Indiana University Athletics
Indiana University
Illinois
NOTES: Indiana Set for Final Regular Season Road Game at Illinois
2/28/2020 3:24:00 PM | Men's Basketball
OPENING TIP
Indiana University is in its 120th season of competition in men's basketball and will complete a stretch of playing 4 of 5 on the road when it travels to Illinois on Sunday. 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
Sunday, March 1 • 2 p.m. ET
State Farm Center (15,500) • Champaign, Ill.
TV: BTN (Brandon Gaudin and Shon Morris) | Watch Online
Radio: IU Radio Network (Don Fischer, Errek Suhr, Joe Smith) | TuneIn
Series History: Indiana leads, 93-87
Last Meeting: IU 92, at ILL 74 - 3/7/19
THE COACHES
Indiana Coach Archie Miller is in his third season of guiding the Cream and Crimson. He is 192-104 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 53-41 at IU. Brad Underwood is 45-48 in 3 seasons at Illinois.
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 13.8 points and 8.0 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 (12.9). He also leads in overall and conference play in field goal percentage (57.4 and 52.3), blocked shots (1.9 and 1.8), free throws made (108 and 60) and attempts (156 and 87). He is second overall and in league games in rebounding (8.0 and 7.5). He is 7th in the B1G in rebounding, 3rd in field goal percentage and 6th in blocked shots.
Redshirt sophomore and Minnesota native Race Thompson is averaging 7.7 points and 7.3 rebounds in the last 3 games. He is shooting 56.3% from the field in 22 minutes of action per game since the Minnesota contest. He had 6 points, 8 boards and 2 blocks at Purdue. Senior Devonte Green is averaging 10.6 ppg., and is 17 for 43 (39.5%) from 3-point range in the last 5 games. Junior Aljami Durham is 2nd on the team with 69 assists and is averaging 9.6 ppg. Sophomore Rob Phinisee, leads the team with 72 assists and had a career-high tying 5 steals against Penn State. Junior Justin Smith is averaging 10.6 points and leads the Hoosiers with 28 steals. He had 8 points and 4 boards against Purdue. Graduate transfer Joey Brunk had 4 points and 7 rebounds at Purdue.
ODDS AND TRENDS
Jackson-Davis, Smith, Brunk and Durham have started every game this season. IU has held its opponents to 14.3% shooting (8 of 56) from long distance in the last 3 games. 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 655 free throws. IU also has shot 366 charity tosses, a league-best, in conference play. IU is committing an average of just 11.7 turnovers in the last 10 games.
