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Huskers Get Torched At Indiana Dumpster Fire, 56-7
Great question.
In less than a week, NU travels to #4 Ohio State. At the Horseshoe. In Columbus, Ohio.
Yup. Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
It’s like one week you get beat up by Mohammad Ali when he was in his prime and a week later you take on Mike Tyson also in his prime.
Things don’t look too good for the Scarlet & Cream this Saturday.
Matt Rhule needs to find a way to get his team back on track following a 49 point butt-ripping at the hands of Indiana on Saturday.
Fans will say this is only Rhule’s second year of a three to four year rebuild. Better talent is on ithe way. That is true. But for now, if the Huskers play the way they did Saturday, it’s going to be another blowout loss for NU.
So what can Matt Rhule do in a week to prop up his team? Does he have a magic wand he can wave in front of his players? Is there a Churchillian speech he can deliver to his troops this week?
Rhule continues to say the Huskers are in Phase 2 of the rebuild: Learning how to win.
What we all witnessed Saturday in Bloomington was a total mismatch. It was like a ’72 Pinto trying to win the Indy 500.
No way, Wade.
The Indiana Rebuild
Fans (not just Husker fans) are wondering how Curt Cignetti has managed to go directly to Phase 3 (Playing championship football) in his first year at a Power Conference?
One of the big reasons for the Hoosiers’ 7-0 start is the portal. Cignetti took six of his assistants with him from James Madison as well as 13 key players from last year’s 11-2 JMU team. He also used the portal to land a bunch more.
Many of those same transfer players had a hand in beating the snot out of a good (not great) Husker football team.
How can someone whose last stop was James Madison take the Big Ten by storm in his first year? This year’s Indiana team looks and plays like a CFP contender. How does that even happen?
Ask first year coaches like Kalen DeBoer (Alabama 5-2), Sherrone Moore at Michigan (4-3). Jedd Fisch (Washington Huskies 4-3). Deshaun Foster (UCLA 2-5).
(DeBoer’s Washington Huskies lost to Moore’s Michigan Wolverines in last year’s national title game.)
What leaks off Husker fans is that Indiana is a basketball school. Before Saturday’s game with Nebraska, IU’s stadium hadn’t sold out in years. The last time IU started the season 7-0 was in 1967.
Since ’67, NU has won five national championships, produced three Heisman winners and numerous other coveted player awards. How about NU’s crowd support? Since 1962, Nebraska has sold out Memorial Stadium in Lincoln every home game. The on-going record stands at 401 consecutive sellouts.
How is it possible that schools like Alabama, UCLA, Michigan, Washington (and Nebraska last year) passed on Cignetti? Did those schools even talk with him? Did they pass on his transfer players?
How is all that possible?
The people at Indiana must have been either very lucky or really smart when they picked Cignetti.
The opportunity must have been a dream come true for him. He left James Madison in a hurry last year, right after the regular season ended. Before he landed at Indiana, Cignetti left town with six of his assistants (OC, DC, RB, QB, D-line and ST).
Their departure left James Madison University high and dry just as they were preparing for their December 23rd Armed Forces Bowl game vwith Air Force. The Dukes did their best to try to fill the vacancies, but JMU ended up losing 21-31.
This information isn’t an indictment of Cignetti. Matt Rhule did the same thing when he left Temple in December of 2016 for the opening at Baylor. Rhule also took with him some of hisTemple assistants. Temple met Wake Forest in the Military Bowl that month. In that game, the Owls were coached by current Husker ST coach, Ed Foley. Temple lost 26-34.
How Bout Them Huskers
Grandson Will and I do a post-mortem on NU’s embarrassing loss to Indiana. We reluctantly look ahead to the Ohio State game. As usual, we praise John Cook’s Husker Volleyball team that remains #2 in the latest AVCA poll, a few votes behind Pitt. Congratulations Huskers!!!
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PLAINFIELD, Ind. (WISH) — Suspects fled a Plainfield bank after it was robbed Tuesday afternoon, police say.
Plainfield Police Department was called at 2:10 p.m. Tuesday to the robbery of a bank in progress at Chase Bank, 807 Southfield Drive. That’s southwest of the intersection of Quaker Boulevard and Stafford Road/East County Road 450 South in the Hendricks County town.
Deputy Chief Ryan Salisbury of the Plainfield Police Department said detectives were working on the case.
The police department posted on social media on Tuesday night that no one was hurt in the robbery, and the suspects, who were not in custody, fled prior to the arrival of first responders.
INDIANAPOLIS — Sophie Cunningham wants to emphasize she’s perfectly happy with the Indiana Fever. She just wishes she could be locked down longer.
