It's two college basketball powers playing in a baseball stadium in December. But make no mistake, this is a football game.
Indiana will face off against Duke in the Pinstripe Bowl on Dec. 26 at Yankee Stadium, the Hoosiers' first bowl appearance since 2007 and just the program's second since 1993.
It's also the first bowl game of the Kevin Wilson Era.
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The Hoosiers finished the regular season with a 6-6 record to earn this long-awaited bowl trip. After going 4-0 in non-conference play, Indiana lost its next six games but won two must-win contests to reach the requisite six wins to earn bowl eligibility.
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While the Hoosiers and Blue Devils would make for a terrific basketball matchup — those teams just played each other in last week's Big Ten/ACC Challenge — they haven't seen each other on the gridiron since the 1980s. Indiana and Duke played three football games during that decade, the Hoosiers winning in 1980 and 1983 and the Devils winning in 1984.
This is just Indiana's 10th bowl appearance ever. The last came in the 2007 Insight Bowl. The Hoosiers went to six bowl games between 1986 and 1993 under Bill Mallory, winning two of those games. Lee Corso led Indiana to a win in the Holiday Bowl in 1979, and the school played in its only Rose Bowl to cap the 1967 campaign.