Three Standout Moments From Hoosier Hysteria

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana hosted its annual Hoosier Hysteria occasion on Friday night time, giving followers an early take a look at the lads’s and girls’s basketball groups. The night time was full with participant and coach introductions, a 3-point competitors, a abilities contest, a males’s workforce scrimmage and a G Herbo live performance because the finale. 

Listed below are three standout moments from 2022 Hoosier Hysteria.

Mike Woodson, Teri Moren enter in model

Following participant introductions, Indiana ladies’s basketball coach Teri Moren rolled onto Department McCracken Courtroom in an old-school crimson convertible, decked out with IU signage. John Mellencamp’s “Paper in Fireplace” performed by means of the Meeting Corridor loudspeakers as Moren walked to heart courtroom sporting a Tiawan Mullen soccer jersey.

Following a Candy 16 look in 2022 and a run to the Elite Eight in 2021, Moren pointed to the nationwide championship banners with a transparent message.

“We would like a type of,” Moren mentioned. 

Indiana males’s basketball coach Woodson adopted go well with with an car entrance, and he might have even topped Moren’s introduction. Woodson’s convertible was coated in historic Indiana basketball footage, full with the 5 nationwide championship banners and an ode to Bob Knight. Woodson got here out to the tune, “Put On” by Younger Jeezy.

Taking the mic, Woodson reiterated his objectives to win Huge Ten and nationwide titles, thanked Trayce Jackson-Davis for returning and expressed love for his alma mater.

“Indiana basketball – excuse my language – is the shit,” Woodson mentioned.

Chloe Moore-McNeil, Miller Kopp win 3-point contest

The Hoosier Hysteria 3-point contest paired up one participant from the lads’s workforce and one participant from the ladies’s workforce, and the highest mixed rating superior every spherical. Chloe Moore-McNeil and Miller Kopp proved to be the duo to beat. 

Within the first spherical, Moore-McNeil caught hearth to hit 18 3-pointers, and Kopp contributed 14. The duo superior to the finals, the place they confronted off in opposition to Sara Scalia and Xavier Johnson. Scalia made 18, and Johnson added 10 to start the finals.

However Moore-McNeil and Kopp have been topped champions as Kopp drained 16 3-pointers to go together with 12 from Moore-McNeil. 

An early take a look at the beginning lineup?

The lads’s workforce held a six-minute scrimmage following the person competitions, and the relaxed tempo made it troublesome to attract any legit conclusions concerning the workforce’s play. 

However Woodson might have revealed an early take a look at the beginning lineup, or not less than who these 5 could be if Indiana performed an actual recreation on Friday. Xavier Johnson, Jalen Hood-Schifino, Miller Kopp, Race Thompson and Trayce Jackson-Davis began for one squad, whereas Trey Galloway, Tamar Bates, Jordan Geronimo, Malik Reneau and Logan Duncomb took the ground for the opposite. That might be a logical first and second rotation.

Johnson, Kopp, Thompson and Jackson-Davis are the 4 returning starters from final yr’s workforce, and Hood-Schifino, a five-star recruit, has been the presumptive alternative for Parker Stewart within the beginning lineup. Clearly, there’s nonetheless time for Woodson to shake issues up earlier than the primary exhibition recreation on Oct. 29 and the primary common season recreation on Nov. 7. 

This is a clip of the primary possession of Friday’s scrimmage. 

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