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unusual facts about Ball State



Mick Haley

Haley was a setter at Ball State under legendary coach Don Shondell and helped the Cardinals to the 1964 and 1965 MIVA title.


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2011 Army Black Knights football team

Ball State quarterback Keith Wenning was nearly perfect on the day going 24–30 with a career high 324 yards, three touchdown passes and no interceptions.

2013 Ball State Cardinals football team

All Ball State games will be carried by the Ball State Radio Network on WLBC 104.1 FM.

2014 GoDaddy Bowl

Several radio stations were set to broadcast the game, including Ball State student radio WCRD, which featured Tyler Bradfield doing play-by-play and Sean Stewart as the analyst, and Ball State's flagship radio station WLBC-FM, which featured a four-person crew – Joel Gedett (play-by-play), Mark O'Connell (analyst), Luke Martin (sidelines), and Jeff Weiler (host).

Chris Denari

On September 15, 2012 Denari announced two college football games: the Ball State vs Indiana match-up with Kelly Stouffer and Antwaan Randle El on the BTN.

Don Shondell

As head coach of Ball State's men's volleyball program, he won 20 Midwest Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA) titles in 34 seasons.

Hartford City, Indiana

(Ball State is named for the Ball brothers, who made much of their fortune with the Ball Corporation in the same Indiana Gas Boom that boosted Hartford City.) Muncie is also home to Ivy Tech State College-East Central.

Jerry Pattengale

In 2006, PBS/WIPB (Ball State affiliate) included his journey in its special film, Leading the Way out of Poverty.

Keith Wenning

Ball State’s season opener under new head coach Pete Lembo was an in-state cross conference match versus the Big Ten’s Indiana University at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on September 3.

Linnaeus N. Hines

With Hines as president the institution expanded to become the Indiana State University and the Eastern Division was charted as the Ball State Teachers College in 1929.