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By Jaela Johnson | @jae_jamirah Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS – You don’t know until you find out. The Cleveland State Vikings entered the Horizon League women’s championship game as one of the most consistently successful programs in the nation. Their 29 victories were the second-most in school history, one fewer than the 30 victories …

Editor’s note: IUPUI graduate student Owen Kaelble, writing for usab.com, previews the opening game for three-time defending champion USA at the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup in Sydney, Australia. https://www.usab.com/news-events/news/2022/09/2022-wwc-preview.aspx

By Jordan Morey | @JordanAMorey Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS — Growing up in small-town southern Georgia, Stetson Bennett IV would often listen to old clips on YouTube of Hall-of-Fame broadcaster Larry Munson calling Bulldogs football games. Bennett wasn’t born until 18 years after the University of Georgia claimed its last national championship, but it …

We gathered at a hotel just outside of Dallas to get an inside look at how the College Football Playoff committee selects its top 25 each week, seeds each team and slots the four-team playoff and New Year’s Six Bowls. We sat in the same meeting room the committee uses each fall, complete with individual …

Cory Collins covered the 2014 Final Four in Arlington, Texas while a graduate assistant for the sports journalism program on the IUPUI campus. Here is his reflection on the weekend that led to Connecticut’s national championship. By Cory Collins | @CoCoCoryCollins Rarely had it sounded so sweet. Despite some-70,000 bodies standing in the spacious confines …

Editor’s Note: Sports Capital Journalism Program M.A. graduate Frank Bonner, a reporter for the Tulsa World, wrote this profile of Oklahoma State’s Cade Cunningham. Cunningham has been named a finalist for the Wayman Tisdale Trophy as National Freshman of the Year. https://tulsaworld.com/sports/college/osu/osu-all-american-cade-cunningham-is-the-best-in-the-country-but-his-team-first/article_87df1dfe-875d-11eb-b8a6-bb31bbe13ca6.html

Editor’s Note: Students from the Sports Capital Journalism Program at IUPUI will cover the NCAA tournament for NCAA.com and the program’s website. Four of the seven are working toward a M.A.in Sports Journalism and three are undergraduates. IUPUI students have covered the Final Four each year since 2013 under the guidance of program director Malcolm …

(Editor’s Note: David Song, a student in the M.A. program in Sports Journalism at IUPUI, produced this analysis of the work of Isabelle Khurshudyan of The Washington Post, whose coverage of the Washington Capitals was among the stories recognized by the Associated Press Sports Editors.) By David Song | @DeltaSigma96 Sports Capital Journalism Program Breaking …

The Big Ten Conference announced this evening that beginning Thursday, March 12, 2020, attendance at all Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament games will be limited to student-athletes, coaches, event staff, essential team and Conference staff, TV network partners, credentialed media, and immediate family members of the participating teams. Additionally, all further Big Ten Conference winter …

By Justin Powell | @Justin_Powell24 Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS – The top-seeded Maryland Terrapins relied on the overpowering combination of their senior players and a gifted freshman to defeat the No. 6 Ohio State Buckeyes, 82-65, in the Big Ten Tournament championship game. Maryland (28-4) won its fourth Big Ten Women’s title in six …