Below are extended videos of several IU class of 2020 recruiting targets from the second Nike EYBL session in Westfield, Ind. The game action gives you a look at not just highlights but multiple facets of each recruit’s strengths and weaknesses. The first video is a game between the Indiana based Indy Heat and Georgia based AOT. The key names to know for the Indy Heat (black jerseys) are: #1 – Justin Powell #6 – Caleb Furst #12 – Nigel Pack #33 – Kiyron Powell IU is recruiting all of these players to various degrees with Furst (class of 2021)…
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There will be no Watford dynasty at Indiana. Unlike his older brother Christian, Trendon Watford will not be a Hoosier. As has been widely expected, five-star class of 2019 forward Trendon Watford announced today that he will play college basketball at LSU. The 6-foot-9 forward announced his decision today at Mountain Brook High School in the Birmingham, Alabama area. Indiana head coach Archie Miller conducted an in-home visit with the Watford family last month, but that was not enough to sway Trendon. The Hoosiers hadn’t been thought of as a serious contender for quite some time, with the younger Watford…
Only seven players that saw the floor from the 2018-19 Indiana basketball team will be back for the 2019-20 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. If you could talk to each of the seven returning players about their 2018-19 season and what they need to improve going forward, what would you say? We play Archie for a day and give it a shot with “Exit Interviews.” RACE THOMPSON Quick 2018-19 Recap: You…
It’s time to get back to business. The Indiana baseball program now must transition its focus from its Big Ten regular season crown to the postseason. Step one is the league tournament. The Big Ten announced the bracket for the 2019 Big Ten Baseball Tournament over the weekend. The annual event will be held May 22-26 at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb. The eight-team, double-elimination tournament begins on Wednesday, with all eight teams playing on day one. No. 1 seed Indiana will host Iowa at 6:00 p.m. Eastern on BTN. No. 21 IU (36-19, 17-7) swept the Hawkeyes in…
With what appears to be four available scholarships for its 2020 class, Indiana will make a hard push to fill one of those openings with someone that can play the five spot. One player in the class that the Hoosier coaching staff has been focusing on recently is Elijah Hutchins-Everett. The 6-foot-11 center is rated as a 4-star by the 247Sports Composite. He is the No. 64 player overall in the 2020 class and the No. 11 center according to that same service. Hutchins-Everett moved up 50 spots in the national rankings in March after strong showings in national events…
They say familiarity breeds contempt, but for Noblesville, Ind. offensive lineman Cameron Knight and the IU coaching staff, it apparently breeds comfort. The younger brother of former Hoosier offensive lineman and current Dallas Cowboy undrafted free agent signee Brandon Knight, Cameron announced on Twitter today that he would be following in his older brother’s footsteps. https://twitter.com/CameronKn1ght62/status/1129868205713965058 Knight becomes the fourth commit for IU in the 2020 class and the third from the state of Indiana. According to the 247Sports Composite, Knight is a 2-star recruit and the No. 23 ranked player in the state of Indiana. Knight also had an…
The Jeff Mercer era is off to a good start in Bloomington. Less than a year after being hired by Indiana, Mercer watched as his team made a dog pile in the infield after clinching the school’s first Big Ten title since 2014. In a must win situation, IU finished off the sweep of Rutgers with a 13-3 win on Saturday. The Hoosiers dominated the series this weekend at Bart Kaufman field, outscoring Rutgers 31-12 in the three games. A six running fourth inning from IU’s potent offense blew things open on Saturday, and another strong start from Andrew Saalfrank…
The pressure is on at Senior Day for the Hoosiers. Indiana knows exactly what it is up against today after Michigan split a doubleheader last night at Nebraska. The Hoosiers and Wolverines are presently tied atop the Big Ten standings at 16-7. Michigan has no more games remaining on its league schedule, and no one else can catch the two leaders at the top. What that means is simple. If Indiana wins its regular season finale today against Rutgers it will be crowned the outright Big Ten champion. If IU loses, that honor goes to Michigan. Fortunately for the Hoosiers,…
Former Indiana guard Romeo Langford is at the NBA Draft Combine this week in Chicago. While he still has a cast on his surgically repaired thumb, Langford is still participating in certain aspects of the Combine including meetings with NBA teams. The 6-foot-6 New Albany native met with the media to discuss his time at IU and expectations for the next level. https://youtu.be/UarXwlxOHwY https://youtu.be/ZywEIuJQrYw https://twitter.com/Stadium/status/1129478769834643458 Langford also appeared on ESPN: https://twitter.com/IndianaMBB/status/1130841049897869313 You can follow us on Twitter: @daily_hoosier Find us on Facebook: thedailyhoosier The Daily Hoosier –“Where Indiana fans assemble when they’re not at Assembly” Want to receive all of our content…
It seems that NBA Draft analysts are willing to take a much more holistic view of Indiana’s Romeo Langford than the voices in an unfortunate and loud vocal minority of Hoosier fans. “Bust.” “Overrated.” “Overhyped.” Those are just some of the common, albeit lazy refrains often belched out in conversations, social media and anywhere else that IU fans gather. “Not emotionally intelligent.” “Intellectually dishonest.” Those are other thoughts that come to mind, mine in fact, in reference to said fans. It isn’t entirely the fault of those fans oddly insistent on perpetual negativity. Langford was in fact hyped to ridiculous…