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Indiana Basketball Game Notes – Game 32 vs. Penn State
3/13/2024 11:30:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Opening Tip
• Indiana University will open play in the 2024 Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament on Thursday, March 14, against the 11-seeded Penn State Nittany Lions. Tip is tentatively set for 8 p.m. CT from the Target Center in Minneapolis. The game will carry a BTN broadcast.
• Indiana head coach Mike Woodson has led the Hoosiers to the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament in each of his first two trips to the postseason event. Woodson holds a record of 3-2 in the Big Ten Tournament.
Game Information
Thursday, March 14, 2024 • 8 p.m. CT
Target Center (17,222) • Minneapolis
TV: BTN (Kevin Kugler, Robbie Hummel, Andy Katz)
Radio: IU Radio Network (Don Fischer, Errek Suhr, John Herrick)
Series History: Indiana leads, 42-17
Last Meeting: PSU 83, IU 74 on Feb. 24, 2024, in University Park
Series History
• Indiana holds a 42-17 series lead over Penn State. The two sides met in the semifinals round of the 2023 Big Ten Championship. PSU advanced on the strength of a 77-73 result.
• The Nittany Lions, led by head coach Mike Rhoades, swept the season series with an 85-71 victory at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington on Feb. 3, and an 83-74 result at the Bryce Jordan Center in University Park on Feb. 24.
• PSU guard Ace Baldwin Jr. averaged 22.5 points, 8.5 assists, and 3.0 steals in the two games. The sophomore tandem up front of Malik Reneau and Kel'el Ware averaged 42.0 points, 15.0 rebounds, and shot 63.8% (30-of-47) from the floor.
Last Time Out
• The Hoosiers jumped out to a commanding 20-5 lead on Michigan State in the first seven minutes before holding on for a 65-64 to close the regular season on a four-game winning streak on March 10.
• Sophomore center Kel'el Ware racked up his second 25-point, 10-rebound game in as many outings with a team-high 28 points, 11 rebounds, and two blocked shots. He hit the go-ahead free throw with 17 seconds left.
• Sophomore forward Malik Reneau (16 points) and freshman forward Mackenzie Mgbako (13) combined to tally 29 points, 11 rebounds, and six assists.
Big Man Transformation
• Sophomore center Kel'el Ware, a transfer from Oregon, has upped his scoring (from 6.6 points to 16.1), rebounds (4.1 to 9.8), assists (0.5 to 1.5), and field goal percentage (45.7% to 59.9%) in his second season. He leads the Hoosiers in points, rebounds, and blocks in 32 minutes per game.
• The North Little Rock, Ark., native was voted All-Big Ten Second Team by the conference media, All-Big Ten Third Team by the coaches, and selected to the All-Big Ten Defensive Team.
• Ware has scored at least 10 points in 23 games this year after producing just eight such games as a rookie. The 7-footer has ripped down at least 10 boards 15 times this season, including four games over 15 boards.
• In 18 conference games, Ware is averaging a team-best 16.9 points on 63.2% (127-of-201) shooting from the floor and 50.0% (12-of-24) from the 3-point line. He is also averaging 10.6 rebounds and 2.0 blocks per night. He finished the season as one of two players (Zach Edey, Purdue) to average a double-double in B1G play.
• Against Northwestern, Ware posted 22 points, 16 rebounds, and four blocked shots. He is one of seven players across Division I hoops this season to produce a line with at least 20 points, 15 rebounds, and four blocks.
• Ware tallied 27 points, 11 rebounds, and a career-high five blocked shots against Wisconsin on Feb. 27 to become just the second Division I player to post a 25-point, 10-rebound, 5-block game this season. He made 11-of-12 shots in the contest.
Mack Attack
• Freshman forward Mackenzie Mgbako, the Co-Freshman of the Year in the Big Ten, has made a team-high 49 3-pointers on 34.3% shooting this season. Over the last seven games he is averaging 16.4 points on .459/.409/.704 shooting splits.
• The consensus top-10 recruit is averaging 13.6 points and 3.9 rebounds per game in Big Ten play, both figures rank third on the Hoosiers. He has reached double figures in the scoring column in 22 of the last 25 games and scored at least 20 points in three of his last seven starts.
