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NOTES: Hoosiers Back In Action Against Howard
11/11/2017 11:33:00 AM | Men's Basketball
OPENING TIP
• The 118th season of Indiana men's basketball continues on Sunday against the Howard Bison as part of the 2017 Hoosier Tip-Off Classic. The Hoosiers are coming off a 90-69 season opening loss at home to Indiana State. Howard lost its season opener at George Washington, 84-75, Friday night.
• The Hoosiers lead the series with the Bison, 2-0. IU defeated Howard in its last meeting 107-50 in December, 2011 and 83-60, in November 2009 in Bloomington.
• 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.
GAME INFO
Tipoff: 8:00 p.m. ET
Date: Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017
Location: Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall (17,222); Bloomington, Indiana
TV: BTN - Brandon Gaudin and Stephen Bardo
Radio: IU Radio Network - Don Fischer, 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).
• Kevin Nickelberry has guided Howard since 2010. He led them to just their third winning season in MEAC play with a 10-6 record in 2014-15.
NEWS & NOTES
• This is the first game of the Hoosier Tip-Off Classic, a multi-team exempt tournament. The event also includes South Florida, Arkansas State and Eastern Michigan.
• The Hoosiers have a 13-0 record against the MEAC.
• The Hoosiers outscored Indiana State, 32-16 in the paint. Sophomore center De'Ron Davis had a team-high 14 points and junior forward Juwan Morgan added 13 to lead the inside attack.
• IU also outscored ISU 24-13 off the bench with sophomore Curtis Jones contributing 11 points.
• Senior Robert Johnson had seven points and needs 15 to become the 51st player to eclipse the 1,000-point mark in his career as a Hoosier.
• Senior Collin Hartman missed the ISU game after injuring his groin in Thursday's practice.
• The Hoosiers will face nationally ranked (#23) Seton Hall in the Gavitt Games on Wednesday, November 15 in Newark, New Jersey.
• 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 88 of the 99 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 985 career points. He earned the team's third Gold Standard jersey.
• 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. Earned the teams second Gold Standard jersey.
• 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. Durham missed the Marian game due to a hamstring injury.
• 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.
