[6BS] Hoosiers Announce Additional Scrimmages Before Season
Big Ten Schedules Announced For Men's And Women's Basketball
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.
While Hoosier Hysteria was recently announced to be getting a major shakeup by moving locations, the last few days confirmed that fans will still get a chance to see the team in Assembly Hall before the season starts. Speaking of Indiana’s home venue, the full schedule for this coming season was announced.
Also, Inside the Hall continued its series previewing each Big Ten squad and football improved to 4-0. As usual, we will conclude with weekly shows and a look at other IU sports, which was highlighted by soccer bouncing back with a victory.
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Here is what is in this week’s edition:
Hoosiers Announce Additional Scrimmages Before Season
Big Ten Schedule Announced For Men's And Women's Basketball
Inside The Hall’s Big Ten Team Preview
Football Makes Statement Dominating Top-10 Illinois
Weekly Shows
Hoosier Roundup-Soccer Bounces Back With Dominant Victory
Banner #1: Hoosiers Announce Additional Scrimmages Before Season
Some fans may have been upset about last week’s announcement that Hoosier Hysteria is moving out of Assembly Hall and onto Kirkwood Ave. It turns out, though, that there will be a couple of chances to see Indiana for no charge in their home arena after all, before the real competition begins.
While it won’t be the bells and whistles of recent times, IU will host both a team scrimmage and a Haunted Hall of Hoops event that supporters can come see new coach Darian Devries’ squad in. The scrimmage will be the night after the event on Kirkwood Avenue on October 3 at 7 pm, with doors opening at 5:30 pm.
As for the Haunted Hall of Hoops, it will be the night before Halloween on October 30 from 6-8 pm. This event began in 2008 and was a staple under former head coach Tom Crean, but was discontinued under the previous two regimes. Now under DeVries, it will make its return.
Banner #2: Big Ten Schedule Announced For Men's And Women's Basketball
The non-conference schedules and Big Ten opponents have been known for a while. Now the entire slate for both the men’s and women’s teams with dates was made official this week.
The men’s squad begins league play at Minnesota with their toughest stretch beginning in mid-January. Also, the Big Ten Tournament will once again include all the teams in the conference. The women, meanwhile, begin their league play at Illinois.
Looking further down the road, it was a huge recruiting week for both squads. Each one secured a top-50 commitment with potentially more to follow.
Banner #3: Inside The Hall’s Big Ten Team Preview
Inside the Hall continued its series previewing all the teams in the Big Ten. This week, Northwestern, Washington, Nebraska, Maryland, and Iowa were broken down.
Banner #4: Football Makes Statement Dominating Top-10 Illinois
While 6-Banner is a basketball-focused column, the success of IU football in 2024 has led to unprecedented excitement amongst the fan base and increased media coverage for the program. As a result, 6-Banner, Assembly Call, The Back Home Network, and Inside the Hall are providing more coverage of the Hoosier squad on the gridiron now.
While Indiana has climbed the rankings and been dominant against lower-level competition in the non-conference, it faced their first serious test when league play began against top-10 Illinois. The major exam, though, for the Hoosiers was an A+ as IU dominated the Illini 63-10 to improve to 4-0.
Conference play continues next Saturday with another blockbuster. The Cream and Crimson will have their first road game of 2025 when they head to Iowa at 3:30 pm on Peacock.
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The item of the week for this week is the new “Hurryin’ Hoosiers” snapback hat. Both
Jerod Morris and
Tony Adragna
have it, and can attest to its quality and fit.
Plus, how cool is it to have an item celebrating the great teams under Branch McCracken?
Banner #5: Weekly Shows
The Back Home Network was on air many times this week as new shows have been added recently. Big Red Carpet, CrimsonCASH, Crimson Cast, Dribble Drive, Football Weather, and Right Up Meridian all had episodes over the last few days.
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Banner #6: Hoosier Roundup-Soccer Bounces Back With Dominant Victory
Men’s Soccer rebounded from its first loss of the season to dominate Penn State.
Volleyball suffered a frustrating defeat to Western Kentucky before defeating Bradley.
Women’s soccer fell to Maryland.
Field hockey defeated St. Francis (PA) but fell to Iowa.
Men’s and women’s tennis competed at an exhibition event.
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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