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GAME DAY ESSENTIALS
Indiana (16-6, 7-5) at Northwestern (11-10, 4-8)
- Tip Time: 9:00 p.m. Eastern
- Location: Welsh-Ryan Arena (8,117), Evanston, Illinois
- Television: BTN (Dave Revsine and Len Elmore)
- IU Radio Network: IU Radio Network
- Stream: Fox Sports Live
- Point Spread: Northwestern is a 1-point favorite
- KenPom Projected Score: Northwestern 69 Indiana 68
- Series: Indiana leads 120-52. IU won last meeting 79-76 (2OT) on Feb. 10, 2021
THE BEST IN IU COVERAGE
- IU basketball: Indiana at Northwestern game day essentials
- Bracketology Check: Where Indiana stands five weeks from Selection Sunday
- How Indiana’s Race Thompson became one of college basketball’s best ‘glue guys’
- IU women’s basketball heads to Illinois on Wednesday
- Indiana’s Mackenzie Holmes named to the Naismith midseason team
- Georgia basketball coach Tom Crean ‘focused on the present’ amid hot seat talk
- Big Ten football: Ranking the rosters for 2022
- Two years ago today: Bob Knight returns for an IU basketball game
TWEETS OF THE DAY
Bill Garrett was the first Black player in @B1GMBBall history.
He went on to become just the third Black player taken in the @NBA draft.
The @IUHoosiers icon is the latest member of the #B1Gimpact Pioneers: Class of 2022. pic.twitter.com/NtrW96C49o
— Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork) February 8, 2022
✈️ Chi-town bound. pic.twitter.com/x5mZyZrsZf
— Indiana Basketball (@IndianaMBB) February 8, 2022
On This Date – Feb. 8, 2020 – After a nearly 20-year absence, @IndianaMBB Coach Bob Knight returns to Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall for a game for the first time since 2000. Knight is joined by former Hoosier players for the reunion, which coincided with the game against Purdue. pic.twitter.com/cd5TKug2p4
— John Decker (@JYDecker) February 8, 2022
IU AND BIG TEN RECRUITING NEWS
- 2024 guard Paul McNeil putting up big numbers in sophomore season
- One Rivals analyst likes Indiana basketball’s 2022 class as a “sneaky good” class
- Look: Rivals updated class of 2022 basketball rankings
- A weekend look at 2025 forward Trent Sisley:
🎥 TRENT SISLEY VS JASPER
Highlights of Heritage Hills freshman Trent Sisley at Jasper.
🏀 Game high 19 points
🏀 7 rebounds
🏀 2-4 3FGASee some of what makes @SisleyTrent a nationally ranked prospect ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/P16XGFDTI5
— (812)-H🏀🏀PS! (@BbalEvv) February 7, 2022
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