IU basketball

As Sunday’s Colts-Broncos showdown nears, Andrew Luck and Peyton Manning are the story.

When you tune in, you are on Dakich’s team. He will teach you. Lecture you. Tell you to “sack up.” He will hang up on you and call you an idiot.

A couple of Butler greats—Gordon Hayward and Brad Stevens—draw raves and a rant.

The Pacers’ Solomon Hill ruined the homecoming of prodigal son Lance Stephenson.

The elder Mattingly, Don, appeared with his son in a viral YouTube video in which Preston—a dead ringer for his dad—knocks down a series of trick basketball shots.

Wabash and DePauw meet on the football field for the 121st time.

Six Indiana University basketball players have made headlines for off-the-court shenanigans since last February.

“Bobby ‘Slick’ Leonard: Heart of a Hoosier” depicts the impact one man can have on a family, a team, a city.

“There are actually a lot of fish that have this condition, but I thought it was pretty damn hilarious,” says Matthew Niemiller.

@IUBloomington offers the week’s best #humblebrag: “Just another day at IU (with Grammy Award winner Joshua Bell and Academy Award winner Meryl Streep).”

Via @urbanophile: “Last time there were 8 murders in Indy, the mayor issued a statement and jetted off to Phoenix.”

By the by, this isn’t the first time that IU has come under that faux-Fuhrer’s fire.

Eleven parties, festivals, and games you won’t want to miss in 2014.

“You realize what an absolute crisis was averted,” IU men’s basketball coach Tom Crean said to the press.

“The atmosphere in Assembly Hall is truly unmatched anywhere in college basketball,” says Cindy Simon Skjodt, for whom the arena will be named.