Key Highlights
- (6-5, 190, Fr.)G Isaac McKneely (6-4, 195, Sr.)G Ryan Conwell (6-4, 215, Sr.)F J’Vonne Hadley (6-7, 210, Sr.)C Sananda Fru (6-11, 245, Jr.)IndianaG Conor Enright (6-1, 180, Sr.)G Tayton Conerway (6-3, 190, Sr.)G Lamar Wilkerson (6-6, 205, Sr.)F Tucker DeVries (6-7, 235, Sr.)F Reed Bailey (6-10, 230, Sr.)Statistics:Relevant Videos: Indiana’s Season to Date:About Indiana:First-year head coach Darian DeVries — who Louisville faced last season at West Virginia in the semifinals of the Battle 4 Atlantis — is the latest in an increasingly long line of names tasked with returning Indiana to status among the college basketball elite.
- It’s off to a solid start. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe Hoosiers began the year 7-0 with a pair of impressive blowout victories against Marquette and Kansas State.
- Like Louisville, they hit their first snag on Wednesday night in the form of a 73-64 road loss to a not-so-great Minnesota squad. DeVries, who spent six highly successful seasons at Drake before nearly taking WVU to the tournament in his first and only season in Morgantown, was known as more of an offensive-minded coach during his time with the Bulldogs.
- Despite that, his Mountaineer team last season and his Hoosier squad so far this year have stronger numbers on the defensive end. His offensive style is similar to Louisville’s, just far more deliberate.
- Indiana doesn’t play at a breakneck pace — only one of DeVries’ teams (2018-19 Drake) has ever ranked in the nation’s top 100 in tempo — but his teams take care of the ball and focus on getting high quality shots either at the rim or from behind the three-point line. Almost half of Indiana’s shots (46.8 percent) come from behind the three-point line, where the Hoosiers are shooting 36.8 percent as a team, 68th-best in the country.
