Just four days after taking VCU down to the wire in a 64-59 defeat, Liberty University was expected to test the Hoosiers, or at the very least, provide a better challenge than UMass Lowell did Wednesday.
Instead, the inferior Flames were outplayed from the opening tip. Indiana scored the first nine points of the game, and it only got worse for Liberty. At the end of the first half, the Hoosier lead was 26.
The statistics from the first 20 minutes were eye-popping. The Hoosiers out-rebounded the Flames 32-7 while managing to shoot 64 percent from the field and 54.