Gardner-Webb Falls, 73-49, At Indiana Monday Night
November 22, 2011 | Men's Basketball
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Indiana used an 11-2 run to start the second half and put four players in double figures to top Gardner-Webb, 73-49, Monday night at Assembly Hall.
The Hoosiers (5-0) led 34-23 at the break, and shot its way to a 45-25 lead with that 11-2 run out of the locker room to put the game out of reach quickly in the second half. Will Sheehey came off the bench to lead the Hoosiers with 15 points, Cody Zeller and Victor Oladipo each had 13 points and Derek Elston had 10 to pace Indiana.
Gardner-Webb (2-3) used an effective zone defense at times to slow the Hoosiers, limiting Indiana - which came in averaging over 90 points per game - to its lowest point total and field goal percentage (49.2 percent).
Freshman guard Max Landis tied a career high with 18 points, scoring 10 in the second half on 7-of-14 shooting. Jason Dawson added 14 points, but no other Gardner-Webb player had more than four points in the game - as GWU shot 36.7 percent from the floor against a much taller squad.
Landis, the only player from Indiana on the Gardner-Webb roster, is averaging 16.0 points over his last three starts, including 18 points in each of the last two games for the Runnin' Bulldogs - who will have played five games in eight days when it closes out its road trip at Chattanooga on Sunday (Nov. 27).
Indiana held a 40-14 lead in paint scoring, a 26-9 edge in points off of turnovers and had a 14-4 advantage in second-chance points. The Hoosiers' came out of the locker room with a towering lineup on the floor of Zeller (6-11), Elston (6-9), Christian Watford (6-9), Olidapo (6-5) and Verdell Jones III (6-5) - and used that size advantage to spark its game-sealing run.
Indiana jumped out to a 21-5 lead in the early going, as Gardner-Webb missed nine of its first 11 shots from the floor. Dawson and Landis helped GWU get back in a flow, however, scoring all 16 of the team's points to pull GWU within 27-16 with 6:53 to play before intermission. Both Dawson and Landis had eight points heading into the locker room.
Gardner-Webb will remain in the Hoosier State for its next game, busing to Indianapolis to do battle with two-time national runner up Butler at 7:00 pm on Wednesday in legendary Hinkle Field House.
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