After defeating Wyoming in the First Four, Indiana plays another slow, deliberate mid-major power from the West in St. Mary's on Thursday.
The Gaels will be fresh, so the Hoosiers will need to hope momentum is enough to counteract their own fatigue. The Hoosiers will certainly try to push the pace again and try to create havoc, but they need to be careful about how exactly they do that so they don't play into Saint Mary's hands. They get 37.4% of their shots there, and make 63.9% of their shots around the rim. Saint Mary's is 338th in tempo and 327th in possession length. That being said, the Hoosiers sometimes seemed bothered by Wyoming's deliberate nature, with point guard Xavier Johnson in particular running into trouble when he tried to push the pace too fast. Thursday's game against Saint Mary's will be the Hoosiers' fifth game in seven days. They managed to cause 19 turnovers, getting sturdy Wyoming point guard Hunter Maldonado to give the ball away a surprising 10 times. Meanwhile, Saint Mary's hasn't played a game in 10 days since its WCC title game loss to Gonzaga on March 7 and it only had to travel up the coast to play this one. Mike Woodson continues to point out these Indiana players are in their late teens and early 20s, so they have energy he wishes he still had. The Gaels' 6-10, 245-pound center Matthias Tass makes it difficult to grab rebounds over him, and forwards Kyle Bowen and Alex Ducas have size as well. But they don't give up a lot of easy ones and they don't give up second-chance opportunities. IU made just 2-of-13 3s against Wyoming and is 10-of-42 from 3-point range in its past three games.
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Tass is shooting 64.9 percent at the rim, per Hoop-Math. He’s a good, but not great, post-up scoring option with .937 points per possession on post-ups, per Synergy. That ranks in the 72nd percentile nationally. Saint Mary’s has not played since losing to Gonzaga on March 8 and Thursday’s game will be Indiana’s fifth in eight days. Their opponents are rebounding just 21.9 percent of their missed shots, the fourth-lowest percentage in the country. The Gaels have the seventh-best 2-point field goal percentage defense in the country at 58.6 percent allowed. Mullins is a 3-point threat and is 21-of-57 from distance on the season. Johnson has the 74th best steal percentage in the country, per KenPom. His 11.5 points per game are third on Saint Mary’s, but he’s shooting just 43.2 percent from the field and 29.3 percent on 3s. Bowen is a good athlete who averages just 5.9 points in 29.5 minutes per game. He’s also shooting 61.1 percent at the rim, according to Hoop-Math. Kuhse ranks in the 84th percentile nationally in ball screens, per Synergy Sports, and is by far the most effective Saint Mary’s player with the ball in his hands. The backcourt leaders are seniors Tommy Kuhse and Logan Johnson. The 6-foot-2 Kuhse, who is in his sixth season of college basketball, is a 46.9 percent 3-point shooter and the leading facilitator for the Gaels. Kuhse’s 3.6 assists per game lead the team. All six of Saint Mary’s top contributors are upperclassmen and four of them are seniors. Both are capable 3-point shooters with Ducas shooting 38.6 percent from distance and Bowen at 39.2 percent. Saint Mary’s, led by coach Randy Bennett, beat Gonzaga in Moraga this season and is a veteran team hungry for tournament success.
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* HERE'S WHAT JACKSON-DAVIS AND GERONIMO SAID AFTER FIRST FOUR WIN: Indiana will advance to the first round of the tournament after knocking out Wyoming 66-58 in the First Four in Dayton, Ohio on Tuesday night. * WHAT WOODSON SAID AFTER FIRST FOUR VICTORY: The Hoosiers advanced to the first round of the NCAA tournament after defeating Wyoming 66-58 in the First Four on Tuesday night. Scroll through 30 photos from the evening, and try to pick a favorite!
Senior guard Grace Berger joins only one other Indiana player in the Associated Press All-American club announced on Wednesday. The Louisville native is ...
