Trey Patterson is a 4-star recruit and the No. 38 player in the country in the class of 2021 according to the 247Sports Composite. The 6-foot-8 wing took an official visit to Indiana in the fall. The Somerset, N.J. product averaged 19.8 points and 10.1 rebounds per game for the 2019-20 season and was named first team All-State while leading Rutgers Prep to a 27-2 record. Indiana is competing with several high major programs for Patterson including Villanova, Florida, Auburn and UConn. Below are more than three minutes of junior season highlights for Patterson, courtesy of Jersey Sports Zone. See…
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Nine Indiana basketball players that saw the floor during the season will be back for the 2020-21 campaign as of this writing. While formal practices have concluded, the work never stops for high major college basketball players. Growth and development happens in the offseason, in individual workouts and permitted organized team activities. At the end of each season the coaches sit down and have one-on-one meetings with the players. If you could talk to each of the nine returning players about their 2019-20 season and what they need to improve going forward, what would you say? We play Archie Miller…
The Daily Hoosier caught up with new Indiana basketball class of 2021 commit Logan Duncomb to discuss a wide range of topics. We touch on his recruitment, his fit at IU, academics, playing with fellow recruit Trey Kaufman and much more. See also: Duncomb commits to IU | Duncomb video interview | Updated scholarship chart TDH: On his upbringing, growing up an Iowa fan, and impressions of Indiana as a kid. (NOTE: Duncomb’s father attended Iowa and was a Hawkeye fan) Duncomb: I lived in Iowa for two years or something like that, when I was young. I didn’t watch…
Nine Indiana basketball players that saw the floor during the season will be back for the 2020-21 campaign as of this writing. While formal practices have concluded, the work never stops for high major college basketball players. Growth and development happens in the offseason, in individual workouts and permitted organized team activities. At the end of each season the coaches sit down and have one-on-one meetings with the players. If you could talk to each of the nine returning players about their 2019-20 season and what they need to improve going forward, what would you say? We play Archie Miller…
One of the top grad transfers on the market has included Indiana on his list of finalists. 6-foot-4 shooting guard Charles Minlend from San Francisco is down to Arizona, Arkansas, Butler, BYU, Gonzaga, Indiana and Mississippi State, according to Jake Weingarten of Stock Risers. Minlend averaged 14.4 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.8 assists as a junior in the WCC. He was named All-WCC second team each of the last two seasons. Originally from Concord, N.C., Minlend is 18th on USF’s all-time scoring list with 1,271 career points. He shot 41.6 percent from the field overall in 2019-20, including 30.3 percent…
Indiana head coach Archie Miller and assistant Bruiser Flint reached back into their home state when IU offered class of 2021 shooting guard Jordan Longino on Wednesday. The 6-foot-4 Philadelphia area product is the No. 61 player in the junior class and the No. 12 shooting guard according to the 247Sports Composite. Pat Lawless was the first to report the news on Twitter. Longino plays high school basketball at Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, Penn. where he averaged 22.9 points per game as a junior. A highly efficient scorer, Longino shot 54.4 percent from the field overall for Germantown, including…
IU head coach Archie Miller has reached back into his old stomping grounds to make Indiana’s third scholarship offer in the class of 2022. Dayton, Ohio based center Shawn Phillips, one of the top sophomores in the country, unofficially visited Indiana for their home game against Maryland in January. Today, the 6-foot-10 Phillips received an offer from Miller and IU. Phillips’ AAU coach David Ramey appears to be the first to have reported the news. https://twitter.com/CoachDRamey613/status/1247934213783007235?s=20 According to Ramey, Indiana has been in regular communication with Phillips since the visit and communicated on Tuesday that they were ready to move…
New Indiana basketball commit Logan Duncomb joined Moeller High School Director of Alumni and Athletic Engagement Barrett Cohen to discuss his decision to play for IU. The junior helped lead the Cincinnati high school to a 26-1 record for the 2019-20 season before it was canceled. Moeller was the defending Ohio Division One state champion. Duncomb averaged 13.8 points and 8.5 rebounds for Moeller as a junior. He shot 70 percent from the field on the season and also made 3 of his 7 three-point attempts. From the free throw line Duncomb converted at a 67.3 percent rate as a…
After a string of frustrating injuries, Indiana head coach Tom Allen had a plan for his starting quarterback going into the offseason. And much like he did on the field when healthy in 2019, Michael Penix was executing on that plan at a very high level. At its core, the idea was that Penix needed to get bigger and stronger to help him endure the physicality of Big Ten football. “We set out a plan for him and his weight has increased quite a bit since the end of the season,” Allen said in February as the team was getting…
IU has never successfully recruited three straight Indiana Mr. Basketball winners, but that could be about to change. Class of 2020 IU signees Trey Galloway and Anthony Leal are on the list of the five finalists for the prestigious honor set to be announced on Friday by the Indianapolis Star. Joining Leal and Galloway on the list of finalists are Dre Davis from Lawrence Central (Louisville), Johnell Davis from Gary 21st Century (Florida Atlantic), and Tony Perkins from Lawrence North (Iowa). Galloway averaged 20.9 points, 5.5 rebounds, 5.2 assists and 2.3 steals per game for Culver Academies. After missing a…