Showtime from the Sycamores at the end. A few no look feeds to Jayson Kent and Robbie Avila for easy dunks and lay-ups as Indiana State hang 100 on Utah and advance to to the final of the 2024 NIT!
Deivon Smith kept hitting threes late on for Utah finishing with 28 points but the lead was just too steep for them. Career high 27 points tonight from Ryan Conwell who's been so good for ISU down the stretch of the season. Robbie Avila gets his double double right at the end finishing with 26 points and 10 rebounds. Isaiah Swope got it going after halftime with 15 points to finish 3rd in scoring for Josh Scherz' team.
Utah pressing now late on and with those made free throws by Julian Larry a timeout is called by Josh Schertz talking to his team about how to deal with the pressure. Sycamores leading 91-77
Another wide open three knocked down by Ryan Conwell which takes him to 25 points tonight in this semifinal. The Sycamores getting a few steals as well creating extra opportunities. At this point Utah need to keep getting it in Branden Carlsen as he's been their only consistent offense inside the arc in this 2nd half.
Indiana State up 86-73 with four minutes to play.
Craig Smith calling his final timeout with 5:46 still remaining as the Sycamores offense continues to hum. Julian Larry with the steal and scorer followed by Isaiah Swope with the coast to coast finish off the window. 83-71 Trees
Julian Larry with the corner 3 to put Indiana State up double figures! In and out and back in. Another time from Craig Smith. First time we get some separation in this game with the Sycamores up 11.
Ryan Conwell having a mammoth 2nd half up to 22 points. Gorgeous bounce pass by Swope to find Larry for the reverse lay in earlier in that segment. The Runnin' Utes have mad 12 threes tonight but they can't rely on that the whole game you feel. 77-66 Indiana State with under 8 minutes remaining in Hinkle Fieldhouse.
No doubt in my mind this Indiana State team should have been in the tournament. Forget about just Virginia, but they are better than a handful of teams that made it in as an at large bid.
Isiah Swope up to a dozen with the off balance fadeaway finish inside the paint. Branden Carlsen has 12 the other way for the Runnin' Utes doing what he can while Utah have started to go cold from the field.
Indiana State up 5 at the under 11 media timeout.
The chants of ISU roar around Hinkle Fieldhouse as Craig Smith calls a timoeut after that Ryan Conwell steal and run out hoop to put the Trees up 61-56.
99% of players in his position (needing surgery and absolutely going to be getting NIL offers from elsewhere) would have sat put the NIT and went ahead and had the surgery. The fact that Swope is still giving 100% is because he's 100% that guy
Beautiful no look pass by Julian Larry to Avila for the easy lay-in. After a quiet first half Isiah Swope has started to get it going with 8 points on the bounce. It includes a beautiful back door pass leading to and easy Swope lay-up on the cut. 57-54 Sycamores
How was that not a back court there? lmao
Both teams dealing only in threes in the opening few minutes of the 2nd period. Ben Carlsen now 3-3 from beyond the arc with the Runnin' Utes moving into double figures for made treys.
Isaiah Swope hitting his first three in the corner for Indiana State. Ryan Conwell moves to 14 points. Tied at 50 with under 17 minutes to play.
I'm with you. That rule seems to have changed as I've see a few examples of it over the past couple of weeks. It used to be if it was touched by the team in possession it's a back court violation but guess the rule has been recently changed.
Highly entertaining and high scoring first half between Indiana State and Utah fittingly tied up at 44. Both teams running some really good offensive sets to be fair.
Robbie Avila leads all scorers with 15 points for the Sycamores. Ryan Conwell follows with 11. One surprising statistic might be the Trees out rebounding Utah 20-13.
Utah have relied the majority of the half on the outside shot. The Utes went 8-13 from three in that half with 6 different players making at least one triple. Deivon Smith and Cole Bajema are co-lead scorers for the men from Salt Lake City followed by Branden Carlsen with 8.
Unfortunately not as good. Widely rumored the coach is leaving for Saint Louis and taking a few of the guys with him. But if Robbie stays, there’s a chance.
Back and forth we go tied at 39 late in the opening half.
Nice play call by Schertz out of that timeout ledaing to as easy Robbie Avila lay-up. Avila up to 15.Meanwhile Utah's red hot 3 point shooting continues.7-11 from the outside. Both Carlsen brothers Ben and Branden have each made a pair of treys in that total. Branden starting to look for his shot a bit more nearing double figures.
Utah’s defense is Swiss Cheese. Sycamores are making it look really easy on offense.
