In a community full of fans who typically root for Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame or Butler, Mullins has suddenly turned Greenfield into a haven of UConn fans.
While the Saturday and Monday games are the marquee ticketed events, Friday is something special: It is a gift to the community of a free, community-wide experience.
The downtown La Quinta Inn on East Washington Street is advertising rooms at $609 per night for the weekend, and the Sleep Inn and Suites near 16 Tech has rooms at $814 per night.
The former Indiana governor and president of Purdue University also addresses one of the biggest political, academic and economic debates of the last decade: What is the value of a college degree?
At the Final Four in Indianapolis, the third-seeded University of Illinois will pass for something resembling Cinderella in a field with two No. 1 seeds and a No. 2.
The second-seeded Boilers built a seven-point halftime lead but couldn’t contain the Wildcats in the second half. The victory propels Arizona into the Final Four in Indianapolis.
About 1,000 volunteers will come together to pull off an epic weekend of college sports in Indianapolis when the city hosts the Division I, II, III and NIT men’s basketball championships. IBJ talked with four of them.
“She has taken the Final Four to a new level and made it part of our culture,” Indiana Sports Corp. President Patrick Talty said. “It’s on people’s bucket list to go to the Final Four, and that’s in part due to her planning and making that event bigger and better than it was.”
The 2026 Men’s Final Four Sustainability Plan is a collaboration between the NCAA, Indiana Sports Corp., environmental groups, corporate partners and student researchers to max out the event’s carbon-reduction efforts and recycling programs.
From helping pack supplies used throughout the NCAA tournament to guiding thousands of visitors through downtown during Final Four weekend, students will play dozens of roles tied to college basketball’s biggest event.
The members of the Indiana University team that won the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament in 1976 with a 32-0 record are experiencing a revival as the NCAA Final Four approaches.
The Indians have spent the past few years working on these changes, conducting personal surveys with focus groups and online to measure public opinion on a variety of topics. Foremost among them was whether to keep a nickname that has fallen out of favor in some places.
