#IUBB Game 25 Preview: at Maryland

2/10/2015 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball

Feb. 10, 2015

GAME 25
Wednesday, Feb. 11 -- Indiana (17-7, 7-4 Big Ten) at Maryland (19-5, 7-4 Big Ten)
Tipoff: 9:00 p.m. ET
Location: XFINITY Center (College Park, Md.)
TV/Video: BTN (Gus Johnson & Stephen Bardo) | Watch Online
Live Stats: Gametracker
Game Notes: Indiana Notes | Maryland Notes
Series Record: Indiana leads, 6-2

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OPENING TIP
• The 2014-15 college basketball season represents the 115th in the history of Indiana University. The Hoosiers will visit Maryland for the first time as a Big Ten member. IU won the previous match on January 22, 89-70 in Bloomington.

UP NEXT
• The Hoosiers will close the season with four of six at Assembly Hall. IU will host Minnesota on February 15 and Purdue on February 19.

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 308-200 all-time as a head coach and in the last 3+ years, he has led IU to an 90-38 record, the 2013 Big Ten Championship and back-to-back appearances (12 and 13) for the Hoosiers in the Sweet 16 for the first time since 1994. In 2012-13, he was named NABC District 7 and USBWA District V Coach of the Year. In the last two seasons, Crean has mentored three NBA Lottery picks which is tied with Kansas for the most among NCAA schools.

• 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.

• This week's NBA All-Star Weekend in NYC will feature four players who played collegiately for Tom Crean. Dwyane Wade (Marquette) will play in the NBA All-Star Game, Wesley Matthews (Marquette) will be in the three-point shooting contest, Victor Oladipo (Indiana) will be in the slam dunk contest and will join Cody Zeller (Indiana) in the Rising Stars Game.
• Indiana had 2 of the B1G 4 wins over ranked opponents in the non-conference season (Butler and SMU). The Hoosiers 4 wins over ranked teams is tied for the fourth most in the nation.

• The Hoosiers 19 regular season wins against Top 25 opponents since the 2011-12 season is the most of any Big Ten team.

BEING RANKED
• IU was ranked for three straight weeks in the USA Today Coaches Poll and for two weeks by AP. This is the fourth straight year that IU has been nationally ranked by one of the two major polls. Every four-year player since the poll began has played for a nationally ranked squad at IU.

LOOK AT THE IMPROVEMENT
• As far as taking care of the basketball, Indiana is the most improved team in the country from a year ago, at -3.3 per game. Last year, IU turned the ball over 15.1 times per game compared to this year at 11.8.

SHOOTING THREE'S
• The 2014-15 Indiana basketball team has made 216 three-point field goals in 24 games, which is the seventh highest single season mark ion school history. The 2005-06 squad made 276 to establish an IU mark.

DID YOU KNOW
• Junior Kevin "Yogi" Ferrell has a school-record 55-game streak of making at least one 3-point field goal. That is the longest active streak in the nation. Freshman James Blackmon, Jr., is averaging a national freshman best 17.8 points in five games against nationally ranked teams. OSU's DeAngelo Russell (17.0) and Duke's Jahil Okafor (16.7) are next on the list.

IU INSIGHT
• The Hoosiers are 9th in the country in 3-point field goal percentage (40.9), 11th in scoring (79.8) and 12th in 3FGM per game (9.0).

• In the last 3 games, IU has shot 46.7 percent from three-point range making 28 of 60 attempts.

• Since losing to Louisville in the Jimmy V Classic, IU has out-rebounded 13 of its next 15 opponents for a +4.4 rebound margin.

• According to Stats Inc., Indiana has the 6th Lowest Average Years of Eligibility on an NCAA Division I roster at 1.79.

• IU is 7-1 since beating Butler 82-73 on December 20 in games decided by single digits. Last year during the same time frame, IU was 2-5 in games decided by single digits.

• IU is 6-0 in the B1G in games decided by 8 points or less. Last year, IU was 2-4 in the first half of the B1G in similar games. The reason for the improvement is defense. In the last 5 minutes of those close games this year, IU has limited opponents to 36.4 percent shooting from the field and 24 percent shooting from long distance. Last year, teams shot 47.8 from the field in close games in the last 5 minutes. This season, opponents have attempted just 19 free throws in the 6 games, while they shot 49 in close games a year ago.