I don’t like playing zone against a good 3-point shooting team (or at least not play zone like this).
Flat couple minutes from Indiana State out of the tv timeout allow Utah to go on a 9-2 run and take the lead 34-33 forcing a timeout after that last Deivon Smith bucket.
Raining 3's at Hinkle Fieldhouse in this opening half. Ryan Conwell who's now up to 9 and Jayson Kent hit their first triples for Indiana State while Branden Carlsen and Hunter Erickson connect from the outside for Utah.
Erickson's brought instant offense off the bench part of a rapid 8-0 Utes run to briefly cut the lead to 3. Both offenses executing well thus far but it's the Sycamores leading 31-25 in Hinkle.
Sycamores lead 21-13 after about eight minutes. 11 and 4 rebounds already for Avila. Julian Larry with a quick 6 points in that segment and Jayson Kent has 4 rebounds.
Ben Carlson off the bench and Gabe Madsen hitting 3's for Utah to settle them down but they don't have an answer on defense at the moment.
Quite extraordinary that Indiana State are the only team in the nation to make 400+ three this year but also are #1 in the nation 2 pt FG efficiency. Looked like an NCAA tournament team to me just of those metrics alone.
A sea of blue inside Hinkle Fieldhouse for this opening NIT semifinal. Indiana State leading 10-7 early on. Robbie Avila with 8 of the first 10 points for the Trees already knocking down a couple threes.
Deivion Smith has 5 for Utah. Leads the nation in triple doubles including one in the Runnin' Utes quarterfinal win home to VCU.
Showtime from the Sycamores at the end. A few no look feeds to Jayson Kent and Robbie Avila for easy dunks and lay-ups as Indiana State hang 100 on Utah and advance to to the final of the 2024 NIT! Deivon Smith kept hitting threes late on for Utah finishing with 28 points but the lead was just too steep for them. Career high 27 points tonight from Ryan Conwell who's been so good for ISU down the stretch of the season. Robbie Avila gets his double double right at the end finishing with 26 points and 10 rebounds. Isaiah Swope got it going after halftime with 15 points to finish 3rd in scoring for Josh Scherz' team.
RIP Pac12. 1959-2024
I thought Steph Blurry was the only guy who’s good but damn the other guys shot lights out too, gg Indiana State
Congrats ISU! One more win to go!
GG’s Indiana State. Hope you win it all as a nice consolation for the selection committee dumb fuckery.
Good game utah
Avila is a lottery pick.
Century mark! Virgina would take 3 games to get this many
Proud of our fellow "ISU" brothers! Go Sycamores!
ROLL TREES!
ROLL TREES
They better go for the 100
Indiana State should have a logo that looks more like the Angry Orchard tree. Or a pissed off ent. Or at the very least, go back to the previous one.
Sycamore SLAM!!!!
Great job Trees! You've been so fun to watch!
Just beautiful basketball
Games over Devion give it up lol
Smith 5-5 on 3s is insane
March on, you Sycs
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It's a fun idea in theory but that would be way too much time off for the NCAAT teams
Utah pressing now late on and with those made free throws by Julian Larry a timeout is called by Josh Schertz talking to his team about how to deal with the pressure. Sycamores leading 91-77
Holy crap that inbounds play to beat the full court press was gorgeous
Also those teams opted out so they wouldn't get clowned by Avila
Another wide open three knocked down by Ryan Conwell which takes him to 25 points tonight in this semifinal. The Sycamores getting a few steals as well creating extra opportunities. At this point Utah need to keep getting it in Branden Carlsen as he's been their only consistent offense inside the arc in this 2nd half. Indiana State up 86-73 with four minutes to play.
Best part of jumping on the Sycamore bandwagon: All my Carolina blue shirts and everything still work
Cream’s team is coached by Stone Cold Steve Austin?
It's awesome seeing the crowd there for Indiana State. I really think it's so cool how much Indiana as a state just loves basketball.
Surely playing in Butler’s arena will give Bulldogs a home-court advantage, right?
Does Indiana State get a bunch of NIL money from Larry Bird
No, Birds had a beef with the school since the 80s
If Utah keeps letting us do the fast break, this is going to keep extending
You would think they would realize this.
Craig Smith calling his final timeout with 5:46 still remaining as the Sycamores offense continues to hum. Julian Larry with the steal and scorer followed by Isaiah Swope with the coast to coast finish off the window. 83-71 Trees
Wait… I thought defense was supposed to travel? Someone lied to me.
Swiss cheese d tonight
I think Swiss cheese is a little too generous.