Cunningham, who signed a one-year, $665,000 deal with the Indiana Fever for 2026, said on her podcast, “Show Me Something,” on Tuesday night that she was frustrated with the free agency process in the condensed offseason.
She shook her head vehemently when her co-host West Wilson asked if the contract was better than she thought it would be, then said in part, “It’s tough because I came off an injury … I’m not even going to lie to you, that’s a little, kind of, frustrating.”
Fans on social media largely took that as she did not get interest from other teams, she didn’t want to return to the Fever, or she was unhappy with the salary she got.
She shut those thoughts down on social media Monday night, then expounded on her frustrations with local media at Fever training camp on Tuesday morning.
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“I think Twitter kind of blew up last night about a comment I made on my podcast. But that wasn’t what I meant at all,” Cunningham said. “I think if you listen to the full clip, you really understand that I just wanted to be somewhere for more than one year. I’m almost 30 years old. I want to have a home. I want to get established. And I would love to get established in a place like Indiana.”
The Fever prioritized as much financial flexibility as possible this offseason because of the new EPIC clause, which allows both Aliyah Boston and Caitlin Clark to renegotiate their fourth-year salaries up to the max with an extension. Boston’s salary was bumped to $1 million in 2025, and she will make the supermax from 2027-29. Clark is eligible to negotiate up to the max in 2027, and both Clark and Boston could be making the supermax starting in 2028.
Only Lexie Hull and Monique Billings got major multi-year deals with the Fever out of free agency. Hull signed for $765,000 in 2026 and $803,250 in 2027, per Her Hoop Stats, while Billings got $800,000 for both 2026 and 2027. Damiris Dantas is the only other player that got a multi-year deal out of free agency, but that was for the minimum cap hit of $277,500.
Kelsey Mitchell signed a one-year, $1.4 million supermax, Cunningham returned on a one-year deal, and Myisha Hines-Allen and Tyasha Harris each signed one-year deals.
Cunningham added that she got multi-year offers from other teams, but chose to stay with Indiana on a one-year deal.
She wanted to return to Indiana, she said, because of friendships she created with her teammates and the potential they showed, even after six separate season-ending injuries on the roster. She is also closer to her hometown of Columbia, Missouri.
“When you find a group of girls who really make you fall in love with basketball games and you enjoy it, you enjoy them, not only on the court, but off the court, like, you want to hold on to that,” Cunningham said. “ … it was never about the money, it was just about the years, because I wanted to be with them. And God forbid a girl loves her teammates, you know what I mean?”
Cunningham is also coming off a major knee injury after she tore her MCL in August 2025. She was ruled out for the rest of the 2025 season and got surgery in Indianapolis, then had a six-month rehab process before she was cleared in February.
Since then, she has been ramping back up as much as possible, including playing one-on-one, three-on-three, plyometrics, and everything she does to get ready for a regular season.
Still, she said, she’ll need to actually play to get back into full basketball shape.
“Basketball shape is just different,” Cunningham said. “You can run as many suicides as you want, you can get your butt kicked however you want, but until you’re out here playing, you’re never fully going to be in game shape until you’re playing games.”
Chloe Peterson is the Indiana Fever beat reporter for IndyStar. Reach her at chloe.peterson@indystar.com or follow her on X at @chloepeterson67. Get IndyStar’s Indiana Fever and Caitlin Clark coverage sent directly to your inbox with our Caitlin Clark Fever newsletter. Subscribe to IndyStar TV: Fever for in-depth analysis, behind-the-scenes coverage and more.
CLOVERDALE, Ind. (WKRC) – Authorities in Indiana found a semi trailer loaded up with hundreds of pounds of suspected cocaine.
According to a statement issued by the Indiana State Police (ISP), 27-year-old Harmandeep Singh of Bakersfield, California was taken into custody after nearly 400 pounds of suspected cocaine were reportedly found in the trailer of a commercial truck.
Per the statement, an ISP trooper seized the suspected cocaine during a traffic stop on Interstate 70 in Putnam County, authorities said.
The stop occurred Tuesday morning near the 37-mile marker, just east of Cloverdale, after a commercial motor vehicle was observed exceeding the posted speed limit.
Police said Singh displayed several indicators of possible criminal activity during the encounter. After obtaining consent to search the vehicle, troopers discovered multiple duffel bags and cardboard boxes in the trailer containing approximately 392 pounds (178 kilograms) of suspected cocaine.
Authorities estimated the street value of the drugs at about $9 million.
Singh was taken into custody and taken to the Putnam County Jail, where he is being held on a $30,000 cash bond.
He faces the following preliminary charges, per the post:
- Possession of a narcotic drug
Formal charges will be determined by the Putnam County prosecutor.
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Indiana State Police said drug interdiction remains a priority, with troopers focusing on major highways to disrupt the flow of illegal narcotics into the state.
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