Can Indiana do it once more?
School soccer will start asking that query in earnest when Curt Cignetti and his Hoosiers take the sector Aug. 30 for his or her opener in opposition to Outdated Dominion. After a shock turnaround ended with a College Football Playoff berth in 2024, hope runs excessive in Bloomington once more this fall.
A few of final 12 months’s greatest gamers are gone, however key figures stay: Aiden Fisher, D’Angelo Ponds, Mikail Kamara, Elijah Sarratt, Carter Smith. And Cignetti did good work reloading his roster in vital positions, with gamers like Fernando Mendoza, Roman Hemby, Kellen Wyatt and Pat Coogan.
The Hoosiers will not sneak up on anybody this fall, and so they’ve been handed a harder highway by means of the Massive Ten than they needed to stroll a 12 months in the past. However there are causes to consider Cignetti’s second act might be simply as thrilling as his first. Let us take a look at how IU’s schedule shakes out.
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