Washington Men's Basketball vs. Indiana: Spiel preview & how you can see

How to watch (and bet)

Date: Saturday, 01.03.25

Tip time: 3:00 p.m. PT

TV: None

Streaming: peacock

radio: Huskies Gameday app, Sportradio KJR

Location: Seattle, WA

Graduate line: Washington Huskies +3

Indiana Hoosiers 2024-25 Statistics:

Record: 17-11 (8-9)

Points for per game: 75.8 ppg (102.)

Points against per game: 72.8 ppg (187.)

Adjusted offensive efficiency: 115.5 (57.)

Adjusted defensive efficiency: 99.6 (51.)

Strength of the schedule: 23.

Indiana key player:

G-myth Rice, so. 6'3, 185: 10.9 ppg, 2.9 RPG, 2.7 APG, 42.9% FG, 33.3% 3PT, 83.5% FT

Husky fans should be familiar with Rice, who played for Washington State last season while led to the 2^nd Round of the NCAA tournament. His counting statistics are not surprisingly back (4 points and 1 assist per game), who play on a much more talented Indiana squad that doesn't ask him so much. With the exception of an increase in its outer shots, the shootings are similar, which is 6 percentage points by 6 percentage points. Rice sometimes plays the point, but has close to a 1-1 ratio of assist touro and much prefers to lower his head and get into the basket as a secondary ball handler.

G-Trey Galloway, Sr. 6'5, 205: 8.0 ppg, 2.3 RPG, 4.4 APG, 43.1% FG, 33.0% 3pt, 64.1% FT

Galloway leads the team in assists at 6'5, but has a much higher fluctuation rate than they want for their primary ball handler. His outer shots were 29% below average, although in her last game he made 4/5 against Penn State, so he was able to get hot. Outside of it, Galloway doesn't wear much on the status sheet. It is a below average rebounder, does not get many steals and is a fairly bad free thrush for a guard.

F- Luke Goode, Sr. 6'7, 203: 9.1 ppg, 2.9 RPG, 0.6 APG, 43.0% FG, 40.3% 3PT, 93.2% FT

After 3 years as a solid role player at B1G competitor Illinois, Goode now plays for Indiana and is corresponding to the same old tricks. His task is to stretch the floor by 6'7 and he does it very well. Goode is a 39% 3-point shooter and this total amount is up to 45% in the conference game so far and does 93% of his free throws. He doesn't dribble much, but that means that Goode almost never turns the ball. The end result is that Good 2 is^nd in the offensive efficiency in big ten games towards a dubious defense.

F-Mackenzie Mgbako, Sun. 6'9, 222: 12.6 ppg, 4.5 RPG, 1.1 APG, 44.8% FG, 31.8% 3pt, 82.1% FT

It is often that you will come back a top 10 team of the team for his second year, but Indiana has returned Mgbako. Usually this leads to an enormous leap in production, but MGBAKO sets up almost identical numbers until last year, apart from the fact that they are more efficient on the edge. He only plays 26% of his three-point pointers in the conference game, but does 54% of his 2-point shots and 82% of his free throws, while he takes care of the ball and plays solid defense with 6'9. He still doesn't look like a high NBA -draft pick, but is a good, if not great college player.

C-Oummar Ballo, Sr. 7'0, 265: 13.7 ppg, 9.4 RPG, 1.4 BPG, 63.8% FG, 58.4% FT

Another familiar face from the PAC-12. Ballo came from Arizona and did not miss a blow. In each of the past 3 years, it has achieved between 12.9 and 14.2 ppg between 8.6 and 10.1 RPG and 1.3 to 1.4 blocks per game. The big difference is that Ballo is now a much more willing passer -by with a career with a large lead of 2.3 per game. He is a demolition ball with one of the highest FG %and FT rates of the country and the struggle between him and Kepnang will be fun. If Kepnang takes up 2 fast fouls, there is no great chance of slowing down Ballo.

The outlook

It is fair to say that it was a bizarre season for Indiana. Coach Mike Woodson entered the year on the hot seat, but that didn't seem to be a problem because the Hoosiers 2 were selected 2^nd In the big ten media survey before the season. Indiana clearly had a lot of raw talent, but there were understandable concerns of how the squad coordinated a clear lack of outer shots despite a lot of size.

Things went as bad as possible. After a start of 13: 3 a year, the Hoosiers 8 lost their next 10 games. Many of them were close losses for good teams (2-4 in games in this route with 5 points or less), but they were also hit by Iowa and Illinois in successive games at the beginning of this run. This meant that Woodson agreed to withdraw at the end of the year.

The thing is, Indiana is exactly quiet on the bladder. A 2: 1 or 3-0 finish of the season Plus at least one victory in the NCAA tournament can be enough to bring you over the finish line with a résumé with a victory in Michigan State and Ohio State and a 15-point home win against Purdue. The Hoosiers still have a lot to play despite a lame duck chief coach after winning 3 out of 4.

The big concerns of the pre-season over 3-point shootout have become absolutely true. Indiana is 265^TH National in the 3-point percentage on the offensive and are 324^TH in the percentage of their shots from the depth. They don't take a lot of outdoor shots and if they take them, they miss a lot. At least they dismissed 10/15 from Deep on Wednesday evening to defeat Penn State. Hopefully Indiana has used up all of her shootings because they had not made a double-digit 3-point shots in a game in a game since January 2.^nd.

Whether Indiana can actually find consistency from the outside will be an important story in this game, since the opponents have lit Washington from the outside lately. In the last 7 games in Washington, the opponents at 42.7% shoot an average of 9.7 shots from beyond the arch. If Indiana is so good with the advantages you have inside, then the huskies are toast.

This internal advantage comes from Indiana Ranking 8^TH Average in the country. Nobody in the Indiana rotation is shorter than 6'3 and the Hoosiers have largely settled in a 7-man rotation, which always plays 6'7 or larger. The question mark will be whether Indiana 6'9 Pf Malik Reneau has available. Reneau missed Indiana's last game with an illness that was serious enough for him to go into the emergency room, and it is currently unclear when he becomes a trip to Seattle.

Indiana may have a lot of size, but it has not translated into an elite defense. They are a good start-up team, but are nationwide at both ends of the soil outside of the top 100. Ballo dominates on the glass, but Reneau usually slides into the middle when it is outside and is only a so-rebounder for the position. Ballo is a good shot blocker, but not entirely Elite and Reneau/Mgbako are below average in this regard for 6'9.

It is a fair question to ask whether the huskies have thrown mentally into the towel. They had the golden opportunity to do the B1G tournament, but lost to Rutgers in OT and fell on the track in Iowa after led in the first half. This simply converted the new goal into the conference not least and UW reacted by bleeding in Wisconsin, and was covered for most 2 over 30 points^nd Half. Wisconsin is a top ten team in the metrics and took out her frustration over Washington after the Badgers had blown their own big lead to lose in OT in OT in the previous game. But it could be a sign that Sprinkle has lost the changing room a little.

The loss of Wisconsin marks the 3^RD Team The Huskies were destroyed in Big Ten Play on the street and each of the other 2 saw UW bounced up to play at or about expectations. I am inclined to assume that Sprinkle will be able to achieve a jump outdoors that returns home and Indiana does her first and only West Coast Road trip of the season. But I will recognize that I would not surprise me that Washington lets you escape this, especially if you start slowly.

forecast

Washington Huskies– 76, iowa Hawkeyes- 72