Indiana University
Marian University (Ind.) [Exhibition]
NOTES: Indiana Opens Exhibition Play Against Marian
10/26/2017 10:25:00 AM | Men's Basketball
• Indiana begins its 118th season of men's basketball when it opens up the 2017-18 season in an exhibition game against NAIA foe Marian University.
• Marian is a private, non-profit Roman Catholic university located on a 200-acre campus in Indianapolis. It boasts an enrollment of 3,348 students.
• The Hoosiers begin their first season under Archie Miller, who comes to IU after spending the last six seasons leading the University of Dayton program.
• IU is 23-0 since they began playing exhibition games against non-Division I competition in 2004-05.
• Twelve of those wins have come against college programs from the state of Indiana.
• The game will re-air on the Big Ten Network, October 31 at 8 a.m.
GAME INFO
Tipoff: 8:00 p.m. ET
Date: Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017
Location: Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall (17,222); Bloomington, Indiana
TV: BTN Plus - Josh Eastern, Max Bielfeldt, Mary Kay Hamilton
Radio: IU?Radio Network - Greg Murray, Errek Suhr & Mike Glasscott
Mandarin Language Radio
THE COACHES
• Archie Miller is the 29th head coach in Indiana men's basketball history. The 38-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 three of Miller's six seasons (2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16).
• Scott Heady is in his first season at Marian. He came to the Knights from Carmel High School, where he led the Greyhounds to back-to-back Indiana 4A state championships in 2012 and 2013. Heady has compiled a record of 116-27 during his tenure, which is the most wins in 4A basketball during that span. Coached current Hoosier Zach McRoberts in high school.
NEWS & NOTES
• Marian Athletic Director Steve Downing is a member of the IU Athletics Hall of Fame. The 1973 Big Ten MVP and All-American led the Hoosiers to the Final Four that season. He later served as an administrator in the IU Athletics Department for several years. Marian assistant coach Ray Tolbert also is a member of the IU Athletics Hall of Fame. He was was the 1981 Big Ten Player of the Year and led the Hoosiers to their fourth NAtional Championship.
• This is the second earliest exhibition game in IU men's basketball history. The Hoosiers defeated Southern Indiana, 83-68, on October 26, 2013.
• IU is entering its 47th season in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. The Hoosiers have a regular season record of 564-110 in the storied venue.
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. The injury wasn't Hartman's first knee problem in college — he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee shortly after his freshman season in 2014. He rehabilitated quickly enough to appear in 32 games during the 2014-15 season.
• Senior guard Robert Johnson has been in the Hoosiers lineup for 87 of the 98 games he has been healthy to play since joining the team in 2014-15. He averaged 8.9 points as a freshman and is close to joining the 1,000-point club at IU with 978 career points.
• Senior guard Josh Newkirk started 32 games a year ago and averaged 9.0 points and led the team with 108 assists. He averaged 10.3 points per game in Big Ten play.
• Junior forward Juwan Morgan started 20 games last year for the Hoosiers and averaged 7.7 points. He made a school record 14 straight field goals in a three-game span last season.
• Sophomore forward De'Ron Davis started four games and averaged 5.9 points and 3.1 rebounds in his freshman year. Has lost 21 pounds since Clif Marshall came here.
• Sophomore guard Devonte Green was the only player in the country last year to hit two shots from beyond half court. 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.
• Sophomore guard Curtis Jones had 15 points, including five in the final two minutes to help the Hoosiers beat Kansas in the Armed Forces Classic in Hawaii. He won the Slam Dunk Contest at Hoosiere Hysteria.
• Despite a coaching change, IU was able to hold on to its entire 2017 recruiting class in center Clifton Moore, Aljami Durham, and Justin Smith. Forward Race Thompson was a late addition. The Minnesota native is expected to redshirt.
• The Hoosiers ranked among the top 10 programs in the country in average home attendance during the 2016-17 season, finishing ninth in the country with an average of 16,363 fans per game. It is the sixth straight season that the Hoosiers have ranked among the top 10 teams average attendance in the country.
• 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, but he would rather do football so he won't be here for Saturday's game (LOL). IT'S A JOKE FOLKS.
• IU will face four teams that are preseason nationally ranked in non-conference play. The Hoosiers take on Seton Hall, Duke, Louisville, and Notre Dame.
• IU will play in the Gavitt Games for the second time in three years. The Hoosiers will travel to Seton Hall. IU hosted and defeated Creighton in 2015.
• The Hoosiers will face a Big Ten opponent, Michigan, on December 2 in Ann Arbor. It is the earliest time in history that IU will play a conference game. The Cream and Crimson also will play two days later at home against Iowa.
• 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).
• The Hoosiers Monday night offerings include home games against Iowa (December 4), Maryland (January 22), and a road game against Rutgers (February 5).
