NOTES: IU Shifts Focus to Fort Wayne On Monday Night

OPENING TIP
• The 118th season of Indiana basketball continues on Monday when the Hoosiers host Fort Wayne for the final time in a 3-year series. IU won in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, 90-65, in Bloomington in 2015 and the Mastodons upset #3 IU, 71-68 in OT in Fort Wayne last season. The series is tied 1-1.

• The Hoosiers are coming off an impressive 80-77 overtime comeback win over #18 Notre Dame in the Crossroads Classic in Indianapolis. Fort Wayne defeated Stetson, 88-84 on Saturday.

THE COACHES
• Archie Miller is the 29th head coach in Indiana men's basketball history. The 39-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 3 of Miller's 6 seasons (2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16). Miller's Flyers beat Fort Wayne, 81-80, on an incredible three-pointer at the buzzer on November 9, 2013 in Dayton in his only matchup with the Mastodons.

• Jon Coffman is in his 4th season of guiding the Fort Wayne program and is 1-1 against the Hoosiers in his career.

NEWS & NOTES
• The Hoosiers will play their final three non-conference games of the season at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. They begin with Fort Wayne, battle Tennessee Tech (December 21) and return from Christmas with a matchup with Youngstown State (December 29). IU will resume Big Ten play January 2 at Wisconsin.

• After missing 21 straight three-point shots between the Louisville and the first part of the Notre Dame game, IU made 8 of its last 14 three-point shots against Notre Dame (57.1%).

• Junior Juwan Morgan is coming off a career-game against Notre Dame. He had 34 points and 11 rebounds, scored 14 straight points at the end of regulation and the beginning of overtime and made the go ahead dunk with 8 seconds left as IU rallied from a 13-point second half deficit, an 8-point disadvantage with 2:01 to go and a 4-point Notre Dame lead with less than 2 minutes to go in overtime. His 34 points established a Crossroads Classic Record (Kelan Martin 28, vs. Indiana, 2016)

• Morgan is easily the most improved player in the Big Ten, having averaged 20.8 points and 8.8 rebounds, while shooting 65.6% from the field against Duke, Michigan, Iowa, Louisville and Notre Dame which comprise the Hoosiers last 5 opponents.

• After coming off a tough game at Louisville, senior Robert Johnson responded with a 20-point effort against Notre Dame. He made 4 of 5 three-pointers in the second half. Johnson is now in 42nd place on the IU all-time scoring list with 1,112 points. Troy Williams is 41st with 1,115, Victor Oladipo is 40th at 1,117 and Will Sheehey is 39th, with 1,120 points. With his 5 bombs, he is now 6th on the school's all-time list with 191 treys.

• Redshirt junior walk-on Zach McRoberts set a new Crossroads Classic record with 7 offensive rebounds, none bigger than his hauling in of a missed free throw in the final seconds that he then dished to Morgan for the game winning layup.

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. He broke his wrist in the Big Ten Tournament against Michigan, but played in all three of IU's games that year as the Hoosiers played in the Sweet Sixteen. He had 11 points in 16 minutes against Duke and had a career-high 8 rebounds against Michigan. He followed that up with a season-high 13 points against Iowa. He earned the team's most recent Gold Standard Jersey.

• Senior guard Robert Johnson has been a starter for 98 of the 109 games he has been healthy to play since joining the team in 2014-15. He earned the team's third Gold Standard jersey. The newest member of IU's 1,000-point club is averaging 12.2 points per game after his 20-point effort against Notre Dame.

• Senior guard Josh Newkirk has started 42 career games and a year ago averaged 9.0 points and led the team with 108 assists. He had his best game this season with 17 points against Eastern Michigan, hitting on 5 of 6 3-pointers. He earned the team's 4th Gold Standard jersey. He has made 10 of his last 20 3FG attempts.

• Junior forward Juwan Morgan has started 30 career games and leads the team in scoring (15.9), rebounds (7.0) and free throws made (49). He earned the team's second Gold Standard jersey. In the last 3 games, he has averaged 22.0 points, 10.0 rebounds and is shooting 68.4% from the floor.

• Sophomore forward De'Ron Davis is third on the team averaging 10.6 points and 4.3 rebounds. He had 14 points in the opener and notched career-high's in points (17) and minutes played (29) against Howard. He had 16 points against Duke and has made 10 of his last 11 shots. He is second in the Big Ten in field goal percentage (64.1%). He has had 9 blocks in the last 3 games and had 14 points, 7 boards and 3 blocks against Louisville.

• Sophomore guard Devonte Green is contributing 9.7 points in the last 3 games. He energized the team off the bench with 12 points and 4 assists against Iowa and 12 against UND. 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.

• Redshirt junior Zach McRoberts joined the rotation 5 games ago and is second on the team with 10 offensive rebounds in that time. He also leads the team with 5 steals in that time.

• Freshman forward Justin Smith is averaging 4.0 points and averages 3.25 rebounds per game. He had 16 points and 12 rebounds against Howard.

• Freshman guard Aljami Durham is averaging 7.1 points. He had 9 points, 5 boards and 4 assists against South Florida.

• Senior Freddie McSwain, Jr. has chipped in 2.7 points per game and is third on the team in rebounding at 4.3. He had a career-high 10 points with 9 rebounds against Eastern Michigan. He has a team-high 20 offensive rebounds.

• 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.

• The December 2 Big Ten game against Michigan was the earliest the Hoosiers had ever played a conference game.

• 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).

NOTES: IU Shifts Focus to Fort Wayne On Monday Night

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Players Mentioned

De'Ron Davis

Aljami Durham

Devonte Green

Collin Hartman

Robert Johnson

Zach McRoberts

Juwan Morgan

Josh Newkirk

Justin Smith