Indiana University Athletics
Indiana Basketball Game Notes – Game 15 vs. Northwestern
1/6/2023 4:00:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Opening Tip
• Indiana University continues its 123rd season of competition in men's basketball for a home tilt against Northwestern at noon ET on Jan. 8 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. The game will be broadcast on FS1.
• The Wildcats, led by 10th-year head coach Chris Collins, enter the game with an 11-3 record and a 2-1 mark in B1G play. Northwestern has earned victories in six of the team's last seven games.
Game Information
Jan. 8, 2023 • Noon ET
Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall (17,222) • Bloomington, Ind.
TV: FS1 (Matt Schumacher, Stephen Bardo)
Radio: IU Radio Network (Don Fischer, Errek Suhr, John Herrick)
Series History: Indiana leads, 120-53
Last Meeting: NW 59, IU 51 on Feb. 8, 2022 in Evanston
Series History
• Indiana leads the all-time series against Northwestern, 120-53, but are just 6-4 against the Wildcats in the last 10 meetings. IU's longest win streak in the series came in the form of 26-straight triumphs from Feb. 11, 1988 to Jan. 15, 2003.
• The Hoosiers fell to the Wildcats in the lone meeting between the two programs a season ago. Senior forward Trayce Jackson-Davis (13 points, 11 rebounds), sixth-year senior Race Thompson (14 points, 6 rebounds), and junior Trey Galloway (13 points, 5 rebounds) led the way for the short-handed Indiana squad in the loss.
Last Time Out
• Indiana returned to Big Ten Conference play with a hard-fought 91-89 loss at Iowa on Jan. 5 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
• Senior forward Trayce Jackson-Davis churned out his second 30-point game of the season (at Xavier, Nov. 18) on 11-of-20 shooting from the floor. He added nine rebounds, three assists, and three blocks.
• Freshman guard Jalen Hood-Schifino extended his streak of 15-point games to three with a season-best 21 points and nine assists. He knocked down a career-high five 3-pointers in the loss.
• Indiana held a 21-point lead in the first half of the contest.
Scoop, There it is
• Sophomore guard Tamar Bates, nicknamed "Scoop", has taken a second-year leap for the Hoosiers. He has upped his minutes per game from 14.3 to 22.9, points per game from 3.9 to 9.1, and 3-point percentage from 29.8% to 42.3% from his debut collegiate season.
• Bates recorded career bests in points (22), made field goals (8), and assists (4) in the win over Jackson State on Nov. 25.
• The IMG Academy product scored 32 points off the bench on 6-of-11 (54.5%) shooting from the 3-point line against Nebraska (Dec. 7) and Arizona (Dec. 10).
• Bates started his first career game at Iowa on Jan. 5 and tallied eight points and four assists.
• Bates became a father to his daughter, Leilani, on March 20, 2022, two days after his freshman season concluded.
Fino on the Rise
• After hitting double figures in the scoring column just twice in his first six collegiate games, freshman guard Jalen Hood-Schifino has scored 10-plus points in five-straight games.
• The Pittsburgh, Pa., native has set a new scoring career-high in each of the last three contests after scoring 17 against Elon (Dec. 20), 18 points versus Kennesaw State (Dec. 23), and 21 points at Iowa (Jan. 5).
• Hood-Schifino has reached at least four assists in seven of his 11 starts to open his career.
• JHS ranks fourth among all freshmen in the Big Ten in scoring (1.6 points per game), first in assists (4.7), fifth in rebounds (4.4), and seventh in made 3-pointers per game (1.5).
Sharing the Rock
• Indiana ranks as the top Big Ten Conference team in assists, averaging 17.6 helpers per game. IU has been over 15 assists as a team in 10 games this season. Five times the Hoosiers have topped 20 assists.
• Fifth-year senior guard Xavier Johnson (fourth) and freshman guard Jalen Hood-Schifino (fifth) both rank inside the top-10 in the B1G in assists per game.
Other Notables
• Senior Trayce Jackson-Davis blocked a career-high nine shots at Kansas on Dec. 17. The game marked his sixth with at least five blocks.
• His nine blocks were the second most by a Hoosier in a single game in program history, trailing only Steve Downing (10) against Michigan on Feb. 23, 1971.
