No. 23 Indiana looks to continue its remarkable start when it visits Northwestern. The Hoosiers are 5-0 for just the third time in school history and are ranked for the first time since they were 17th in the 2021 preseason poll.

Indiana is off to its best start since 1967, but there’s a larger story at play that makes the team’s first month much more mind-boggling. In each of the Hoosiers’ first five wins, each one had a similar theme.