Saturday, January 2
Lincoln, NE
4:00 PM
Indiana University
at
Nebraska
Preview: Indiana at Nebraska To Continue B1G Play
12/31/2015 4:08:00 PM | Men's Basketball
OPENING TIP
• Indiana University is in its 116th season of men's basketball and will put a six-game winning streak on the line when it visits Nebraska on Saturday. IU opened Big Ten play on the road for the fifth straight year and won at Rutgers, 79-72, on Wednesday.
AGAINST NEBRASKA
• Last year, IU defeated the Cornhuskers, 70-65, on New Years Eve in Lincoln in their only meeting of the season. Robert Johnson led IU with 14 points, while Troy Williams had 13 points. Shavon Shields had 20 for NU.
UP NEXT
• The Hoosiers host Wisconsin on Tuesday as the 1976 undefeated national championship team will be honored as part of its 40th anniversary celebration.
HEAD COACH TOM CREAN
• Tom Crean is in his eighth year of leading the Hoosiers. Over the last four+ years, IU is 104-48 and leads the Big Ten with 19 regular season wins over ranked opponents during that time. During that same span, the Hoosiers have appeared nationally ranked in at least one major poll during the season. He has recruited a McDonald's All-American in each of the last five years. In addition, he has seen seven of his players score 1,000 points or more in an IU uniform. Since 2011, the Hoosiers have averaged 23 wins per season compared to 20 averaged at IU from 1995-2008. Seven players have scored 1,000 points in their career under Tom Crean at Indiana. Christian Watford (1,730), Yogi Ferrell (1,608), Verdell Jones III (1,347), Jordan Hulls (1,318), Cody Zeller (1,157), Will Sheehey (1,120) and Victor Oladipo (1,117).
BRINGING FATIGUE TO THE GAME
• In Hoosier wins, IU is shooting 63.2% from the floor and 54.1% from three-point range in the final 10 minutes of games compared to its opponents shooting 39.9% from the floor and 27.5% from long distance during the conclusion of contests.
YOGI IS BIG TEN ACTIVE LEADER
• Senior Kevin "Yogi" Ferrell enters his final conference season as the active leader in scoring (1,608), assists (522), three-point field goals made (216) and is the only senior in the league to have started every game he has played (116). He is currently sixth in the Big Ten in scoring, fourth in assists, and fifth in free throw percentage.
OFFENSIVE BOARDS
• IU has won 10 straight games since 2010 when it has hauled in 20 or more of its own missed shots as it did against Notre Dame. IU had 17 offensive boards at Rutgers and leads the Big Ten in offensive rebound percentage at 41.6%.
BENCH HELPS HOOSIERS TO WIN
• They don't make funny poses or dance during the game, but the IU bench did come to play at Rutgers. Hoosier reserves chipped in a season-high 37 points and 25 rebounds. They shot 14 of 28 from the field and six of 12 from long distance.
MAX SET THE TONE
• Senior Max Bielfeldt had his best day as a collegian with 18 points, 14 rebounds, two assists and two steals off the bench at Rutgers. He has exceeded his career averages at Michigan in his one season with Indiana. He is averaging 8.7 points (3.5 at UM), 5.1 rebounds (2.3 at UM), and is shooting 62.5% (3rd in Big Ten) from the field (45.3 at UM) and 53.3 from three-point range (26.8 at UM).
IU INSIGHT
• Sophomore guard James Blackmon, Jr., (15.8 ppg) did not play against Rutgers. He suffered a knee injury in practice on Monday and further evaluation is continuing to determine the extent of the injury.
• Since the 2011-12 season, the Hoosier offense is first in the Big Ten in points scored (77.6), field goal percentage (47.8), and three-point field goal percentage (40.4).
• The Hoosiers lead the Big Ten in scoring (88.4), field goal percentage (53.3), three-point FG percentage (44.9), steals (7.9)offensive rebound percentage (41.6), and turnovers forced (14.7).
• The Hoosiers are 2nd in the country in FG percentage, 4th in scoring, 5th in three-point FG percentage, 7th in three-point field goals made, 15th in scoring margin, 21st in assists and 22nd in steals.
• Since the start of the 2011-12 season, IU is 104-48 giving the Hoosiers 100 wins in a similar span for the first time since 1999 to 2004 when IU won 101 games in five full seasons (162 games).