• The Roselle Catholic graduate scored 20 points on 6-of-11 shooting from the floor against Northwestern (Feb. 18). Three days later against Nebraska (Feb. 21), Mgbako posted 22 points to go along with seven rebounds. He posted his first career double-double with 12 points and a career-high 12 rebounds at No. 10/11 Illinois (Jan. 27). Mgbako added a career-best 24 points at Maryland (March 3) on 4-of-8 shooting from the 3-point line.
• Among freshmen in the Big Ten, Mgbako closed the regular season first in total points (377), points per game (12.2), 20-point games (3), and free throws made (82), second in made 3-pointers (49), and third in total rebounds (123).
Follow the Gallo-Way
• Senior guard Trey Galloway finished the regular season as one of seven players in the Big Ten to average at least 10.0 points, 4.5 assists, and 1.0 steal per game. He joins A.J. Hoggard (Michigan State), Braden Smith (Purdue), Boo Buie (Northwestern), Ace Baldwin Jr. (Penn State), Tony Perkins (Iowa), and Dug McDaniel (Michigan) on the exclusive list.
• Galloway has dished out 105 total assists (5.3 per game) in Big Ten play to go against just 44 turnovers (2.39 assist-to-turnover ratio). He tied for second (Bobby Wilkerson, 1975-76) on the IU single-season Big Ten assists list with 105, and finished behind only Quinn Buckner (106) from the 1974-75 season.
• He handed out a career-high 12 helpers against Northwestern (Feb. 18) and Wisconsin (Feb. 27) to become the first Hoosier since Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas (1980-81) to dish out 12-plus assists in multiple games in a single season. For his career, the Hoosiers are 15-6 in the 21 games 'Gallo' has handed out at least five dimes.
• He is averaging a career-best 10.6 points per game, including a career-high 28 points against No. 2/2 Kansas (Dec. 16). He converted 12-of-17 shots in the contest. He scored a Big Ten career-high 25 points (19 in the second half) at Ohio State (Feb. 6) while leading IU to an 18-point comeback victory.
• Galloway announced his intentions to utilize his COVID season and return to the Indiana basketball program during his Senior Night speech to Hoosier Nation.
Sophomore Jump for Reneau
• Sophomore forward Malik Reneau has posted double digits in the scoring column in 25 games this season, including 17 efforts of at least 15 points and seven 20-point nights. He notched a career-high 34 points against Kennesaw State (Dec. 29) and a Big Ten career-high of 28 points at No. 11/8 Wisconsin (Jan. 19).
• Reneau is averaging 15.7 points per game to go along with 5.9 rebounds and 2.7 assists in 29 minutes per game. He is shooting 57.0% (191-of-335) from the floor and 66.9% (91-of-136) from the free throw line.
• He was named to the All-Big Ten Honorable Mention Team by both the coaches and the voting media members of the conference.
• The Miami native has posted double figure scoring outputs in 12-of-14 games played away from Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall this season.
The Leal Deal
• Senior guard Anthony Leal provided his best game as a Hoosier in Indiana's 74-68 victory over the Iowa Hawkeyes on Jan. 30 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. He set or matched career highs in points (13), rebounds (7), blocks (1), made field goals (4), made 3-pointers (3), and made free throws (2).
• Leal stole the spotlight at Ohio State on Feb. 6 when he scored the final five points of the game in IU's 76-73 victory. He drilled a baseline triple with 22 seconds left to give the Hoosiers a one-point lead before knocking down two game-sealing free throws with 2 seconds left.
• Like Galloway, Leal announced his intentions to utilize his COVID season and return to the Indiana basketball program during his Senior Night speech to Hoosier Nation.
Return of the X-Factor
• Sixth-year senior guard Xavier Johnson returned to the lineup to play 15 minutes off the bench against Wisconsin on Feb. 27. The 24-year old missed the previous six games with an elbow injury. He missed the final 24 games of the 2022-23 season with a foot injury.
