Mike Lopresti: These teams’ next stop? The NCAA Tournament
After what’s happened to the Colts, to IU football, to the Pacers, to Butler basketball … well, you’d think the 16th state admitted to the Union is due.
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Mike Lopresti: Can Chesterton break Indy-area championship juggernaut?
Memories. Chesterton is certainly stacking those up this season.
Mike Lopresti: Former IU coach reflects on journey to national championship
It is 20 years now since Indiana showed up in the national championship game.
Lopresti: Misery loves company
Sightly perturbed to see our striped-helmeted neighbors down Interstate 74 in the game? The Colts keep searching for the secret to building a big winner. Look southeast.
Sports: These four coaches have history on their sides
Forty-four schools in Division I basketball this season are coached by former players, and central Indiana has somehow ended up the epicenter of the trend. Nine percent of those 44 are here
Lopresti: With national football crown, Georgia’s not complaining about Indy’s cold weather
Georgia’s 33-18 victory over Alabama in the College Football Playoff National Championship had to mean so much to Bulldogs everywhere, even Butler’s Blue was probably cheering.
Sports: Another shining moment for Lucas Oil Stadium
This is your cue, Lucas Oil Stadium. You’re on again. This time for the College Football Playoff National Championship.
You might be barely a teenager, but you’ve seen a lot.
Mike Lopresti: First 10 days of January offer a sports buffet
Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl, Wisconsin at Purdue and Ohio State at Indiana are among the choice matchups in the first day of January. Oh, and the College Football Playoff Championship game at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Mike Lopresti: Purdue’s No. 1 ranking now doesn’t mean much in March
Only two No. 1 teams in the final Associated Press poll in the past 25 NCAA Tournaments have ended up national champions—Kentucky in 2012 and Duke in 2001. Only four of the past 12 even advanced to the Final Four.
Sports: IU football’s skid to the end of a rocky road
The Old Oaken Bucket rivalry will be rekindled this year, and in Indiana’s case, it will be one last chance to find shelter from the Category 5 hurricane this season has become.
Sports: These Jaguars are on the hunt for redemption
Gaze around the state of Indiana landscape in Division I basketball. Find the one and only program voted to win its league this season.
Mike Lopresti: The road to football glory in Indianapolis
The first rankings from the College Football Playoff committee had the contenders lined up, so now we look at the top names and try to figure out why each would be a good fit for the championship Indy in January.
Mike Lopresti: College hoops are back
Bounce, bounce, bounce. Yeah, college basketball is coming.
Sports: UIndy quarterback starts seventh season
If you think Stancombe has the playbook down backward and forward by now, just think how well he must know campus. “Like the back of my hand,” Stancombe said.
Mike Lopresti: October should bring clarity to sports
Clarity. That’s what October is for.
Mike Lopresti: Holtmann, Patberg share milestones on Sept. 11
There was a lot of news in the sports world that Tuesday morning.
Mike Lopresti: Excitement, some challenges mount ahead of football playoffs in Indy
Wasn’t it just yesterday that Indianapolis was basking in the glow of pulling off the NCAA Tournament, with COVID banging on the door? But the calendar moves on, and now Indy and its 425-person playoff host committee prepares for their next moment of truth on the big stage.
Mike Lopresti: Early dates in Indiana football should be revealing
Whoever opens against Seattle September 12—Jacob Eason seems the choice—will be the 11th different quarterback starter in the past 161 games. There are other questions bouncing around the state’s football landscape.
Mike Lopresti: Victory Field celebrates 25 years with unusual season
But I’m starting to feel like my old self. I know things are getting back to normal when I feel peanut shells being crunched on my walkways. Funny, the things you miss.
Mike Lopresti: Athletes’ livelihoods, life-long dreams hang on Olympics
You think Indianapolis had its hands full hosting the NCAA Tournament without the walls crumbling in from COVID? Multiply that by a hundred and you get Tokyo.