• IU has shot 50 percent or better in 21 of its last 48 games dating back to last season. In addition, IU has shot 40 percent or better from three-point range in 28 of contests.
TROY IS EMERGING
• Junior forward Troy Williams is averaging 15.2 points and 9.2 rebounds in his last five games and is shooting 54.0 from the field. His seven three-point field goals in 14 games eclipses his season-totals of six in each of the last two seasons. Williams is sixth in the league in rebounding, seventh in field goal percentage and leads the Big Ten in steals.
FERRELL IN RARE COMPANY
• Senior guard Kevin "Yogi" Ferrell is one of two active players in the country to have at least 1,550 career points (1,608), 500 assists (522) and 350 rebounds (369)(other is Juan'ya Green, Hofstra) He posted a career-high 38 points against IPFW, which is the most for an individual in a game in the Tom Crean Era, surpassing the 33 scored by James Blackmon, Jr., Nov. 30 against Alcorn State. It also was the most at Assembly Hall by an IU player since Steve Alford scored 42 points vs. Michigan State (2/4/87) and is tied for the fifth most by any IU player at Assembly Hall. He was named second team Preseason All-American by The Sporting News and USA Today, in addition to garnering third team honors from Athlon Sports and fourth team mention in Blue Ribbon Magazine. Ferrell now has 1,608 points in his IU career, which ranks 12th on the all-time list at IU. He also has 522 career assists in his IU career, which ranks third in school history. He has made 216 3FG in his IU career, which ranks third in school history. For the season, he is averaging 16.4 points, 4.6 rebounds and 6.0 assists.
IU'S MAJOR CONFERENCE RANKINGS (2011-PRESENT)
• 3-point FG percentage, 40.4(1st)
• Field goal percentage, 47.8 (1st)
• Free throw percentage, 73.7 (3rd)
• Points per game, 77.6 (4th)
ODDS AND TRENDS
• The Hoosiers have notched 50 percent or better shooting in 20 out of 28 halves played so far this season.
• No major college team has been a better 3-point shooting team over the last 4+ years than IU. In their last 150 games, IU has made 40.4 percent of its long distance tries. The next closest program to the Hoosiers is Duke at 38.8 percent and in the Big Ten, Michigan is second at 37.9 percent.
• Freshman Thomas Bryant is third among the league's first-year players averaging 11.5 points. He leads the Big Ten in field goal shooting making 72.3% of his shot attempts. He had a career-high 20 points against Kennesaw State.
• Sophomore Robert Johnson is second in the Big Ten in three-point field goal percentage making 52.3% of his shots. Team is 8-0 when he starts. He averaged 8.0 points against Rutgers last season. He made five of nine shots and three of six from long distance last year at Nebraska.
• Sophomore James Blackmon, Jr., is 10th in the league in scoring (15.8), third in three-point field goals made per game (2.8) and seventh in three-point field goal percentage (46.3). He had a season-high 33 points against Alcorn State earlier this year.
• Senior Nick Zeisloft is 4th in the Big Ten shooting 50.0% from three-point range. He is second among all major conference players shooting 45.1 % from long distance since the start of the 14-15 season.
• Junior Collin Hartman made his 17th career start and fifth this season at Rutgers. He tied a season-high with nine points and made all three of his long distance attempts. He is averaging 6.7 points and 3.0 rebounds while shooting 70.0% from the field in the last three games.
• Freshman OG Anunoby is averaging 5.0 points and 3.0 rebounds in 11 minutes per game the last three games. In his first Big Ten game at Rutgers he had a career-high eight points, seven rebounds and two steals to help the Hoosiers. He also made two three-point shots.
• Freshman Juwan Morgan had two points and three rebounds in six minutes off the bench against Rutgers. Prior to the break, he had two points, two rebounds, a block and a steal against Kennesaw State.
• Junior walk-on Ryan Burton played 10 minutes against Rutgers and scored a career-high six points when he drained both of his long distance attempts.
• For the fifth time under Tom Crean, the Hoosiers have put together a six game winning streak.
• The Hoosier 173 free throw attempts in the month of December was the 11th highest total among major conference school's.
