Indiana Hoosiers vs Duke Blue Devils Match Player Stats On Dec 26, 2015

The Sports Xchange
Dec 26, 2015

NEW YORK -- Duke snapped a three-game bowl losing streak with a 44-41 overtime win over Indiana in the New Era Pinstripe Bowl on Saturday before 37,218 at Yankee Stadium.

Ross Martin connected on a 36-yard field goal on Duke's first possession of overtime for the lead. Indiana's Griffin Oakes missed a 38-yard field goal attempt wide right to tie it on the next possession.

Duke (8-5) had lost to Cincinnati (48-34) in the 2012 Belk Bowl, Texas A&M (52-48) in the 2013 Chick-fil-A-Bowl and Arizona State (36-31) in the 2014 Sun Bowl.

Duke quarterback Thomas Sirk's 5-yard touchdown run and Martin's extra point tied it at 41 with 41 seconds to play. Oakes' 56-yard field goal attempt as time expired fell short.

Sirk passed for 156 yards and rushed for 155 yards. He ran for two touchdowns and passed for one.

Indiana quarterback Nate Sudfeld hit wide-open wide receiver Mitchell Paige in the end zone for a 25-yard touchdown with 4:03 to play and the extra point gave Indiana a temporary 41-34 edge.

Running back Devine Redding established an Indiana bowl record by rushing for 226 yards on 35 carries. Redding, a sophomore, broke Anthony Thompson's mark of 140 yards against South Carolina in the 1988 Liberty Bowl.

The Hoosiers (6-7) were without their top running back, junior Jordan Howard, who suffered a knee injury late in the season.

A 98-yard kick return from Shaun Wilson and Martin's point-after tied the score at 34 for Duke with 10:55 to play.

The back-and-forth third quarter ended with Indiana leading 31-27 thanks to running back Alex Rodriguez's 10-yard touchdown run.

A 34-yard field goal from Martin provided Duke with a 20-17 lead four minutes into the third quarter.

The final stages of the first half produced three scores within 1:25. A 45-yard field goal by Oakes with three seconds left in the second quarter tied it at 17.

Duke had reclaimed the lead at 17-14 on a 73-yard scamper from Sirk with 1:00 after Redding gave Indiana a 14-10 edge with a 17-yard sprint through the middle with 1:25 left in the first half.

Indiana cut the Duke lead to 10-7 when Sudfeld hit freshman wide receiver Luke Timian for a 27-yard touchdown in the front corner of the end zone and the point after was good with 6:56 left in the first half. The touchdown was the first of Timian's career.

Wilson's 85-yard burst up the middle and Martin's extra point extended Duke's first-quarter lead to 10-0 with 1:16 left. The 85-yard jaunt tied the school record for the longest run, established by Charlie Smith in 1951 against Virginia Tech.

Martin gave Duke a 3-0 lead on a 52-yard field goal on the Blue Devils' first possession of the game.

NOTES: Duke was playing in a bowl game for a school-record fourth straight season. ... Duke senior S Jeremy Cash, the ACC's Defensive Player of the Year, underwent wrist surgery on Wednesday and was out for the game. He had a team-high 101 tackles, including 18 for a loss. ... Duke offensive coordinator Scottie Montgomery was named East Carolina's head coach on Dec. 13. ... Indiana lost to Big Ten opponents Ohio State, Michigan and Iowa by a combined 22 points. ... The Hoosiers led the Big Ten in total offense, averaging 490.8 yards per game and were last in the conference in yards allowed per game (507.3). ... The original Yankee Stadium hosted 185 college football games during its 85-year history. ... Duke WR Max McCaffrey is the brother of Stanford RB Christian McCaffrey, runner-up for the Heisman Trophy this season.