The Big Ten released the complete men’s basketball conference schedule with the dates of each contest for the upcoming 2018-19 season. The headline from a conference-wide perspective is the switch to a 20-game schedule. This change resulted in December Big Ten basketball. The Indiana December games were reported yesterday and you can see those as part of the overall Big Ten schedule below. All Big Ten teams will play seven teams home and away, three teams only at home, and three teams only away. While we have known IU’s 2018-19 Big Ten home and away opponents for some time, the…
Author: Mike Schumann
While there are some Hoosier names that have the comfort of knowing they have a 2018 NFL roster spot, others are competing right now to make the various 53-man teams on opening day. Take a look below at the stats, news and notes from preseason week two for the various former Indiana University football stars that are competing for 2018 roster spots. IAN THOMAS, CAROLINA TE Thomas found the end zone in week two on a 27 yard touchdown pass from Cam Newton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alzgxTrli-Q He had two catches for 35 yards on the game. Thomas has been turning heads in…
It is just over a month until Hoosier Hysteria, and one sign that college basketball is returning soon is the annual release of the Indiana men’s basketball roster. This is the first chance to look for official jersey numbers for newcomers, changes in heights and weights, unexpected turnover, and more. Here’s what we noted, in numerical order, after taking a pass through the new roster. Romeo Langford is wearing jersey number zero. It has been known for some time that he would don the null, but the release of the roster makes Langford officially IU’s fourth all-time number zero after…
For the second consecutive year, there will be Big Ten men’s basketball in December. As expected Indiana will have two conference games in the early part of the month in order to accommodate the new 20-game Big Ten schedule. The Hoosiers will have both a conference home and away contest in December. Jon Rothstein broke the dates and opponents via Twitter: https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/status/1031614322622050309 https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/status/1031615527507120128 Both Northwestern and Penn State are widely expected to finish in the bottom half of the 14 team conference. These early contests should provide IU an opportunity to get off to a good start in league play.…
It takes a special player to play in the Big Ten as a freshman. To produce at a high level at running back at such a young age, it takes more than talent. It takes a physical specimen to withstand the bruising hits. There was a time when it looked like Morgan Ellison would not withstand high school football. After his junior year at Pickerington Central High School, Ellison was only considered a 2-star recruit, rated No. 120 nationally among running backs and No. 1,675 overall in the 2017 class. The Ohio native broke each of his legs during his…
We’ve made new updates today to the Indiana University basketball recruiting class of 2019 big board as the Hoosiers continue to await their first commitment from the group. We have the unique perspective of comprehensively monitoring all of the various recruiting services and analysts. Tracking recruiting news and notes from around the country every day with our Daily Hoosier Report, we have our finger on the pulse of all the latest thinking on IU’s top targets. We don’t claim to be right here — no one can. We all saw what happened with D.J. Carton. With recruits as guarded as…
The Indiana University football team held their second scrimmage on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Afterwards, IU released video of Tom Allen and Mike DeBord discussing their take on what transpired. Here are the key notes from the IU coaches: The defense made plays and had big stops when they had to after initially letting the offense have their way a bit. Allen thought the defense and special teams tackled well. On the quarterbacks, Allen indicated that it is “becoming more clear each day.” Look for a decision to be made this week. Overall, Allen was very pleased with the effort…
Dual-sport college athletes are on the endangered species list. With traveling teams before middle school, and specialization as strong as ever, most have been weeded out by high school. Of course they are still out there, and some are quite gifted at multiple sports. Take Indiana football target (and basketball target?) David Bell. A senior wide receiver out of Indianapolis Warren Central, Bell is the 81st ranked high school football player in the country in the class of 2019 according to the 247Sports Composite. Of course this is Indiana, so most know him just as well, if not better for…
If you’ve been following class of 2019 four-star guard Jahmius Ramey’s recruitment at all, you know that he can be a bit of a tough read that does things his own way. He followed suit on Friday when he announced his “remaining ten” via Twitter: https://twitter.com/newanimprovedJR/status/1030429127600467969 While the more commonly used terms are “final” or “top”, we’ll read “remaining ten” to mean that these are Ramsey’s final ten schools under consideration. While further list reductions may happen into the Fall, don’t expect any finality here in the short-term. The 6-foot-5 combo guard has indicated on multiple occasions that a commitment…
Did you know that Indiana University football wide receiver Luke Timian had 68 catches for the Hoosiers in 2017? No? Don’t worry, Timian has been fighting to be noticed on the football field for years. Despite being an all-state caliber player at one of the best known high school football programs in the country (Southlake Carroll, Texas), high major colleges weren’t noticing. Oh to be sure, Columbia offered. Minnesota took a look. But at 6-foot-0 and 180 pounds, Luke Timian had the look, at least to college coaches, as a guy that hit his ceiling in high school. His former…