Former Indiana University Men’s Basketball player Jared Jeffries wins car on The Price is Right As a star basketball player at Indiana University, Jared Jeffries helped drive the Hoosiers to the 2002 national title game. Now, he’ll drive a Toyota Corolla (if he keeps it). Jeffries, the prep star at Bloomington North who spent 11 seasons in the NBA after leaving IU, was invited to “come on down” in an episode of The Price Is Right that aired Monday on CBS.
Jeffries earned his way onto a pricing game by having the closest bid for a pair of TAG Heuer watches. He bid $1,980. The retail price was $3,200, but the other contestants severely underbid. Jeffries’ bid was the closest without going over, sending him to the main stage. Jeffries played “One Away,” a game that tasks the player with correctly guessing the retail price of the prize, number by number. “Oh, that’s amazing!” Jeffries said when he learned the prize would be a red Toyota Corolla LE. There was definitely some suspense in winning the game. “Sound Effects Lady, do I got at least one number right?” Jeffries, clearly game for the moment, asked while kneeling next to host Drew Carey. As it turned out, Jeffries had four of the five numbers correct on his initial “Mighty Sounds Effects Lady, do I have five numbers right?” Jeffries asked.
His question was met with silence, meaning one of the numbers was wrong. He made a late change, switching the “4” at the end to a “6.” The car’s retail price ended up being $22,376. When Carey revealed Jeffries had won, the hoops star ran on the stage and then sprinted over to the car and held his hands above his head in triumph. Jeffries made a second appearance on the show for the Showcase Showdown. He gave the wheel two good spins but didn’t advance to the Showcase. He ended up with a total of 90 after spinning a 25 and 65, not quite enough to beat another contestant’s 95.
Brothers Kobee and Darryl Minor announce their commitment to Indiana University Football Indiana continues to dip into the portal, this time bolstering their defensive again with the commitments of brothers, Texas Tech defensive back Kobee Minor and UTEP linebacker Darryl Minor. In three seasons with the Red Raiders Kobee Minor got little action, making 13 tackles in 23 games of action. He will have the potential of three years of eligibility. Indiana has added 10 players from the transfer portal in the last three days.
Darryl Minor spent 2022 with the UTEP Minors and played in four games before taking a redshirt season. In 2021 Minor played for Tyler Junior College where he totaled 90 tackles, 21 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks and three pass break ups. Darryl Minor was previously a preferred walk-on at Texas Tech before heading to Tyler Junior College. He will have two years of eligibility remaining.
Both brothers took a visit to Indiana last weekend and came away impressed. Kobee Minor held offers from Houston, Cal Berkley, Iowa State, and Kansas as well as Texas Tech. He primarily plays cornerback. Darryl Minor had offers from Arkansas State and Bowling Green in addition to Indiana after entering the transfer portal. He is a 6-foot, 223-pound athlete who will be playing inside linebacker for Indiana’s defense.
Indiana University Men’s Basketball falls out of the AP Top 25 Poll Both Purdue and Indiana University slid down the college basketball ranks after suffering losses this past week. Purdue fell from No. 1 to No. 3 in The Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll and got four first-place votes after suffering its first loss at Rutgers last week. Meanwhile, No. 15 IU fell out of the top 25 after losses to Iowa and Northwestern. Houston is back at No. 1 for the second time this season, while Kansas State continued its unexpectedly strong start by leaping from unranked to the verge of the top 10.
The Cougars received 34 of 60 first-place votes in Monday’s latest poll to return to the top after a two-week stay there earlier this season. Kansas was second and had 22 first-place votes. Before this season, the Cougars (16-1) hadn’t been No. 1 since the high-flying “Phi Slama Jama” days of the 1980s. Alabama and Tennessee gave the Southeastern Conference a pair of top-5 teams, with the Crimson Tide returning to No. 4 for the first time since spending a week there in December and the Volunteers hitting their season high at fifth.
Connecticut, UCLA, Gonzaga, Arizona, and Texas rounded out the top 10, with the Longhorns falling four spots after a tumultuous week that included the firing of Coach Chris Beard as the coach faces a felony domestic family violence charge. Then there’s Kansas State, which jumped to No. 11 after an impressive week with two road wins against ranked opponents under first-year coach Jerome Tang. Picked to finish last in the 10-team Big 12, the Wildcats scored 116 points at Texas then edged Baylor 97-95 in overtime. No. 19 Providence, No. 23 San Diego State and No. 25 Marquette joined Kansas State as the week’s new additions. Baylor, New Mexico and Ohio State fell out of the poll, with Scott Drew’s Bears now unranked for the first time since the 2018-19 season.
