HOOSIER DAILY: Hoosier Hysteria set, B1G announcing schedule, baseball's AA
There's a lot of news each day in college sports and in Indiana Athletics, the Hoosier's Alec Busse highlights them
HOOSIER HYSTERIA DATE SET
The unofficial date for Indiana basketball's Hoosier Hysteria has been set for Oct. 20, a day before the Hoosiers football team hosts Rutgers for homecoming at noon.
Indiana is set to being their third season under men's head coach Mike Woodson, who has made six additions to IU's roster this season with transfers Kel'el Ware, Payton Sparks and Anthony Walker. Indiana is also adding three prep recruits, Mackenzie Mgbako, Gabe Cupps and Jakai Newton.
Women's basketball coach, and reigning AP National Coach of the Year, Teri Moren is leading Indiana into the 2023-24 season after securing the program's first Big Ten title in 40 years and the school's first No. 1 seed in the women's tournament.
BIG TEN ANNOUNCING TV SCHEDULE ON THURSDAY
On Thursday at 4:30 p.m. ET the Big Ten Network is announcing the conference's new scheduling model as well the home and away opponents for the 2024-25 football season.
The B1G live crew of Mike Hall and Howard Griffith will interview new league commissioner Tony Petitti, Big Ten chief operating officer Kerry Kenny and Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith about the process of coming to the scheduling agreement ahead of next season.
The Big Ten was, reportedly, considering three scheduling models when USC and UCLA officially join the conference in July 2024. All three models are expected to remove the East-West division alignment and the conference is also expected to keep a nine-game league schedule
Protect 3: Each Big Ten team would have three protected opponents while rotating the other six schools twice in a four-year timeline. Each school would play at least one game in every Big Ten stadium.
Protect 2: Each league member would have two protected opponents with the other seven opponents being filtered through in a four-year timeline. In the Protect 2 model, each Big Ten team would play the remaining opponents at least twice and two teams three different times.
Flex Protect: The Flex Protect model allows each Big Ten school to protect up to three opponents annually. This scheduling model provides the Big Ten the most flexibility for competitive balance and management of West Coast travel, something the current Big Team members have said they don't want to do more than once a season.
The Flex Protect model, according to the Athletic's Nicole Auerbach, is the "frontrunner." As of last week, the Big Ten was still working through final "holdups," like protected games and West Coast travel, per ESPN's Adam Rittenberg.
THREE HOOSIERS NAMED FRESHMAN ALL-AMERICANS
Three freshman baseball players -- Brayden Risendorph, Devin Taylor and Craig Yoho -- were named Freshman All-Americans form the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper.
Risendorph and Taylor each earn the honor as a true freshman, while Yoho was named to the All-American team after playing most of his first four seasons injured, the 2023 season was his first full year.
Taylor the Big Ten Freshman of Year, and had 59 RBIs, the most for a Hoosier freshman in school history. Taylor also had 16 homers this season, which is third all-time by Big Ten freshman.
Risendorph had 60 strikeouts this season in 52.1 innings over 25 appearances this season with a team-high six saves.
Yoho pitched 18 games and posted a 3.41 ERA over 37 innings with 63 strikes in 174 batters faced.
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