Indiana earned its highest seed in program history at No. 3 and will host the first and second rounds of the NCAA tournament. * INDIANA EARNS NO. 3 SEED AND WILL HOST FIRST AND SECOND NCAA TOURNAMENT ROUNDS: The Hoosiers are going dancing! * HOOSIERS HOLD ONTO NO. 11 IN AP POLL: Indiana will stay put at No. 11 in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll for the second week in a row. The Hoosiers are one of five Big Ten teams that made the list. Berger was Indiana's leading scorer with 20 points and also tied for highest rebounds with seven. BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana senior guard Grace Berger has earned an Associated Press All-American honorable mention for her stellar work this season.
After the game, Woodson, Jackson-Davis and Geronimo all spoke to the media in Dayton about the win and what comes next. Here is what those Hoosiers said to the ...
It was a total team effort and we'll need it moving forward." And I thought tonight they answered the bell loud and clear." And you get to see it on display, and I think that's really cool." "I hope we have a heck of a crowd out there. I thought early on we couldn't find offense and they couldn't find it. Even though shots didn't fall tonight, just being able to get our feet wet with the tournament, kind of what's going on with the balls and everything, I thought it was good for us." I mean, if we left the 3-point shooters and doubled him, then that exposes us in that category. You reap what you sow, and he's reaping the benefits." So I just used what I had." And then just being on this national stage, I thought it was really cool." And I just trusted my feeling, trusted how I felt. While some might consider the First Four to be a bit of a reach for the tournament, the Hoosiers are having success in March and could be rolling once the round of 64 kicks off.
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Hopefully, we can keep that as a consistent thing, go to the tournament every year and have a chance to win the whole thing.” For the guys to get back and have a chance to experience that is unbelievable. You have to win six games to win the national championship, so you got to play your best basketball for those two days during that week in order to advance to the next week.
With an NCAA Tournament win, the current batch of Hoosiers is erasing Indiana basketball's need to keep living in the past.
Somehow the Cowboys were just a solitary made 3-pointer from making this a game in the final minute. They’re 186th in the country for a reason. The Hoosiers were just 2 of 13 from 3-point range. It’s from that very place that Indiana hired Woodson’s predecessor, who for the most part left Woodson with a lot of catching up to do in Year 1. The Cowboys were 38th in fewest steals allowed, and 62nd in overall turnovers. It was the 3rd-best NCAA Tournament scoring debut for an Indiana player in program history. There have been times, albeit brief, when the Hoosiers have jumped to the present. Indiana harassed Wyoming into a season-high 19 turnovers. “It’s going to be my job to bridge the gap between young people who don’t know who coach Woodson is,” he said at his introductory press conference. Mike Davis’ unexpected run to the national championship game in 2002. These are legitimately good players who looked like they were grabbing a buttered basketball. Those 5 Assembly Hall banners, always looming and gaining dust.
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She was also named to watch lists for the 2022 Wooden Award and 2022 Wade Trophy, given annually to the nation's top players. This season, however, Indiana had to navigate Big Ten play without Holmes for nearly a full month as she underwent knee surgery midway through the season. Berger has also scored in double figures 27 times this season.
PORTLAND — Indiana basketball coach Mike Woodson and IU players as well as St. Mary's coach Randy Bennett and St. Mary's players Matthias Tass, ...
Click here for all the notes and quotes. Bennett had some interesting things to say about who he compares Indiana star center Trayce Jackson-Davis to. Indiana (21-13) plays at 7:20 p.m. Eastern on Thursday in Portland at the Moda Center against No. 5 seed St. Mary’s (25-7) of the West Coast Conference.