• Indiana University is in its 116th season of men's basketball and will put a six-game winning streak on the line when it visits Nebraska on Saturday. IU opened Big Ten play on the road for the fifth straight year and won at Rutgers, 79-72, on Wednesday.
| Indiana (11-3, 1-0 Big Ten) at Nebraska (8-6, 0-1 Big Ten) Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016 • 4:00 p.m. ET Pinnacle Bank Arena (15,646) • Lincoln, Nebraska Live Stats: IUHoosiers.com TV: BTN & BTN2Go (Steve Physioc & Craig Wenzel) Radio: IU Radio Network (Don Fischer, Errek Suhr, Joe Smith) Series History: Indiana leads, 10-4 Last Meeting: IU 70, at NEB 65 (12/31/14) |
AGAINST NEBRASKA
• Last year, IU defeated the Cornhuskers, 70-65, on New Years Eve in Lincoln in their only meeting of the season. Robert Johnson led IU with 14 points, while Troy Williams had 13 points. Shavon Shields had 20 for NU.
UP NEXT
• The Hoosiers host Wisconsin on Tuesday as the 1976 undefeated national championship team will be honored as part of its 40th anniversary celebration.
HEAD COACH TOM CREAN
• Tom Crean is in his eighth year of leading the Hoosiers. Over the last four+ years, IU is 104-48 and leads the Big Ten with 19 regular season wins over ranked opponents during that time. During that same span, the Hoosiers have appeared nationally ranked in at least one major poll during the season. He has recruited a McDonald's All-American in each of the last five years. In addition, he has seen seven of his players score 1,000 points or more in an IU uniform. Since 2011, the Hoosiers have averaged 23 wins per season compared to 20 averaged at IU from 1995-2008. Seven players have scored 1,000 points in their career under Tom Crean at Indiana. Christian Watford (1,730), Yogi Ferrell (1,608), Verdell Jones III (1,347), Jordan Hulls (1,318), Cody Zeller (1,157), Will Sheehey (1,120) and Victor Oladipo (1,117).
BRINGING FATIGUE TO THE GAME
• In Hoosier wins, IU is shooting 63.2% from the floor and 54.1% from three-point range in the final 10 minutes of games compared to its opponents shooting 39.9% from the floor and 27.5% from long distance during the conclusion of contests.
YOGI IS BIG TEN ACTIVE LEADER
• Senior Kevin "Yogi" Ferrell enters his final conference season as the active leader in scoring (1,608), assists (522), three-point field goals made (216) and is the only senior in the league to have started every game he has played (116). He is currently sixth in the Big Ten in scoring, fourth in assists, and fifth in free throw percentage.
OFFENSIVE BOARDS
• IU has won 10 straight games since 2010 when it has hauled in 20 or more of its own missed shots as it did against Notre Dame. IU had 17 offensive boards at Rutgers and leads the Big Ten in offensive rebound percentage at 41.6%.
BENCH HELPS HOOSIERS TO WIN
• They don't make funny poses or dance during the game, but the IU bench did come to play at Rutgers. Hoosier reserves chipped in a season-high 37 points and 25 rebounds. They shot 14 of 28 from the field and six of 12 from long distance.
MAX SET THE TONE
• Senior Max Bielfeldt had his best day as a collegian with 18 points, 14 rebounds, two assists and two steals off the bench at Rutgers. He has exceeded his career averages at Michigan in his one season with Indiana. He is averaging 8.7 points (3.5 at UM), 5.1 rebounds (2.3 at UM), and is shooting 62.5% (3rd in Big Ten) from the field (45.3 at UM) and 53.3 from three-point range (26.8 at UM).
IU INSIGHT
• Sophomore guard James Blackmon, Jr., (15.8 ppg) did not play against Rutgers. He suffered a knee injury in practice on Monday and further evaluation is continuing to determine the extent of the injury.
• Since the 2011-12 season, the Hoosier offense is first in the Big Ten in points scored (77.6), field goal percentage (47.8), and three-point field goal percentage (40.4).
• The Hoosiers lead the Big Ten in scoring (88.4), field goal percentage (53.3), three-point FG percentage (44.9), steals (7.9)offensive rebound percentage (41.6), and turnovers forced (14.7).
• The Hoosiers are 2nd in the country in FG percentage, 4th in scoring, 5th in three-point FG percentage, 7th in three-point field goals made, 15th in scoring margin, 21st in assists and 22nd in steals.
