Friday evening marked the introduction of the 2024-25 males’s and ladies’s Indiana basketball squads at Hoosier Hysteria. Debuting in entrance of a largely stuffed decrease bowl of Simon Skjodt Meeting Corridor, gamers and coaches strutted onto the ground for introductions and coaches Mike Woodson and Teri Moren every addressed the group to begin the night.
The ladies’s crew led the introductions, and in her speech, Moren centered her consideration on excessive expectations – not only for her crew, however for the help round her.
“I wish to see these rafters stuffed each evening,” Moren mentioned, calling upon Hoosier followers. “I imagine this crew goes to be particular, this program goes to be particular. Present up.”
When the boys’s crew adopted, Woodson had no reservations about this yr’s objectives, per standard.
“(I see) a chance to win a Huge Ten title and a nationwide title,” Woodson mentioned. “We’re a deeper basketball crew than prior to now. I’ve bought to do my job to place all of it collectively.”
Woodson additionally paid homage to his former coach and mentor whereas increasing on his objectives.
“It’s not about me, it’s about what Bob Knight constructed. It’d imply the world to the followers.”
In case you missed it, listed below are the outcomes from this yr’s Hoosier Hysteria competitions:
Expertise competitors
The talents competitors consisted of velocity dribbling round obstacles down the courtroom, passing the ball by means of a hoop and capturing a 3-pointer again on the other facet of the ground. It was break up into 4 groups, every with one males’s and ladies’s participant plus an IU scholar who ran down the courtroom and completed with a layup.
After narrowing down to 2 for the finals, Karoline Striplin and Myles Rice defeated Valentyna Kadlecova and Malik Reneau.
3-point contest
The three-point contest concerned capturing off a ball rack. Until the one-minute timer expired, gamers took 5 photographs from 5 areas across the arc.
Spherical one:
Shay Ciezki (17) def. Lenee Beaumont
Sydney Parrish (16) def. Lilly Meister (9)
Finals:
Ciezki (17) def. Parrish (16)
Knockout
In a conventional sport of knockout from the 3-point line, 5 males’s and ladies’s gamers competed alongside 5 IU college students.
Ladies’s rivals: Religion Wiseman, Julianna LaMendola, Sharnecce Currie-Jelks Parrish, Kadlecova
Males’s rivals: Anthony Leal, Gabe Cupps, Kanaan Carlyle, Luke Goode, Oumar Ballo
In the long run, Parrish knocked down a triple to defeat Wiseman and seize the crown.
Scrimmage
Whereas the ladies’s crew’s scrimmage was scratched Friday afternoon, the boys nonetheless participated in a 15-minute competitors. Trey Galloway, who had left knee surgical procedure this offseason, didn’t play however went by means of warm-up drills, whereas Jakai Newton, nonetheless recovering from a knee harm, didn’t take part in drills or the scrimmage.
Crimson: 29 Cream: 29
Level totals: Myles Rice 5, Gabe Cupps 2, Kanaan Carlyle 2, Anthony Leal 2, Mackenzie Mgbako 12, Bryson Tucker 4, Malik Reneau 6, Luke Goode 6, Oumar Ballo 11, Langdon Hatton 8.
The competition, which added three extra minutes halfway to complete quarter-hour, exhibited extra protection than normally displayed in a Hoosier Hysteria scrimmage. Moreover, a number of gamers switched groups midway by means of to steadiness lineups. A final-second 3-pointer from Mgbako – who switched to the Cream crew – tied the pleasant scrimmage.
Indiana males’s basketball will first take the courtroom Sunday, Oct. 27 in a charity exhibition at Tennessee. Indiana girls’s basketball hosts Maryville in an exhibition sport Wednesday, Oct. 30 at Meeting Corridor.
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