Via our college Zach Osterman at the Indianapolis Star: IU basketball will take its first foreign tour in seven years this summer, with coach Mike Woodson scheduling his team a trip to the Bahamas. The Hoosiers will go in August, playing exhibition contests across several days that month. It is possible fans will be allowed to attend. But the games themselves won’t be the sole reason for the trip. Perhaps not even the primary one. For a program facing a new start in a variety of ways, there might never be a better time for this. Foreign (or preseason) tours are afforded college programs no mor ..read more

All good things come to an end, and most bad things too. Such is the case for Hoosier Sports Report, formerly Hoosier Scoop, or whatever you might call this little IU athletics island in the ether. With the integration of The Herald-Times into the Gannett content management system and the launching of the redesigned HT website, this locale will cease to exist in its internet corporeal form. The address will soon — days, weeks, no one exactly seems to know — simply send you to our IU sports coverage. All of our stories were previously behind a paywall. Now you may access a limited number of sto ..read more

ST. LOUIS — For the second time in as many weeks, Victor Bezerra finished second. Just 11 days after Indiana lost the national championship game to Marshall in overtime, the Hoosiers’ standout sophomore forward was the runner-up Thursday night for the MAC Hermann Trophy, given annually to the most outstanding player in men’s and women’s soccer. Bezerra, who was named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year and Offensive Player of the Big Ten Tournament in a season where he scored 12 goals and collected three assists, was second in the voting among the three finalists. Gloire Amanda of Oregon Stat ..read more

Times are starting to be matched with dates for Indiana football’s 2021 schedule. IU’s season will officially open with a 3:30 p.m. kickoff at Iowa on Sept. 4. That leads into three non-conference games, and two of those contests will be nighttime kicks. The Hoosiers will face Idaho in a 7 p.m. kick in Memorial Stadium on Sept. 11. It was previously announced IU will face Western Kentucky in an 8 p.m. kickoff on Sept. 25 in Bowling Green, Ky. IU’s other non-conference matchup with Cincinnati will be a noon kick on Sept. 18 in Bloomington. Two Big Ten contests were also assigned initial start t ..read more

Indiana announced another transfer addition Monday, receiver Camron Buckley from Texas A&M. Buckley, a 6-foot-2, 190-pound receiver from Cedar Hill, Tex., missed the 2020 season following a knee injury in August. In three seasons with Texas A&M, Buckley collected 62 catches for 877 yards and four touchdowns. His best season came in 2018 as a sophomore, pulling in 34 catches for 474 yards. As a recruit, Buckley was ranked as a three-star prospect in the class of 2017, considered the No. 372 recruit in the country. He had offers from Texas, Auburn, Miami, and TCU, among others. Buckley i ..read more

CARY, N.C. — Lady Luck was not a Hoosier. Not on Monday night. After 97 minutes of scoreless soccer, fortune smiled on Marshall, which got a pair of fortuitous bounces to score the game-winning goal in overtime and claim a 1-0 win over Indiana in the NCAA championship match at Sahlen’s Stadium in WakeMed Soccer Park. Up until that point, it wasn’t so much a game of chances as a game of chances. Missed chances. That made the pill more bitter to swallow for the Hoosiers. “We did create the chances we needed,” IU coach Todd Yeagley said. “That was hard because it was there for us.” But in the end ..read more

Report from Indy Star’s Zach Osterman: IU wasted little time filling its lone open scholarship, landing 7-footer Michael Durr, a transfer from South Florida.  Durr, who had initially committed to Virginia Tech during his transfer recruitment before reopening his process just days ago, fills the spot left by Jerome Hunter’s abrupt departure, which was announced late last week. Durr averaged 8.8 points and 7.9 rebounds per game.  He adds immediate depth in the post, where the Hoosiers were woefully thin last season. Joey Brunk’s injury forced coach Archie Miller to lean heavily on ..read more

CARY, N.C. — When it comes to Indiana soccer, there is one undeniable constant. Maybe two if you want to cite the Hoosiers’ non-stop stream of success, but since retiring over 17 years ago, Jerry Yeagley has remained a fixture in the program he built and for which he established that baseline of success. Yet, like most fans and media, he has had to observe the 2020 season, played in the spring of 2021, from arm’s length due to the COVID-19 protocols. “I’ve had to watch practices from my car for the first time,” Yeagley said. “I pull up to the edge of the field, and that’s where I watch trainin ..read more

Southern Cal running back Stephen Carr announced his intent to transfer to Indiana on Sunday, giving the Hoosiers yet another splashy offseason addition. Carr, a 6-foot, 215-pound senior, comes to IU following four seasons at USC where he never quite became a featured back. But once upon a time, he was a five-star recruit out of Gardena, Calif., and considered by 247Sports as the No. 20 prospect in the country. Deland McCullough was USC’s running backs coach during Carr’s freshman campaign. McCullough, now back at IU, left the Trojans after the 2017 season to join the Kansas City Chiefs ..read more

CARY, N.C. — Joe Schmidt is not one to lack confidence. Upon arriving in Bloomington as a freshman in 2017, he requested the No. 8 jersey, an homage to midfield legend Andres Iniesta of FC Barcelona, among others. Schmidt was denied, as the number wound up on another Indiana freshman — Mason Toye, who parlayed a spectacular season into a Generation Adidas contract with Major League Soccer while Schmidt redshirted as No. 21. For the next two years, Schmidt settled for No. 16 — eight times two — while another standout freshman wore No. 8 in 2019. Aidan Morris turned his one season at IU into an ..read more