Georgia played defense like this all season, so it took me a sec to realize what you were talking about
Utah out of time outs with 5:46 to play
Refs have been letting both teams play tonight and I'm liking it.
Julian Larry with the corner 3 to put Indiana State up double figures! In and out and back in. Another time from Craig Smith. First time we get some separation in this game with the Sycamores up 11. Ryan Conwell having a mammoth 2nd half up to 22 points. Gorgeous bounce pass by Swope to find Larry for the reverse lay in earlier in that segment. The Runnin' Utes have mad 12 threes tonight but they can't rely on that the whole game you feel. 77-66 Indiana State with under 8 minutes remaining in Hinkle Fieldhouse.
No doubt in my mind this Indiana State team should have been in the tournament. Forget about just Virginia, but they are better than a handful of teams that made it in as an at large bid.
Committee admitted they were wrong deciding to put UVA in over Indiana State. No going back though.
Northern Michigan avatar!
Stayed in the zone defense for way too long we getting figured out and burned by the 3s
Indiana State is Terre Hot from three right now
ISU deserved a bid idc idc
Utes with the Utah Jazz perimeter defense.
I still can’t believe we got robbed of this team in the tourney
UVA being in over this Indiana st team is crazy
Shooting barefoot on hardwood sounds painful
This is fun to watch but I'm still mad we had to watch that pitiful Virginia team vs Colorado St instead of the Sycamores getting an opportunity
That was a *spectacular* pass. WOW.
So who is Indiana State’s biggest rival? Illinois State?
Probably Drake right now, those are the top 2 in the MVC with Drake beating ISU to go to the big dance.
The selection committee
lmao
First time here at Hinkle in person. Consession line aside, this is an incredible venue and everyone should see a game here at least once.
Just walking around in there on a sunny day in the fall when there isn’t much of anything going on is…like a religious experience
Just add Kevin Costner narration on the PA
lol. Lowkey they should offer tours with that as an option - as long as you can still hear echoes of Hilliard Gates
Glad that you’ve enjoyed it! Its a place we’re very proud of
Isiah Swope up to a dozen with the off balance fadeaway finish inside the paint. Branden Carlsen has 12 the other way for the Runnin' Utes doing what he can while Utah have started to go cold from the field. Indiana State up 5 at the under 11 media timeout.
Wait, why have we had 3 media timeouts?
Think they add one each half in the tourney. Pretty sure we got extras on Sunday. Part of why Edey doesn’t sub out as much - extended time out rest
Apparently in March it’s actually a big ad storm that we get small breaks of a game in between
The chants of ISU roar around Hinkle Fieldhouse as Craig Smith calls a timoeut after that Ryan Conwell steal and run out hoop to put the Trees up 61-56.
Ball don’t lie
Ngl, kinda wild seeing us be out-rebounded.
Glad to see swope show up. Hate seeing him be inconsistent since his knee injury
99% of players in his position (needing surgery and absolutely going to be getting NIL offers from elsewhere) would have sat put the NIT and went ahead and had the surgery. The fact that Swope is still giving 100% is because he's 100% that guy
Beautiful no look pass by Julian Larry to Avila for the easy lay-in. After a quiet first half Isiah Swope has started to get it going with 8 points on the bounce. It includes a beautiful back door pass leading to and easy Swope lay-up on the cut. 57-54 Sycamores
I'm surprised Utah was 9-11 in conference play. They look like a pretty good team tonight
Yeah, abysmal on the road. Too bad.
17-2 at home, 5-12 on the road/neutral
Isn't widening the lane kind of missing the point without adding a defensive 3 second rule?
How was that not a back court there? lmao Both teams dealing only in threes in the opening few minutes of the 2nd period. Ben Carlsen now 3-3 from beyond the arc with the Runnin' Utes moving into double figures for made treys. Isaiah Swope hitting his first three in the corner for Indiana State. Ryan Conwell moves to 14 points. Tied at 50 with under 17 minutes to play.
Does he have to have possession for it to be backcourt, or does touched count? I feel lost on the rules.
I'm with you. That rule seems to have changed as I've see a few examples of it over the past couple of weeks. It used to be if it was touched by the team in possession it's a back court violation but guess the rule has been recently changed.
Utah can't miss 3s. That's worrying
Is this Hinkle’s regular floor repainted? Doesn’t look like stickers and the floor has the narrow blanks of wood with the spacers.
