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IU basketball returned from a 13-day break with a 90-80 win against Washington<\/a> on Sunday night at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.<\/p>\n Here are five takeaways from the win against the Huskies:<\/p>\n Conor Enright and Tayton Conerway set the tone early offensively<\/p>\n Washington\u2019s defensive strategy from the opening tip was clear. Coach Danny Sprinkle was willing to let anyone but Lamar Wilkerson and Tucker DeVries beat the Huskies.<\/p>\n In the opening four-plus minutes, Washington decided to leave Conor Enright and Tayton Conerway completely open on the perimeter.<\/p>\n Conerway and Enright responded by splashing in five consecutive 3-pointers to begin the game, setting the tone for another strong perimeter shooting performance by Indiana.<\/p>\n The Hoosiers went on to make 12 3-pointers in the win, their ninth game of the season with 10 or more made 3-pointers.<\/p>\n Through three Big Ten games, Indiana leads the league in 3-point shooting percentage (43). The Hoosiers are scoring 41.6 percent of their points in conference games from the perimeter, second in the Big Ten.<\/p>\n Lamar Wilkerson took over in the second half<\/p>\n A talented scorer like Lamar Wilkerson can only be slowed down for so long.<\/p>\n After the Huskies threw everything at Wilkerson in the opening 20 minutes to slow him down, he got going in the second half when IU needed him to shine.<\/p>\n Wilkerson shot just 1-for-6 in the first half and got to the free-throw line for two attempts, finishing with four points before intermission.<\/p>\n But in the second half, he didn\u2019t come off the floor and poured in 18 points. He was 5-for-11 after halftime, including a 3-for-7 mark on 3-pointers.<\/p>\n More importantly, Wilkerson kept the defense honest by using his size and strength to get to the rim and draw fouls. He was 5-for-6 from the stripe in the second half and is now 43-for-51 on free throws this season (84.3 percent).<\/p>\n Trent Sisley provides a lift off the bench<\/p>\n After a recent slump that saw him go seven straight games without reaching double figures in scoring and a 2-for-12 mark on 3-pointers in that stretch, freshman Trent Sisley played one of his best games yet against Washington.<\/p>\n The 6-foot-8 freshman from Santa Claus, Indiana, went on a personal 10-point scoring run in the second half.<\/p>\n The outburst featured two straight 3-pointers, a nifty hook over Washington big man Frank Kepnang and a beautiful backcut along the baseline where Conor Enright found him for a reverse layup.<\/p>\n Sisley also had a strong night on the boards, grabbing four defensive rebounds in 15 minutes.<\/p>\n \u201cI got great faith in Trent,\u201d Darian DeVries said postgame. \u201cHe continues to get better and better. Some nights there\u2019s going to be more opportunity than other nights.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought tonight he gave us a huge lift. We rode him for as long as we could there, until I think he got a little gassed. We had to give him a little rest. That\u2019s great for him. I think that says a lot about him, too. He\u2019s continued to stay confident throughout it. He\u2019s put in the work, too.\u201d<\/p>\n Hoosiers win the battle on the glass<\/p>\n Washington entered Sunday\u2019s game with an offensive rebounding percentage of 37.4, the 35th-best mark nationally.<\/p>\n The Huskies feature two of the nation\u2019s best offensive rebounders in Kepnang and freshman star Hannes Steinbach.<\/p>\n The Hoosiers limited Washington to eight offensive rebounds and an offensive rebounding percentage of 26.7, the second-lowest in a game for the Huskies this season.<\/p>\n \u201cWe spent a lot of time on it during this break in our practices of increasing our physicality and doing a better job there,\u201d Darian DeVries said.<\/p>\n More importantly, Indiana grabbed 11 offensive rebounds of its own and scored 13 second-chance points.<\/p>\n The Hoosiers grabbed 34.4 percent of their missed shots, a season-high. It was the second-highest offensive rebounding percentage a team has posted against Washington this season through 14 games.<\/p>\n Indiana returns to early-season form in limiting turnovers<\/p>\n As mentioned in our game preview over the weekend<\/a>, turnovers had been creeping up in recent weeks for Indiana.<\/p>\n Entering Sunday\u2019s contest, the Hoosiers had a turnover percentage of 18.9 or higher in three straight games.<\/p>\n Indiana had just four turnovers in the Washington win, posting a season-low turnover percentage of 6.3.<\/p>\n Through 14 games, Indiana\u2019s turnover percentage of 14.9 ranks 55th nationally.<\/p>\n See More: Five Takeaways<\/a>, Conor Enright<\/a>, Lamar Wilkerson<\/a>, Tayton Conerway<\/a>, Trent Sisley<\/a>, Washington Huskies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IU basketball returned from a 13-day break with a 90-80 win against Washington on Sunday night at Simon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,24698,2435,2448,6474,13650],"class_list":["post-519027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-conor-enright","tag-lamar-wilkerson","tag-tayton-conerway","tag-trent-sisley","tag-washington-huskies"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115844997009638002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}