• The Hoosiers hold a record of 8-2 when Johnson scores at least five points and plays 15-plus minutes this season. IU has won five-straight games with 'X' in the lineup.
Ware Dominates in Season Finale
• Sophomore center Kel'el Ware posted his second-straight 25-point, 10-rebound game in a 65-64 Senior Night victory over Michigan State on March 10. The Oregon transfer finished with team highs in points (28), rebounds (11), and blocks (2).
• The Hoosier defense held the Spartans to 25-of-65 (38.5%) shooting from the floor and 8-of-25 (32.0%) shooting from behind the arc. IU also out-rebounded MSU 39-33.
Double-Doubles Carry IU in the Twin Cities
• Sophomore center Kel'el Ware (26 points, 11 rebounds) and senior guard Trey Galloway (13 points, 11 assists) each produced double-doubles in IU's 70-58 victory over Minnesota on March 6.
• The Hoosiers handed out 28 assists on 30 made field goals. The assist total marked the most by a Hoosier team on the road since posting 29 at Western Illinois on Nov. 26, 2005. The last B1G program to chart at least 28 assists in a road conference game was Purdue at Ohio State on Feb. 7, 1998.
Double Double, Double Double (CAREER)
Payton Sparks: 22; last vs. Toledo, 3/3/23
Kel'el Ware: 14; last vs. Michigan State, 3/10/24
Xavier Johnson: 4; last vs. Arizona, 12/10/22
Anthony Walker: 4; last at Clemson, 2/27/21
Malik Reneau: 2; last at Ohio State, 2/7/24
Mackenzie Mgbako: 1; at Illinois, 1/27/24
Trey Galloway: 1; at Minnesota, 3/6/24
Twenty Piece (CAREER)
Xavier Johnson: 21; last vs. North Carolina, 11/30/22
Kel'el Ware: 10; last vs. Michigan State, 3/10/24
Payton Sparks: 9; last vs. Ohio, 3/9/23
Malik Reneau: 7; last at Penn State, 2/24/24
Trey Galloway: 3; last at Ohio State, 2/7/24
Mackenzie Mgbako: 3; last at Maryland, 3/3/24
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• Indiana University will open play in the 2024 Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament on Thursday, March 14, against the 11-seeded Penn State Nittany Lions. Tip is tentatively set for 8 p.m. CT from the Target Center in Minneapolis. The game will carry a BTN broadcast.
• Indiana head coach Mike Woodson has led the Hoosiers to the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament in each of his first two trips to the postseason event. Woodson holds a record of 3-2 in the Big Ten Tournament.
Game Information
Thursday, March 14, 2024 • 8 p.m. CT
Target Center (17,222) • Minneapolis
TV: BTN (Kevin Kugler, Robbie Hummel, Andy Katz)
Radio: IU Radio Network (Don Fischer, Errek Suhr, John Herrick)
Series History: Indiana leads, 42-17
Last Meeting: PSU 83, IU 74 on Feb. 24, 2024, in University Park
Series History
• Indiana holds a 42-17 series lead over Penn State. The two sides met in the semifinals round of the 2023 Big Ten Championship. PSU advanced on the strength of a 77-73 result.
• The Nittany Lions, led by head coach Mike Rhoades, swept the season series with an 85-71 victory at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington on Feb. 3, and an 83-74 result at the Bryce Jordan Center in University Park on Feb. 24.
• PSU guard Ace Baldwin Jr. averaged 22.5 points, 8.5 assists, and 3.0 steals in the two games. The sophomore tandem up front of Malik Reneau and Kel'el Ware averaged 42.0 points, 15.0 rebounds, and shot 63.8% (30-of-47) from the floor.
Last Time Out
• The Hoosiers jumped out to a commanding 20-5 lead on Michigan State in the first seven minutes before holding on for a 65-64 to close the regular season on a four-game winning streak on March 10.
• Sophomore center Kel'el Ware racked up his second 25-point, 10-rebound game in as many outings with a team-high 28 points, 11 rebounds, and two blocked shots. He hit the go-ahead free throw with 17 seconds left.
