Indiana State made its season debut within the Associated Press males’s school basketball ballot on Monday.
It’s additionally the Sycamores’ first time as a top-25 ranked program since the days of Hall of Famer Larry Bird.
Indiana State (22-3, 13-1) can be the first Missouri Valley Conference workforce to be ranked in an AP ballot since Loyola was No. 22 for one week through the 2021-22 marketing campaign.
The final time the Sycamores cracked the top-25 was throughout Bird’s 1978-79 senior season. “The Hick from French Lick” was the AP Player of the Year that season and led Indiana State to a 33-1 document, No. 1 general rating and high seed within the NCAA Tournament.
The Sycamores finally misplaced to fellow Hall of Famer Magic Johnson and the No. 2 Michigan State Spartans in some of the well-known match finals of all-time.
Indiana State has solely competed in “March Madness” thrice since then, falling within the first spherical as a 12-seed in 2000, the second spherical as a 13-seed in 2001 and the second spherical as a 14-seed in 2011.
The Sycamores are on a nine-game successful streak and are 11-0 at residence.
According to an Associated Press and ESPN report, Indiana State is fifth within the nation in scoring (85.6 factors per recreation), ninth in three-point area aim proportion (39%) and first in adjusted area aim proportion.
The workforce has 5 gamers averaging double figures in scoring, led by guard Isaiah Swope (17.7 factors per recreation) and heart Robbie Avila (16.4 factors per contest).
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