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Indiana men’s basketball wrapped up its preseason exhibition slate with a 79-74 win over Western Kentucky on Sunday afternoon in Evansville, Indiana.
This was perhaps the most interesting of the Hoosiers’ three preseason exhibition matchups. Obviously because of how close the score was but moreso by how Darian DeVries managed the game, more like a true feel-out exhibition, than anything.
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Indiana won and got some valuable experience. That’s all you can really ask for. Here’s some key stats that jumped off the sheet for me:
11 Hoosiers
Indiana sent 11 different players on the floor throughout the matchup. Needless to say, that’s not the kind of thing you’re going to see in the regular season barring a massive blowout.
DeVries went pretty deep into the bench for this one and, unlike the previous two exhibitions, it wasn’t because the Hoosiers had a massive lead as a cushion late in the second half. This felt like DeVries tinkering with some lineups in live play while doing as much as he could to get real, meaningful minutes for his bench before the season.
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57 bench points
This is perhaps the most telling stat as to the final score of the matchup.
Indiana got a whopping 57 points out of its bench while Western Kentucky got 17. That tells me the Hoosiers were looking to get some non-blowout minutes for the less experienced members of the team while the Hilltoppers were leaving starters in late to stay competitive or pull off the win.
Bryce Lindsay, unsurprisingly, led the way off the bench with 20 points on 6/11 shooting and 4/8 from 3-point range. Sam Alexis was right behind him with 15 points on 6/7 shooting. Indiana’s high school freshmen trio combined for 17 points.
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32.3% from 3-point range
Indiana didn’t shoot particularly well from the perimeter, converting on 10 of its 31 attempts from beyond the 3-point line.
That’s also not horrible, we’ve seen worse shooting teams around here before. It’s just that this team is built to go after those…
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