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Though Indiana limped into the dance with a 9-11 conference record, the Hoosiers are an NCCA Tournament institution with 40 appearances and five national championships in the trophy case (even if the last one came in 1987); Saint Mary’s is making its 11th trip to the dance. Offensively, expect to see a healthy dose of Indiana big man Trayce Jackson-Davis, who has been on an absolute tear in the postseason—between Big Ten Tournament play and the First Four victory, Jackson-Davis is averaging 26.25 PPG and 8.5 RPG. According to KenPom, Indiana finished with a 92.2 adjusted defensive efficiency rating; Saint Mary’s with a 90.1 rating—the Gaels play slow (but with great fundamentals!), finishing 338th in adjusted tempo.
Unfortunately for Maldonado, Jordan Geronimo was on the floor. As Maldonado rose up, Geronimo slid down from near the elbow and exploded into the air. Then ...
Then Geronimo did it again with 12 seconds remaining in the half. So Geronimo decided to stay at IU. “I just felt like he’d be the best guy to get me where I want to go,” Geronimo said of Woodson. “Just from a young age, when I played basketball, she always just tell me to always play hard and, you know, just leave everything on the court and good things will happen. Geronimo was open in the corner and drained the three. And so I just took that with me throughout the basketball career and, yeah, it’s been good to me.” Unlike the other three members of the 2020 recruiting class, Geronimo isn’t from the state of Indiana. Asked how he’d get time on the court, he said “Just be an athlete. It has been a journey for Geronimo to get to this moment. It was arguably the most important performance in his career at IU. Because some of the things he does is just out of this world.” He was crucial in Indiana’s 66-58 win over Wyoming. In a game that seemed to slog by, and in which Indiana’s offense struggled, the Hoosiers needed a spark. With both hands, he snatched the ball right from Maldonado, securing it and bringing it down.
Indiana showed up at the First Four intent on making some noise in the NCAA Tournament, and they did just that, beating Wyoming 66-58 thanks to great ...
They are fresh and ready to go to take on Wyoming in the First Four on Tuesday night in Dayton, Ohio. CLICK HEREGERONIMO READY: Indiana coach Mike Woodson said "I think he's going to play'' when asked about sophomore forward Jordan Geronimo on Monday. He injured his knee last Friday in the Big Ten Tournament, but Woodson thinks he'll be ready to roll for Tuesday night's NCAA Tournament game against Wyoming. CLICK HEREUNDERSTANDING FIRST FOUR: For the first time in school history, Indiana is playing in the ''First Four'' in the NCAA Tournament. It was created in 2011 to allow four more teams the opportunity to play in the tournament. CLICK HEREGOING DANCING: Indiana has made its first NCAA Tournament since 2016, and it starts right away with a play-in game on Tuesday in Dayton, Ohio. They are the No. 12 seed and will play Wyoming from the Mountain West Conference, and if they win they have to travel to Portland, Ore. for its first-round game against St. Mary's. CLICK HERENCAA TOURNAMENT BRACKET: Here is the full 2022 NCAA Tournament bracket for the 68-team field. GAME STORY: Trayce Jackson-Davis scored 29 points and Jordan Geronimo came off the bench to score 15 points as Indiana won its first NCAA tournament game in six years on Tuesday, beating Wyoming 66–58 in the First Four in Dayton, Ohio. CLICK HERELIVE BLOG: It's been 2,191 long days since Indiana has played in an NCAA Tournament game, buit that ends Tuesday night in Dayton, Ohio when the Hoosiers take on Wyoming in the First Four. Here's our live blog, with all the news and views in real time live from center court at UD Arena. CLICK HEREFATIGUE NOT AN ISSUE: Indiana is playing at a high level and peaking at the right time for the their first NCAA Tournament game in six years, so that fact that they've played four games in six days is completely irrelevant. Indiana plays Wyoming in a No. 12 seed game, and the winner will then travel to Portland, Ore., to play No. 5 seed Saint Mary's. CLICK HEREHOOSIERS FAVORED: Indiana is a 4-point favorite according to the opening line on FanDuel.com on Monday. Here's the latest on the point spread, and a complete breakdown on what Indiana and Wyoming have done vs. This was a night that belonged to Indiana. This play-in