Indy Eleven Soccer announces 2023 regular season schedule The USL Championship announced on Monday its full 2023 schedule, with the 13th season in the league’s history set to feature a 408-game regular season over 32 weeks with each team playing 34 matches in the quest to earn a berth to the 2023 USL Championship Playoffs. Indy Eleven will face off against all 23 USL Championship foes during its tenth season of play overall (and its sixth in the USL Championship), with home and away series set for its Eastern Conference opponents and a split of six home and six away affairs against Western Conference sides.
Indy’s season starts in March on the road with foes old and new in the Tampa Bay Rowdies (March 11) and Detroit City FC (March 25) before it returns to Carroll Stadium to play four of five games at home in April, starting against Las Vegas Lights on Saturday, April 1. That match will mark the first of 14 Saturday contests on the team’s 17-game home calendar in 2023, which includes another weekend game on Sunday, Sept. 24, against Rio Grande Valley Toros FC, and a pair of Wednesday matches over the summer. The home opener will also be the first of four debut meetings for Indy against Western Conference sides in 2023, a series that will include the following contest against Oakland Roots SC (April 8) and road affairs at Sacramento Republic FC (May 13) and Phoenix Rising FC (Sept. 20), the latter featuring Eleven forward Solomon Asante’s return to the desert where he won a pair of USL Championship MVP Awards in 2019 & 2020.
One of the marquee matchups at “The Mike” this season will hit on Saturday, May 27, when the Boys in Blue will host the home leg of its LIPAFC rivalry series against Louisville City FC during the active Memorial Day Weekend in the Circle City. More holiday weekend clashes at Carroll Stadium follow across the summer with an “Indy-Pendence” Celebration affair on Saturday, July 1, vs. San Diego Loyal SC, and a Labor Day Weekend meeting with The Miami FC on Saturday, Sept. 2. The San Diego clash marks the first match in a season-long four-game homestand at “The Mike” that will encompass most of July (July 8 vs. Tulsa, July 12 vs. Charleston, and July 22 vs. Tampa Bay) and will lead into a pivotal pair of road contests four days apart at Pittsburgh Riverhounds FC (July 26) and LouCity FC (July 29). After a season-long three-game away swing through mid-August (at Miami, El Paso, and Memphis), the schedule balances out over the final eight games of the season with rotating pairs of home and away matches.
Indy’s final homestand of the season will commence with the Sunday, Sept. 24, match against RGV Toros and finish on Saturday, Sept. 30, with its rivalry return game against Detroit City FC. The Championship regular season will conclude on Saturday, Oct. 14 with a full slate of 12 games, including several intriguing contests that could decide postseason places and seeding for the top eight teams in the Eastern and Western Conferences including Indy’s trip to Texas to take on defending Championship title holder San Antonio FC at Toyota Field. At the conclusion of the regular season, the top eight teams in each conference will qualify for the 2023 USL Championship Playoffs. The USL Championship Playoffs will remain a single-elimination format and will return to a fixed bracket format, culminating in the 2023 USL Championship Final on a to be determined date between Nov. 9 and Nov. 13, 2023.
Indianapolis Colts own the #4 overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft After finishing the 2022 regular season with a 4-12-1 record, the Colts own the No. 4 pick in the 2023 NFL Draft – their highest first-round selection in five years. Previously, the Colts had the No. 3 overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft before swapping it with the New York Jets’ No. 6 overall pick, which became five-time Pro Bowl guard Quenton Nelson. The last time the Colts made the No. 4 overall pick in an NFL Draft, they used it to select Hall of Fame running back Edgerrin James in 1999.
The Colts own the following selections in the 2023 NFL Draft: First round, No. 4 overall, Second round, No. 35 overall, Third round (from Washington), TBD overall, Fourth round, TBD overall, Fifth round, TBD overall, Sixth round (from Buffalo, conditional), TBD overall, Seventh round (from Tampa Bay), TBD overall.
Because the Miami Dolphins forfeited their 2023 first-round pick, the fourth pick in the second round of this year’s NFL Draft will be No. 35 overall. We’ll know where the Colts’ picks in the fourth through seventh rounds will fall in the 2023 NFL Draft once compensatory selections are awarded, which last year happened in mid-March.
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