Indiana Bits

[bac2therac]

Indiana is 10-3

Indiana is 8-0 at home, 0-1 on the road and 2-2 in neutral site games. The Hoosiers only other true road game this year was at Duke where they lost by 20.

Indiana's best win is Notre Dame where they rallied from 15 down on a neutral site in Indianapolis.

7 of Indiana's wins this year were to cupcake city type programs...Kennesaw St, Morehead St, Eastern Illinois, Austin Peay, Alcorn St, IPFW, Mc Neese St

Indiana and RU have played 3 common opponents this season....RU lost to SJU by 2, Indiana beat them by 10, RU lost to Wake Forest by 1, Indiana lost to them by 4, RU lost to Creighton by 10, Indiana beat them by 21

Indiana has one of the best offenses in the country. They are 3rd in scoring average in the country at 89.1 ppg, 2nd in the country in fg% at 53.7%, 4th in the country in 3pt fg% at 45.1% and average 10.3 made 3s per game.

Indiana's biggest weakness is that they tend to turn the ball over a lot....14.5ppg which ranks 279 in the country. Also their defense is a weakness...a fg% defense at 43.4 which ranks 207 and is slightly worse than Rutgers

What this all means I don't know but while Indiana is a high scoring flashy team, they don't play defense and they don't take care of the ball and they don't play good on the road, they didn't last year either. RU would figure to have a shot to keep the game competitive and within reach, if they can play similar to how they did vs Monmouth and the 2nd half vs Lowell. If they bring the effort they did against GW or SHU the game has the potential to really get out of hand and we are looking at another 25 point plus loss. Let's hope that the game last night gives them some confidence and they come out with juice early opening conference play.

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

I'll take what NJH said and run with it....he watches a lot of college basketball and knows the game.

He says IU doesn't defend every possession. Kenpom agrees.
They are 124th in adjusted defensive efficiency at 1.00 point per possession

They are #2 in adjusted FG% 62.5%!...45.1% from 3, 59.1% from 2
As bac pointed out 272nd in TO% 20.4% of possessions they TO

If we don't come ready to play defensively and they knock down shots like normal it will be real ugly. My fear is we don't know how to play hard defensively.

 

[NewJerseyHawk]

We played well at Indiana last year and got good looks against them....one of the better efforts we had last year with Mack, Jack and others scoring. Should be an entertaining game, I just am leery about whether we will push up 3's to try and match them vs getting into the paint and drawing fouls. We need to make them pay for poor defense and lack of help when teams drive against them.

Indiana has a potential "one and done" with big man Thomas Bryant, who is extremely raw, but has tremendous upside down the road....Indiana hasn't figured out how to integrate him into their offensive flow, which requires Yogi Ferrell and James Blackmon to slow down and get him involved in the offense. They instead look for their offense first and forget about him being on the floor.

I don't see any way Indiana doesn't get to at least 75 points, unless we play very well on defense and it appears our defense is really tied to how well we shoot the ball.....naturally, when you make shots, you are energized and a little more upbeat....we should be in this game but I had 82-68 Indiana...This could be easily 75-75 with 2 minutes left if Grier is playing well and knocking down shots tomorrow. I am not sure how much carry over we can expect, but he's the wild card in this whole equation tomorrow and the rest of the early conference season....

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

2nd media timeout......have to be close.