Author: Mike Schumann

Our transfer portal names to know series involves players with confirmed/rumored interest and/or interesting connections with IU basketball. Tulane guard Rowan Brumbaugh is a name to know for Indiana in this transfer portal cycle. Brumbaugh is listed as a 6-foot-4 and 185-pound guard.  He has one year of eligibility remaining. He’s from Washington D.C., where IU assistant coach Kenny Johnson has deep connections. As a redshirt junior in 2025-26, Brumbaugh started all 33 games for the Green Wave and earned All-American Conference Second Team honors.  He finished with 632 points which ranks second in program history for a single season.…

After a disappointing 2023-24 season that saw Indiana finish 19-14 and miss the NCAA Tournament by a wide margin, IU’s leadership had a decision to make. Head coach Mike Woodson was 63-40 through three years, including 31-29 in the Big Ten. Should he get a fourth season to get the program rolling?  Or was the writing on the wall? Ultimately the many tentacles of IU leadership — including AD Scott Dolson, President Pam Whitten, wealthy donors, and influential program alumni including Board of Trustees Chair Quinn Buckner — came to some form of agreement to retain Woodson for a fourth…

Our transfer portal names to know series involves players with confirmed/rumored interest and/or interesting connections with IU basketball. 2023 Indiana Mr. Basketball Markus Burton is headed to the transfer portal. The 6-foot and 190-pound Notre Dame guard sustained a left ankle injury early in the 2025-26 season, underwent surgery on Dec. 10, and sat out the remainder of the season.  He was averaging 19.9 ppg heading into the TCU contest. Burton played in just 10 games and could be eligible for a medical waiver, which would give him two years or remaining eligibility. Coming into the 2025-26 season, Burton was Preseason…

Indiana has a chance to close one of the top cornerbacks in the high school recruiting class of 2027 soon. That’s according to Steve Wiltfong of Rivals, who joined his national recruiting analyst counterpart Allen Trieu at the outlet with a prediction the Hoosiers will land 4-star (East St. Louis H.S., East St. Louis, Ill.) Raheem Floyd. Wiltfong disclosed that prediction on a recent Rivals podcast. Floyd has an April official visit scheduled to Bloomington, and both Wiltfong and Trieu believe there’s a good chance Floyd will commit this spring. According to the national average, Floyd is a 4-star prospect,…

Our transfer portal names to know series involves players with confirmed/rumored interest and/or interesting connections with IU basketball. Tre Singleton is one of the latest in a long line of Indiana products who plans to put his name in the transfer portal.  He hails from Jeffersonville, Ind. As a freshman for Northwestern in 2025-26, Singleton posted 7.6 points, 4.8 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game.  He started in 31 of 35 games and averaged 25 minutes per contest.  He shot 59.6% from two, but just 9 of 54 (16.7%) from three.  Singleton made 73.8% of his free throws. The 6-foot-8…

Our transfer portal names to know series involves players with rumored interest or interesting connections with IU basketball. Jalen Haralson is a player who needs no introduction to most IU basketball fans. The Hoosiers were involved in Haralson’s recruitment as a high school prospect before he played his first game as a freshman, and IU ended up as one of three finalists before he chose Notre Dame. After one season with the Irish, Haralson is back on the market. And in his lone season in South Bend, Haralson lived up to the hype. In 23 starts and 27 games played, Haralson…

TCU head coach Sonny Dykes came across as bitter last week when discussing his now former quarterback Josh Hoover. During an interview with State of the Frogs, Dykes made comments about Hoover that went viral on social media. “I mean, I think you know that — look, numbers are numbers, and stats are stats. And I think you know, you look for us, and I think Josh started 31 games here as a quarterback, and we turned the ball over 40 — he turned the ball over 42 times in those 31 starts,” Dykes said. Those turnover numbers are accurate,…

Our transfer portal names to know series involves players with rumored interest or interesting connections with IU basketball. Wright State transfer guard Michael Cooper is a Southern Indiana product.  He attended Jeffersonville H.S. (Jeffersonville, Ind.) and won a state title in 2025 playing for former IU player Sherron Wilkerson. In 31 games with 15 starts, the 6-foot-3 guard produced a team-high 13.4 points per game and added 2.7 rebounds and 2.2 assists as a freshman and helped the Raiders to an NCAA Tournament appearance. Cooper shot 35.6% from three, 51% from two, and 82.1% at the free throw stripe. As…

The first departure from the 2025-26 IU basketball team broke on Wednesday afternoon. Guard Jason Drake will enter the transfer portal when it opens next week, according to a report by Dushawn London of 247Sports. Drake did not play at all for IU in 2025-26 after suffering an injury in the summer. Last year at Drexel, Drake started all 33 games and averaged 11.1 points, 3.0 rebounds, and 3.1 assists in 26.2 minutes per game. The story will be updated. For complete coverage of IU basketball, GO HERE.  The Daily Hoosier –“Where Indiana fans assemble when they’re not at Assembly” Join our Premium…

One of IU football’s top first-year players is no longer listed on the roster. Just a couple practices into the spring, 4-star freshman edge rusher Kevontay Hugan is not listed on the team’s online roster. A product of Sarasota, Fla., Hugan originally committed to Louisville before flipping to Indiana last summer.  He arrived in Bloomington in January as a midyear enrollee. Hugan attended Booker H.S. in Sarasota. He was a 4-star according to the average of the national recruiting sites, and the second-highest rated recruit in IU’s 2026 class. Indiana has good depth at the edge position, meaning Hugan had…