The Assembly Call

IU Basketball Podcast and Postgame Show

IU basketball podcast and postgame show

The Assembly Call Blog

If we publish it, it will show up here.

This page features a chronological rundown of all our content -- including Banner Mornings, podcast episodes, news roundups, IU artifacts posts, commentary and analysis, and more.

6-Banner Sunday: Recruiting and Romeo Updates (Plus: Remembering the Flying Sheeladipos)

By Leave a Comment

Welcome to another edition of 6-Banner Sunday, a joint production between The Assembly Call and Inside the Hall where we highlight the six most essential IU basketball stories of the past week.

The weather outside is getting better and better, which can evoke mixed feelings for college basketball fans. After all, the warmer the weather is, the more distant college basketball season will feel.

It was a slower week in the offseason news cycle for IU basketball, but there were still notable happenings worth keeping tabs on, and that’s what we’re here to do.

In this week’s edition:

  1. Recruiting updates
  2. Schedule news
  3. NBA update
  4. Assembly Call Radio
  5. Which IU dunk is best?
  6. Big Ten title for IU Baseball and other happenings across athletics

[Read more…] about 6-Banner Sunday: Recruiting and Romeo Updates (Plus: Remembering the Flying Sheeladipos)

AC Radio: Big Ten Power Rankings for Next Year … and Beyond

By Leave a Comment

This week on Assembly Call Radio we roll through a few IU and Big Ten headlines (including whether we support the move to push the 3-point line back), assess the Big Ten power structure for next year and the next five years, and then answer listener questions … including one about why Darius Garland is appearing so much higher on NBA mock drafts than Romeo.

All of that and much more on this week’s edition of Assembly Call Radio.

On the mics: Jerod, Andy, Snoop D-O-double-Ryan (Listen all the way through and this will make sense.)

[Read more…] about AC Radio: Big Ten Power Rankings for Next Year … and Beyond

6-Banner Sunday: Two Important Recruits Spurn IU and Trayce Jackson-Davis Wins Prestigious Award

By Leave a Comment

Welcome to another edition of 6-Banner Sunday, a joint production between The Assembly Call and Inside the Hall where we highlight the six most essential IU basketball stories of the past week.

As the weather continues getting warmer, so does recruiting season. IU has been in the thick of this process for a while now. There was news both good and bad for IU this week, and we recap it all in this edition of 6-Banner Sunday.

In this week’s edition:

  1. Recruiting updates
  2. POTB/AC Radio
  3. Schedule update
  4. Another Mr. Basketball for IU
  5. De’Ron Davis due for a big year?
  6. Other IU sports

[Read more…] about 6-Banner Sunday: Two Important Recruits Spurn IU and Trayce Jackson-Davis Wins Prestigious Award

AC Radio: Talking Recruiting, Schedule, APR, and More

By Leave a Comment

This week on Assembly Call Radio, we go through a potpourri of offseason topics. We talk about the latest recruiting news (the Hoosiers lost a priority prospect to Purdue on Thursday night), the interesting schedule nugget that was revealed this week, and then encouraging APR news. Plus we answer your questions.

All of that and more on this week’s edition of Assembly Call Radio.

On the mics: Andy, Ryan, and Coach

[Read more…] about AC Radio: Talking Recruiting, Schedule, APR, and More

6-Banner Sunday: After Busy Week of 2020 Offers, Important 2019 Decision Looms

By Leave a Comment

Welcome to another edition of 6-Banner Sunday, a joint production between The Assembly Call and Inside the Hall where we highlight the six most essential IU basketball stories of the past week.

The whirlwind of recruiting, youth tournaments, coaching changes, and draft speculation begins to pick up around this time of year. With players still making decisions about where to play, the shape of the sport and its individual teams is as nebulous as it will ever be in a given year.

Luckily, this newsletter serves to make some sense of it all. Here are the six most important developments of the week for Indiana basketball:

In this week’s edition:

  1. Quinones to announce decision May 10
  2. Langford falls down draft boards
  3. Jon Sauber joins Podcast on the Brink
  4. Archie Miller report card, Part II
  5. Hoosiers in the NBA
  6. IU Sports Roundup

[Read more…] about 6-Banner Sunday: After Busy Week of 2020 Offers, Important 2019 Decision Looms

AC Radio: Archie Miller Report Card Part 2 — The Offense and Defense

By Leave a Comment

This week on Assembly Call Radio (episode 512 overall), we …

• Assess the latest on Lester Quinones’ recruitment, as well as the recent flurry of offers to players in the class of 2020.

• Resume our discussion of Archie Miller’s performance in Year 2 by assessing the progression/regression of the offense and defense. This includes a statistical deep dive by Jerod that uncovers some really interesting shooting numbers.

• Finally, we answer your questions. This includes one about changes we’d like to see in college basketball, another about who we think will lead the team in rebounding, and finally a discussion of the best dunk in IU basketball history … which old school fans will appreciate.

On the mics: Jerod and Coach

[Read more…] about AC Radio: Archie Miller Report Card Part 2 — The Offense and Defense