Indiana Gets 5th Straight Win, Beats Lindenwood 73-53 Thursday at Assembly Hall

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — It wasn’t pretty, and at times is was downright ugly, but Indiana won another basketball game on Thursday night. The Hoosiers beat Lindenwood 73-53 thanks to 25 points from Tucker DeVries, and are now 5-0 on the young season.

But after three games of looking really good and providing hope for a worn-out basketball fan base, the Hoosiers staggered through another lackluster game. They won, despite being 32.5-point favorites against a small school from St. Charles, Mo. that plays in the Ohio Valley Conference.

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Bbut this was way too close.

It was just a six-point game early in the second half before the Indiana defense locked down for a long run. They went on a 13-0 spurt from four-plus minutes to pull away. What was supposed to be an easy win was anything but. Lindenwood (2-4) had 19 offensive rebounds and outrebounded the Hoosiers 48-44.

Survive and advance, because now it gets real. They have major-college games with Kansas State (Nov. 25), Louisville (Dec. 6) and Kentucky (Dec. 13) coming up, and they’ll need to be better then.

And the Hoosiers know it.

“We’ve just got to play harder, to be honest,” Tucker DeVries said. “It’s been an emphasis in practice and we’ll get it fixed. I think it’s pretty obvious we were a little flat. I thought the first half was just kind of dead all around.

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“I think you see the difference in the two teams of us, of when we are bringing that energy, and that’s something we got to really focus on and make sure that we’re bringing that every time. We talk about it all the time. We’re not a very good team when we’re not playing with a bunch of enthusiasm and excitement. We’ve got to get to that every point, 40 minutes a game, and then I think we’re really good when we are doing that.”

DeVries was exceptional. He was 7-for-15 from the field, and 5-for-10 from deep. He made all six free throws for his 25 points, with three rebounds, three assists and zero turnovers in 34 minutes. But the rest of the…

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