www.jconline.com Jour nal Courier 3D teams we said McCutcheon senior forward Charles Phinisee, who had a game-high 14 rebounds against Lawrence Central and added nine against Martinsville. got a great team all- around. They have good players on the bench that get to play because they are so Against Martinsville (7-2), which was undefeated before a 5850 semifinal loss to 4A No. 9 Fort Wayne Carroll, Deaton and Robert Phinisee again performed outstanding. With Butler in the mix, the Mavericks rolled on a day where they produced their best two performances of the season.
Butler scored eight in the final 1 :29 of the third quarter, helping the Mavericks balloon their lead to 69-43 going into the fourth. we have one of them playing, an average team. When we have two, a good team, but when we have all three of them playing well, we are hard to McCutcheon coach Rick Peckinpaugh said. know who could have beat us tonight with them shooting the way they Butler was 1 2 of 1 6 against the Artesians, who were led by 15 points on five 3-pointers from im Bowlen, who was held scoreless in the second half. Deaton was 7 of 9 and scored 19 with four assists and Robert Phinisee hit 7 of 14 shots against Martinsville, providing 20 points and seven rebounds.
Also adding a boost for McCutcheon in the consolation game was reserve Gavin Dunbar, whose five second-quarter points loomed large in a 38-32 halftime lead for McCutcheon (8-2). Aside from the games, ednes- day was an emotional moment for Peckinpaugh, who was presented a plaque as a participant in the Hall of Fame Classic by Ray Pavy Pavy coached Peckinpaugh at Shenandoah High and the New Castle Fieldhouse was the site of last high school game as a player. love the guy. I spent four years as a player for him and he was kind of an inspiration for me to be a coach in some Peckinpaugh said. was choking up a little bit when you see him out there and get the plaque from him in the high school gym you played your last high school game.
It was a moving MAVS Continued from Page 1D PISCATAWAY, N.J. Injuries, bad habits, foul trouble and an eight-day holiday layoff conspired to undo Indiana Wednesdayin the Big Ten opener at Rutgers. That they did not, IU coach Tom Crean said afterward, was encouraging. It was also a warning. did not play a great game at all, but we found a way to win it in spite of Crean said.
a lot of things we have got to get better It hardly impressed, but Indiana (11-3, 1 -0) opened league play with a win, beating Rutgers 79-72. Reserve forward Max ielfeldt aided the Hoosiers with 18 points and 14 rebounds both career ighs and point guard Yogi Ferrell added 20 points, compensating for the 37 points the Scarlet Knights (6-8, 0-1) scored off 23 IU turnovers. We turned it over way too much, and too many of them were Crean aid. got to get that Crean will want Wednesday to be a teaching moment, a bullet dodged and a lesson learned. Basketball seasons are enerally full of them.
will have to combat the concern, hough, that some of the flaws on display in the Rutgers Athletic Center were not a product of missing starters, or foul trouble, or long break between games. Some of them are beginning to ook intrinsic to this make-up, and white-knuckle Big Ten road win will loss over that. The Hoosiers were playing without second-leading scorer James Blackmon after he sustained a right knee injury i practice. Crean put Blackm status firmly in the postgame, saying it was the hands of the team had just one practice to prepare for league play without him, and i showed. The Hoosiers struggled to adapt with- ut the space and defensive attention 15.8 points per game and prodigious 3-point shooting usually demand.
Ball movement was stale, passing labored and IU was generally too passive. not just the shots he makes, and not just the percentages he has. He akes the game easier for everybody else, because you can never not account for Crean said. There was less space today. It got better in the second half, because we moved But that did little to explain the turnovers, which were too often unforced.
Those smacked more of missing focus, or players trying to force things to happen that, quite simply, think a little bit of Bielfeldt said, when asked if he thought turnovers were a product of too much aggressiveness, or too little. just got to play through Bielfeldt also used a term becoming a familiar refrain in Blooming- tonin trying to explain the giveaway problem. kind of annoying sometimes, uys try to do a little too he said. they try to make the ase hit. They go for the home run.
experience. figure that he question is when. 23turnovers were a season high, and the Hoosiers are also now outside the top 300 in turnover percentage, iving the ball away on 21.1percent of possessions. More than one in five IU ossessions ends in a giveaway. On Wednesday, Troy Williams had one more turnover (seven) than rebounds.
Ferrell had six turnovers. Robert Johns on had five, and missed all six shots he ook. A ll of that built a performance during which Indiana flirted with a dangerous kind of loss. Rutgers entered game dead last in the Big Ten in adjusted offen- ive efficiency, according to Ken Pomer oy. The Scarlet Knights, Crean said, are momentum under coach Eddie Jordan, but they are also expected to finish at or near the foot of the league this season.
performance was pass- a ble in Piscataway, but probably not any- here else including Assembly Hall the conference. Losing ugly on the road in Big Ten play is hardly a crime. Really, a time- onored tradition of successful programs. A nd you could forgive some of mistakes if they were more clearly attached to injury absence, or Thomas foul trouble. Few teams in America struggle essentially down two starters.
ut Wednesday so much about who was missing as it was what ret urned. From one mistake to the next, from turnover to bad shot to turnover, the oosiers fell back on bad habits. irrespective of injury systemic, a nd for IU, there must be a concern that those habits are unbreakable. In addition to turnovers, outsized Rutgers outscored the Hoosiers 3 8-34 on points in the paint, despite Biel- career performance. Had the carlet Knights not blown nearly a dozen layups, the result might have been very different.
told my team, blocked our shot yet at the Jordan said. you convert your layups, 12, 1 But they And Indiana compensated for absence, and foul trouble. And those turnovers. Big Ten road wins come cheap (even in an arena added largely for a TV arket). But the mistakes that made IU sweat Wednesday, not new prob- ems.
