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“Whether you do or do not talk to New Albany coach Jim Shannon, that’s not changing your chances of getting Romeo Langford,” one recruiting analyst says.

‘Campus Canines’ is all shining coats and wiggling butts and wet noses and fetching red bandanas and big clumsy paw—pooch “person”-ality in spades—set against golden-hour backdrops of Bloomington limestone, hardwoods, and flowers.

Indiana basketball’s defining rivalry rekindles twice in February with two new episodes of a series Purdue currently leads by a reasonably commanding 115–89. Here’s what got (and kept) the ball rolling:

The Bloomington professor uses Scandinavian moose leather to make unique baby booties worn by Saint West and Sweden’s Prince Oscar.

Prediction: Boilermakers and IU meet in title game—twice.

This time, it’s an IU computer-science professor in a story about Trump, Russia, and computer servers.

Cool stuff that makes it fun to be a Hoosier.

After five years of cloaking customers in IU and Butler tees, the owners have finally struck a licensing deal with other Indiana schools.

Is it time to love Tom Crean again? After a Big Ten title, the folks at tomcreanbuyout.com apparently think so.

The Naysayer forecasts a blowout in the IU-Purdue game.

On the strength of groundbreaking faculty and famous alumni, Herman B Wells makes Indiana University into an academic powerhouse. The ripple effects follow from a Champaign-to-Bloomington transfer.

And this, truth be told, is what I have always wanted for my child: I want her to be a Hoosier.

I am very satisfied with Tom Crean as Indiana’s head coach and don’t wish him to be fired. As a Boilermaker, I think he’s the perfect coach for the Hoosiers.

“I’m just going to say this – there is no way the Indiana University basketball team is the 14th best team in the nation. And there is no way Purdue should be as low as 21st.”

“I’m a restless IU fan. To be fair, I think people forget where the program was when Crean got there. But if Brad Stevens availed himself, if he was more forthcoming about expressing an interest in the job, that would make me very happy.”