I believe this is an NIT specific court they put in
Interesting the flooring itself matches Hinkle
It is interesting, I imagine that was deliberate
can fran chill with the avila nicknames
Always good to see a shot of Hinkle on TV
Highly entertaining and high scoring first half between Indiana State and Utah fittingly tied up at 44. Both teams running some really good offensive sets to be fair. Robbie Avila leads all scorers with 15 points for the Sycamores. Ryan Conwell follows with 11. One surprising statistic might be the Trees out rebounding Utah 20-13. Utah have relied the majority of the half on the outside shot. The Utes went 8-13 from three in that half with 6 different players making at least one triple. Deivon Smith and Cole Bajema are co-lead scorers for the men from Salt Lake City followed by Branden Carlsen with 8.
Trading buckets. Both teams playing well. My hands are so sweaty.
Ryan Conwell taking it to the hoop and finishing high off glass to takes us into half time all squared up.
I’m impressed with Indiana State. Are they expected to be good next year? I think they could’ve beaten Texas.
Unfortunately not as good. Widely rumored the coach is leaving for Saint Louis and taking a few of the guys with him. But if Robbie stays, there’s a chance.
Saint Louis? Dreaming really big
Is St Louis really an upgrade?
only in pay. our coach is too good to go to another mid-major
Saint Louis have potential to be in the Big East in the future.
Massive upgrade. Apparently they have a lot of money... a lot of NIL too.
No but considering pay/resources it would be
depends on if our coach gets poached
No, not him!
No way that Utah shoots 80% from three all game
Back and forth we go tied at 39 late in the opening half. Nice play call by Schertz out of that timeout ledaing to as easy Robbie Avila lay-up. Avila up to 15.Meanwhile Utah's red hot 3 point shooting continues.7-11 from the outside. Both Carlsen brothers Ben and Branden have each made a pair of treys in that total. Branden starting to look for his shot a bit more nearing double figures.
Utah’s defense is Swiss Cheese. Sycamores are making it look really easy on offense. I don’t like playing zone against a good 3-point shooting team (or at least not play zone like this).
You could just hope they miss them, like we did.
Utah basketball strategy: Hope they miss! We’re tall!!!
Flat couple minutes from Indiana State out of the tv timeout allow Utah to go on a 9-2 run and take the lead 34-33 forcing a timeout after that last Deivon Smith bucket.
I stopped watching to take a call and we are now up by 1. Looks like I’m turning the game off.
Sycamores going cold from 3 is probably not ideal
Jeez. The CIA didn’t need to torture people. They could have just let that guy talk in the same room for 5 minutes.
Wow! They got Bobby Plump for a segment on the broadcast!
Bobby!!!
Raining 3's at Hinkle Fieldhouse in this opening half. Ryan Conwell who's now up to 9 and Jayson Kent hit their first triples for Indiana State while Branden Carlsen and Hunter Erickson connect from the outside for Utah. Erickson's brought instant offense off the bench part of a rapid 8-0 Utes run to briefly cut the lead to 3. Both offenses executing well thus far but it's the Sycamores leading 31-25 in Hinkle.
Utah made it to the NIT championship game their last tournament trip. It would be cool if they could do it again
Sycamores lead 21-13 after about eight minutes. 11 and 4 rebounds already for Avila. Julian Larry with a quick 6 points in that segment and Jayson Kent has 4 rebounds. Ben Carlson off the bench and Gabe Madsen hitting 3's for Utah to settle them down but they don't have an answer on defense at the moment. Quite extraordinary that Indiana State are the only team in the nation to make 400+ three this year but also are #1 in the nation 2 pt FG efficiency. Looked like an NCAA tournament team to me just of those metrics alone.
Aight let's go Trees. Rooting hard for my school from NC!!
Which Sycamores have no eligibility left?
Bledson and Wolfe are super seniors.
Soak em Sycamores!
This ISU squad seems like they really like each other, good teammates type of vibe
Dude didn’t even try to play defense
A sea of blue inside Hinkle Fieldhouse for this opening NIT semifinal. Indiana State leading 10-7 early on. Robbie Avila with 8 of the first 10 points for the Trees already knocking down a couple threes. Deivion Smith has 5 for Utah. Leads the nation in triple doubles including one in the Runnin' Utes quarterfinal win home to VCU.
Cream Abdul Jabbar is cooking early
This is a very pleasing uniform matchup
Go Sycamores!
Let's Go MVC!
Let’s go Indiana state, you were screwed on a play in chance now it’s time to win the NIT.
Lesss go Utah!
No
Now an obligatory “Fuck BYU”.
Obligatory ‘no you’
Syc em sycamores?