Hammer and Rails · Nov 26, 2017
Purdue 31, Indiana 24: Welcome Home/Welcome Back
It had been 1,456 days.
On November 30th, 2013 the Old Oaken Bucket took a ride south with a 1-10 Purdue team that went down as maybe the worst in school history. Indiana rolled to a 56-36 win that day that was never as close as the final score indicated. The Bucket stayed in Bloomington, and never really came close to coming back. The constant ineptitude of the Hazell era meant that it established near permanent residence. It even only visited once, as the schedule makers made sure that three of four Bucket games in a row were in Bloomington. The closest was 2014, when Zander Diamont’s late touchdown sealed the second of the four Hoosier wins.