OPENING TIP
• The 118th season of Indiana basketball continues on Monday when the Hoosiers travels to Rutgers. IU is coming off a 63-60 loss to Michigan State, while Rutgers fell at home 78-76 to Purdue. IU is playing the 4th game in 8 days. It is the 3rd time in 12 days that IU has had a road game with one day prep, the only team in the Big Ten with such a schedule.
• Sophomore center De'Ron Davis, who started the first 15 games this season, underwent surgery on Jan. 10 to repair a torn Achilles tendon in his right leg and will miss the remainder of the season.