Author: Mike Schumann

Despite frustration with the lack of a consistent winner for years, IU men’s basketball fans are still showing up. Or perhaps better said, they’re at least still buying tickets. Indiana ranked sixth nationally in 2025-26 with 282,193 of total attendance.  That’s an average of 15,677 per game played at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, which ranked No. 9 in the nation. It isn’t clear exactly how attendance is calculated, but based on IU’s own game-by-game reporting, it appears to measured by tickets sold rather than the actual people who came to the game.  Indiana reports sellouts (17,222) for all games when…

It’s interesting how quickly one particular narrative changed early in Curt Cignetti’s tenure at Indiana. In the beginning, many were asking how this guy thinks he can win in the Big Ten with a bunch of G6 transfers. And as the 2024 season unfolded, that quickly became, sure he’s winning, because he brought his whole team with him. Desperate to find holes in a program that has gone 27-2 over the last two seasons, the outside narrative is shifting yet again. Just one of the original 13 James Madison to Indiana transfers remain as Cignetti prepares for the 2026 campaign,…

It comes three years after he won the award, but IU basketball finally has another Indiana Mr. Basketball winner on the roster. Notre Dame transfer Markus Burton is the 30th Indiana Mr. Basketball to play for IU. He’s the first to transfer in after starting at another college. Burton is the first Mr. Basketball at IU since Anthony Leal. IU had three Mr. Basketballs in a row from 2018-20 (Romeo Langford, Trayce Jackson-Davis, Leal), but none since. Burton won it in 2023 playing for Penn High School in Mishawaka.  He finished No. 20 all-time in scoring in Indiana with  2,273…

Indiana football made the cut for 4-star linebacker Roman Igwebuike. The four-star linebacker attends Mount Carmel High School in Chicago. This week, Rivals national recruiting analyst Hayes Fawcett reported Igwebuike is down to Indiana, Notre Dame, Clemson, Missouri and Tennessee. He has official visits scheduled with each program, and a commitment date set for July 11. Igewbuike’s IU official visit is his first among the finalists.  He’ll be in Bloomington May 15-17. According to the industry average, he is the No. 161 overall player, and the No. 15 linebacker in the 2027 class. The 6-foot-3, 225-pound Igwebuike led Mt. Carmel…

Indiana basketball has added frontcourt depth to the 2026-27 roster. Wuerzburg’s Clemens Sokolov has committed to Indiana, agents Misko Raznatovic and Dragan Jankovski told DraftExpress’ Jonathan Givony on Friday afternoon. The 7-foot, 18-year-old German center averaged 6.4 points and 5.0 rebounds in 23 minutes per game in Pro B Germany, Givony says. Sokolov is the second 7-footer on the Indiana roster, joining 7-foot-2 SMU transfer Samet Yigitoglu.  The Hoosiers also have 6-foot-11 forward/center Aiden Sherrell.  IU now has a total of 11 scholarship players on its roster for next season. The news comes just a day after head coach Darian…

With six incoming players announced in a three-day span, IU basketball hit the 2026 transfer portal like a bolt of lightning. The Hoosiers got to 10 players for next season’s roster in the blink of an eye.   But the remaining open spots have remained unfilled for the three following weeks with little fanfare regarding prospects for the remaining voids. Don’t expect as much flash with the final two to three additions. IU coach Darian DeVries said Thursday the staff continues to look for players to round out the roster, but at this point it’s all about practice support and insurance…

Former IU football star cornerback D’Angelo Ponds has signed his first NFL contract. According to a report by Adam Schefter of ESPN, Ponds reached an agreement today with the New York Jets on a four-year, $9,836,918 deal that includes $8,946,359 guaranteed. Ponds was selected in the second round by the Jets in last month’s NFL Draft.  They selected their second-straight Indiana standout with the 50th overall selection, after taking Omar Cooper with the No. 30 pick on night one of the draft.  Ponds is the highest-drafted Indiana cornerback since Tracy Porter went with the 40th overall pick in the 2008…

As it relates to Indiana football assembling a very strong recruiting class of 2027, it seems like a matter of when, not if. It’s still early May, and most high school commitments don’t come until the calendar officially says it’s summer.  Right now the Hoosiers have just four verbal commitments.  But that will be changing over the next two months. Who will join that group?  Following a run of impressive April visitors, clues are starting to roll in. One player generating a lot of buzz across multiple national reports over the last week is North Carolina-based linebacker Jalaythan Mayfield, with…

Indiana fans have learned their lesson after two seasons with Curt Cignetti. You can’t judge a transfer quarterback based on the spring.  Or the first game for that matter. Indiana fans weren’t real sure about Kurtis Rourke or Fernando Mendoza one game into their respective seasons in Bloomington. Things worked out okay for those guys. And while Texas Christian transfer quarterback Josh Hoover didn’t light Memorial Stadium ablaze in front the fans and cameras at Indiana’s first spring game, his head coach isn’t concerned. “I’d say Josh is right where Fernando was last year and Kurtis the year before,” IU…

In December, Indiana won its first Big Ten title since 1967. In January the Hoosiers won the program’s first-ever national championship. Are repeats coming for Curt Cignetti’s Hoosiers? That won’t be easy. The Hoosiers have a challenging schedule in 2026, but according to the following criteria, an ESPN panel says IU football had the best offseason of any team not just in the Big Ten, but in the entire country: Roster additions through the portal and the high school ranks Retention of top players who could leave for the NFL draft or the portal Coaching staff continuity or key additions/upgrades…