The “Penix Stretch” will go down as perhaps the single biggest individual play in Indiana football history. The way the game had gone, the call coach Tom Allen made and the controversial, “was he in or was he out” ending is the stuff of legend. But Michael Penix Jr. wasn’t always the hero on Saturday. In fact, Penix Jr. looked far from it for the better part of Indiana’s 36-35 overtime win over eighth-ranked Penn State. In the first half, he was all over the place. After an opening Nittany Lion touchdown, Indiana’s offense, which was supposed to be their…
Author: Aidan Kunst
Just over a year ago, Khristian Lander, Anthony Leal, and Trey Galloway played together in the orange and green for the Indiana Elite AAU program on the Adidas Gauntlet. Yesterday, the three freshmen, along with fellow first-year Jordan Geronimo, put on the cream and crimson for the first time at IU basketball’s media day. “I’m really excited, especially with games coming up, just to be able to play with this jersey on,” Leal, the Bloomington native, said. “It means a lot to me.” The four freshmen, who together make up 247Sports’ 16th-ranked class in 2020, all have different roles and…