Crean said they will get fixed. What if they be? Follow Star reporter Zach Oster- an on Twitter: In Big Ten opener, Hoosiers win ut bad habits keep showing up JIM TODAY SPORTS Yogi Ferrell scored 20 points to help steady loppy Indiana in a 79-72 win Wednesday on the road against Rutgers. Zach Osterman zach.osterman@indystar.com COLLEGE PARK, Md. Diamond Stone scored 39 points, the most by a Maryland freshman, and had 12 re- ounds, leading the fourth-ranked Terrapins to a 70-64 victory over Penn State in their Big Ten opener Wednesday ight. Robert Carter had another dominant performance and finished with 11points for Maryland (12-1).
Melo Trimble, the Big Ten Preseason Player of the Year, shook off a slow start and had 10 points or the Terrapins, who extended their inning streak to six games. hep Garner scored 12 of his 17 points i the first half for Penn State (9-5). randon Taylor added 15 points and 10 rebounds, while Payton Banks finished ith 12 points for the Nittany Lions, who ave lost two of their past three games. After Maryland trailed by 8 at the half, a pair of dunks by Stone capped a 10-2 run and tied the game at 33. The Terrapins, though, continued to struggle with their shooting and Penn State took advantage.
A pair of free throws by Josh Reaves a nd a dunk by Donovon Jack gave the Nittany Lions a 55-45 lead with 7:58 left. Maryland pulled to within 60-55 on a 3 -pointer by Trimble and free throw by tone with 5:18 remaining. The Terps got astop and another dunk by Stone cut the margin to 3, forcing Penn State to call a imeout. Another 3-pointer by Trimble tied the ame again at 60 with 3:49 remaining and gave the Terps the momentum. Stone made four straight free throws for a 666 2 cushion with just over a minute left.
A 3-pointer by Carter with 31seconds remaining sealed the victory. ichigan 78, Illinois 68 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Mark Donnal had 26 points, nine rebounds and three blocks all career highs and Caris LeVert scored 22 with a career-best tying 10 assists to help Michigan win its Big Ten pener. eVert scored the first nine points for he Wolverines (11-3), who have won five i a row. endrick Nunn scored 23 points to lead the Illini (8-6).
Jalen Coleman-Lands a dded 13. oleman-Lands hit a 3 to close the first half and give Illinois a 37-34 lead. Donnal scored seven during a 9-2 run to open the second half that put the Wolverines in front for good. Nunn made a layup to pull Illinois within two with 13:48 left, but ak Irvin answered with a 3-pointer that parked a 13-2 spurt and made it 61-48 about four minutes later. Northwestern 81 ebraska 72 INCOLN, Neb.
Freshman Dererk Pardon had 28 points and 12 rebounds in his second college game, and Northwest- rn came back from a 12-point second- half deficit. The Wildcats (13-1, 1-0 Big Ten) won their 10th straight game and are off to their best start since 1930-31. The Corn- huskers (8-6, 0-1) are 0-5 in Big Ten openers since joining the conference in 20111 2. Pardon had 23 points in the second half to help bring the Wildcats back from a halftime deficit for the third time in four games. The 6-foot-8, 230-pounder made 11of 14 shots from the field and had even offensive rebounds six in the second half.
Tre Demps finished with 17 points and Aaron Falzon with 12 for the Wildcats, who made 8 of 9 free throws in the last 1:34. Andrew White made 5 of 8 3-pointers a nd scored 22 points to lead the Huskers, a nd Benny Parker had career highs with 1 7 points and five 3s. hio State 78 innesota 63 COLUMBUS, Ohio Marc Loving cored 20 points and JaQuan Lyle had 13 a ssists for Ohio State in the Big Ten opener for both teams. Keita Bates-Diop added 13 points and Tate 10 for the Buckeyes, who are 9-5 with a five-game winning streak. The Buckeyes had 24 assists, double their season average.
arlos Morris scored 18 points, Jord an Murphy 11and Nate Mason 10 for the Golden Gophers (6-7). Kam Williams came off the bench to core five points to spur a 21-5 Buckeyes un that turned a 45-44 lead into a 66-49 advantage with six minutes to play. 39 points bail out No. 4 Terrapins AP Diamond Stone scored 39 points, the most ver by a Maryland freshman, to power the Terrapins past Penn State. Donnal helps power Michigan in league opener; ardon, Northwestern rally to win at Nebraska Wire reports BIG TEN ROUNDUP.
