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NOTES: Indiana to Honor MLK at Nebraska on Monday Night
1/16/2022 1:00:00 PM | Men's Basketball
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Indiana University is in its 122nd season of competition in men's basketball and will visit Nebraska on Monday to play in the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Game. The Hoosiers are coming off an 83-74 loss at Iowa on Thursday, while Nebraska was beaten at Purdue, 92-65. The Hoosiers have won the last two meetings in Pinnacle Bank Arena and five straight overall in the series.
GAME INFORMATION
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Game
Indiana (12-4, 3-3 B1G) at Nebraska (6-12, 0-7 B1G)
Monday, January 17 • 6 p.m. ET
Pinnacle Bank Arena (15,500) • Lincoln, Neb.
TV: BTN (Jeff Levering and Raphael Davis)
Radio: IU Radio Network (Don Fischer, Errek Suhr, Joe Smith) | TuneIn App
Series History: Indiana leads 17-7
Last Meeting: IU 68, NEB 55 (Dec. 4, 2021 in Bloomington)
ON THE SIDELINES
IU Hall of Famer, All-American, Big Ten MVP and Indiana native Mike Woodson is the first Hoosier graduate to lead the program at the start of the season since Lou Watson in 1965. Woodson brings nine years of NBA head coaching experience (Atlanta Hawks and New York Knicks) back to his alma mater and worked for seven franchises as an assistant coach and won an NBA title in 2004 with the Detroit Pistons. He played 11 seasons in the NBA as a player and is the fifth all-time leading scorer in program history with 2,061 points.
Nebraska Coach Fred Hoiberg is in his third year with the Huskers.
DEFENSE LEADS THE HOOSIERS
IU is first in the Big Ten and second in country in field goal percentage defense (35.9%). The Hoosiers also lead the league in scoring defense (62.2). In conference play, IU leads in scoring defense (62.3) and field goal percentage defense (38.1%) and is second in 3-point field goal defense (29.26%).
ALL-AMERICAN TRAYCE JACKSON-DAVIS
Junior/sophomore forward Trayce Jackson-Davis is living up to his preseason accolades averaging 19.3 points (5th in B1G), 8.9 rebounds (3rd), shooting 60.6% from the floor (3rd) and contributing 3.1 blocked shots per game (1st).
He set a Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall record by scoring 43 points against Marshall, breaking the previous mark (42) set by Steve Alford against Michigan State.
The leading returning scorer in the Big Ten has been named a first-team 2021-22 Preseason All-American by the Associated Press, and selected to the watch list for the Karl Malone Watch, the NABC Player of the Year, Wooden Award (Midseason Top 25) and Naismith Award.
He has had seven double-doubles this season and 29 in his career with IU posting a 22-7 record in those games. Jackson-Davis now has scored 1,258 points as a Hoosier, rating 33rd all-time in IU lore.
He has averaged 19.3 points, 11.7 rebounds and shot 63.9% in the last three games. He is the fifth active leading scorer in the country and is first in free throw attempts (499) and second in free throws made (334) since 2019-20. He has shot more free throws than any other player in the Big Ten this season (102). His 281 attempts in conference games are the most by any player since 2019-20.
ODDS AND TRENDS
IU's starting lineup of Jackson-Davis (75), Sr./Jr's. Xavier Johnson (97), Miller Kopp (90), Parker Stewart (89) and Race Thompson (43) have combined for 389 career Division I starts. Off the bench, Sr./Jr's. Michael Durr (85) and Rob Phinisee (69) have started 154 games.
Thompson is eighth in the Big Ten averaging 7.6 rebounds. He has averaged 12.2 points over the last 10 games.
In road games, Kopp is averaging 12.0 points and made 50% of his 3FG shots, hitting 8-of-16.
Of players who have made 30 or more 3-pointers in the Big Ten, Stewart has the second highest shooting percentage, hitting on 45.8% of his triples.
Phinisee hit four 3-pointers against Minnesota.
In the last meeting with the Huskers, IU's bench led by Durr, Phinisee, So./Fr.'s Anthony Leal and Jordan Geronimo and freshman Tamar Bates brought the Hoosiers back from an early 10-point deficit by outscoring Nebraska's bench, 26-17.
Bates scored 11 in the first half and hit three triples. Geronimo averages 14.2 rebounds per 40 minutes, which is the fifth best effort in the Big Ten.
