B1G 101: Get to know Indiana
The fifth installment in our series.
Our next B1G 101 installment focuses on a school that Washington hasn’t often played against, but one whose path the Huskies have crossed in a cosmic sort of way.
Where would UW have been in 2023, after all, if Kalen DeBoer and Michael Penix Jr. hadn’t spent the 2019 season together at Indiana? DeBoer’s lone season in Bloomington not only put him in touch with the quarterback who would help him to last year’s national title game, but it also supplied him with two members of the Huskies’ former coaching staff — Nick Sheridan and William Inge — and Sheridan is now his offensive coordinator at Alabama. There’s another former Hoosier on UW’s 2024 roster, too: redshirt freshman defensive back Jordan Shaw, who originally planned to transfer to Arizona.
Washington visits Indiana on Oct. 26, its second trip to Bloomington and first since 1978.
Let’s get to know the Hoosiers a little better.
Prior installments: