A spot at Madison Square Garden will be at stake for a 6 p.m. Central time game Tuesday broadcast on ESPN between No. 6 seed Wichita State and No. 1 seed Indiana at Assembly Hall in the third round of the National Invitation Tournament.
Here are five things to know about WSU’s opponent before tip-off tonight:
1. Indiana’s blue-chip freshman a question mark
Romeo Langford was ranked as a top-five prospect in the country out of high school and the New Albany, Ind. native was billed as the savior of Indiana basketball.
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It was a disappointment Indiana (17-15 before the NIT) missed the NCAA Tournament, but Langford, a 6-foot-6 wing, led the team in scoring at 16.