• Jackson-Davis is one of 16 Big Ten players to have at least nine blocks in a game in the last 25 seasons. Nate Reuvers (Nov. 8, 2019) of Wisconsin was the last B1G player to have at least nine blocks in a game.
• Sixth-year senior forward Race Thompson had 18 points on 9-of-13 shooting with 11 rebounds and tied a career-high four blocks against Elon on Dec. 20.
• Freshman guard Jalen Hood-Schifino had 17 points along with seven assists, two rebounds, and two steals against Elon.
• Freshman guard CJ Gunn scored a career-high 11 points, on 5-of-10 shooting as well as three rebounds, three assists, and two steals versus Elon.
• Sophomore center Logan Duncomb tallied 10 points, five rebounds, and two assists. His 10 points were a career-high against the Phoenix.
• Sophomore guard Tamar Bates led Indiana in scoring against Kennesaw State on Dec. 23 with 19 points.
• Freshman guard Jalen Hood-Schifino had a career-high 18 points on 6-of-8 shooting against the Owls on Dec. 23.
• Hood-Schifino has scored in double figures in his last four games and has reached that mark in six of his last seven.
• Sixth-year senior forward Race Thompson ripped down 14 rebounds to tie his career-high (Feb. 12, 2022 at Michigan State) in the win over KSU on Dec. 23.
• Senior forward Trayce Jackson-Davis secured his eighth-career 30-point game in Indiana's 91-89 loss at Iowa on Jan. 5. He added a team-best nine rebounds and three blocked shots.
• Freshman guard Jalen Hood-Schifino became the third Hoosier to score at least 20 points in their Big Ten debut in the last 25 years with a career-high 21 points at Iowa on Jan. 5. He canned 5-of-8 shots from behind the 3-point line.
• Hood-Schifino joined NBA Lottery Draft picks Eric Gordon (25 points at Iowa in 2008) and Romeo Langford (20 points against Northwestern in 2018) on the exclusive list.
• Senior forward Trayce Jackson-Davis has swatted at least two shots in 29 of his last 46 games played.
• The Hoosiers have been ranked in each of the first 10 (including preseason) Associated Press Top-25 Polls, the longest streak to open a season for IU since the 2016-17 season.
• Indiana University continues its 123rd season of competition in men's basketball for a home tilt against Northwestern at noon ET on Jan. 8 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. The game will be broadcast on FS1.
• The Wildcats, led by 10th-year head coach Chris Collins, enter the game with an 11-3 record and a 2-1 mark in B1G play. Northwestern has earned victories in six of the team's last seven games.
Game Information
Jan. 8, 2023 • Noon ET
Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall (17,222) • Bloomington, Ind.
TV: FS1 (Matt Schumacher, Stephen Bardo)
Radio: IU Radio Network (Don Fischer, Errek Suhr, John Herrick)
Series History: Indiana leads, 120-53
Last Meeting: NW 59, IU 51 on Feb. 8, 2022 in Evanston
Series History
• Indiana leads the all-time series against Northwestern, 120-53, but are just 6-4 against the Wildcats in the last 10 meetings. IU's longest win streak in the series came in the form of 26-straight triumphs from Feb. 11, 1988 to Jan. 15, 2003.
• The Hoosiers fell to the Wildcats in the lone meeting between the two programs a season ago. Senior forward Trayce Jackson-Davis (13 points, 11 rebounds), sixth-year senior Race Thompson (14 points, 6 rebounds), and junior Trey Galloway (13 points, 5 rebounds) led the way for the short-handed Indiana squad in the loss.
Last Time Out
• Indiana returned to Big Ten Conference play with a hard-fought 91-89 loss at Iowa on Jan. 5 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
• Senior forward Trayce Jackson-Davis churned out his second 30-point game of the season (at Xavier, Nov. 18) on 11-of-20 shooting from the floor. He added nine rebounds, three assists, and three blocks.
• Freshman guard Jalen Hood-Schifino extended his streak of 15-point games to three with a season-best 21 points and nine assists. He knocked down a career-high five 3-pointers in the loss.
• Indiana held a 21-point lead in the first half of the contest.