• Sophomore forward Malik Reneau (16 points) and freshman forward Mackenzie Mgbako (13) combined to tally 29 points, 11 rebounds, and six assists.
Big Man Transformation
• Sophomore center Kel'el Ware, a transfer from Oregon, has upped his scoring (from 6.6 points to 16.1), rebounds (4.1 to 9.8), assists (0.5 to 1.5), and field goal percentage (45.7% to 59.9%) in his second season. He leads the Hoosiers in points, rebounds, and blocks in 32 minutes per game.
• The North Little Rock, Ark., native was voted All-Big Ten Second Team by the conference media, All-Big Ten Third Team by the coaches, and selected to the All-Big Ten Defensive Team.
• Ware has scored at least 10 points in 23 games this year after producing just eight such games as a rookie. The 7-footer has ripped down at least 10 boards 15 times this season, including four games over 15 boards.
• In 18 conference games, Ware is averaging a team-best 16.9 points on 63.2% (127-of-201) shooting from the floor and 50.0% (12-of-24) from the 3-point line. He is also averaging 10.6 rebounds and 2.0 blocks per night. He finished the season as one of two players (Zach Edey, Purdue) to average a double-double in B1G play.
• Against Northwestern, Ware posted 22 points, 16 rebounds, and four blocked shots. He is one of seven players across Division I hoops this season to produce a line with at least 20 points, 15 rebounds, and four blocks.
• Ware tallied 27 points, 11 rebounds, and a career-high five blocked shots against Wisconsin on Feb. 27 to become just the second Division I player to post a 25-point, 10-rebound, 5-block game this season. He made 11-of-12 shots in the contest.
Mack Attack
• Freshman forward Mackenzie Mgbako, the Co-Freshman of the Year in the Big Ten, has made a team-high 49 3-pointers on 34.3% shooting this season. Over the last seven games he is averaging 16.4 points on .459/.409/.704 shooting splits.
• The consensus top-10 recruit is averaging 13.6 points and 3.9 rebounds per game in Big Ten play, both figures rank third on the Hoosiers. He has reached double figures in the scoring column in 22 of the last 25 games and scored at least 20 points in three of his last seven starts.
• The Roselle Catholic graduate scored 20 points on 6-of-11 shooting from the floor against Northwestern (Feb. 18). Three days later against Nebraska (Feb. 21), Mgbako posted 22 points to go along with seven rebounds. He posted his first career double-double with 12 points and a career-high 12 rebounds at No. 10/11 Illinois (Jan. 27). Mgbako added a career-best 24 points at Maryland (March 3) on 4-of-8 shooting from the 3-point line.
• Among freshmen in the Big Ten, Mgbako closed the regular season first in total points (377), points per game (12.2), 20-point games (3), and free throws made (82), second in made 3-pointers (49), and third in total rebounds (123).
Follow the Gallo-Way
• Senior guard Trey Galloway finished the regular season as one of seven players in the Big Ten to average at least 10.0 points, 4.5 assists, and 1.0 steal per game. He joins A.J. Hoggard (Michigan State), Braden Smith (Purdue), Boo Buie (Northwestern), Ace Baldwin Jr. (Penn State), Tony Perkins (Iowa), and Dug McDaniel (Michigan) on the exclusive list.
• Galloway has dished out 105 total assists (5.3 per game) in Big Ten play to go against just 44 turnovers (2.39 assist-to-turnover ratio). He tied for second (Bobby Wilkerson, 1975-76) on the IU single-season Big Ten assists list with 105, and finished behind only Quinn Buckner (106) from the 1974-75 season.
• He handed out a career-high 12 helpers against Northwestern (Feb. 18) and Wisconsin (Feb. 27) to become the first Hoosier since Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas (1980-81) to dish out 12-plus assists in multiple games in a single season. For his career, the Hoosiers are 15-6 in the 21 games 'Gallo' has handed out at least five dimes.
• He is averaging a career-best 10.6 points per game, including a career-high 28 points against No. 2/2 Kansas (Dec. 16). He converted 12-of-17 shots in the contest. He scored a Big Ten career-high 25 points (19 in the second half) at Ohio State (Feb. 6) while leading IU to an 18-point comeback victory.
