Indiana men’s basketball is set to welcome South Carolina to Assembly Hall for a 3:00 p.m. showdown on Saturday.
It’s the biggest nonconference home game for Indiana this season and curiously comes without a return trip to Columbia. For an arena that’s spent the past two years hosting the likes of North Carolina and Kansas, it’s definitely a different flavor.
This game is also a decently important one. Indiana has plenty to prove this season with Mike Woodson looking for a bounce back performance after last season’s disappointment and Lamont Paris trying to show that South Carolina is more like the team that contended for the SEC last year rather than the one that fell to North Florida to open the season.