Good evening IU Fans,
We are not in Puerto Rico, but we will have updates here throughout the night, Feel free to shaw observations and tweets here.
We will have coverage postgame as well.
Per Trevor Andershock of peegs.com...starters are Enright, Conerway, Wilkerson, DeVries and Bailey. Instead of the two bigs of the Woodson era, it's two PGs to start.
Also per Andershock, he observes the opponent to be undersized and roughly the quality of "a good NAIA team".
Per Mike Pegram, the founder of peegs.com...IU up 16-8 early with Tucker DeVries knocking down a pair of threes.
Jasai Miles and Sam Alexis were the first two off the bench for IU with Trent Sisley shortly after that.
https://twitter.com/pos_josh/status/1953235095281635526?s=46&t=zoBJGD5TXRBDk1ODyOZqlg
Josh is pretty timely with the tweets.
26-15 IU after one 10-minute quarter in Puerto Rico.
From the Indy Star (I don't think it is paywalled)
END OF 1Q: IU 26, Bayamon 15: Cutting down on the turnovers, and coupling that to some good energy inside from Josh Harris and Sam Alexis, helped pull Indiana away in the last 2 1/2 minutes of the quarter.
There was a lot of Lamar Wilkerson when he was on the floor in that quarter. Not just in terms of shot volume, but also in teammates clearly looking for him with the ball, and deferring to him in scoring situations. Next to Tucker DeVries, he looks like one of IU's 2-3 primary options right now.
Another Indy Star update
IU 32, Bayamon 18, 8:11 left 2Q: It was undeniably the biggest question mark coming out of last week's open practice, and there have still been breakdowns tonight.
A lot of it is occurring in help and switch situations (two players following the same man, problems with screens, that sort of thing). Individually, Indiana isn't getting beat off the dribble very much, which it shouldn't against this level of competition. And as discussed a minute ago, players like Conerway, DeVries and Wilkerson are creating possessions with turnovers leading to runouts.
Per Indy Star
IU 39, Bayamon 23, 4:01 left 2Q: Both Ristic and Sisley have had some good moments here early. Ristic got a bucket earlier and narrowly missed on a transition 3 a minute ago that came from good footwork and showcased a smooth release.
Sisley did one better, grabbing a bucket on a back-door cut and then tossing in a 3 on the following possession.
Indy Star update
HALFTIME: Indiana 49, Bayamon 23
The Hoosiers pulled away comfortably in the last 5-7 minutes of the half. Bayamon was scoreless for at least the last four minutes (live stats aren't available), and again, Bayamon just didn't have the quality to hang on.
There was a telling moment near the end of the first half, when Conerway found Enright on the run with just one defender near him. Instead of reaching for the easy layup, Enright threw a hard pass to DeVries on the wing.
This is what Darian DeVries promised. It's still striking to see.
Per Trevor Andershock...IU attempted 41 shots in the first half and 22 of them were three-pointers. I know it's a meaningless exhibition but that is a STARK difference to what we spent the past several years watching. Conerway and Wilkerson with 9 points each. Alexis with 8. Bailey and DeVries with 6. Sisley with 5. Conerway was +28 in the first half and his defensive pressure and passing was noted by peegs.com.
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