Indiana University Athletics
#IUBB Game 4 Preview: Lamar University
11/21/2014 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Nov. 21, 2014
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GAME 4
Saturday, Nov. 21 -- vs. Lamar, 8:00 p.m. ET
Video: BTN (Tom Hamilton & Shon Morris) | BTN2Go
Live Stats: Gametracker
Game Notes: Indiana Notes | Lamar Notes
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OPENING TIP
• The 2014-15 college basketball season represents the 115th in the history of Indiana University. Coming off a 74-68 win over No. 22 SMU, the Hoosiers will host Lamar in their third game of the Hoosiers Showcase.
UP NEXT
• IU will host Eastern Washington (11/24) and UNC Greensboro (11/28). IU is 31-0 in Assembly Hall in the month of November during the Tom Crean Era.
HEAD COACH Tom Crean
• Indiana named Tom Crean as its 28th men's basketball coach on April 2, 2008, and he is in his seventh year with the Hoosiers. He is 292-193 all-time as a head coach and in the last 3+ years, he has led IU to a 75-31 record, the 2013 Big Ten Championship and back-to-back appearances for the Hoosiers in the Sweet Sixteen for the first time since 1994. In 2012-13, he was named NABC District 7 and USBWA District V Coach of the Year. In 2011-12, In the last two seasons, Crean has mentored three NBA Lottery picks which is tied with Kansas for the most among NCAA schools in that span.
• Crean is the only Big Ten coach to mentor an NBA lottery pick, a National Player of the Year, a first team All-American, a first team Academic All-American and a Senior Class Award winner this decade.
• Over the last three years, Indiana leads all Big Ten teams in scoring (76.6), field goal percentage (47.7), three-point field goal percentage (39.7), free throw percentage (74.5) and free throws made (1,959).
• The Hoosiers 3-point field goal percentage is the highest among major college conference schools in that time frame.
• IU and Kansas lead the nation with 16 regular season wins over Top 25 teams since the start of the 2011-12 season.
THREE YEAR WIN TOTAL
• The Hoosiers 73 wins from 2011-12 to 2013-14 represents the highest three-year win total for IU since 1990-91 to 1992-93.
FROM LAST YEAR
• IU was sixth in the country last year in rebound margin (+7.6) and 12th in the country in three-point field goal percentage defense.
BEST IN THE NATION
• IU is among the top academic programs in the country with four straight perfect APR scores of 1,000 and has received an NCAA Recognition Award each of the last two years. Twenty-one players have earned a degree while playing for Crean at Indiana, including five who have earned master's degrees. IU has been honored a league best 27 times on the Academic All-Big Ten team since 2010.
MORE THREES PLEASE
• The Hoosiers are averaging 11 three-point field goals made per game in three games. Last year, IU did not make their 33rd three-point field goal until the eighth game of the season at Syracuse.
THE ASSEMBLY EFFECT
• IU extended its home winning streak vs. non-conference opponents to 42, third longest in the nation behind Duke (111) and Syracuse (53).
QUICK HITS
SMU
• The Hoosiers rallied from a 12-point first half deficit and a five-point second half deficit to win the game.
• In the final 10 minutes of the first half, Indiana turned a 22-10 deficit into a 38-33 lead going into the locker room (28-11 run).
• Indiana turned 19 turnovers in 19 points, while SMU only scored five points off turnovers.
• As a team, the Hoosiers shot 80 percent from the foul stripe (20-of-25).
• Indiana matched its season low in turnovers from a year ago with seven against the Mustangs.
• Sophomore Stanford Robinson scored two points and had one rebound in nine minutes as he saw his first action of the season.
TEXAS SOUTHERN
• As a team, the Hoosiers shot 5-of-6 (83.3 percent) from behind the arc in the first half and 10-of-15 (66.7 percent) for the game. The Hoosiers also shot 57.1 percent from the field (32 of 56).
• Junior Hanner Mosquera-Perea had a career high in blocks with five. That marked the first time since 2010 (Tom Pritchard vs. Evansville) that a Hoosier has had five blocks in a game. Mosquera-Perea also scored 12 points and had five rebounds.
• The Hoosiers had nine blocked shots, which was the most since a year ago when they had nine against Stony Brook.
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
• The 116 points scored against Mississippi Valley State is tied for the fifth most in school history and the most since 1994 (117 vs. Tennessee Tech). It also is the most scored by a team in Tom Crean's 16 years as a head coach.
• Stats Inc., who has kept college basketball stats since 1996-97, informed us that for the first time since they started IU had five players score at least 15 points or more in the same game. Blackmon Jr., had 25, Hoetzel had 19, Zeisloft had 16, and Ferrell and Johnson each had 15.
• IU had 20 assists as a team for the first time since January, 2013 when they had 20 at Purdue.
WOODEN AWARD
• The Los Angeles Athletic Club has announced its Preseason Top 50. Chosen by a preseason poll of national college basketball experts, the list is comprised of 50 student-athletes who are the early front-runners for the sport's most prestigious honor, with Indiana's junior guard Yogi Ferrell among those listed.
ARMED FORCES CLASSIC
• In 2016, the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu, Hawaii will host a doubleheader just weeks ahead of the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Indiana and Kansas will meet in one of the games, with Arizona and Michigan State meeting in the other.
STAFF WITH EXPERIENCE
• The Hoosiers have four former head coaches on their coaching staff this season.
• Associate Head Coach Tim Buckley begins his seventh year at Indiana. Former head coach at Ball State. His Cardinals beat #3 Kansas and #4 UCLA at the 2001 Maui Classic.
• Associate Head Coach Steve McClain is in his fifth year in Bloomington. Former head coach at Wyoming who led the Cowboys to the 2002 NCAA Tournament and a win over Gonzaga.
• Assistant Coach Chuck Martin joined the IU staff this past summer. Former head coach at Marist.
• Director of Operations Rob Judson came to IU in mid-season a year ago. Former head coach at Northern Illinois, who captured a MAC West title.
EIGHT IN THE PROS
• Eight of Tom Crean's former IU players are currently playing professional basketball.
Victor Oladipo (Orlando),12.3 ppg, 5.3 rpg, 4 assists
Cody Zeller (Charlotte), 7.8 ppg, 5.1 rpg.
Noah Vonleh (Charlotte), 3.0 ppg.,1.0 rpg.
Christian Watford (Maine), 9.5 ppg., 6.0 rpg.
Verdell Jones III (Japan), 15.7 ppg., 5.8 assists
Jordan Hulls (Kosovo) 9.8 ppg., 5.0 rpg., 5.7 assists
Will Sheehey (Montenegro) 4.5 ppg., 2.1 rpg.
Derek Elston (Portugal) 15.8 ppg., 4.3 rpg.
