T.J. Otzelberger has led the Cyclones to a top 10 national ranking all season after a Sweet 16 run with 29 wins a year ago.

After “Back Home Again in Indiana” was sung by Jim Nabors and the pace laps were driven by former Indy 500 winner Jim Rathman in a 1974 Hurst/Oldsmobile Cutlass convertible with track owner Tony ...