Monday, December 4
Bloomington, Ind.
8:00 PM
Indiana University
5-4, 1-1
77
vs
64
Iowa
4-5, 0-2
1
2
F
Iowa
26
38
64
Indiana
41
36
77
Hoosiers Run Past Iowa, 77-64
12/4/2017 10:08:00 PM | Men's Basketball
By: Andy Graham, IUHoosiers.com
BLOOMINGTON, Indiana – It was Green for go.
The shot-clock was ready to expire and Indiana's Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall crowd was pleading for Devonte Green to get up a shot.
Green did, swishing a 3 from the left wing that broke a 20-20 tie and put the host Hoosiers up for good in Monday night's stop-and-go 77-64 win over Iowa.
"Good win for our team," said IU mentor Archie Miller, who notched his first Big Ten coaching victory. "Two games in three days in the Big Ten (including Saturday's loss at Michigan), as everybody has to do it, is an adjustment. Not a lot of time to prepare for obviously well-coached teams.
"I thought our team did a great job of bouncing back tonight. Had a number of different guys step up and make a lot of winning plays."
The game eventually produced huge swings but neither team exactly lit it up as the first 14 minutes produced seven lead-changes. Green then helped ignite IU for the game's first big surge.
After Green made his last-second 3 with 5:54 left in the half, and Juwan Morgan scored with a nifty step-through on a break, Green sank a high-degree-of-difficulty spinning 12-footer to make it 27-20.
Then Green assisted Robert Johnson's 3 that gave the Hoosiers their first double-digit lead at 30-20, prompting a Hawkeye timeout with 4:31 left. A hustling follow-shot by Green then made it 34-20.
Iowa reserve Brady Ellingson hit a 3 to end the IU run, but Green then found Collin Hartman for an answering 3 and it was 41-26, Hoosiers, by halftime.
"Devonte is a sparkplug," Hartman said post-game. "That's what I can tell you. He's very explosive. He can do some crazy things and just kind of makes you look at it kind of weird, but he's explosive and he can really help us when he's playing simple and solid basketball. As you can see.
"So we love that, when we get that out of him, and we need that moving forward."
Miller is hopeful that will happen.
"(Green) was very good tonight," Miller said. "Devonte had one of his most consistent games, especially in the first half. I thought he made some really tough plays for us defensively.
"(He has) to be the kind of guy that he just hangs in there, keeps going, keeps concentrating. I think he's a guy that can show he's a lot more than what he has (shown) the last five or six games and maybe regain a little bit that he had early in October … but pleased with Devonte. I thought he helped us win the game in a big way tonight."
Green had to help after intermission, too, after the Hoosiers started the half frigid, missing their first 11 shots from the field.
Iowa, which had committed 13 first-half turnovers, was meantime running a pair of beautiful sets for Ellingson 3s to get right back in the game at 43-37, prompting a Miller timeout at the 17:01 mark. Twice afterward the Hawks pulled within a point, at 43-42 and 45-44.
But the Hoosiers suddenly stabilized. Morgan muscled for a conventional 3-point play inside, finally ending IU's string of misses from the field. Green then found Hartman for a 3, then hit two free throws of his own, to help provide some breathing space.
IU went on a run of nine straight made shots before freshman Justin Smith missed inside with 7:51 to play. By that time, it was 69-50. The Hoosier lead peaked at 77-55 on a Hartman jumper with 3:06 to play.
"We had that little lull there," Hartman said. "And we changed our mindset after the timeout and got back rolling … I think that we can always get better at fixing things on the fly. When we're not playing hard, even when there is a dead ball or foul or anything where there isn't a timeout, (it's a matter of) huddling up.
"It's being able to adjust, and that will come with maturity and playing more games in the Big Ten. We'll learn how to adjust on the fly and really shorten those runs that other teams have. Because there will always be runs. You've just got to make theirs as short as possible."
Miller liked how his club righted the ship.
"Collin is a big part of that," Miller said. "Collin is a leader. He's a fifth-year guy and anytime that your seniors are out there playing well and talking and communicating, good things can happen.
