{"id":242647,"date":"2025-10-26T19:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T19:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242647\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T19:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T19:52:07","slug":"indiana-mens-basketball-defeats-baylor-in-final-preseason-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242647\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana men\u2019s basketball defeats Baylor in final preseason exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After falling behind midway through the first half, Indiana men\u2019s basketball rallied to a 76-74 victory over Baylor University on Sunday at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Hoosiers\u2019 offense looked sluggish throughout the first half. Coming off an effort in which they hit 12 3-pointers in the first half <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idsnews.com\/article\/2025\/10\/indiana-mens-basketball-defeats-marian-university-devries-iu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">against Marian<\/a> on Oct. 17, Indiana only attempted 10. Two went in \u2014 one from fifth-year senior guard Lamar Wilkerson and another from redshirt senior forward Tucker DeVries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to struggling from beyond the arc, securing stops also proved to be a challenge for the Hoosiers. Baylor grabbed six offensive rebounds in the first frame, and the Bears outrebounded the Hoosiers 19-11.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wilkerson\u2019s 16 first half points kept the Hoosiers in the game. Indiana entered halftime down 41-36.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, the Hoosiers flipped the script. Indiana tied the score at 43 in the first three minutes, and by 15:42, it had taken a 48-45 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Indiana continued to struggle from distance, it found other ways to score. Sixth-year senior guard Tayton Conerway provided 13 second half points, and the Hoosiers built a nine-point lead with under eight minutes to play.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A late push from Baylor tightened the game in the final minutes. Redshirt sophomore guard Cameron Carr poured in 18 points, and the Bears took a two-point lead into the final two minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Clutch free throws from WIlkerson put the Hoosiers temporarily back in front. But a Conerway layup with eight seconds to play was the dagger, and the Hoosiers walked away with a 76-74 victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Indiana will begin the regular season against Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University at 8 p.m. Nov. 5 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After falling behind midway through the first half, Indiana men\u2019s basketball rallied to a 76-74 victory over Baylor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-242647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}