By Cort Street | @cort_street Sports Capital Journalism INDIANAPOLIS – At the sight of Mike Woodson appearing on the video screen at Gainbridge Fieldhouse ahead of the Indiana Hoosiers’ second round matchup against the Oregon Ducks, their cheers surged into a roar. It was a roar of admiration, not for all the Indiana head coach, …
Read MoreBy Andrew Thomison | @Andrew_Thomison Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana interior defensive lineman CJ West will fly under NFL teams’ radars no more. Over the last few weeks, West has started to garner more attention as a prospect in the 2025 National Football League Draft. In his lone season with Indiana University, West …
Read MoreBy Chris Schumerth Sports Capital Journalism Program It will be easy to forget that it was the Indiana Hoosiers that had the first opportunity to take control of the first 12-team College Football Playoff game ever played. A team that had scored more than 30 points in all but two previous games this season started …
Read MoreBy Chris Schumerth Sports Capital Journalism Program SOUTH BEND – It did not seem like an accident that Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard appeared at the post-game press conference in a Jeremiyah Love T-shirt after the Irish beat an upstart Indiana team, 27-17, in the inaugural first-round game of the expanded College Football Playoff. “I’ve …
Read MoreBy Cort Street | @cort_street Sports Capital Journalism Program SOUTH BEND – No other result would have been sufficient. There was no arrogance to the processional as the No. 7 Notre Dame Fighting Irish trotted off the field following a 27-17 victory over the No. 10 Indiana Hoosiers. There was, more noticeably, an air of …
Read MoreMy paternal grandfather, a Notre Dame graduate, lived out his life in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, as a high school football coach who won several state championships. He was Catholic, though my own father didn’t pass it on to my siblings and me. My mother is from just north of Pittsburgh, and when my parents tired of …
Read MoreBy Michael Harley | @mhar3481 Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS — In his 177th game as an Iowa Hawkeye, Jordan Bohannon banked in the biggest shot of his career. With a semifinal game of the Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament against Indiana knotted at 77, the Hawkeyes were looking to take the final shot of …
Read MoreBy Michael Harley | @mhar3481 Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Hoosiers advanced to the semifinals of the Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament as they defeated the No. 1-seeded Fighting Illini of Illinois, 65-63, in the first quarterfinal game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. The ninth-seeded Hoosiers (20-12), became the second-lowest seeded team to reach …
Read MoreBy Michael Hemmerle Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS — “We were expecting to be here and winning it all,” Illinois coach Brad Underwood said. “We had a good feeling going into the tournament.” The top-seeded Illini had history on their side in the quarterfinals of the 2022 Big Ten tournament. Illinois owned a superb 6-2 …
Read MoreBy Michael Harley | @mhar3481 Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS — As the Michigan players approached the bench at the end of pregame warmups before the second round of the Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament, nearly every one of them stopped to greet their coach, Juwan Howard, with a hug. At the end of Michigan’s …
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