Indiana taps cinematic reveal to announce return of bison mascot

After a agelong wait, the Indiana Hoosiers' Bison mascot is officially backmost successful Bloomington.

On Tuesday morning, pursuing a build-up that included 4 teaser promotional videos featuring cameos from shot coach Curt Cignetti, men's hoops coach Darian DeVries and multiple acting roles from elder subordinate diversion manager Jeremy Gray, the Hoosiers made authoritative what had been hinted astatine for the past week and a half.

Indiana's announcement video drew from "Star Wars" and Michael Jordan's iconic return to the NBA successful 1995 to archer the communicative of the bison mascot's origins and, eventually, corroborate it would beryllium returning.

According to the video's little past lesson, the bison -- which utilized to roam the Bloomington country and is featured connected the state's seal -- served arsenic the university's mascot from 1965 to 1969, earlier disappearing from usage.

The mascot didn't permission Bloomington wholly though -- the bison has agelong been the awesome of Nick's English Hut, a section pub. As precocious arsenic December, the school's pupil authorities passed a bill advocating for its authoritative return.

Indiana's announcement video said the mascot, named Hoosier, volition marque its authoritative debut this fall. The uncover offered small item arsenic to the mascot's costume, though a zoomed-out video of Hoosier peering implicit Memorial Stadium showed a bison caput sporting a reddish garment and candy-striped pants.