Indiana University is in its 122nd season of competition in men's basketball and will visit Nebraska on Monday to play in the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Game. The Hoosiers are coming off an 83-74 loss at Iowa on Thursday, while Nebraska was beaten at Purdue, 92-65. The Hoosiers have won the last two meetings in Pinnacle Bank Arena and five straight overall in the series.
GAME INFORMATION
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Game
Indiana (12-4, 3-3 B1G) at Nebraska (6-12, 0-7 B1G)
Monday, January 17 • 6 p.m. ET
Pinnacle Bank Arena (15,500) • Lincoln, Neb.
TV: BTN (Jeff Levering and Raphael Davis)
Radio: IU Radio Network (Don Fischer, Errek Suhr, Joe Smith) | TuneIn App
Series History: Indiana leads 17-7
Last Meeting: IU 68, NEB 55 (Dec. 4, 2021 in Bloomington)
ON THE SIDELINES
IU Hall of Famer, All-American, Big Ten MVP and Indiana native Mike Woodson is the first Hoosier graduate to lead the program at the start of the season since Lou Watson in 1965. Woodson brings nine years of NBA head coaching experience (Atlanta Hawks and New York Knicks) back to his alma mater and worked for seven franchises as an assistant coach and won an NBA title in 2004 with the Detroit Pistons. He played 11 seasons in the NBA as a player and is the fifth all-time leading scorer in program history with 2,061 points.
Nebraska Coach Fred Hoiberg is in his third year with the Huskers.
DEFENSE LEADS THE HOOSIERS
IU is first in the Big Ten and second in country in field goal percentage defense (35.9%). The Hoosiers also lead the league in scoring defense (62.2). In conference play, IU leads in scoring defense (62.3) and field goal percentage defense (38.1%) and is second in 3-point field goal defense (29.26%).
ALL-AMERICAN TRAYCE JACKSON-DAVIS
Junior/sophomore forward Trayce Jackson-Davis is living up to his preseason accolades averaging 19.3 points (5th in B1G), 8.9 rebounds (3rd), shooting 60.6% from the floor (3rd) and contributing 3.1 blocked shots per game (1st).
He set a Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall record by scoring 43 points against Marshall, breaking the previous mark (42) set by Steve Alford against Michigan State.
The leading returning scorer in the Big Ten has been named a first-team 2021-22 Preseason All-American by the Associated Press, and selected to the watch list for the Karl Malone Watch, the NABC Player of the Year, Wooden Award (Midseason Top 25) and Naismith Award.
He has had seven double-doubles this season and 29 in his career with IU posting a 22-7 record in those games. Jackson-Davis now has scored 1,258 points as a Hoosier, rating 33rd all-time in IU lore.
He has averaged 19.3 points, 11.7 rebounds and shot 63.9% in the last three games. He is the fifth active leading scorer in the country and is first in free throw attempts (499) and second in free throws made (334) since 2019-20. He has shot more free throws than any other player in the Big Ten this season (102). His 281 attempts in conference games are the most by any player since 2019-20.
ODDS AND TRENDS
IU's starting lineup of Jackson-Davis (75), Sr./Jr's. Xavier Johnson (97), Miller Kopp (90), Parker Stewart (89) and Race Thompson (43) have combined for 389 career Division I starts. Off the bench, Sr./Jr's. Michael Durr (85) and Rob Phinisee (69) have started 154 games.
Thompson is eighth in the Big Ten averaging 7.6 rebounds. He has averaged 12.2 points over the last 10 games.
In road games, Kopp is averaging 12.0 points and made 50% of his 3FG shots, hitting 8-of-16.
Of players who have made 30 or more 3-pointers in the Big Ten, Stewart has the second highest shooting percentage, hitting on 45.8% of his triples.
Phinisee hit four 3-pointers against Minnesota.
In the last meeting with the Huskers, IU's bench led by Durr, Phinisee, So./Fr.'s Anthony Leal and Jordan Geronimo and freshman Tamar Bates brought the Hoosiers back from an early 10-point deficit by outscoring Nebraska's bench, 26-17.
Bates scored 11 in the first half and hit three triples. Geronimo averages 14.2 rebounds per 40 minutes, which is the fifth best effort in the Big Ten.
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