Yes, Indiana has not won a road game this year. Most of you probably knew that though. As a matter of fact, Indiana has only won one, yes, one road game under Tom Crean despite finishing oh-so-close a bunch of times. That was at Penn State on January 21st last year. Indiana has a great chance to win their second under Crean tomorrow at Iowa. Here's a scouting report on Iowa.
Iowa, the youngest team in the Big Ten, (Indiana's the ninth youngest in in front of Michigan along with of course, Iowa) is led by junior point guard Bryce Cartwright. They are on a six game losing streak, so they are in a tough stretch currently. They are ranked near the bottom of the Big Ten in nearly every offensive category. They are a decent defensive team lead defensively in the post by freshman Melsahn Basabe with his 1.4 blocks per game. They have been competitive in many of their games including taking Ohio State to the very end and losing a mere by five points. Iowa beat Northern Iowa (who we lost to) handily so that could be something that could be worrying to us as they only allowed thirty-nine points.
I don't know what to expect from Indiana after that close loss to at Wisconsin, although I do think the Hoosiers have a pretty good shot to nail this one down as the eleventh win of the season which would surpass last year win total of ten.
One player I would be afraid could hurt IU is the aforementioned Melsahn Basabe as stated before get 1.4 blocks per game and IU is a block happy team. Tom Pritchard, along with all of the other IU big men, may have their hands full with Basabe and his 54.6 percent. One of the main Iowa weaknesses plays right into one of the Hoosiers' main weaknesses. IU sends way, way, way to many people to the line, and Iowa only shoots 65.2 percent from the line which should help. Who do you think will win, because I don't know.
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