Indiana University Athletics
Indiana University
Purdue
NOTES: #iubb Set to Battle Purdue in West Lafayette on Thursday Night
2/26/2020 10:39:00 AM | Men's Basketball
OPENING TIP
Indiana University is in its 120th season of competition in men's basketball and will continue its stretch of playing 4 of 5 on the road when it travels to Purdue on Thursday The Hoosiers are coming off a 68-60 win at home against #9 Penn State. The Boilermakers won the first meeting, 74-62, in Bloomington, on February 8. The Hoosiers are tied for 4th in the country with 5 wins over nationally ranked teams (Florida State, Ohio State, Michigan State, Iowa, Penn State).
GAME INFORMATION
Thursday, Feb. 27 • 7 p.m. ET
Mackey Arena (14,240) • West Lafayette, Ind.
TV: FS1 (Tim Brando and Steve Lavin) | Watch Online
Radio: IU Radio Network (Don Fischer, Errek Suhr, Joe Smith) | TuneIn
Series History: Purdue leads, 121-89
Last Meeting: PU 74, at IU 62 - 2/8/20
THE COACHES
Indiana Coach Archie Miller is in his third season of guiding the Cream and Crimson. He is 192-102 in eight-plus years as a head coach, which includes six years at the University of Dayton. His Flyer teams made NCAA Tournament appearances in each of his last four seasons, including a trip to the Elite Eight in 2014. He is 53-40 at IU. Matt Painter is 335-173 in 15 seasons in West Lafayette.
NEWS & NOTES
Freshman Trayce Jackson-Davis has been named Big Ten Freshman of the Week for the fifth time this season and CBS Sports/USBWA National Freshman of the Week after averaging 20 points and 13 rebounds in wins over Minnesota and #9 Penn State. At Minnesota, he had a career-high 27-point, 16 rebound performance and made 11 of 15 field goal attempts. Against Penn State he had 13 points and 10 boards giving him nine double-doubles on the season (IU is 9-0 in those games). He is averaging a team-best 14.1 points and 8.1 rebounds. He is just one of four freshman nationally (Vernon Carey, Jr. - Duke, Zeke Nnaji - Arizona and Isiah Stewart - Washington) to lead his team in scoring, rebounds, field goal percentage, free throws made and free throws attempted and blocked shots. In the Big Ten, Jackson-Davis is the top freshman scorer overall and in conference games (13.4). He also leads in overall and conference play in field goal percentage (58.3 and 55.8), blocked shots (1.9 and 1.8), free throws made (106 and 58) and attempts (152 and 83). He is second overall and in league games in rebounding (8.1 and 7.8). He is 10th in the B1G in scoring, 7th in rebounding, 2nd in field goal percentage and 6th in blocked shots. Redshirt sophomore and Minnesota native Race Thompson played a career-high 25 minutes against Minnesota and had 9 points and a career-best 10 rebounds. He followed that up with 8 points and 4 boards against PSU. Senior Devonte Green is averaging 10.6 ppg., and leads the team in 3FG% at 38.4%. He had 10 against PSU and has made 14 3's in his last 4 games. Junior Aljami Durham had 14 points in the win over Penn State and is 2nd on the team with 69 assists. Sophomore Rob Phinisee, a Lafayette native and first scholarship player from the area since 1948, leads the team with 71 assists and had a career-high tying 5 steals against the Nittany Lions. Junior Justin Smith is averaging 10.7 points and leads the Hoosiers with 28 steals. He had 9 points and 8 boards against PSU. Redshirt freshman Jerome Hunter had two game changing plays last week. His 3FG against PSU started a 13-0 run which rallied IU from a 48-42 deficit. He also blocked a dunk by Minnesota's Daniel Oturu which started a run from a 10-point deficit in Minn.
ODDS AND TRENDS
Last week, IU held its two opponents to an average of 58 points on 37.7% shooting from the field and a 15.4% effort from long distance. For the 3rd time this season, IU rallied from a 10-point deficit to win a game (UConn, Northwestern, Minnesota). The Hoosiers have shot a B1G-high 634 free throws. IU is shooting 37.0% from 3FG-range in last 10 games and committing an average of just 12 turnovers per game in that same span.
