A WHAT school?

 Two things happened yesterday that, if not a sea change, was at least the latest evidence in Bizarre-oville vs. Normal, an ongoing proceeding that Bizarre-oville seems to be winning.

Which is to say, an Indiana University football player won the Heisman Trophy last night. Or to punctuate it more correctly: An Indiana. University. Football player. Won. The Heisman Trophy.

Meanwhile, in Lexington, Ky. ...

Indiana and Kentucky resumed their longstanding basketball rivalry after a completely stupid nine-year break.

Kentucky, a rather un-Kentucky 7-4 outfit whom Gonzaga recently floor-waxed by 25 points, erased a seven-point halftime deficit to beat Indiana 72-60.

Outscored the basketball Hoosiers 40-21 in the second half. Forced 18 turnovers. Held them to 34 percent shooting (15-of-44) and a hideous17 percent (4-of-24) from the 3-point arc.

All of which revealed once again how it's like to go for Indiana basketball this season.

To wit, when the threes are droppin', the Hoosiers are going to drown people. When they're not, they're going to drown themselves.

It's how, in the space of 72 hours or so, they can go from annihilating Penn State by 41 points (113-72) to losing to Kentucky by 12. It's how they can drop 17 threes on the Nittany Lions, getting 44 points and a school-record 10 triples from Lamar Wilkerson, and then couldn't hit a barn door with a bass fiddle against UK.

Four of 24? You could blindfold a 10-year-old and spin him around ten times and he'd hit more than 4-of-24. Not to belabor the point.

But back to football.

Which, as everyone knows, is 13-0 and ranked No. 1 for the first time in history, and whose quarterback, an irredeemably lovable assassin named Fernando Mendoza tearfully accepted the Heisman last night. 

Given that Indiana has a football tradition that ranges from "We suck" to "We once played in the Copper Bowl," you'll be unsurprised to learn no Indiana player had ever won the Heisman before last night. Not even Harry Gonso or John Isenbarger or that whole crowd.

That, and the No. 1 ranking, makes Indiana what it has never been: A football school. Which sounds weird to say, and even weirder to conceptualize.

After all, this is a football program that has lost 719 games dating back to 1887, when Grover Cleveland was in the White House. It has had 89 losing seasons. Indiana basketball, on the other hand, has won 1,955 games -- and five national titles -- in 125 seasons.

In other words, until it starts raining threes in Assembly Hall again, this will take some getting used to. Football used to be two things at Indiana: One, an excuse to sit out in the parking lot and tailgate until halftime; and, two, something to do on Saturdays until it was time for Bob Knight to roll out the basketballs and resume winning Big Ten championships.

Well. You know the last time Indiana was ranked No. 1 in basketball?

A dozen years ago, in 2013.

And the last time Indiana was ranked No. 1 in football?

Today.