Leighton Gingerich

BSU 30🔴⚪️
BSU MBB Manager 🏀

[John Clancy @coachclancy11]

We are BLESSED with a group of 1️⃣4️⃣ TERRIFIC student managers @BSUMBB_Managers @BallStateMBB!

Week 1️⃣ of the 2026-27 MANAGER Power Rankings ⬇️

“If you’re not FIRST you’re LAST” -Ricky Bobby

[Jimtown HS Athletics @jimtownathletic]

Golf at Lakeland invite:
Jack Kite: 84
Cooper Dillenbeck: 88
Leighton Gingerich: 89
Carson Gingerich: 94
Luke Thilman: 92
Jimtown: 353
Finished 5th out of 12

[Jimtown HS Athletics @jimtownathletic]

Golf gets a conference win tonight-
Jack Kite: 42
Cooper Dillenbeck: 49
Leighton Gingerich: 45
Carson Gingerich: 46
Luke Thilman: 44
Jimtown: 177
Laville: 211

[Ball State Men's Basketball @BallStateMBB]

Welcome back to assistant coach John Clancy! Coach Clancy returns for his second season on the staff!

[Transfer Portal @TransferPortal]

BREAKING: Notre Dame guard transfer Markus Burton has committed to Indiana, @JoeTipton reports 🔴⚪️

https://t.co/zZI1ERI0cJ

[Justin ROSE @JustinRose99]

I’ll just keep knocking on that 🚪 See you next year Augusta!

Congratulations @McIlroyRory going back-to-back

Thank you for all the support #Team🌹

[Matt Rodewald @Matt_Rodewald]

36 years ago today, a day I’ll never forget.

March 23, 1990. The Hoosier Dome.

Two semifinals in the morning, and then a state championship game that felt bigger than a state championship game. 41,046 people packed into the building, the largest crowd ever to watch a high school basketball game. It didn’t feel real. It felt like something closer to a Final Four than anything tied to high school.

Even at 9 years old, I could sense it. The noise, the scale, the anticipation. This wasn’t just a game. This was Indiana basketball at its absolute peak.

I didn’t grow up in Indiana, but my parents did, and my dad wasn’t going to let me miss it. So we piled into the car the night before and drove down to Indianapolis, chasing something that meant more to him than I probably understood at the time.

Because for him, this wasn’t just about that day.

It went back to 1972.

Elkhart’s North Side Gym. A sectional game. Middle of the week. About 5,000 people packed into that place, and he was on the floor, scoring a few buckets in front of a crowd that, at the time, probably felt just as big as the Dome would years later.

Did they win? Nope. He never bragged about it. If anything, he downplayed it. But when we went back just last year and he walked me onto that floor, pointing things out, retracing it possession by possession, you could see it come back to him. Even in a quiet gym, you could feel what it must have been like. A sea of people, all of it right on top of you.

That was his version of the magic.

Now here we were in 1990, and that same feeling had been magnified to a level neither of us had ever seen before.

An undefeated season. One game away from the first state championship in Concord history. A pocket of green sitting in a sea of red, holding onto the belief that this was finally it.

And I felt it too.

Even at 9 years old, I understood what the day meant. I could feel the magic of it.

I just happened to be on the wrong side of it.

Standing in the way was Damon Bailey, already the face of Indiana basketball before he ever stepped on a college floor. Bedford North Lawrence. Three Final Fours in four years. The state’s all-time leading scorer. The kind of player who didn’t just meet expectations, he carried everyone’s dreams.

He wasn’t just great. He was inevitable.

And years later, I’d find myself at IU, watching the end of Bob Knight’s era unfold in 2000, still hearing Bailey’s name echo, still understanding what he meant to that the state. I loved watching him play. It all connected back to that day.

But in 1990, I was just a kid sitting next to my dad 18 rows up, watching his moment unfold.

I knew how good Jamar Johnson was. I knew what Concord had. And I also knew, in that early way you start to understand the game, that moments like this don’t come around often.

Two years after Shawn Kemp had come through, there was an urgency to it. The season was a surprise. Win now, or it might never happened.

And then it slipped.

I still can’t watch the fourth quarter.

Not because of the game itself, but because of what it meant to him. I remember my dad in that moment more than anything else. What it took out of him. That kind of heartbreak doesn’t go away. It just settles in.

But I’m still glad I was there.

Because some moments aren’t about how they end. They’re about being there when something mattered that much, when a place, a game, and a group of people all felt connected in a way that’s hard to explain if you didn’t live it.

The #ThisisHoosierHysteria moment will always stay with me. I still have the ticket to prove it.

[Ball State Sports @BallStateSports]

Introducing your @BallStateMBB Head Coach, Chris Capko!

Welcome to Muncie, Coach @ChrisCapko!

✍️: https://t.co/7o05bQfzis

[TMZ @TMZ]

🕊️ Chuck Norris has died at 86. https://t.co/iEc9C997Ik

[The Next Round @NextRoundLive]

Since the beginning of the 12-team CFP era Indiana has had the best record in college football, followed by 2 other Big Ten teams (Oregon & Ohio State).

Which team's on this list surprise you the most?

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

This man really rolled off the couch, got less than a week of practice, and took this Seahawks defense down to the wire

[NHSSCA - Indiana @NHSSCA_IN]

🚨INDIANA OPENING ‼️ Jimtown High School in Elkhart, IN is looking for a FULL TIME STRENGTH & CONDITIONING COACH! The link to apply is below. Reach out to Mr. Scott Hamstra [email protected] with questions! @nhssca_us

https://t.co/pWExtgINpe

[Calen Glavio @Hoosier1Pitt]

Is anyone making fun of this anymore? #Iufb

[ESPN College Football @ESPNCFB]

INDIANA BEATS OHIO STATE TO WIN ITS FIRST CONFERENCE TITLE SINCE 1967 😲

[Leighton Gingerich @swishpg4]

@DGreen_Sped @LJMoss62 @secnumbersguy @diegopavia02 Bro that was his brother 😭

[Mike Schumann @ The Daily Hoosier @daily_hoosier]

Two years ago today IU announced the hire of Curt Cignetti.

In two seasons he is 23-2, produced the two winningest seasons in program history, and has more wins than 21 of the 29 coaches who preceded him at Indiana.

Easily one of the greatest hires in sports history. #iufb

[Jimtown HS Athletics @jimtownathletic]

Congratulations to Jimtown Tennis and Leighton Gingerich for being named All Conference INSC!

[Hoosier Review @Hoosier_Review]

Indiana Special Teams has been Elite #iufb

Radicic is tied for 1st in the nation with a perfect 8/8 on FGs and 40/40 on XPs

Franke leads the nation in Touchbacks with 46 and has only given up 2 returns

Brady is 7th in the nation with 18.1 yard avg on Punt Returns

Indiana is tied for 5th in Blocked Kicks with 3

[ESPN @espn]

Breaking: Curt Cignetti and Indiana have agreed to terms on a new eight-year contract with an average annual compensation of approximately $11.6M, the school announced.

The new contract runs through November 30, 2033.

[Chuck Freeby Sports @ChuckFreeby]

Saddened to learn of the death of longtime @jimtown_jimmie1 wrestling coach Mark Kerrn. Great guy who has a positive influence on so many young men.

Eternal rest, Grant unto him, O Lord…