game for the No. 12 seed in the East Regional was all about the Hoosiers, with their loud-and-proud fans helping to push them across the finish line in a game that resembled all that's been good and bad about Indiana basketball this season.And when it was all said and done, Indiana had win No. 21 on the season and punched a ticket to Portland, Ore., to play No. 5 seed Saint Mary's on Thursday night in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.The madness has begun. So credit to him.''Geronimo injured his ankle in the Illinois win on Friday and missed Saturday's semifinal game against Iowa. His status for Tuesday night was up in the air, even after they arrived in Dayton.Indiana sophomore Jordan Geronimo shook off an ankle injury and scored 15 huge points on Tuesday night in the Hoosiers' win over Wyoming. (USA TODAY Sports)He was good to go — and very good." But their teammates were a collective 9-for-35, just 25.7 percent, and Indiana made only two three-pointers all night.Johnson was just 3-for-12 from the field, and Stewart (2-for-6) and Miller Kopp (0-for-2) were once again non-factors on the offensive end, though Stewart did hit a big jumper late to stretch the lead.Even Thompson, who's been steady all year, was just 2-for-9 from the field and was in foul trouble a lot of the night, That's why Geronimo's performance was so important.It was much-needed on Tuesday night, and the Hoosiers will need him going forward if they want this season to continue." And then just being on this national stage, I thought it was really cool.''A higher seed certainly would have been nice, but most every team says that after Selection Sunday. But what was great about this Indiana team was that they embraced the challenge of a quick turnaround after building a boatload of confidence at last week's Big Ten Tournament, where they made an impressive run to the semifinals with quality play, earning their way into the NCAAs.They liked the idea of getting right back out on the floor on the first night of the tournament. And Trayce was who he's been pretty much all year.Grace Berger is Named an AP All-American Honorable Mention for Indiana Women's BasketballPhoto Gallery: Indiana Beats Wyoming in the First FourMike Woodson Said, 'Our Defense Was Really the Key When We Were Struggling to Make Shots'"It's a big stage for everybody that's wearing that (uniform). It's a big stage for me. Sure, the defensive effort was great — even from Parker Stewart, who pushed and shoved with Maldonado most of the night — but the Hoosiers have to be better offensively going forward.Jackson-Davis (10-for-16) and Geronimo (7-for-11) were a combined 17-for-27 shooting, an impressive 63.0 percent. We tried to stay at home with the shooters, and I figured if they were going to beat us he would have to be the one,'' Woodson said of Maldonado. "We did an excellent job the first half on (6-foot-9 forward Graham) Ike. On his backdowns, I just tried to tell our guys not to get so over long. And even though the obligatory ''this is not about me'' disclaimer was thrown in after Indiana's 66-58 win over Wyoming on Tuesday night, it was clear when it was over that this was a big night for the Hoosiers' basketball program.It's been six long years since a fragile and fractured Indiana fan base could enjoy an NCAA Tournament victory, but it came here in Dayton at the sold-out UD Arena that was packed to the gills by Indiana fans who stormed across the state line like they were giving away free pork tenderloins and popcorn.
The Hoosiers wound up taking off a little after 4 a.m. and didn't land in Portland until around 9 a.m. EST,
"But then the balance was off when luggage when they moved planes." They had to wait on a new plane in Dayton, hence the late takeoff. The Hoosiers left Dayton so late Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning because they had to switch planes.
Indiana earned its first NCAA Tournament victory since 2016 on Tuesday night as it defeated No. 12 Wyoming in the First Four.
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Indiana's basketball team didn't arrive in Portland, Oregon, until around 9 a.m. ET, less than 36 hours before first-round game.
"But then the balance was off when luggage when they moved planes." They had to wait for a new plane in Dayton, delaying their takeoff. The Hoosiers left Dayton so late Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning because they had to switch planes.