Indiana’s 2024-25 non-conference schedule was finalized on July 9 and Contained in the Corridor could have a team-by-team take a look at every opponent. Right this moment: Miami (Ohio).
Indiana will play Miami (Ohio) for the second time in three seasons.
The 2 applications met at Gainbridge Fieldhouse within the 2022-23 season, with the Hoosiers successful simply, 86-56. Indiana and Miami have performed 25 occasions for the reason that 1925 season. The Hoosiers lead the all-time sequence, 22-3.
Travis Steele, who labored beneath Kelvin Sampson at Indiana, is getting into his third season in Oxford. Steele, 42, was the top coach at Xavier for 4 seasons and was fired on the finish of the 2021-22 season. He rapidly landed at Miami, the place he’s 27-37 over his first two seasons.
A member of the Mid-American Convention, Miami completed final season 15-17 and 257th within the remaining KenPom scores. The RedHawks have been No. 249 within the remaining Bart Torvik rankings.
Torvik’s 2024-25 season projections have Miami 240th nationally with the 253rd-best offense and 203rd-best protection.
After ending final season tied for sixth within the MAC, Miami will try to maneuver up the league standings after dropping 5 of their prime six scorers.
The beginning backcourt will possible be sophomores Mekhi Cooper and Evan Ipsaro.
Cooper, a 6-foot-1 native of Bolingbrook, Illinois, began 29 video games final season. Cooper averaged 6.3 factors, 2.7 rebounds and a pair of.5 assists in 25 minutes per recreation.
Ipsaro, a 6-foot guard, additionally logged appreciable minutes as a freshman. The Kentucky native began 11 occasions and averaged 6.5 factors, 2.6 assists and two rebounds in 24.3 minutes. Ipsaro shot 35.5 % from distance.
Bellarmine switch Peter Suder might slide proper in on the three after a stellar sophomore season with the Knights. The Carmel native averaged 10.5 factors, 4.3 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.2 steals in 32 minutes per recreation.
Wing Eian Elmer, Miami’s main returning scorer, was a 40.3 % 3-point shooter final season. The 6-foot-6 sophomore averaged seven factors and 4.3 rebounds in 18.5 minutes and made 19 begins as a freshman.
On the 5, Rutgers switch Antwone Woolfolk will give Steele an enormous man who has high-major expertise and a body that might be distinctive in opposition to most MAC opponents. Woolfolk, 6-foot-9 and 235 kilos, averaged 3.3 factors and three.1 rebounds over 27 video games final season for the Scarlet Knights.
Xavier switch Kam Craft missed the 2023-24 season as a result of harm however was the No. 65 participant within the nation popping out of highschool. Now a redshirt sophomore, the 6-foot-6 wing from Chicago ought to compete for a beginning spot or, on the very least, be the primary or second possibility off the bench.
If Woolfolk can’t win the beginning job on the 5, it would possible be as a result of 7-foot-1 sophomore Reece Potter beat him out. The Lexington, Kentucky native began 11 occasions final season and averaged six factors and three rebounds in 14.1 minutes. Potter shot 45.5 % on 3s (15-for-33).
One other identify to know is Jap Illinois switch Dan Luers, a grad switch who averaged 6.8 factors in 32 video games final season. Luers has labored his means up the faculty basketball ranks after initially starting his profession at Division II Defiance Faculty earlier than transferring to Jap Illinois. He’ll possible be one of many core rotation guys off the bench at Miami.
Whereas Miami isn’t anticipated to offer the Hoosiers a lot of a recreation once they come to Meeting Corridor on December 6, the RedHawks do have a stable core of sophomores in Cooper, Ipsaro, Elmer and Potter to go together with a number of key switch portal additions. This recreation will possible fall proper earlier than Indiana’s first of two December Huge Ten video games.
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