3 things to watch for Indiana men’s basketball vs Tennessee Tech

Indiana men’s basketball is set for its fourth game of the 2026-27 season, taking on Tennessee Tech on Thursday evening back home at Assembly Hall.

The Hoosiers notched dominant victories over Eastern Illinois and Bellarmine to open the season before making the short trip north for a very weird 83-80 win over Syracuse at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. It’s entirely too early in the season to declare this group poor or ill-equipped, but that game did surface some very real issues that could use correcting sooner rather than later.

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With those issues in mine, here’s three things to watch for against the Golden Eagles.

Can the bigs get more involved offensively?

Samet Yigitoglu and Aiden Sherrell, Indiana’s duo of starting 7-footers at center and power forward, combined for just 14 points against Syracuse on Monday evening.

Yigitoglu mostly took his points as they came to him, choosing his spots carefully without a ton of looks drawn up for him to score, so his 8 points weren’t all that surprising. What was surprising was Sherrell’s 6 point effort. As the more offensively inclined of the two, you’d like to see Sherrell find more ways to get the ball in the basket than he did against the Orange.

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It’s worth noting that he picked up two early fouls and had to sit before struggling to find his place in the game from there and made the most of the two shots he took, but six points isn’t enough for a player of Sherrell’s caliber.

Look to see how, and if, the staff finds ways to use all that size when the Hoosiers have the ball.

Tobin Anderson

Tobin Anderson, the architect of 16-seed Fairleigh Dickinson’s legendary first round upset of 1-seed Purdue in the 2023 NCAA Tournament, leads Tennessee Tech into Assembly Hall.

You may remember that Anderson turned that performance at Fairleigh Dickinson into the head coaching job at Iona when Rick Pitino left to take the St. John’s job. Well, the Gaels gave Anderson just two seasons before showing him the door after…

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