Welcome to another edition of 6-Banner Sunday, a joint production between The Assembly Call and Inside the Hall, and presented by our friends at Homefield Apparel, where we highlight the five most essential IU basketball stories of the past week, plus take a look at how the other IU sports programs are doing.
Football continued its conference season with a showdown against USC. IU won with a strong second half to improve to 9-1.
The hoops squad also played its first tough contest against Syracuse and was victorious before pulling away to beat Tennessee Tech later in the week. Finally, the team signed its recruits for 2027. As usual, we will conclude with a look at the weekly shows and the rest of the Hoosier sports scene, led by men’s soccer, which won against Maryland and will play for a Big Ten tournament title today.
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Here is what is in this week’s edition:
IU Football Takes Control In Second Half To Beat USC
Hoosier Basketball Edges Syracuse In First Major Test Of Season
Indiana Pulls Away From Tennessee Tech In Second Half
IU Signs Its 2027 Recruits
Weekly Shows
Hoosier Roundup-Men’s Soccer Beats Maryland To Play For Big Ten Tourney Title Today
Banner #1: IU Football Takes Control In Second Half To Beat USC
No. 9 IU played a tough game again in football and won another thriller. Indiana’s offense looked much improved as Grant Wilson took over at QB from Josh Hoover. While he threw a pick and put a couple of other balls in harm’s way, his throws were mostly accurate, and he tossed for 305 yards and a couple of TD’s. Also, IU’s defense played lights out as usual, and while USC moved the ball, the Hoosiers buckled down in the red zone.
In the end, Indiana won 27-13 to improve to 9-1 overall and 6-1 in the league. They next face Washington next Saturday at 3:30 pm on Peacock.
Afterwards, IU coach Curt Cignetti spoke, Inside the Hall had a photo gallery, and Zach Horwitz wrote Five Takeaways.
Banner #2: Hoosier Basketball Edges Syracuse In First Major Test Of Season
IU basketball fans got their first chance to see the squad in a serious test against a P5 squad. While the game was not in Bloomington, it was still in the state of Indiana as the Hoosiers played Syracuse in Indianapolis.
Once again, if this result was any indication, IU will be much improved. This was because depth and guard play led the night and allowed the Hoosiers to squeak by the Orange 83-80.
After the game, Hoosier coach Darian DeVries spoke, Inside the Hall had a photo gallery, Ryan Corazza wrote a Minute After, Alex Bozich provided five takeaways, and Horwitz put together a column about the team’s resiliency.
Banner #3: Indiana Pulls Away From Tennessee Tech In Second Half
After a slow first half, the Hoosiers turned on the juice in the second half to roll over Tennessee Tech 90-66. This time, it was the bigs who had the best evenings on the court.
After the game, DeVries spoke, Inside the Hall had a photo gallery, Corazza wrote a Minute After, Bozich provided five takeaways, and Horwitz put together a column about the team’s dominant second half.
Banner #4: IU Signs Its 2027 Recruits
As part of National Signing Day, DeVries signed his prized recruits for 2027-2028. Two of them are very highly ranked: guard Chase Branham and center Darius Wabbington. They join big man Felix Kiehlneker from Germany.
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The item of the week for this week is the new “Hurryin’ Hoosiers” snapback hat. Both
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Plus, how cool is it to have an item celebrating the great teams under Branch McCracken?
Banner #5: Weekly Shows
The Back Home Network has many shows. As a result, it was on air several times this week with programming.
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Banner #6: Men’s Soccer Beats Maryland To Play For Big Ten Tourney Title Today
Men’s soccer beat Maryland and will play Washington today for yet another Big Ten Tournament title.
Women’s basketball dominated Samford as well as Bradley.
Volleyball fell to Illinois as well as Minnesota.
Cross Country competed at the Great Lakes Regional.
Softball announced its upcoming schedule.
Thanks for your continued support of The Assembly Call and Inside the Hall. We’ll be back next weekend with a new roundup.
Now go enjoy yourself a 6-banner Sunday.
Aaron (Ari) Shifron
Assembly Call Contributor
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