ODDS AND TRENDS
• Bennie Seltzer, who served as an assistant coach at Indiana from 2008-12, has rejoined the program as Director of Player Performance for a temporary period of four months as a replacement to Je'Ney Jackson, who managed player development and strength and conditioning for the men's basketball program.

• Junior Kevin "Yogi" Ferrell is 34th on the school's all-time scoring list with 1,209 points. He leads all Big Ten juniors in career scoring, assists (386), 3-FGM (166) and free throw percentage (83.2). He leads the league in free throw percentage (87.9), is 5th in the league in scoring (16.0) and 5th in assists (4.8) and in 3FGM (2.3). In conference games only, he is 3rd in the league in assists (4.7) and 3FGM per game (2.5) and 9th in scoring (14.7). With 12 seconds left in regulation against Georgetown he hit a game tying three-pointer that sent the game to overtime against the Hoyas. It was the second time in his career that he hit a tying shot to force overtime. He also did that against Butler at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in December 2012. He is now 10th on the school's all-time assist list (386).

• Sophomore Troy Williams is 4th in the conference overall shooting 57.6 from the field. In conference games only, he is 4th in the league in FG percentage making 56.1 of his shots. He is coming off a 20-point, 8-board effort against Michigan. He had his third double-double of the season with 14 points and 12 rebounds against Rutgers. He had 16 points and 7 boards against Maryland and also had 21 points and 9 rebounds at Illinois. He had 15 points and 11 boards at home against OSU .
• James Blackmon, Jr. is second in scoring among all B1G freshmen and 5th nationally among first-year players at 16.3 points per game. He had 20 points, 5 rebounds and 2 steals against Rutgers. He had 22 points against Maryland and 21 points against Illinois. He has topped the 20-point mark 8 times this season. He is second on the team averaging 5.3 rebounds per game and is averaging 14.3 points in league play. He did not play at Wisconsin due to a left ankle injury.

• Sophomore Collin Hartman, who returned 6 months after tearing an ACL, has started the last 8 games. He had a career-high 15 points and 3 blocked shots in the win over Maryland. He followed that up with 12 points at Ohio State. He had 11 points, 3 rebounds and 3 steals against Wisconsin. Overall he is shooting 53.2 from the field and 52.1 from three-point range. He leads in conference games only making 56.0 of his 3's.

• Forward Hanner Mosquera-Perea, who had started the first 16 games for the Hoosiers this season, suffered an injury to his right knee in practice on Jan. 12 and Returned to the court against Michigan. He is averaging 6.9 points and 4.8 rebounds and led the team with 25 blocked shots.

• Freshman Robert Johnson had 16 points, 3 rebounds and 2 steals at Wisconsin. He is 5th in the Big Ten making 42.5 percent of his 3-point attempts. He had 20 points and made 4-of-6 from long distance in the win over Penn State. He is 4th on the team with 34 3FGM. He led the Hoosiers with 14 points against Nebraska. He has started 22 of 23 games. In B1G games, his 43.6 percent from long distance is eighth.
• Junior transfer Nick Zeisloft is third on the team with 41 3FGM and is averaging 20.0 minutes per game. He is shooting 41.4 from long distance and is a graduate student who played for Illinois State. He had 8 key second half points against Rutgers and scored 10 points and started the winning run at Illinois with a three-pointer with under 3 minutes to go. He had a career-high 19 point performance at Wisconsin.

• Freshman reserve Emmitt Holt had 3 points and 3 boards at Wisconsin. His best game of the season came against Pittsburgh, when he had 15 points against the Panthers. He also is 2nd on the team with 16 blocked shots. He is shooting 67.4 percent from the field.

• Freshman reserve Max Hoetzel has seen his playing time increase due to the Perea injury. In the last 5 games, he is averaging 8.0 minutes per game and has contributed 2.2 points. He had his Big Ten-best 6 points, including a three-pointer against Illinois.

• Sophomore Stanford Robinson had a season-high 12 points against Penn State and made all six of his free throw attempts in the game. He is averaging 3.7 points in Big Ten play. Against Rutgers, he started and had 4 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists without a turnover.

• Junior walk-on Ryan Burton played a huge role in the win over Penn State. In five minutes of play, he had three offensive rebounds and an assist to help IU go from a 51-51 tied to a 12-point lead.