• Since the start of the 2011-12 season, IU is 104-48 giving the Hoosiers 100 wins in a similar span for the first time since 1999 to 2004 when IU won 101 games in five full seasons (162 games).
• IU has shot 50 percent or better in 21 of its last 48 games dating back to last season. In addition, IU has shot 40 percent or better from three-point range in 28 of contests.
TROY IS EMERGING
• Junior forward Troy Williams is averaging 15.2 points and 9.2 rebounds in his last five games and is shooting 54.0 from the field. His seven three-point field goals in 14 games eclipses his season-totals of six in each of the last two seasons. Williams is sixth in the league in rebounding, seventh in field goal percentage and leads the Big Ten in steals.
FERRELL IN RARE COMPANY
• Senior guard Kevin "Yogi" Ferrell is one of two active players in the country to have at least 1,550 career points (1,608), 500 assists (522) and 350 rebounds (369)(other is Juan'ya Green, Hofstra) He posted a career-high 38 points against IPFW, which is the most for an individual in a game in the Tom Crean Era, surpassing the 33 scored by James Blackmon, Jr., Nov. 30 against Alcorn State. It also was the most at Assembly Hall by an IU player since Steve Alford scored 42 points vs. Michigan State (2/4/87) and is tied for the fifth most by any IU player at Assembly Hall. He was named second team Preseason All-American by The Sporting News and USA Today, in addition to garnering third team honors from Athlon Sports and fourth team mention in Blue Ribbon Magazine. Ferrell now has 1,608 points in his IU career, which ranks 12th on the all-time list at IU. He also has 522 career assists in his IU career, which ranks third in school history. He has made 216 3FG in his IU career, which ranks third in school history. For the season, he is averaging 16.4 points, 4.6 rebounds and 6.0 assists.
IU'S MAJOR CONFERENCE RANKINGS (2011-PRESENT)
• 3-point FG percentage, 40.4(1st)
• Field goal percentage, 47.8 (1st)
• Free throw percentage, 73.7 (3rd)
• Points per game, 77.6 (4th)
ODDS AND TRENDS
• The Hoosiers have notched 50 percent or better shooting in 20 out of 28 halves played so far this season.
• No major college team has been a better 3-point shooting team over the last 4+ years than IU. In their last 150 games, IU has made 40.4 percent of its long distance tries. The next closest program to the Hoosiers is Duke at 38.8 percent and in the Big Ten, Michigan is second at 37.9 percent.
• Freshman Thomas Bryant is third among the league's first-year players averaging 11.5 points. He leads the Big Ten in field goal shooting making 72.3% of his shot attempts. He had a career-high 20 points against Kennesaw State.
• Sophomore Robert Johnson is second in the Big Ten in three-point field goal percentage making 52.3% of his shots. Team is 8-0 when he starts. He averaged 8.0 points against Rutgers last season. He made five of nine shots and three of six from long distance last year at Nebraska.
• Sophomore James Blackmon, Jr., is 10th in the league in scoring (15.8), third in three-point field goals made per game (2.8) and seventh in three-point field goal percentage (46.3). He had a season-high 33 points against Alcorn State earlier this year.
• Senior Nick Zeisloft is 4th in the Big Ten shooting 50.0% from three-point range. He is second among all major conference players shooting 45.1 % from long distance since the start of the 14-15 season.
• Junior Collin Hartman made his 17th career start and fifth this season at Rutgers. He tied a season-high with nine points and made all three of his long distance attempts. He is averaging 6.7 points and 3.0 rebounds while shooting 70.0% from the field in the last three games.
• Freshman OG Anunoby is averaging 5.0 points and 3.0 rebounds in 11 minutes per game the last three games. In his first Big Ten game at Rutgers he had a career-high eight points, seven rebounds and two steals to help the Hoosiers. He also made two three-point shots.
• Freshman Juwan Morgan had two points and three rebounds in six minutes off the bench against Rutgers. Prior to the break, he had two points, two rebounds, a block and a steal against Kennesaw State.
• Junior walk-on Ryan Burton played 10 minutes against Rutgers and scored a career-high six points when he drained both of his long distance attempts.
• For the fifth time under Tom Crean, the Hoosiers have put together a six game winning streak.
• The Hoosier 173 free throw attempts in the month of December was the 11th highest total among major conference school's.
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