Postgame Notes: at Syracuse

Postgame Notes
Indiana at Syracuse
Nov. 30, 2021

• Indiana (6-1, 0-0) fell to Syracuse (4-3, 0-0) 112-110 in double-overtime on Tuesday night at the Carrier Dome.

• After Syracuse took a 15-5 lead to open the game, IU countered with an 11-5 run of its own heading into the under-12 media timeout in the first half.

• IU started the second half on a 17-5 run behind back-to-back threes from graduate/junior Parker Stewart

• The Hoosiers took their first lead of the game at the 10:04 mark in the second half following a three-pointer from senior/junior Miller Kopp.

• In the second half, IU held Syracuse to just 25% shooting from behind the arc.

• IU outrebounded Syracuse 46-31 including 14-8 on offensive rebounds.

• The 110 points IU put up Tuesday were the most points IU has scored since scoring 110 against Penn State on February 1^st, 2017.

• IU shot 55% from the field and 41% from three on the evening. The Hoosiers also hit 74% of their free throws.

• This double-overtime affair was IU's first since February 10, 2021, against Northwestern.

• The Hoosiers tallied 48 points in the paint.

• The 55 points scored in the second half was the most IU's scored in a single half since putting up 58 against Troy on November 16, 2019.

• IU shot 74.1% from the floor in the second half, the first time it has shot more than 70% in a half since December 22, 2018, against Jacksonville (72%).

• This was the first time IU has had three 20-point scorers in the same game (Jackson Davis (31), Kopp (28) and Stewart (20)) since January 6, 2018, against Minnesota.

• Both junior/sophomore Trayce Jackson-Davis and redshirt senior/junior Race Thompson tallied double-doubles, the first time IU has had two players record double-doubles in the same game since January 4, 2021.

• The 222 combined points scored marked the second-highest point total in an IU game, trailing only a 113-112 (225 total points) Hoosier victory over Northern Illinois on Feb. 1, 1971. The last time IU and its opponent both scored at least 100 points in a game was in a 110-102 triple OT win against Penn State in 2017.

• Jackson-Davis scored 31 points on 11-16 shooting and grabbed 16 rebounds.

• He becomes the first IU player since Juwan Morgan on December 16, 2017, to score 30 points and grab 10 rebounds in a single game.

• Jackson-Davis has now scored in double figures in 32 of his last 33 games. This was his 25^th-career double-double.

• He is the first IU player since Eric Gordon on November 20 and 24, 2007 to score 30 points in consecutive games.

• In three career Big Ten-ACC Challenge games, Jackson-Davis is averaging 23.7 ppg and 13.7 rpg.

• Kopp scored a career-high 28 points while also going 4-9 from behind the arc. Kopp played a team-high 48 minutes.

• Graduate/junior Parker Stewart hit six three-point shots enroute to a 20-point performance

• This was Stewart's second double-digit scoring effort since joining IU.

• Stewart is now 13-25 on three-point baskets in two career games at the Carrier Dome.

• Thompson was a force in the paint with 17 points and 12 rebounds.

• This was his fifth career double-double and ninth career double-digit rebounding effort.

• Senior/junior Xavier Johnson shelled out nine assists and scored four points in 26 minutes of play.

• Senior/junior Rob Phinisee scored two points while adding three rebounds and three assists.

• Sophomore/forward Khristian Lander added four points, an assist and a rebound off the bench.

• Senior/junior Michael Durr scored two points off the bench.

• Freshman Tamar Bates scored two points in 14 minutes of action.

• Sophomore/freshman Jordan Geronimo played four minutes in reserve.

Players Mentioned

Tamar Bates

Michael Durr

Jordan Geronimo

Trayce Jackson-Davis

Xavier Johnson

Miller Kopp

Khristian Lander

Rob Phinisee

Parker Stewart

Race Thompson

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