Schumann

IU is inviting football fans inside Memorial Stadium next week for a free event ahead of the 2026 season. Indiana football Summer Fan Night is on July 22 from 6-8 p.m. ET.  Described as a family friendly event, fans will enter the stadium through Gate E3 by Hep’s Rock. IU says the evening will be filled with exclusive experiences, including the opportunity to meet IU mascot Hoosier the Bison, take photos with the championship trophies on the 50-yard line, and receive autographs from select Indiana football players. There will also be a variety of local food trucks on site, interactive…

Although baseball was his best sport, Kyle Schwarber was also a football star from Ohio with college offers. He was excited for his first IU football game as a college student in Bloomington. But Schwarber soon faced the reality of the program most Indiana students came to know in the decades prior to 2024. “Freshman year, you’re all excited,” Schwarber said Monday on the Pat McAfee Show.  “You’re like, college experience, here we go. The tailgates are packed. Get done with baseball practice, like, we’re going to go to the game. Then we show up. We’re like, man, those fields…

Indiana returns four starters along the offensive line from its 2025 national championship team. And with the addition of Wisconsin transfer Joe Brunner, the Hoosiers should have four starters this season who didn’t allow a single regular season sack in 2025. The other three are left tackle Carter Smith, left guard Drew Evans, and right tackle Adedamola Ajani. Brunner played 328 pass blocking snaps for Wisconsin last season and allowed just nine pressures (seven hurries and two quarterback hits). In fact, according to PFF, Brunner has never allowed a sack in 747 career pass blocking snaps. Smith made it all…

It has been rare for recent vintage Indiana basketball to have multiple players 6-foot-11 or taller in the starting lineup, or even in the main rotation. Both as a senior and when he was a sophomore, 6-foot-9 Trayce Jackson-Davis was the tallest player on Indiana’s team.  And he never really had an elite, athletic big man to compete against in Bloomington. 7-footer Kel’el Ware had no one above 6-foot-9 on the roster in his lone year at IU, and 7-foot Oumar Ballo had no one above 6-foot-10 who was in any kind of position to push him in practice. A…

One former Hoosier and one future Hoosier were selected in the 2026 Major League Baseball Draft. Jackson Bergman was selected by the Chicago White Sox in the 18th round (525 overall) of the MLB Draft on Sunday evening to cap off the weekend’s proceedings. Indiana has now had at least one player selected in every full draft since 2007. Bergman, a senior right-handed pitcher, made just three starts for the Hoosiers during his lone season in Bloomington before missing the rest of the campaign with an elbow injury. In 14 innings of work, the Ohio native had a 4.50 ERA…

IU football has a chance to keep the first time ever, first time since train rolling in 2026. The Hoosiers haven’t won a game against Michigan in Ann Arbor since 1967, and the program has never won against USC. Ending those streaks won’t be easy this season. USC is No. 13 in ESPN’s preseason FPI, and Michigan No. 15.  On paper they are the second and third most difficult games on IU’s schedule. But the odds are currently in IU’s favor to come away from those contests victorious. Indiana travels to Ann Arbor on Oct. 24 to face the Wolverines…

One of the top quarterbacks in the class of 2028 has an early final five schools. Rising junior Lukas Prock will choose from Indiana, Florida, Michigan, Notre Dame and Ohio State.  He told Rivals this week his commitment could be coming this summer. The 6-foot-2 Prock attends Hun H.S. in New Jersey.  He’s from Massachusetts.  As a sophomore he completed 226 of 309 passes (72%) for 4,330 yards with 41 touchdowns and seven interceptions.  He also rushed 11 times for 154 yards and a score.  He ended the 2025 season as the Rivals’ New Jersey high school football Player of…

Indianapolis-based 5-star class of 2027 wideout Monshun Sales has set a July 17 commitment date. The 6-foot-5 and around 205 pound Sales will announce live on the Pat McAfee Show in the Noon to 2 p.m. ET window. According to the industry averages, Sales is a 5-star, the No. 8 overall player in the class, and the No. 2 receiver.  If he picks the Hoosiers he would be the highest-rated recruit in IU football history. Sales is choosing from finalists Indiana, Ohio State, Alabama, Texas and LSU. For more background on Sales and his recruitment: https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/iu-football-recruiting-decision-primer-5-star-wr-monshun-sales/

When money is on the line, people tend to eliminate the noise and get down business. Perhaps that’s why Vegas likes Indiana’s preseason chance to make a third straight trip to the College Football Playoff much more than ESPN’s FPI. In fact, Indiana has the most significant make the CFP spread of any team when comparing Vegas vs. FPI.  Using the consensus odds at Action Sports Network and comparing to FPI, IU has an approximately 18 percentage point better chance in Vegas (75% vs. 57%). Here are a few other variations when comparing Vegas to FPI as it relates to…

Indiana basketball will be sporting a new look in Peru later this month. A sneak peak of combined Team USA and IU uniforms was posted on social media this week. The Adidas uniforms worn by the Hoosiers will say USA on the front and feature the IU logo and the American flag in multiple spots. The team is headed to Lima, Peru to play in the FISU America Games. The event runs July 20 to August 1.  A game schedule has not been released.  Pool play followed by tournament action is expected. Indiana will represent the United States and compete…