INDIANAPOLIS – The No. 8 UIndy football team opened the 2025 NCAA Division II playoffs in emphatic fashion Saturday afternoon. The Greyhounds took down GLVC-rival Truman State University, 57-14, behind another record-setting effort from senior quarterback Gavin Sukup. The Harlon Hill hopeful surpassed both the UIndy single-season and career marks for passing yards on the afternoon, leading the Hounds to their first postseason victory since 2018.
 
The third-seeded Greyhounds are set to host a second-round playoff game for the first time ever. UIndy will welcome No. 21 Minnesota State—which upset second-seeded and 12th ranked Findlay, 37-14—next Saturday, November 29. Kickoff is again set for 2 p.m. ET. Tickets can be purchased here.
 
INS & OUTS
Seven seconds. That's all it took for the Greyhounds to get in the scoring column. On the first play from scrimmage, Sukup found a streaking Kaleb Carver for a 59-yard touchdown strike for the quickest score in the program's 12-game history in the DII playoffs.
 
The Hounds kept the visiting Bulldogs reeling, piling up points until the scoreboard read 30-0 by halftime before ultimately putting 40 on the board before Truman's first score. Juseters Fataki, Markez Gillam and Garrett Sherrell all found the end zone in the game's opening 24 minutes.
 
A pair of lengthy return touchdowns also helped up the margin. Alvin Contreras garnered his team-leading fifth interception and third defensive TD of the season with a 55-yard pick-6 on Truman's opening drive of the second half. Later, junior Anthony Crowell supplied the exclamation point with a 75-yard kickoff return TD. It marked the first kickoff return touchdown of the season for UIndy and first such TD in Crowell's career.
 
INSIDE THE BOX
- Linebacker Jerrell Franklin Jr. corralled his first career interception late in the first half.
- Rookie kicker Andrew Herron went 3-for-3 on field goal attempts on the way to a season-high 15 points. He also averaged 45 yards per punt, dropping one inside the five-yard line.
- Carver finished with a season-high 121 receiving yards on just four catches, good for a 30.3-yard average.
- Eli Liapis racked up a dozen tackles for the second straight week. Franklin also finished in double-digits with 11 stops.
- Sukup completed 17-of-22 passes for 339 yards, three touchdowns and zero picks. He has thrown just one interception in the last eight games.
- Devin Nelson scored the game's final TD with a 58-yard breakout immediately after the final two-minute timeout.
 
MORE NOTES
Saturday's result marks the third playoff victory for the UIndy football program, joining wins in 2012 (Midwestern State) and 2018 (Fort Hays State) … Sukup concluded his day with 3,484 passing yards on the season and 8,821 for his career. The previous UIndy record holders in the two metrics were Matt Kohn (3,314 yards in 2003) and Chris Mills (8,729 career yards from 2010-13) ... Besides UIndy and the aforementioned Minnesota State, the other two Super Region 3 teams to advance today were top-seeded Ferris State and No. 4-seed Ashland. The latter two will face off in the second round in Big Rapids, Mich.