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Indiana men's soccer head coach Todd Yeagley on Wednesday (April 6) announced the addition of transfer defender Jansen Miller.
 
A Ballwin, Missouri, native, Miller comes to Bloomington after two seasons at Xavier where he played in 27 matches with 26 starts. He will enter his junior season when IU's 2022 campaign kicks off this fall.
 
"Jansen is a great addition to our program," Yeagley said. "He has the character and qualities that will mesh nicely with our returning group. Jansen is athletic, tough and loves to compete. He will be a great addition to our back line.
 
"Jansen has strong ties with our St. Louis players, which will be helpful as he assimilates to our program over the summer and into the fall season."
 
Last season, Miller was one of six Musketeers to start all 17 matches as he led Xavier to five clean sheets. With Miller on the back line, two of Xavier's notable shutout victories came against Northwestern and Seton Hall.
 
As a freshman, Miller started nine of the 10 matches he appeared in while taking part in three shutouts. In February 2021, Top Drawer Soccer rated him the No. 18 freshman on its top-100 list. On February 15, Miller was named the both the BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week and Freshman of the Week in the same cycle following a clean sheet versus East Tennessee State and a 2-1 overtime defeat to No. 12 Kentucky.
 
In his youth career, Miller played at Saint Louis FC, now SLSG Soccer Club, where he had connections with Indiana teammates Nathan Gabris, Lukas Hummel, Joey Maher, Daniel Munie and Lawson Redmon. Coming out of high school, Top Drawer Soccer ranked Miller as the No. 2 recruit in the Midwest region and No. 38 in his class.
 
Miller joins junior Karsen Henderlong as the second student-athlete to transfer from Xavier to IU this offseason. Henderlong, anticipating his senior season this fall, joined the program in January and has been training with the team since.
 
To read more about Henderlong and the rest of Indiana men's soccer's list of newcomers for the 2022 season, click here.

Saed Anabtawi @saed_anabtawi  --  Excited to announce my commitment to Indiana University. Go Hoosiers! 
'23 Anabtawi is a goalkeeper who attends Fort Wayne Canterbury HS and last fall was selected to the United Soccer Coaches All-American team.  88 players were named to the team only 12 of which were juniors.  Anabtawi was one of those 12.
Top Drawer
https://www.canterburyschool.org/our-school/news/saed-anabtawi-named-all-american

Kentucky’s Keion Brooks is entering the portal, source told @Stockrisers.  He also entered his name in the draft.

Eric Bossi on this past weekend.
Gabe Cupps, PG, Midwest Basketball Club- The evolution of the future Indiana Hoosier continued over the weekend. Cupps has always been a dangerous shooter from deep and always will be. The steps he’s making as a leader and decision maker are important. He never struggled in those areas by any means, but you can see him growing as a guy that teammates look to in tough times. He’s getting stronger and processes the game quickly. It was a very solid outing for him.

That is a Point Guard. Can we please fast forward to 2023 and see how he is going to make the rest of our team better. No matter who they are.

Fantastic honor for Gabe.  He has officially been named Ohio's Mr. Basketball.

Dayton Daily News  --
When Gabe Cupps prepared to be Centerville’s starting point guard as a freshman, he asked his coach, who is also his dad, some important questions.
“How do I know when to shoot it, or when to go attack or when to pass it?”
Brook Cupps’ response: “You’ve got to feel it out.”
Three seasons later, Gabe Cupps has found an elite feel for how to play high school basketball.
Cupps filled his junior season with highlights and notable victories. The Elks won every regular-season game against possibly the toughest schedule in Ohio. They made it back to the Division I state final but were denied a second straight state championship by Pickerington Central.
The star that began to rise across Ohio in the 2021 state tournament shone even brighter this season. So bright that Gabe Cupps is this year’s Mr. Basketball as voted on by the Ohio Prep Sportswriters Association.
“It’s really cool,” said Cupps, the ninth junior to win the award since its inception in 1988. “It just makes me think about all the work that I’ve put in to get to this point. Obviously, there’s a bunch of guys in the state that could have easily been selected for it. I’m just grateful.”
Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary’s Sencire Harris was runner-up in a field that included Sean Jones of Gahanna-Lincoln, Elmore James IV of Lyndhurst Brush, T.C. Molk of Dover and Sean Craig of Sylvania Northview.
Now in its 35th year, the award was first given by the Associated Press in 1988. It has been voted by the Ohio Prep Sportswriters Association since 2017.
Some Mr. Basketball winners were big scorers. But Cupps was the third-leading scorer on his team at 14.2 points per game behind fellow first-team all-state selections Rich Rolf and Tom House. Cupps could score when needed and shot 50.3% from the field, 44.3% from 3-point range and 85.2% from the free-throw line.
What set Cupps apart was his playmaking. He averaged 6.8 assists with a high of 13 and his assist-to-turnover ratio was 6.4. His ability to penetrate usually resulted in a layup, a pull-up jumper or a pass to an open 3-point shooter.
“He has the ability to impact the game, regardless of how many points he scores,” Brook Cupps said. “He finds ways to impact winning.”
Brook Cupps teaches his players to play the game the right way, to work hard and to be unselfish. Father and son agree that the resulting team success is a factor in winning the award.
“He’s deserving and there’s a lot of other kids that are very deserving as well,” Brook Cupps said. “When teams do well, you start looking to see why they’re doing well. We had a lot of guys that contributed to that, and Gabe was our leader on the floor and drove us. That stood out to a lot of people that watched us.”
In addition to the obvious goal of being a strong leader, three goals were set for Cupps this season. The first was to bring a competitive edge.
“Set the tone for the rest of the team to follow, whether that was getting up and pressuring the ball, not backing down from anybody, showing that we can compete with a team or, if it was a big environment, showing that we weren’t scared of anything,” he said.
The second goal was to create offense for himself and others.
“I just let the game come to me,” he said. “I think I do a pretty good job of making the right play at the right time. A big part of my game and a big part of this team was me getting guys involved.”
The third is what college recruiters have said they like: control the game.
“The biggest times I notice it is when we’re on a scoring run, or we just hit a shot, getting it out and pushing it aggressively,” he said. “And then on the other side of that, when we haven’t scored on two or three possessions in a row, slowing us down and not rushing into an offensive possession. It goes defensively too. I pick up and guard the ball and don’t let teams push it down on us and kind of control it that way.”
Indiana coach Mike Woodson liked the qualities of Gabe Cupps’ game so much that his scholarship offer led to Cupps’ commitment before the season. Cupps attended the Hoosiers’ First Four game earlier this month at UD Arena. Indiana fans were all over the arena.
“I wore a hat trying to go undercover, but a couple of them noticed me when I went and got concessions,” he said. “As I got up to leave the game, this dude that was sitting behind me the whole time, said, ‘Can’t wait for you to be at IU.’”
But Gabe Cupps has one more season at Centerville. He will miss the five departing seniors but said he is looking forward to the challenge of the feel of a new team. Then he will leave for Indiana.
“Watching Indiana play and picturing myself there, it still seems like it’s not really going to happen,” he said. “But eventually it will, and I’m super excited for it.”

