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Welcome to a different version of 6-Banner Sunday, a joint manufacturing between The Meeting Name and Contained in the Corridor, and offered by our mates at Trueblood Actual Property, the place we spotlight the 5 most important IU basketball tales of the previous week, plus check out how the opposite IU sports activities applications are doing.
Because the offseason continues, a number of huge information gadgets occurred this week. Initially, Indiana coach Mike Woodson was the featured speaker on the annual Huber’s occasion in Southern Indiana. This was not the one story of substance although as recruiting, a contract extension, an incoming Hoosier representing his nation, and several other rankings of observe additionally made headlines this week. We are going to as ordinary conclude with a take a look at how different IU sports activities are doing led by baseball collaborating of their first NCAA match since 2023.
In different temporary gadgets, AC Radio was on-air this week and three former Hoosiers have made the NBA Finals.
• Mike Woodson speaks on the annual Huber’s Vineyard occasion• Two Hoosier recruiting prospects set official visits to campus• Teri Moren agrees to contract extension by means of 2029• Kel’el Ware chosen to take part in USA Basketball U19 males’s nationwide group coaching camp• Closing RSCI rankings and IU is twenty seventh in Andy Katz’s energy rankings• Hoosier Roundup
Banner #1 – Mike Woodson speaks on the annual Huber’s Vineyard occasion
Annually IU followers look ahead to the occasion that the Hoosiers placed on in Southern Indiana at Huber’s. Up to now, it has been a fundraiser for the athletic division. Nonetheless, in 2023 it was modified to be a option to elevate cash for NIL for the gamers. Nonetheless, from a logistical level, little was completely different as a bunch of Indiana supporters gathered on the venue to listen to the coaches communicate and work together with gamers.
Each Tom Allen and Mike Woodson spoke in entrance of the gang. Additionally, Hoosier level guard Xavier Johnson was current and spoke with the media. Each Woodson’s and Johnson’s phrases may be seen right here.
Banner #2 – Two Hoosier recruiting prospects set official visits to campus
Whereas IU’s 2023 class is about, future years are nonetheless up within the air as Indiana turns it sights on the easiest gamers for 2024 and 2025. Now two of the highest prospects for 2024 have confirmed they are going to take official visits to Bloomington this summer season.
The large identify to return to campus within the coming weeks is Boogie Fland. The No. 6 recruit per 247Sports will come June 13-15. The opposite go to can be from Tyler Betsey who will take his across the identical time from June 14-16. Betsey is the No. 22 participant in the identical 2024 class. Whereas no different gamers have been confirmed to be visiting IU at this level, the Hoosiers proceed to be concerned with a lot of the highest expertise for 2024.
Banner #3 – Teri Moren agrees to contract extension by means of 2029
IU girls’s coach Teri Moren has taken the ladies’s basketball applications to heights nobody may have imagined. The group has been amongst the easiest in school basketball the final 4 seasons with an Elite Eight, Candy 16, and Massive Ten championship since 2019. Now she has been rewarded accordingly with an extension by means of 2029 that may pay her $1.3 million per season which is second within the Massive Ten and top-ten nationally.
Followers have taken discover because the group now ranks within the prime 10 in attendance and 33 of the 41 largest crowds in program historical past have occurred within the final decade since Moren took over. Simply over half have taken place within the final two seasons alone. Additionally, this system opened the balcony 4 instances in 2023 attributable to massive crowds and exceeded 10,000 on six events whereas averaging a program document of 8,104 per contest. Because of excessive demand, the group goes to reserved seating in a portion of Meeting Corridor for the primary time in 2023-2024.
Banner #4 – Kel’el Ware chosen to take part in USA Basketball U19 males’s nationwide group coaching camp
Incoming Oregon switch Kel’el Ware has been invited to take part within the U-19 USA Basketball coaching camp. Ware was a top-10 recruit coming into school and one of many top-ranked gamers within the switch portal. He figures to fill the function of Trayce Jackson-Davis who departed for the NBA after the 2022-2023 season.
Ware additionally spoke with Draft Specific just lately and the interview may be seen right here. He’s at present figuring out on the west coast together with his company, CAA Sports activities.
Banner #5 – Closing RSCI rankings and IU is twenty seventh in Andy Katz’s energy rankings
The RSCI averages out the ultimate recruiting rankings for all the most important providers together with 247Sports, ESPN, On3, and Rivals. Incoming Indiana freshman Mackenzie Mgbako is available in at No. 10 nationally and is tied with Cody Zeller because the fifth-highest incoming Hoosier participant since these scores began. He’s additionally the highest-ranked prospect coming into the Massive Ten in 2023.
The one different participant who comes near Mgbako is Michigan State’s Xavier Booker at No. 12 nationally. Booker is a part of a category that ranks third nationally and is joined within the Massive Ten by No. 9 Ohio State and No. 17 Maryland. IU fell exterior of the highest 18 as a squad that the location mentions. It is because their different incoming prospects didn’t end within the prime 100 and the service doesn’t take transfers under consideration.
With the addition of Mgbako and Ware in addition to the return of Johnson and Malik Reneau, the Hoosiers are available in at No. 27 general in Andy Katz’s rankings for 2023-2024. This places Indiana seventh within the Massive Ten which is led by the Spartans at No. 3 adopted intently by Purdue at No. 4 after star middle Zach Edey withdrew from the NBA Draft.
Banner #6 – Hoosier Roundup
• Baseball received their NCAA match opener in opposition to West Virginia on Friday. They adopted Friday’s outcome with an exciting win in opposition to Kentucky on a late dwelling run by Peter Serruto. Indiana advances to their fourth Regional Closing in program historical past and can play the Mountaineers vs. Wildcats winner at 6 pm right this moment on this double elimination format. Meeting Name is on website in Lexington and had function tales for subscribers of its Neighborhood.
• Rowing completed seventeenth on the NCAA Championships.
• Males’s Golfer Drew Salyers accomplished his season as a person on the NCAA Championships.
• Males’s Soccer had an alumni group compete on the TST the place they had been eradicated after going 2-1 in pool play.
• Soccer set kick instances for early season contests and introduced the addition of premium suites.
• Ladies’s Basketball added three graduate managers.
• Softball’s Taryn Kern was named an All-American as had been two athletes in water polo.
• IU dominated Purdue within the Governor’s Cup for 2023-2024. This trophy elements particular person head-to-head outcomes throughout all sports activities. The Hoosiers received in a lot of the prime competitions as they swept males’s and girls’s basketball, softball, and baseball.
• Swimming and Diving introduced an addition to the teaching workers.
Thanks on your continued help for The Meeting Name and Contained in the Corridor. We’ll be again subsequent weekend with a brand new roundup.
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Aaron (Ari) ShifronAssembly Name Contributor
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