Author: Mike Schumann

Safety Bryson Bonds is foregoing a potential additional season of eligibility to join the IU football staff as a special teams assistant. He shared the following post on his social media accounts Monday afternoon. Bonds suffered a season-ending injury on kickoff coverage in week one against Old Dominion.  He could have filed for a medical hardship waiver to return for the 2026 season. The longest-tenured safety on the roster in 2025, Bonds was with Indiana since 2020. Bonds played in 48 career games and had 43 career tackles. Most of his action has been on special teams, and he was…

With Selection Sunday now less than four weeks away, we are once again taking a weekly look at IU basketball’s chance to make the Big Dance. Indiana remains solidly in the NCAA Tournament after a 1-1 week in the Big Ten.  But they’ll need more wins to stay comfortably in the field. 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…

Indiana was reminded it’s a notch below the nation’s best on the road. The Hoosiers kept the margin within single digits throughout the entirety of the first half, and were down just five on multiple occasions in the final four minutes before the break.  But an 11-0 second half Illinois run gave the Illini a 54-36 lead with 12:33 left.  And that was all she wrote. Let’s take a deeper look at how Indiana lost 71-51 in Champaign with our latest edition of The Report Card. The Hoosiers (17-9, 8-7) will travel to Purdue on Friday. —————————————- OFFENSE (D) At…

No matter who IU had available on Sunday afternoon, No. 2 UCLA on the road was going to be a significant challenge. But when Big Ten leading scorer Shay Ciezki injured her ankle in the first quarter, a tall task became a mountain. Indiana lost 92-48 at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, dropping to 14-13 overall and 3-12 in the Big Ten. With Ciezki on the bench, UCLA (25-1) poured it on in the second quarter, outscoring Indiana 30-10 to put the game out of reach. IU shot just 31.3% from the field overall including 20% from three.  They added…

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Indiana lost to Illinois Sunday afternoon at State Farm Center by a final score of 71-51. The three keys to the game, highlights and final stats are below. Illinois led 38-31 at halftime.  The Hoosiers were led in the game by Lamar Wilkerson with 21 points. For Darian DeVries and Sam Alexis postgame, GO HERE. Indiana (17-9, 8-7) returns to action Friday evening at Purdue. THREE KEYS TO THE GAME 1. Bad second half start.  Illinois scored the first five points of the second half, and outscored the Hoosiers 16-5 over the first 7:27 coming out of…

All of the sudden, Sam Alexis can’t miss. Over his last five games, which includes four Indiana wins, the 6-foot-9 forward has made a staggering 24 of 25 shots from the field What changed? Darian DeVries was probably covering for his big man a little bit when asked that question Monday night following Indiana’s 92-74 win over Oregon. “He’s given us these last two games some low presence that maybe we haven’t utilized enough to be honest with you,” DeVries said.  “Sometimes as coaches you got admit your mistakes.” Indiana has struggled at times this season when teams have switched…

Tayton Conerway started the first 19 games of Indiana’s 2025-26 season. But after suffering an ankle injury during IU’s Jan. 17 game against Iowa, and then an illness last Saturday ahead of the Wisconsin game, the Indiana guard, who is now healthy, will come off the bench. It isn’t typical for a starter to lose his role when dealing with relatively minor setbacks like what Conerway has had to contend with over the last month. But his replacement in the starting five has had an atypical run of success that really left IU coach Darian DeVries with no choice. Junior…

Indiana defensive coordinator Bryant Haines has earned the top honor for a college football assistant coach. Haines was announced as the recipient of the 2025 Broyles Award at a ceremony in Arkansas Thursday evening. He is the first assistant coach from Indiana to win the award.  Haines was also a finalist in 2024. For the second year in a row, Haines orchestrated one of the best defensive units in the sport. Despite playing the No. 10 most difficult strength of schedule, nationally Indiana was No. 2 in scoring defense (11.7 ppg), No. 2 in rushing defense (77.19 ypg), No. 24…

There are enough former Indiana basketball players still in college basketball to form a starting five — with six more players coming off the bench. Below we take a look at how the 11 former Hoosiers still in the college game are doing in their latest locations. KALEB BANKS – DEPAUL After a breakout season with Tulane in 2024-25, Banks’ production has fallen off at DePaul. For his senior season Banks has played in 25 games with 10 starts.  He’s averaging 6.1 points and 2.8 rebounds per game over 17 minutes a contest.  He averaged 14.7 points per game a…

One of college football’s all-time great coaches says he’s never seen anything like it. From 2012 to 2018 leading Ohio State, Urban Meyer was 7-0 against Indiana, and that was no great accomplishment.  It was expected.  The Buckeyes racked up 30 straight wins over IU from 1988 to 2024. Meyer knows as well as anyone, Indiana is supposed to be the game on the Big Ten schedule that gives you a chance to catch your breath.  It was the homecoming game, and an opportunity for the backups to play in the second half.  It’s just the way it has been…