NOTES: IU Set for Saturday Tilt at Minnesota

OPENING TIP
•   The 118th season of Indiana basketball continues on Saturday when the Hoosiers continue Big Ten play at Minnesota. IU is coming off a 71-61 loss at Wisconsin on Tuesday night. Minnesota defeated Illinois, 77-67, on Wednesday night.

• Indiana is playing 3 of its first 4 Big Ten games on the road. Minnesota is playing 3 of its first 4 Big Ten games at home.

THE COACHES
•   Archie Miller is the 29th head coach in Indiana men's basketball history. The 39-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 3 of Miller's 6 seasons (2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16).

•   Richard Pitino is in his fifth year of leading the Gopher program. He is 2-3 against the Hoosiers. Last year, Minnesota came away with a 75-74 victory in Williams Arena, against the Hoosiers.

NEWS & NOTES
• Junior Juwan Morgan was 2nd in the Big Ten in scoring (18.4) during the month of December. He was 3rd in rebounding (8.9) and 5th in field goal percentage (61.4%). In Big Ten play, Morgan is 6th in the league in scoring (18.7) and 3rd in field goal percentage (68.8%). Morgan had 17 points and a career-high 4 steals against Wisconsin. He has improved his scoring 7.3 points per game since last season.

• Senior Robert Johnson is now in 38th place on the IU all-time scoring list with 1,168 points and sixth on the school's all-time list with 196 treys. Quinn Buckner is 37th with 1,157 career points and Tom Coverdale is fifth all-time with 200 three-point field goals.

• Redshirt junior walk-on Zach McRoberts made his second career start against Wisconsin on Tuesday night. The walk-on has averaged 6.0 points in his last 4 games. He had an IU career-high nine points against Fort Wayne and added eight against Tennessee Tech. He has made 5 of his last 11 3FG attempts (45.5%).

• Fifth-year senior Collin Hartman is coming off a career-high 18-point effort against Wisconsin. He also tied a career best with 4 3FG made (Ohio State, 2015). He had a career-high 12 rebounds against Fort Wayne. Since the 2014-15 season, IU is 51-24 in games he has played and 20-21 in games he has not played during that time frame.

• Fifth-year senior Josh Newkirk had a season-high 20 points against Tennessee Tech. The Hoosiers are 4-1 when he scores 17 or more during his career. He is averaging 12.0 points and 4.0 assists in his last 3 games.

• The Hoosiers return to Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall for a two-game homestand when they take on Penn State (January 9) and Northwestern (January 14). The game with the Wildcats, which will be televised by CBS, will tipoff at 4:30 p.m.

• IU redshirt freshman Race Thompson, who played at Armstrong High School in Plymouth, Minnesota, is the son of former Gopher RB Darrell Thompson. The elder Thompson finished his career with 4,654 yards on 936 attempts with 40 touchdowns and 23 games of 100 yards or more, all remain UM records.

QUICK HITS
• Graduate forward Collin Hartman is back for a fifth year after sitting out last year with knee surgery. Hartman started 24 games for the eventual Big Ten champions in 2016, averaging 5.0 points and 3.1 rebounds per game. He is averaging 6.6 points per game this season. He had a career-high 18 points on Tuesday at Wisconsin. He had 11 points in 16 minutes against Duke and had a career-high 12 rebounds against Fort Wayne. He followed that up with a season-high 13 points against Iowa. He earned the team's most recent Gold Standard Jersey.

• Senior guard Robert Johnson has been a starter for 102 of the 113 games he has been healthy to play since joining the team in 2014-15. He earned the team's third Gold Standard jersey. The newest member of IU's 1,000-point club is averaging 12.6 points per game after his 20-point effort against Notre Dame and 17 points against Fort Wayne. He had 14 points and 5 assists against Wisconsin.

• Senior guard Josh Newkirk has started 47 career games. He had a season-high 20-point, 6 assist effort against Tennessee Tech. He had 17 points against Eastern Michigan, hitting on 5 of 6 3-pointers. He earned the team's 4th Gold Standard jersey.

• Junior forward Juwan Morgan has started 34 career games and leads the team in scoring (15.4), rebounds (7.0) and free throws made (59). He earned the team's second Gold Standard jersey. In the last 5 games, he has averaged 18.0 points and 7.8 rebounds.
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• Sophomore forward De'Ron Davis is third on the team averaging 9.6 points and is second at 4.3 rebounds. He had 14 points in the opener and notched career-high's in points (17) and minutes played (29) against Howard. He is fourth in the Big Ten in field goal percentage (61.5%). He had 14 points, 7 boards and 3 blocks against Louisville.

• Sophomore guard Devonte Green is averaging a team-high 8.1 points when coming off the bench. 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.

• Redshirt junior Zach McRoberts has moved into the starting lineup making his second career start last Tuesday against Wisconsin.. He had an IU career-high with 9 points against Fort Wayne and followed that up with 8 points against Tennessee Tech.

• Freshman forward Justin Smith is averaging 3.9 points and averages 2.9 rebounds per game. He had 16 points and 12 rebounds against Howard. He had 8 points and 5 boards in 11 minutes against YSU in 11 minutes.

• Freshman guard Aljami Durham is averaging 5.9 points. He had 9 points, 5 boards and 4 assists against South Florida.

• Senior Freddie McSwain, Jr. tied a career-high with 10 points against Tennessee Tech. He had 10 points with 9 rebounds against Eastern Michigan and 7 points against YSU.

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Players Mentioned

De'Ron Davis

Aljami Durham

Devonte Green

Collin Hartman

Robert Johnson

Zach McRoberts

Juwan Morgan

Josh Newkirk

Justin Smith

Race Thompson