Quick Thoughts on Penn State-87-8585 Overtime Win:
How it happened: Indiana made a hefty start against the Penn State team on Wednesday night who are known to gamble defensively and spin a ton of 3 pointers. The Hoosiers led 12-7 at the start of 4-6-6 from the field. Penn State couldn’t stop fouling and Indiana took advantage by hitting her first seven free throw attempts. In the rear front, who saw Myren Jones give up 1 point, it looked like Indiana could extend its pillow to double digits after capturing five points and take a 29-20 lead at 30:30. But Penn State responded with five straight points of its own. Race Thompson’s pair of free throws to finish the half sent the Huskies into the locker room leading just 38-33.
At 7:17 just before half time, Nitt’s Lions aggressively exploded outside the locker room with 20 points. While the hossiers weren’t stopping, they were keeping pace offensively. Indiana made 10 of their first 13 shots to start the second half and Rob Fincy opened the nine-point lead at 63-54 on a 3-pointer. Al Durham Jr. extended the lead to 12 to play at 9:56 on a 3-pointer, closing at 13-1. But Indiana’s defense never really clamped down on Penn State and the Knights of the Knights got the lead under double digits to play with 8:24 on the jumper of Jamari Wheeler. Penn State will get inside the four on two separate occasions, while Indiana took a three-straight straight-sh at score to take a 7-9 lead in seven of the seven straight 75– at: 45: with with. Penn State, however, was not. Nitt’s Lions scored 8-0 to draw together to play with 2:49. As the Indiana field goal drought continued for more than 30: 0, Penn State played its first lead on the Sam Sesame jumper with 28 seconds. When Indiana tied it in the 80’s, Trace Jackson-Davis shared a pair of free throws for seven seconds and Finis blocked a sesame shot on the market for overtime pressure.
Indiana had a scoring drought of more than 3:30 in overtime before the Jackson-Davis 3-point game gave IU an 85-83 lead with 1:03. Penn State responded with a pair of free throws from Jones with 43..7 seconds to play overtime. From the timeout, Finici hit a tight jumper in the alley with 14.3 seconds to play to give IN a 2-point lead. Sesmos lost the ball on the drive just four seconds into play and missed a shot from the Brookington baseline as IU survived its first Big Ten win.
Standout performer: Jackson-Davis led five hossiers in double figures with 21 points in 37 minutes. He was 8-of-13 off the field and added six rebounds.
The statistics that come out: India’s Nitti Singh won despite giving the season’s worst 1.14 points per possession.
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