INDIANAPOLIS - The IU Indianapolis men's basketball team will return to its home floor on Wednesday night (Feb. 5) to take on Milwaukee (15-8, 8-4 HL) at 6:30 p.m. inside the Jungle. The IU Indy Athletics Department will recognize educators from all sides of campus as part of Favorite Professor Night and fans can purchase tickets by clicking here. Greg Rakestraw (pxp) and Hall of Famer Bob Lovell (analyst) will be on the call on ESPN+. 

IU Indy (8-16, 4-9 HL) has already surpassed last year's win total and Horizon League win total and is coming off an impressive road win at Youngstown State on Saturday. Freshman DeSean Goode led the way with a career-high 23 points on 10-of-13 shooting on way to earning his third #HLMBB Freshman of the Week Award. Paul Zilinskas finished with 20 points, including four threes, and Jarvis Walker scored 18 points and delivered five assists. The Jaguars led nearly the entire way before YSU tied the score midway through the second half. However, IU Indy fired back with threes from Goode and Sean Craig to regain a six-point lead.

The Jags finished the game 11-of-23 (47.8 percent) from three while holding the Penguins to just 4-of-27 (14.8 percent) from deep. 

For the season, Zilinskas (17.2 ppg) and Walker (15.5 ppg) continue to both rank among the top-5 in the Horizon League in scoring while the former also leads the league in three-point percentage (41.5 percent), threes made per game (3.0/game) and free throw percentage (88.0 percent). 

Goode has been on a tear of late, having scored in double-digits in each of the past four games, averaging 15.8 points per game during that span and shooting 71 percent from the floor. 

#HLMBB STANDINGS

School	Conf	CPct.	Overall	Pct.	Streak
Cleveland State	11-1	.917	17-6	.739	W13
Purdue Fort Wayne	9-4	.692	16-8	.667	W1
Milwaukee	8-4	.667	15-8	.652	L1
Robert Morris	8-5	.615	16-8	.667	L1
Youngstown State	8-5	.615	14-10	.583	L1
Oakland	7-6	.538	10-14	.417	L1
Wright State	6-7	.462	12-12	.500	W1
Northern Kentucky	5-7	.417	10-13	.435	W1
Detroit Mercy	4-9	.308	8-16	.333	W2
IU Indy	4-9	.308	8-16	.333	W1
Green Bay	0-13	.000	2-22	.083	L19

SCOUTING MILWAUKEE
Milwaukee is 15-8 overall and 8-4 in Horizon League play this season. The Panthers are 6-6 away from home and have won their last two roads games. Milwaukee is outscoring opponents by nearly eight points per game this season and shooting 47 percent from the floor. Most impressive is MKE's work on the glass, outrebounding opponents by more than 11 rebounds per game. Five different players average more than 11 points per game, led by Themus Fulks (15.1 ppg, 5.2 apg) and Jamichael Stillwell (13.5 ppg, 10.9 rpg). Also averaging in double-digits are Kentrell Pullian (13.2 ppg), AJ McKee (11.5 ppg) and Erik Pratt (11.5 ppg). 

SERIES HISTORY
IU Indy is 6-18 all-time against Milwaukee and 4-6 in 10 matchups in Indy. Milwaukee has won the last nine games in the series, including the initial meeting this season in Milwaukee, 88-81 on Dec. 29, 2024. Fulks led Milwaukee with 26 points in that contest while Craig had 22 for the Jaguars and Zilinskas tallied 21. 

UP NEXT
The Jags will hit the road on Saturday (Feb. 8) to face Wright State at 7:00 p.m. on ESPN+ inside WSU's Nutter Center.