{"id":829615,"date":"2025-02-25T10:12:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T16:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/bus-carrying-indiana-university-indianapolis-mens-basketball-team-bursts-into-flames-on-highway\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T10:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T16:12:14","slug":"bus-carrying-indiana-university-indianapolis-mens-basketball-team-bursts-into-flames-on-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/bus-carrying-indiana-university-indianapolis-mens-basketball-team-bursts-into-flames-on-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus carrying Indiana University Indianapolis men&#8217;s basketball team bursts into flames on highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basketball <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The bus carrying the Indiana University Indianapolis men&#8217;s basketball team burst into flames on the highway as it returned from a game in northern Kentucky. No one was injured.<\/p>\n<figure><picture data-testid=\"picture\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1000px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 320px)\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"basketball\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2025-02\/250224-indianapolis-bus-crash-vl-128p-6a6576.jpg\" alt=\"basketball A charred bus after catching on fire on the highway\" height=\"1930\" width=\"1600\"><\/picture><figcaption data-testid=\"caption\"><span data-testid=\"caption__container\">A bus carrying the IU-Indianapolis men&#8217;s basketball team caught fire Sunday in Lawrenceburg, Indiana.<\/span><span data-testid=\"caption__source\">IU-Indianapolis<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The fire on the IU Indy bus was reported around 4:30 p.m. Sunday near Lawrenceburg, Indiana, NBC affiliate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wthr.com\/article\/news\/local\/bus-carrying-iu-indianapolis-indy-iupui-mens-basketball-team-catches-fire-in-southern-indiana-lawrenceburg\/531-79d31325-e21a-4688-974e-20368936733e\" target=\"_blank\">WTHR<\/a> of Indianapolis reported. Video and photos posted on Instagram by Jaguars guard Paul Zilinskas showed the charred bus on the side of the highway. <\/p>\n<figure><picture data-testid=\"picture\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1240px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 1000px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 758px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 320px)\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"basketball\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2025-02\/250224-indianapolis-bus-crash-vl-129p-9b8837.jpg\" alt=\"basketball A cloud of smoke is seen in the distance on the highway\" height=\"1811\" width=\"1600\"><\/picture><figcaption data-testid=\"caption\"><span data-testid=\"caption__container\">The fire is seen in the distance in Lawrenceburg, Indiana.<\/span><span data-testid=\"caption__source\">IU-Indianapolis<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The school&#8217;s athletics department said the bus had a mechanical issue. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All members of the team and staff evacuated the bus without injury,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iuindy_jaguars\/status\/1893803712365125751\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> read. <\/p>\n<p>Another bus was sent to pick up the team and staff.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened following the team&#8217;s 71-67\u00a0loss to Northern Kentucky University. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-activity-map=\"expanded-byline-article-bottom\">\n<p><span data-testid=\"byline-thumbnail\"><\/span><span data-testid=\"byline-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/author\/minyvonne-burke-ncpn918031\">Minyvonne Burke<\/a><\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/minyvonneb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span><\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mailto:Mi*************@****ni.com\" data-original-string=\"Mk\/R6tOOouqdHyQTOs2XSQ==7f4XnvDCgIYYjZCEgxQAB\/jJKxW1MAaWrePgVWz4LIh5TM=\" title=\"This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. 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To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Minyvonne Burke is a senior breaking news reporter for NBC News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiugFBVV95cUxQaUROVzlMTUhXSkxud1F1U3pfZHRNYWU5NzVQTlVQenFXbGlmUFdSeG9GY0NqdDBFOElWM3lqRFlYb1pLZ1N5TGZBenhMajBqV3NmNEhDS3FGclI4Qi05T3NkYlFlalBrUDVWN3VQYVdPbW1ZUmo5eGNtaFYxd25RVkNBNmFOZFdkVTBYMm02VVpYY0FGbE5qQy1BdjRxS0k5YVBUU0psZ3RhMm1yM0tMU0lHeUtMaTVTZGfSAVZBVV95cUxNMnhrenRRQVR5M196N1NsTmtSVXROc3RtNmU4ZTM4YmhydFFVMkVKaGo0Wk1aOEI5LWJjWHZBOWdPUDBYLWxManVqeVpPdzRxejdFUmwyUQ?oc=5\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> Lawanda Pekar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basketball The bus carrying the Indiana University Indianapolis men&#8217;s basketball team burst into flames on the highway as it returned from a game in northern Kentucky. No one was injured. A bus carrying the IU-Indianapolis men&#8217;s basketball team caught fire Sunday in Lawrenceburg, Indiana.IU-Indianapolis The fire on the IU Indy bus was reported around 4:30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":829616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124942,3681,24715,23589],"tags":[16302],"class_list":{"0":"post-829615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"category-basketball","9":"category-carrying","10":"category-indiana","11":"tag-nba"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}