INDIANAPOLIS – The 16th-ranked UIndy football team hosted Truman State University in an early-season GLVC rivalry game Saturday night. The two conference heavyweights combined for 75 total points in what was UIndy's 2024 home opener, with the Greyhounds hanging on for a 41-34 win.
 
INS & OUTS
UIndy racked up 31 points in the first half—including 24 in the second quarter alone—and took a 14-point lead into the halftime break. UIndy did not punt the entire half.
 

Two long first-half TDs (so far)! ??

Jon Lewis from 25 yards and Kaleb Carver from 43!! pic.twitter.com/34a0kozi34

— UIndy Football (@UIndyFB) September 14, 2024

 
The second quarter featured what could be a Key Stadium first, as the teams traded 96-yard kickoff returns. The Greyhounds immediately answered Truman's lengthy special teams return with one of their own when Markez Gillam took a kickoff 96 yards to the house.
 
The UIndy offense stalled in third quarter, with Truman cutting the lead to four heading into the final period. The Bulldogs kept the pressure on by forcing a turnover on downs early in the fourth and looked to possibly take the lead.
 
The UIndy defense got the stop it needed, however, and a 23-yard reception by Cobi Lewis on the next play from scrimmage sparked a nine-play, 80-yard drive that flipped the script. The series was capped by a four-yard touchdown plunge by Jon Lewis—his second of the night—to make it 38-27 with seven minutes to go.
 
UIndy kept the Bulldogs at arm's length to rest of the way, with a perfect 43-yard strike from Gavin Sukup to Kaleb Carver and a late 41-yard field goal by Ian Burr helping to ice it.
 
INSIDE THE BOX
- Sukup finished 24-for-34 for 319 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions. He completed each of his last eight attempts, racking up 120 of his passing yards in the fourth quarter.
- Senior Clay Schulte topped the team with 10 tackles. Fellow-linebacker Kole Viel had three tackles for a loss.
- Burr made all seven of his kicks on the night, including five PATs and a pair of field goal attempts on the way to 11 points.
- Anthony Crowell had a career-high 115 receiving yards, while J. Lewis finished with 106 yards on the ground.
 
MORE NOTES
UIndy has now won eight consecutive games versus Truman … The night marked the first time UIndy had a 300-yard passer and a 100-yard rusher in the same game since October of 2021 versus McKendree … Gillam's touchdown return was the second of his career. He also had an 88-yard kickoff return versus Quincy back on Oct. 22, 2022. Only five Greyhounds have more than one kickoff return TD since game-by-game data became available in 1983 ... Freshman cornerback Key Crowell made his first collegiate start tonight.
 
UP NEXT
UIndy returns to non-conference play for each of the next two weeks, starting with a road trip to Wayne State next weekend. Kickoff from Detroit is set for 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21.