This was my exact theory, along with the fact that he left KC to be an Associate HC, not some college RB coach with no authority or say in how the program is managed. Have to imagine he’s mad as hell at the way Allen managed this. 

I'm led to believe that he didn't think that Sheridan would be the only person to take the fall for how bad the offense was this year. But he definitely didn't like the answer he was given when he sat down to talk to Allen about Hiller & the OL problems. I think he also noticed that Hiller didn't carry his weight this season and was surprised that it wasn't made a big deal by the head coach. Then some other things about salary and bonuses didn't sit well either. 

Oh lordy - not the sons too please.

Johnson's future may lie on the football field.  He received an IU football offer today.  He's a WR on his high school football team.
Tae Johnson @taejohnson1012 -- Blessed to receive an offer from Indiana University Thankful for the opportunity and encouragement.

Charlie Spegal time?

And now he is at Louisville.....for now.

'24 Brauntae (Tae) Johnson first mentioned with IU interest in April.  Attends Fort Wayne North Side HS.  Last season averaged 17.3ppg; 6.5rpg; 5.5apg; 2.2 stls.  Shot 49% from the field; 32% on 3s and 75% FT.

KU gets Curry and we get Kansas City's Bates. Although I want A Fort Wayne kid at IU I think we won the trade.

Top 50 SG A. J. Storr '22 has decommitted from Illinois.

Look at those offers! Go Hoosiers

Trevor Andershock from the Hensley Run-N-Slam -- Brauntae Johnson had a great freshman year for Fort Wayne North Side. On Saturday, he solidified his spot as one of the top freshmen in the state with his performance against the Wisconsin Playmakers. Tae is an athlete six-foot-two guard, and Johnson is every bit of six-two. He has wiggle off the bounce and can finish above the rim. Johnson was inconsistent from three during the high school season, but he hit a triple in the double-overtime win, and his free-throw motion looked good. He finished with 15 points in the win. Johnson is one to remember in 2024.

Darnell McCullough @darnellm_
If you as a human, can’t understand why my child would make this decision; I would advise you to go Urgent Care and get checked out....illness sometimes leads to delusions...

BREAKING: Dasan is projected to flip to IU
Steve W and Allen Trieu are projecting the flip

https://247sports.com/Player/Dasan-McCullough-46059433/
per Allen Trieu. Will be on campus this weekend. Son of former RB Coach Deland McCullough

Rob Cassidy of Rivals on Brauntae Johnson of FW Northside:  
A class of 2024 shooting guard, Johnson gets to the rack as effortlessly as any prospect in his class. And while he impressed onlookers with a 22-point performance that also saw him grab a number of tough rebounds, most of the college interest that surrounds the 6-foot-3 prospect is as a football player.
According to Johnson, who plays for the Indy Heat program, football staffs at Notre Dame, Indiana and Purdue have all reached out to inquire. Still, he certainly has a future on the hardwood if he chooses to pursue it. If he develops a consistent jumper to go along with his ball-handling, rebounding and quick first step, he could garner a number of high-major looks down the road.
Where he might land: Johnson, who is just a freshman, says he has not decided if he will pursue basketball or football as his primary sport in college.

KU gets Curry and we get Kansas City's Bates. Although I want A Fort Wayne kid at IU I think we won the trade.

And for those that don’t want Brooks for two years, did you feel the same way about Zeisloft? Oh? It’s because Nick wasn’t from a rival?
How ‘bout the one year of Bielfeldt, UM traitor that he was? Kopp? He has bled purple for three years.