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During his first 20 days at Indiana, Curt Cignetti did not see much daylight.
Indiana athletic director Scott Dolson sent the plane to pick up his new head coach on Dec. 1. What Cignetti and his staff discovered upon landing in Bloomington was a roster crisis. Nineteen scholarship players were already in the transfer portal, including 13 who'd started. They had three weeks to rebuild a Big Ten team.
Cignetti drove to work in the dark before 5 a.m. He'd typically work out of his new office until 11 p.m. One night, it was 12:30.