NOTES: IU Hosts Indiana State To Open 2017-18 Season

OPENING TIP
• Indiana begins its 118th season of men's basketball when it opens up the 2017-18 season at home against Indiana State. During exhibition play, IU defeated Marian, 93-62, and UIndy, 74-53. ISU also played Marian in an exhibition game winning, 84-64.

• The Hoosiers lead the series with the Sycamores, 17-5. The two teams last matched up in the regular season in Bloomington, with IU coming away with a 73-66 win. Since 1960, IU is 4-1 in the series in games in Bloomington.

• The Hoosiers begin their first season under Archie Miller, who comes to IU after spending the last six seasons leading the University of Dayton program.

• Indiana is 97-20 all-time in season openers and has won 19 straight season opening games.

• IU has won its last 32 home openers.

• The game will re-air on Saturday, November 10 at 8:00 a.m. on Big Ten Network.

GAME INFO
Tipoff: 7:00 p.m. ET
Date: Friday, Nov. 10, 2017
Location: Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall (17,222); Bloomington, Indiana
TV: BTN Plus - David Sugarman, Max Bielfeldt, Courtney Robb
Radio: IU Radio Network - Don Fischer, Errek Suhr & Mike Glasscott
Mandarin Language Radio

The Coaches
• Archie Miller is the 29th head coach in Indiana men's basketball history. The 38-year old native of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, comes to IU after serving the previous six seasons as head coach at the University of Dayton, where he won Atlantic 10 Conference regular season championships in 2016 and 2017. He was Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year in 2017. He guided the Flyers to a 139-63 record (69.8) and a 68-34 mark (66.7) in the Atlantic 10. He took Dayton to the NCAA Tournament each of the last four years with the Flyers advancing to the Elite Eight in the 2014 Tournament. UD was nationally ranked in three of Miller's six seasons (2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16). Miller's teams were 6-0 in season openers at Dayton.

• Greg Lansing is in his eighth season at Indiana State. He is 120-108 overall with the Sycamores. He guided them to the NCAA Tournament in 2011.

News & Notes
• IU finished with just 8 turnovers against UIndy and in the exhibition season averaged just 9 giveaways in two games.

• The Hoosiers amassed a 44.0 to 29.5 rebounding edge in those games

• The Hoosiers held opponents to 31.8 percent from three-point range in the exhibition season.

• IU has a 53-18 record all-time against teams from the Missouri Valley Conference.

• The Hoosiers will open the Hoosier Tip-Off Classic on Sunday at 8 p.m. against Howard in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.

QUICK HITS
• Graduate forward Collin Hartman is back for a fifth year. The Indianapolis Cathedral product suffered a left knee injury in a non-contact drill and underwent surgery and did not play during the 2016-17 season. Hartman started 24 games for the eventual Big Ten champions in 2016, averaging 5.0 points and 3.1 rebounds per game. The injury wasn't Hartman's first knee problem in college — he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee shortly after his freshman season in 2014. He rehabilitated quickly enough to appear in 32 games during the 2014-15 season.

• Senior guard Robert Johnson has been in the Hoosiers lineup for 87 of the 98 games he has been healthy to play since joining the team in 2014-15. He averaged 8.9 points as a freshman and is close to joining the 1,000-point club at IU with 978 career points.

• Senior guard Josh Newkirk started 32 games a year ago and averaged 9.0 points and led the team with 108 assists. He averaged 10.3 points per game in Big Ten play.

• Junior forward Juwan Morgan started 20 games last year for the Hoosiers and averaged 7.7 points. He made a school record 14 straight field goals in a three-game span last season. Earned the teams second gold standard jersey.

• Sophomore forward De'Ron Davis started four games and averaged 5.9 points and 3.1 rebounds in his freshman year. Has lost 21 pounds since Clif Marshall came here.

• Sophomore guard Devonte Green was the only player in the country last year to hit two shots from beyond half court. He was the first player to earn the right to wear a gold jersey in practice. That is given to the player who has displayed a Gold Standard in his play.

• Sophomore guard Curtis Jones had 15 points, including five in the final two minutes to help the Hoosiers beat Kansas in the Armed Forces Classic in Hawaii. He won the Slam Dunk Contest at Hoosier Hysteria.

• Despite a coaching change, IU was able to hold on to its entire 2017 recruiting class in center Clifton Moore, Aljami Durham, and Justin Smith. Forward Race Thompson was a late addition. The Minnesota native is expected to redshirt. Durham missed the Marian game due to a hamstring injury.

• The Hoosiers ranked among the top 10 programs in the country in average home attendance during the 2016-17 season, finishing ninth in the country with an average of 16,363 fans per game. It is the sixth straight season that the Hoosiers have ranked among the top 10 teams average attendance in the country.

• Since Assembly Hall was opened in November, 1971, Indiana has ranked in the top 10 in attendance in 39 of the last 46 seasons.

• Don Fischer begins his 45th year as the play-by-play voice of the Indiana Hoosiers.
• IU will face four teams that are preseason nationally ranked in non-conference play. The Hoosiers take on Seton Hall, Duke, Louisville, and Notre Dame.

• IU will play in the Gavitt Games for the second time in three years. The Hoosiers will travel to Seton Hall. IU hosted and defeated Creighton in 2015.

• The Hoosiers will face a Big Ten opponent, Michigan, on December 2 in Ann Arbor. It is the earliest time in history that IU will play a conference game. The Cream and Crimson also will play two days later at home against Iowa.

• For the first time in school history, IU will play three conference games on Friday evenings. IU plays at Michigan State (January 19), and will host Minnesota (February 9) and Ohio State (February 23).

• The Hoosiers Monday night offerings include home games against Iowa (December 4), Maryland (January 22), and a road game against Rutgers (February 5).

NOTES: IU Hosts Indiana State To Open 2017-18 Season

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Players Mentioned

De'Ron Davis

Aljami Durham

Devonte Green

Collin Hartman

Robert Johnson

Clifton Moore

Juwan Morgan

Josh Newkirk

Justin Smith

Race Thompson