The Indiana basketball program will be without a key member of its rotation on Thursday night as it takes on Penn State in its Big Ten Tournament opener as senior guard Trey Galloway will not play.
Galloway exited Sunday’s 65-64 win over Michigan State with a knee injury early in the first half and did not return.
He left the floor at the 12:54 mark of the first half and was visibly limping. He was wearing a sleeve on his left knee. When he left, he was seen trying to stretch out his knee. He briefly sat on the bench before heading to the locker room where he changed to compression pants instead of the sleeve.
After working on the warmup bike and doing some jogging and cutting in the locker room tunnel, he returned to the bench but did not return in the first half. He did not return to the game.
Indiana was up 20-5 when Galloway exited the game. He had five points and three rebounds in seven minutes.
Following his injury, Michigan State went on to outscore Indiana basketball 24-14 in the final 13 minutes of the first half. In total, Michigan State used a 22-2 run to take a 43-36 lead with 15:23 left in the second half. At that point, Indiana had gone through a stretch of making just two field goals since the 4:52 mark of the first half.
“Trey is definitely a big part of our offense, with him just being able to get downhill, throw the lob, or get to his flow offensively,” Indiana forward Kel’el Ware said postgame. “With him going down, I just felt like not even just me, but everybody on the team had to step up. If we wanted to get the win. I feel like that’s what we did.”
Galloway came into Sunday’s game averaging 10.8 points, 2.9 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game. He is one of four Indiana basketball players with three games of 11+ assists in a career, joining Isiah Thomas, Jamal Meeks and Michael Lewis, doing so all in the last six games.
Xavier Johnson and Gabe Cupps will start in the backcourt against the Nittany Lions.
Indiana basketball is 18-13 overall and finished on a four-game winning streak. Indiana likely needs to win the Big Ten Tournament in order to make the NCAA Tournament.
If Indiana wins on Thursday, it plays Nebraska on Friday night.
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