"I thought that lineup with him and Juwan was really a big key in the first half. And I thought it was a really big key, in the second half, of regrouping us."
Morgan led a balanced IU attack with 15 points and added a game-high 10 boards against the taller Hawkeyes for his third career double-double.
"Juwan is a guy that's brought his lunch pail almost every day that he's been here," Miller said. "Not many days he hasn't shown up and given great effort.
"I think he's a guy on our team everyone's looking at to get the job done on every given night. And if you look at how he's playing, I think he's become a key figure in terms of our stability. We need him on the floor. He gives us a presence offensively and he gives us a presence defensively. He can guard multiple positions and he's rebounding the ball well."
Hartman and De'Ron Davis added 13 points apiece for IU (5-4 overall, 1-1 in Big Ten play), which also got 12 points and a co-game-high four assists from Green.
Ellingson had a game-high 16 for Iowa (4-5, 0-2), which also got 12 from 6-foot-11 freshman and Hoosier native Jack Nunge.
Neither side sustained its shooting, overall, with IU finishing just .409 from the field and Iowa an even icier .385. But the Hoosiers managed more big runs than did the Hawks.
Asked if Assembly Hall perhaps provided the difference in that regard, Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said, "I think that helps a little bit – I think the energy level in this building is always really good. But it's a combination of that, and their speed, and our poor shot-selection."
Miller would prefer not to continue seeing slow starts to halves from his team, but felt Monday was a step forward, overall.
"I was really pleased, for the most part, other than the lack of responsibility coming out after halftime," Miller said. "That just can't happen against the teams we're playing. That just can't happen, especially at home.
"But then it was nice to see our resolve. We ended up digging ourselves back out … and were able to finish the game off … we were able to regroup defensively. And our defense-to-offense was pretty good in this game. I think you saw a much faster team playing than we were on Saturday."
And that will need to continue this coming Saturday at Louisville, with a 2 p.m. tipoff.
BLOOMINGTON, Indiana – It was Green for go.
The shot-clock was ready to expire and Indiana's Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall crowd was pleading for Devonte Green to get up a shot.
Green did, swishing a 3 from the left wing that broke a 20-20 tie and put the host Hoosiers up for good in Monday night's stop-and-go 77-64 win over Iowa.
"Good win for our team," said IU mentor Archie Miller, who notched his first Big Ten coaching victory. "Two games in three days in the Big Ten (including Saturday's loss at Michigan), as everybody has to do it, is an adjustment. Not a lot of time to prepare for obviously well-coached teams.
"I thought our team did a great job of bouncing back tonight. Had a number of different guys step up and make a lot of winning plays."
The game eventually produced huge swings but neither team exactly lit it up as the first 14 minutes produced seven lead-changes. Green then helped ignite IU for the game's first big surge.
After Green made his last-second 3 with 5:54 left in the half, and Juwan Morgan scored with a nifty step-through on a break, Green sank a high-degree-of-difficulty spinning 12-footer to make it 27-20.
Then Green assisted Robert Johnson's 3 that gave the Hoosiers their first double-digit lead at 30-20, prompting a Hawkeye timeout with 4:31 left. A hustling follow-shot by Green then made it 34-20.
Iowa reserve Brady Ellingson hit a 3 to end the IU run, but Green then found Collin Hartman for an answering 3 and it was 41-26, Hoosiers, by halftime.
"Devonte is a sparkplug," Hartman said post-game. "That's what I can tell you. He's very explosive. He can do some crazy things and just kind of makes you look at it kind of weird, but he's explosive and he can really help us when he's playing simple and solid basketball. As you can see.
"So we love that, when we get that out of him, and we need that moving forward."
Miller is hopeful that will happen.
"(Green) was very good tonight," Miller said. "Devonte had one of his most consistent games, especially in the first half. I thought he made some really tough plays for us defensively.
