Maybe you were a fan of it. Maybe you were not. Either way, the Crossroads Classic is dead.
Or, at least, it will be dead once the current contract expires at the end of this year, according to reporting from the Lafayette Journal & Courier’s Mike Carmin and IndyStar’s Zach Osterman. The annual four-team showcase featuring Indiana, Purdue, Butler and Notre Dame began in 2011 as the brainchild of former Purdue athletic director Morgan Burke and regularly drew decent holiday crowds to the state capital.
But from an IU perspective, the event seemed to run its course in recent years — a sentiment to which Purdue AD Mike Bobinski pointed in explaining its demise to the Journal & Courier:
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