BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Myles Rice is a Columbia, S.C. native, so he picked a fine time to have his best game as Indiana's point guard on Saturday. He scored 23 poi
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Myles Rice is a Columbia, S.C. native, so he picked a fine time to have his best game as Indiana's point guard on Saturday. He scored 23 points to lead the No. 16-ranked Hoosiers to an 87-71 win over South Carolina in the one true tough test on Indiana's nonconference schedule at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.
The Hoosiers shot well from everywhere, actually. They were 51 percent from the field, 47.1 percent from three and 27-for-33 from the free throw line. Rice had a big role in that early. He had 17 points in the first half, and was 6-for-7 total from the field. He played 19 minutes and had just one turnover too as the Hoosiers built a double-digit lead quickly.
"I thought we did a great job on him,'' Woodson said. "We got him in foul trouble, and we refused to let him play, We showed him different looks, and we needed that because he's been on fire lately.'' There is an amazing anecdote to Rice's career-high scoring game. It happened last year while he was at Washington State. He scored 35 points on Jan. 18, 2024 at Stanford — and new teammate Kanaan Carlyle had a career-high 31 points for the Cardinal."Well, at Washington State we played a little bit of a matchup zone, so I wasn't really guarding him and he wasn't guarding me,'' Rice said with a laugh. "He did his thing; I did my thing.
Indiana went 19-14 last year with subpar guard play, and it cost them a postseason bid. So Woodson and his staff and went out and got Rice, Carlyle and Luke Goode in the transfer portal, and signed five-star wing Bryson Tucker in April. Add a healthy Trey Galloway back into the mix, and the Hoosiers are very happy with their backcourt from top to bottom.
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