Scoop, There it is
• Sophomore guard Tamar Bates, nicknamed "Scoop", has taken a second-year leap for the Hoosiers. He has upped his minutes per game from 14.3 to 22.9, points per game from 3.9 to 9.1, and 3-point percentage from 29.8% to 42.3% from his debut collegiate season.
• Bates recorded career bests in points (22), made field goals (8), and assists (4) in the win over Jackson State on Nov. 25.
• The IMG Academy product scored 32 points off the bench on 6-of-11 (54.5%) shooting from the 3-point line against Nebraska (Dec. 7) and Arizona (Dec. 10).
• Bates started his first career game at Iowa on Jan. 5 and tallied eight points and four assists.
• Bates became a father to his daughter, Leilani, on March 20, 2022, two days after his freshman season concluded.
Fino on the Rise
• After hitting double figures in the scoring column just twice in his first six collegiate games, freshman guard Jalen Hood-Schifino has scored 10-plus points in five-straight games.
• The Pittsburgh, Pa., native has set a new scoring career-high in each of the last three contests after scoring 17 against Elon (Dec. 20), 18 points versus Kennesaw State (Dec. 23), and 21 points at Iowa (Jan. 5).
• Hood-Schifino has reached at least four assists in seven of his 11 starts to open his career.
• JHS ranks fourth among all freshmen in the Big Ten in scoring (1.6 points per game), first in assists (4.7), fifth in rebounds (4.4), and seventh in made 3-pointers per game (1.5).
Sharing the Rock
• Indiana ranks as the top Big Ten Conference team in assists, averaging 17.6 helpers per game. IU has been over 15 assists as a team in 10 games this season. Five times the Hoosiers have topped 20 assists.
• Fifth-year senior guard Xavier Johnson (fourth) and freshman guard Jalen Hood-Schifino (fifth) both rank inside the top-10 in the B1G in assists per game.
Other Notables
• Senior Trayce Jackson-Davis blocked a career-high nine shots at Kansas on Dec. 17. The game marked his sixth with at least five blocks.
• His nine blocks were the second most by a Hoosier in a single game in program history, trailing only Steve Downing (10) against Michigan on Feb. 23, 1971.
• Jackson-Davis is one of 16 Big Ten players to have at least nine blocks in a game in the last 25 seasons. Nate Reuvers (Nov. 8, 2019) of Wisconsin was the last B1G player to have at least nine blocks in a game.
• Sixth-year senior forward Race Thompson had 18 points on 9-of-13 shooting with 11 rebounds and tied a career-high four blocks against Elon on Dec. 20.
• Freshman guard Jalen Hood-Schifino had 17 points along with seven assists, two rebounds, and two steals against Elon.
• Freshman guard CJ Gunn scored a career-high 11 points, on 5-of-10 shooting as well as three rebounds, three assists, and two steals versus Elon.
• Sophomore center Logan Duncomb tallied 10 points, five rebounds, and two assists. His 10 points were a career-high against the Phoenix.
• Sophomore guard Tamar Bates led Indiana in scoring against Kennesaw State on Dec. 23 with 19 points.
• Freshman guard Jalen Hood-Schifino had a career-high 18 points on 6-of-8 shooting against the Owls on Dec. 23.
• Hood-Schifino has scored in double figures in his last four games and has reached that mark in six of his last seven.
• Sixth-year senior forward Race Thompson ripped down 14 rebounds to tie his career-high (Feb. 12, 2022 at Michigan State) in the win over KSU on Dec. 23.
• Senior forward Trayce Jackson-Davis secured his eighth-career 30-point game in Indiana's 91-89 loss at Iowa on Jan. 5. He added a team-best nine rebounds and three blocked shots.
• Freshman guard Jalen Hood-Schifino became the third Hoosier to score at least 20 points in their Big Ten debut in the last 25 years with a career-high 21 points at Iowa on Jan. 5. He canned 5-of-8 shots from behind the 3-point line.
• Hood-Schifino joined NBA Lottery Draft picks Eric Gordon (25 points at Iowa in 2008) and Romeo Langford (20 points against Northwestern in 2018) on the exclusive list.
• Senior forward Trayce Jackson-Davis has swatted at least two shots in 29 of his last 46 games played.
• The Hoosiers have been ranked in each of the first 10 (including preseason) Associated Press Top-25 Polls, the longest streak to open a season for IU since the 2016-17 season.
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