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How To Watch Indiana Men’s Basketball Against Penn State

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February 25, 2025

How To Watch Indiana Men’s Basketball Against Penn State

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana’s 73-58 victory over Purdue on Sunday at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall was a good ending to the stretch in which the Hoosiers played 11 Quad 1 games in a row.

Indiana didn’t exactly thrive in this punishing stretch of the schedule as they finished 3-8. The wins were all surprises – road victories at Ohio State and Michigan State and the easy home win against Purdue – but the accumulation of losses put the Hoosiers smack dab on the NCAA Tournament bubble.

Still, it was a better fate than the predicted outcomes the metric sites had in mind for the Hoosiers. All of the games were predicted to be losses on kenpom.com. Indiana was able to beat its predicted doom and gave itself a chance to make the NCAA Tournament.

Penn State, tonight’s opponent for an 8:30 p.m. ET tipoff at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, is the first team Indiana has been predicted by the metric sites to beat since the Hoosiers played Southern California on Jan. 8. The Hoosiers are predicted by Kenpom to be a five-point winner.

This time? Indiana needs to live up to the predicted outcome. The Hoosiers have no margin for error in its quest to make the NCAA Tournament. A home loss to Penn State would be a Quad 2 loss and make Indiana 7-12 in Quad 1-2 games. It would undo some of the good Indiana created for itself with the win over Purdue.

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How To Watch Penn State at Indiana

Leading scorers

Indiana Hoosiers center Oumar Ballo (11) celebrates after a dunk during the second half against the Purdue Boilermakers at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. / Robert Goddin-Imagn Images

Indiana Hoosiers
• Guards (as officially listed): Myles Rice (10.9 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 2.7 apg), Luke Goode (9.1 ppg, 2.9 rpg), Trey Galloway (7.7 ppg, 4.2 apg), Kanaan Carlyle (4.3 ppg), Anthony Leal (3.2 ppg).
• Forwards/centers: Oumar Ballo (13.4 ppg, 9.3 rpg, 2.2 apg), Malik Reneau (12.8 ppg, 5.6 rpg), Mackenzie Mgbako (12.6 ppg, 4.6 rpg), Bryson Tucker (5.4 ppg, 2.9 rpg), Langdon Hatton (2.2 ppg).
Penn State Nittany Lions
• Guards: Ace Baldwin Jr. (13.7 ppg, 7.3 apg), Nicholas Kern (11.9 ppg, 5.1 rpg), Freddie Dilone (9.3 ppg), D’Marco Dunn (7.6 ppg).
• Forwards/centers: Yanic Konan Niederhauser (12.9 ppg, 6.2 rpg), Zach Hicks (11.7 ppg, 4.8 rpg), Kachi Nzeh (2.9 ppg).

Kenpom rankings

Projected score: Indiana 79, Penn State 74.
Indiana Hoosiers
• Overall: 50.
• Adjusted defensive efficiency: 48
• Adjusted offensive efficiency: 59
• Strength of schedule: 141
• Preseason: 39
Penn State Nittany Lions
• Overall: 67.
• Adjusted defensive efficiency: 86
• Adjusted offensive efficiency: 60
• Strength of schedule: 359
• Preseason: 61

Meet the coaches

Penn State Nittany Lions head coach MIke Rhoades reacts against the Southern California Trojans in the first half at Galen Center. / Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

• Mike Rhoades, Penn State: Mike Rhoades is 31-30 in his second season at Penn State. Rhoades was hired from Virginia Commonwealth where he was 129-61 in six seasons with three NCAA Tournament appearances. Prior to that, Rhoades was 47-52 in three seasons at Rice, but was 23-12 in his final season at the academically rigorous Houston private school. Rhoades was also head coach at Division III Randolph-Macon with a 197-76 record from 1999-2009. Overall, Rhoades is 404-219 as a head coach. Before his head coaching career, Rhoades was an assistant at VCU (2009-14) and Randolph-Macon (1996-99).
• Mike Woodson, Indiana: Woodson is in his fourth season at Indiana with a 79-51 overall record and a 38-38 mark in regular season Big Ten play. Indiana reached the NCAA Tournament in Woodson’s first two seasons, peaking with a Round of 32 appearance in 2023, but the Hoosiers missed the tournament last year. Woodson, 66, has NBA head coaching experience with the Atlanta Hawks from 2004-10 and the New York Knicks from 2012-14. Woodson played at Indiana University from 1976-80, and was named the Big Ten’s Most Valuable Player as a senior under coach Bob Knight. He was the 12th overall pick in the 1980 NBA Draft, and played for various teams from 1980-91, averaging 14 points over 786 games.