• Galloway announced his intentions to utilize his COVID season and return to the Indiana basketball program during his Senior Night speech to Hoosier Nation.
Sophomore Jump for Reneau
• Sophomore forward Malik Reneau has posted double digits in the scoring column in 25 games this season, including 17 efforts of at least 15 points and seven 20-point nights. He notched a career-high 34 points against Kennesaw State (Dec. 29) and a Big Ten career-high of 28 points at No. 11/8 Wisconsin (Jan. 19).
• Reneau is averaging 15.7 points per game to go along with 5.9 rebounds and 2.7 assists in 29 minutes per game. He is shooting 57.0% (191-of-335) from the floor and 66.9% (91-of-136) from the free throw line.
• He was named to the All-Big Ten Honorable Mention Team by both the coaches and the voting media members of the conference.
• The Miami native has posted double figure scoring outputs in 12-of-14 games played away from Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall this season.
The Leal Deal
• Senior guard Anthony Leal provided his best game as a Hoosier in Indiana's 74-68 victory over the Iowa Hawkeyes on Jan. 30 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. He set or matched career highs in points (13), rebounds (7), blocks (1), made field goals (4), made 3-pointers (3), and made free throws (2).
• Leal stole the spotlight at Ohio State on Feb. 6 when he scored the final five points of the game in IU's 76-73 victory. He drilled a baseline triple with 22 seconds left to give the Hoosiers a one-point lead before knocking down two game-sealing free throws with 2 seconds left.
• Like Galloway, Leal announced his intentions to utilize his COVID season and return to the Indiana basketball program during his Senior Night speech to Hoosier Nation.
Return of the X-Factor
• Sixth-year senior guard Xavier Johnson returned to the lineup to play 15 minutes off the bench against Wisconsin on Feb. 27. The 24-year old missed the previous six games with an elbow injury. He missed the final 24 games of the 2022-23 season with a foot injury.
• The Hoosiers hold a record of 8-2 when Johnson scores at least five points and plays 15-plus minutes this season. IU has won five-straight games with 'X' in the lineup.
Ware Dominates in Season Finale
• Sophomore center Kel'el Ware posted his second-straight 25-point, 10-rebound game in a 65-64 Senior Night victory over Michigan State on March 10. The Oregon transfer finished with team highs in points (28), rebounds (11), and blocks (2).
• The Hoosier defense held the Spartans to 25-of-65 (38.5%) shooting from the floor and 8-of-25 (32.0%) shooting from behind the arc. IU also out-rebounded MSU 39-33.
Double-Doubles Carry IU in the Twin Cities
• Sophomore center Kel'el Ware (26 points, 11 rebounds) and senior guard Trey Galloway (13 points, 11 assists) each produced double-doubles in IU's 70-58 victory over Minnesota on March 6.
• The Hoosiers handed out 28 assists on 30 made field goals. The assist total marked the most by a Hoosier team on the road since posting 29 at Western Illinois on Nov. 26, 2005. The last B1G program to chart at least 28 assists in a road conference game was Purdue at Ohio State on Feb. 7, 1998.
Double Double, Double Double (CAREER)
Payton Sparks: 22; last vs. Toledo, 3/3/23
Kel'el Ware: 14; last vs. Michigan State, 3/10/24
Xavier Johnson: 4; last vs. Arizona, 12/10/22
Anthony Walker: 4; last at Clemson, 2/27/21
Malik Reneau: 2; last at Ohio State, 2/7/24
Mackenzie Mgbako: 1; at Illinois, 1/27/24
Trey Galloway: 1; at Minnesota, 3/6/24
Twenty Piece (CAREER)
Xavier Johnson: 21; last vs. North Carolina, 11/30/22
Kel'el Ware: 10; last vs. Michigan State, 3/10/24
Payton Sparks: 9; last vs. Ohio, 3/9/23
Malik Reneau: 7; last at Penn State, 2/24/24
Trey Galloway: 3; last at Ohio State, 2/7/24
Mackenzie Mgbako: 3; last at Maryland, 3/3/24
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