WHO: #15 Indiana Hoosiers (20-9, 11-7 Big Ten)
WHEN: 6:01 PM CT (Tuesday, February 28)
WHERE: Assembly Hall (Bloomington, IN)
TV: ESPN2 (Brian Custer, Robbie Hummel, Myron Medcalf)
RADIO: Hawkeye Radio Network (Gary Dolphin and Bobby Hansen) | XM 383 or SXM 973
MOBILE: www.espn.com/app
ONLINE: www.espn.com/watch
FOLLOW: @IowaAwesome |
@IowaHoops | @IowaonBTN
LINE: Indiana -5.5
KENPOM: Indiana -6 (71% chance of winning)
PROJECTED STARTING FIVE
Iowa
G
Tony Perkins (12.2 ppg, 3.8 rpg, 2.6 apg, 1.4 spg, 0.3 bpg, 43.5% FG, 33.3 3FG%)
G
Ahron Ulis (6.7 ppg, 1.6 rpg, 2.4 apg, 0.6 spg, 0.1 bpg, 40.7 FG%, 32.3 3FG%)
F
Connor McCaffery (6.9 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 3.6 apg, 1.4 spg, 0.0 bpg, 39.2 FG%, 34.3 3FG%)
F
Kris Murray (20.2 ppg, 8.0 rpg, 1.8 apg, 1.0 spg, 1.2 bpg, 49.1 FG%, 33.8 3FG%)
F
Filip Rebraca (13.9 ppg, 7.6 rpg, 2.1 apg, 0.6 spg, 1.1 bpg, 57.7 FG%, 33.3 3FG%)
Indiana
G
Jalen Hood-Schifino (13.6 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 3.9 apg, 0.9 spg, 0.1 bpg, 42.6 FG%, 36.4 3FG%)
G
Trey Galloway (7.3 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 2.0 apg, 0.5 spg, 0.1 bpg, 50.7 FG%, 51.9 3FG%)
F
Miller Kopp (8.1 ppg, 2.4 rpg, 1.1 apg, 0.7 spg, 0.1 bpg, 50.0 FG%, 46.6 3FG%)
F
Race Thompson (7.8 ppg, 5.0 rpg, 1.1 apg, 0.8 spg, 1.0 bpg, 46.6 FG%, 22.2 3FG%)
F
Trayce Jackson-Davis (20.1 ppg, 11.0 rpg, 3.8 apg, 0.6 spg, 2.8 bpg, 57.4 FG%, 0 3FG%)
PREVIEW
What a difference 90 seconds can make.
Iowa was teetering on the brink of a costly home loss to
Michigan State on Saturday and lurching into Bloomington tonight on a three-game losing streak and looking absolutely adrift heading into the final week of the season. Instead, the Hawkeyes pulled off
one of the greatest -- and most improbable -- comebacks in NCAA history to tie the game in regulation, then completed the comeback for the victory in overtime. The victory arrested Iowa's late-season skid and solidified its resume for the NCAA Tournament.
That win also took a bit of pressure off this game -- instead of the Hawkeyes badly needing some positive momentum and an impressive win to shore up their NCAA Tournament standing, a win in Bloomington slides back onto the "nice to have, but not essential" side of the ledger. Which is good, because the Hoosiers are looking as formidable as they have all season after completing a season sweep of Big Ten leader
Purdue on Saturday.
Indiana won eight out of nine in a stretch between January 14 and February 11, and while the Hoosiers have gone just 2-2 since, one of the losses was a narrow road loss at
Northwestern and the two wins were at home over
Illinois and away at Purdue. The Hoosiers have some of the most impressive wins of any team in the Big Ten this season.
The Hoosiers have also been all-but-unbeatable at home this season -- they've gone 14-1 at Assembly Hall, and the lone defeat came by one point to Northwestern in early January. They've ripped off six wins in a row at home since then, several by double digits. That home form, coupled with Iowa's weak track record on the road over the last six months, is not a particularly promising formula for a Hawkeye upset.
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