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Freshmen from Indiana show potential in UConn-Butler game: ‘Heck of a player’

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December 17, 2025

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Freshmen from Indiana show potential in UConn-Butler game: ‘Heck of a player’

Former UConn forward, NBC Sports broadcaster Donny Marshall knows a thing or two about talented UConn guards.

The former Husky played for legendary coach Jim Calhoun and was teammates with the fifth pick in the 1996 NBA Draft, 10-time NBA All-Star Ray Allen. Watching UConn play against Butler on Tuesday night, Marshall said he sees a lot of Allen in reigning Indiana Mr. Basketball Braylon Mullins.

Mullins made the second start of his career against the Bulldogs. The former Greenfield-Central star missed UConn’s first six games of the regular season with an injury, but the 6-foot-6 guard is quickly coming into his own and showing why he’s a projected lottery pick in the 2026 NBA Draft.

Against Butler, Mullins showed off his sweet jump shot, going 2 for 5 from 3-point range. He finished with 12 points, three rebounds, two assists, two blocks and one steal.

“He’s a scorer,” Butler coach Thad Matta said of Mullins. “He’s got a scorer’s mentality. He gets his shot off quick. They move him around and create some angles for him. Obviously, he’s a heck of a player.”

Mullins did most of his damage in the first half, scoring eight of his 12 points before halftime. The former five-star recruit was the highest-ranked player in UConn’s 2025 class. Butler’s top-ranked recruit, Azavier “Stink” Robinson isn’t the NBA prospect Mullins is, but he held his own after a shaky start to the game.

Robinson has been thrust into the starting lineup with starter Jalen Jackson out for the season with an ankle injury. Robinson looked out of sorts at times in the first half, going scoreless with two assists and a turnover. In the second half, Matta moved him off the ball, giving him catch-and-shoot looks, and opportunities to drive to the basket without worrying about running the offense.

The former Lawrence North star responded with one of the better halves of his career, scoring 10 points on 3 for 6 shooting, including 2 for 5 from 3 to go along with two rebounds, one assist, one steal and one turnover.

Facing a veteran team like UConn, nothing comes easy. UConn’s guards harass ball handlers and getting into an offensive set is not easy. This time last year, Robinson was still in high school and, on most nights, the most athletic player on the court. Playing a UConn team where the goal is a national championship, Robinson was forced to grow, and he did not back down from the challenge in the second half.

“He’s coming along,” Matta said of Robinson. “That’s the first Big East road game of his career against maybe the best team in the country. It tells you how tough he is. He’s resilient. He keeps going.”

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Indiana's Curt Cignetti becomes the first back-to-back winner of AP coach of the year

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December 16, 2025

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Indiana's Curt Cignetti becomes the first back-to-back winner of AP coach of the year

Curt Cignetti has been named The Associated Press coach of the year in college football for the second consecutive season. He is the first coach to win the award back-to-back since it was first presented in 1998. Cignetti has led Indiana to unprecedented success, with a 24-2 record over two seasons. The Hoosiers are 13-0 this year, Big Ten champions for the first time since 1967, and the top seed in the College Football Playoff. Cignetti received 47 first-place votes. Texas Tech’s Joey McGuire and Vanderbilt’s Clark Lea received two each, and Virginia’s Tony Elliott got one.

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Central Indiana schools announce closures, delays planned for Tuesday

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December 16, 2025

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Central Indiana schools announce closures, delays planned for Tuesday

INDIANAPOLIS — Some schools in central Indiana are planning to close or delay the start of their classes on Tuesday.

The closures and delays come in the wake of a difficult weekend of severe winter weather in the Hoosier State. On Saturday, a wintry system dumped more than six inches of snow in some portions of the state.

Points north of Indianapolis like Lafayette received between three and four inches of snow. Towns south of the Circle City like Seymour saw similar snowfall totals. As for Indianapolis itself, more than five inches of snow were recorded in some portions of the city.

After Saturday’s snow, frigid temperatures took hold in the area. A Cold Weather Advisory was issued for much of the state as wind chill values dipped well below zero.

The cold and snow triggered a bevy of school closings and delays for Monday. Schools began to announce delays and closures for Tuesday late Monday night as snow removal crews across the state continued to try to keep roadways clear.

Though some schools plan to close or delay the start of classes on Tuesday, temperature improvements are forecasted. High temperatures are anticipated to exceed the 32-degree freezing threshold and hit 36 degrees. The warming trend is expected to continue on both Wednesday and Thursday, with high temperatures forecasted to reach 40 and 50 degrees, respectively.

Precipitation is forecasted for Thursday, though temperatures are expected to remain warm enough for Indiana to get rain instead of snow.

FOX59/CBS4 is tracking the closures and delays schools plan to implement on Tuesday. Check out the latest available list of closings below:

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