Live Blog: Final: Indiana basketball 113, Penn State 72
Indiana basketball returns to Big Ten Conference play its 126th season of competition against Penn State at 8:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Dec. 9, at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. FS1 will carry the television broadcast with Kevin Kugler and Steve Smith on the call.
Penn State (8-1, 0-0 B1G) is led by third-year head coach Mike Rhoades. The Nittany Lions have five players that averaged at least 10.0 points per night, led by freshman guard Kayden Mingo (15.0). He adds 4.0 rebounds, 4.2 assists, and 2.1 steals per night.
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Junior guard Freddie Dilione V (13.2), freshman guard Melih Tunca (12.8), freshman forward Ivan Juric (10.6), and senior forward Josh Reed (10.6) all provide double-figure scoring production.
Penn State ranks 334th nationally in Division I experience (0.73 years), according to KenPom. In total, seven freshmen have seen minutes for the Nittany Lions, which includes three over 25.0 minutes per night. Conversely, Indiana ranks first nationally with an average 3.07 years of experience in the rotation.
Below is the full live blog.
(On3+): Scouting Notes Penn State
Injury Notes
12/09/2025 07:07:25 PMJason Drake, Josh Harris, and Jasai Miles are out tonight. Both Drake and Miles are not in attendance here either.
Starters
12/09/2025 07:19:50 PMSam Alexis is starting over Reed Bailey. All other 4 starters remain the same.
Media timeout at 15:49: Indiana basketball 12, PSU 7
12/09/2025 07:47:27 PMIndiana basketball wins the tip. Tucker DeVries missed an outside jumper.
PSU on the board first. Lamar Wilkerson gets his first three to drop.
Wilkerson hits his third three then after a PSU turnover, Tayton Conerway nails a three as well. 12-5 Indiana basketball.
Sisley and Bailey check in for Conerway and Alexis.
Media timeout at 11:56: Indiana basketball 17, PSU 11
12/09/2025 07:57:13 PMWilkerson misses his first three-point attempt of the game.
Tucker DeVries missed a wide-open layup. Yikes.
Indiana basketball on a 3:18 scoring drought.
Brutal stretch by the Indiana offense right now. Not getting much flow going after a good start.
Tayton Conerway three stops the 3:55 scoring drought.
Eright picks up a foul and we go to break.
Media Timeout at 6:58: Indiana basketball 37, PSU 14
12/09/2025 08:11:47 PMAnother Reed Bailey slips leads to his second dunk of the nice. He has done a nice job on the slips.
Tucker DeVries had to burn a timeout for Indiana. Could not get the ball in.
Wilkerson scores his 13th point out of the break.
20 points now for Lamar Wilkerson. There is still 8:26 left in the first half…..
Sisley with a nice wide-open slam. Nick Dorn followed it up with a corner three. Hoosiers on a 20-2 run the last 4:34.
Media timeout at 3:35: Indiana basketball 47, PSU 18
12/09/2025 08:21:47 PMDeVries will another backdoor cut and this time he dunks it.
Conor Enright got stuck in a post-up and somehow worked his way to getting an off-balance layup to go in.
Reed Bailey drives and gets Indiana’s first trip to the free throw line. He goes 2-2.
Indiana’s effort on the glass has been positive tonight. Still only winning 13-9, but these dudes are flying to the glass.
Bailey gets fouled again and gets a trip to the line after the break.
Last 3:35 of first half
12/09/2025 08:25:08 PMBailey goes 2-2 at the line.
Bailey with anther slip and dunk. He is lowkey really good at that and has been all year.
Conerway steal and dunk. Had Bailey trailing him and looked like they might do an off-the-glass alley oop but not today.
Indiana basketball held the ball the last 27 seconds. Lamar Wilkerson would miss a baseline jumper at the buzzer.
At the half: Indiana basketball 58, PSU 26
12/09/2025 08:30:57 PMFirst half stats:
Media timeout at 15:05: Indiana basketball 78, PSU 34
12/09/2025 08:58:02 PMSame starters for both teams.
PSU scores out of the break first. Conerway would get an easy 2 to answer.
Wilkerson hits his 5th three. A few plays later he hits his 6th three. PSU did not read the scout on him.
Conerway gets folded but gets the bucket to drop. He hits the free throw as well.
Tucker DeVries 3 extends the Indiana lead to 72-32.
Wilkerson hits his 7th three.
Media timeout at 10:42: Indiana basketball 86, PSU 43
12/09/2025 09:09:21 PMWilkerson hits his 9th three.
Lamar Wilkerson hits his 9th three and ties the record for all-time three pointes made for Indiana in a single game.
Media timeout at 7:15: Indiana basketball 94, PSU 50
12/09/2025 09:17:44 PMDorn gets. bucket to drop out of the break. Wilkerson is back I the game now to try and break that record.
Bailey gets fouled and scores. We go to break. Aleksa Ristic is set to check in for the first time tonight.
Media timeout at
12/09/2025 09:20:18 PMBailey hits his free throw.
Standing ovation for Wilkerson as he exits the game.
Final: Indiana basketball 113, Penn State 72
12/09/2025 09:37:21 PMFinal Stats:
