Author: Mike Schumann

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…

As we approach the start of the 2026 season, ESPN has updated its popular College Football Power Index (FPI) this week. And the computer model doesn’t see Indiana as the most likely team to win what would be a repeat national title. In fact, FPI says five teams have better championship odds that the Hoosiers.  Here are the top-six: Ohio State Texas Notre Dame Oregon Georgia Indiana FPI represents how many points above or below average a team is.  Ohio State’s FPI score is 28.7, while Indiana is 23.1.  FPI becomes the basis for ESPN’s week-by-week game predictions. The model…

It would be disingenuous to have IU football coach Curt Cignetti anywhere but the top of any attempt to rank the nation’s best college football coaches right now. Similarly, it wouldn’t make much sense to exclude Cignetti from any preseason watch lists for awards that go to the nation’s best coach. And that’s the way things are playing out this summer ahead of the 2026 season — Cignetti’s third in Bloomington. After Cignetti led one of the best turnarounds in sports history over the last two seasons, it’s difficult to justify placing anyone in college football above him.  That’s what…

Class of 2027 national top-20 point guard NaVorro Bowman, Jr. is an IU basketball recruiting name to know. Indiana offered Bowman a scholarship in the spring.  He’s the son of former NFL Pro Bowler NaVorro Bowman, Sr., who played linebacker at Penn State. Bowman currently lives in Sherman Oaks, California where he attends Notre Dame H.S.  He posted 22.5 points, five assists and 4.9 rebounds per contest as a junior.  He’s originally from the Washington D.C. metro area where assistant coach Kenny Johnson has deep connections.  Bowman was a high school teammate of IU guard Darren Harris for a year…

Chalk up another win for Curt Cignetti. TCU head coach Sonny Dykes has conceded in their back-and-forth related to quarterback Josh Hoover. Dykes raised some eyebrows this spring when he appeared to be taking an unsolicited shot at Hoover by mentioning his relatively high turnover rate. “I think Josh started 31 games here as a quarterback, and he turned the ball over 42 times in those 31 starts,” Dykes said. That prompted a response from Cignetti, who said Hoover will be in a better position to thrive at Indiana. “When Josh got here, he met his two new best friends…

The money was better at Georgia and Miami. But Fernando Mendoza saw his younger brother’s football knowledge soar in one year with the IU coaching staff. He had to know more. “My brother (Alberto) was at Indiana. I saw first hand how much he developed from high school with that coaching in his first year,” Mendoza said on The Rush with Max Crosby.  “I’m like, this guy basically has more football IQ than me. And I’ve been three years in college.” The Indiana staff promised the one thing they knew they could deliver:  Development.  And in the end they provided…

Did IU basketball emphasize getting bigger at the expense of the three-point shooting? Second-year Indiana coach Darian DeVries doesn’t think so. In fact, he believes some of that added size in the frontcourt will be part of the solution when the Hoosiers take the court in 2026-27. Shooting threes was a major part of IU’s identity last season.  More than half of their attempts from the field (50.5%) came from beyond the arc — the highest percentage ever by a Hoosiers squad — by a wide margin.  That three-point volume was the 14th-highest in the nation.  And their 34.7% make…

IU football quarterback Fernando Mendoza has been selected as the 2025-26 Big Ten Conference Jesse Owens Male Athlete of the Year, the league announced on Wednesday. Mendoza is the sixth IU athlete to earn the award, and the first since track and field star Derek Drouin in 2013. This is the second such honor for the Hoosiers’ football program, as Mendoza joins College Football Hall of Famer Anthony Thompson, who won in 1990. Beyond Mendoza, Drouin and Thompson, the other three male winners from IU were Jim Spivey (track, cross country, 1982), Sunder Nix (track, 1984) and Steve Alford (basketball,…