"(He has) to be the kind of guy that he just hangs in there, keeps going, keeps concentrating. I think he's a guy that can show he's a lot more than what he has (shown) the last five or six games and maybe regain a little bit that he had early in October … but pleased with Devonte. I thought he helped us win the game in a big way tonight."
Green had to help after intermission, too, after the Hoosiers started the half frigid, missing their first 11 shots from the field.
Iowa, which had committed 13 first-half turnovers, was meantime running a pair of beautiful sets for Ellingson 3s to get right back in the game at 43-37, prompting a Miller timeout at the 17:01 mark. Twice afterward the Hawks pulled within a point, at 43-42 and 45-44.
But the Hoosiers suddenly stabilized. Morgan muscled for a conventional 3-point play inside, finally ending IU's string of misses from the field. Green then found Hartman for a 3, then hit two free throws of his own, to help provide some breathing space.
IU went on a run of nine straight made shots before freshman Justin Smith missed inside with 7:51 to play. By that time, it was 69-50. The Hoosier lead peaked at 77-55 on a Hartman jumper with 3:06 to play.
"We had that little lull there," Hartman said. "And we changed our mindset after the timeout and got back rolling … I think that we can always get better at fixing things on the fly. When we're not playing hard, even when there is a dead ball or foul or anything where there isn't a timeout, (it's a matter of) huddling up.
"It's being able to adjust, and that will come with maturity and playing more games in the Big Ten. We'll learn how to adjust on the fly and really shorten those runs that other teams have. Because there will always be runs. You've just got to make theirs as short as possible."
Miller liked how his club righted the ship.
"Collin is a big part of that," Miller said. "Collin is a leader. He's a fifth-year guy and anytime that your seniors are out there playing well and talking and communicating, good things can happen.
"I thought that lineup with him and Juwan was really a big key in the first half. And I thought it was a really big key, in the second half, of regrouping us."
Morgan led a balanced IU attack with 15 points and added a game-high 10 boards against the taller Hawkeyes for his third career double-double.
"Juwan is a guy that's brought his lunch pail almost every day that he's been here," Miller said. "Not many days he hasn't shown up and given great effort.
"I think he's a guy on our team everyone's looking at to get the job done on every given night. And if you look at how he's playing, I think he's become a key figure in terms of our stability. We need him on the floor. He gives us a presence offensively and he gives us a presence defensively. He can guard multiple positions and he's rebounding the ball well."
Hartman and De'Ron Davis added 13 points apiece for IU (5-4 overall, 1-1 in Big Ten play), which also got 12 points and a co-game-high four assists from Green.
Ellingson had a game-high 16 for Iowa (4-5, 0-2), which also got 12 from 6-foot-11 freshman and Hoosier native Jack Nunge.
Neither side sustained its shooting, overall, with IU finishing just .409 from the field and Iowa an even icier .385. But the Hoosiers managed more big runs than did the Hawks.
Asked if Assembly Hall perhaps provided the difference in that regard, Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said, "I think that helps a little bit – I think the energy level in this building is always really good. But it's a combination of that, and their speed, and our poor shot-selection."
Miller would prefer not to continue seeing slow starts to halves from his team, but felt Monday was a step forward, overall.
"I was really pleased, for the most part, other than the lack of responsibility coming out after halftime," Miller said. "That just can't happen against the teams we're playing. That just can't happen, especially at home.
"But then it was nice to see our resolve. We ended up digging ourselves back out … and were able to finish the game off … we were able to regroup defensively. And our defense-to-offense was pretty good in this game. I think you saw a much faster team playing than we were on Saturday."
And that will need to continue this coming Saturday at Louisville, with a 2 p.m. tipoff.
Team Stats
IOWA
IND
FG%
.385
.409
3FG%
.417
.381
FT%
.444
.652
RB
42
47
TO
18
10
STL
6
11
Game Leaders
Scoring
Pts
15
FGM
6
3FGM
0
FTM
3
Pts
13
FGM
4
3FGM
3
FTM
2
Pts
13
FGM
5
3FGM
0
FTM
3
Pts
12
FGM
4
3FGM
2
FTM
2
Players Mentioned
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