Moye leads team in win

There's only one player on the IU roster who has his own special chant from the IU crowd.\nAnd it's that one player, senior guard A.J. Moye, who stood out to Butler coach Todd Lickliter when IU (4-3) defeated the Bulldogs, 62-50.\n"From the outside looking in, he just seems to have such a big heart," Lickliter said. "He's a guy that anybody would like to have on their team because he can change the game without scoring. He can change it just by being on the floor."\nMoye was IU's second highest scorer in Saturday's contest with Butler (3-4), scoring 12 points. Moye also had five rebounds, one steal and was a perfect 4-4 in free throws.\nLickliter said Moye told him after the game that Butler was a tough team.\n"Coming from him, I appreciate that," Lickliter said.\nIU coach Mike Davis said Moye has been playing well and joked that he may be the best 6-foot-2 power forward in the country.\nMoye himself said he's been playing with a 6-foot-10 mentality. \n"Everybody in the country is lucky I'm not 6'10"," Moye said with a smile. "It would be pretty ugly."\nButler was the fifth team in a row the Hoosiers faced that saw action in last year's NCAA Tournament. Moye said that's the glory of their schedule -- that they are experiencing every type of experience a team could have early in the season. \n"We got blown out on the road, lost a big lead at home," Moye said. "We've had close games, offensive droughts. We've experienced it all."\nIn Moye's last four games before Butler, he averaged 9.5 points a game and 4.3 rebounds. His 12 points in Saturday's game is a season high.\nAside from scoring a season high and putting another win on the record, Moye knows the next obstacle is playing Kentucky (5-0), Dec. 20 at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis.\nMoye has a number of friends on the Kentucky team who he has played basketball with starting from when he was nine or 10 years old, he said. \n"This is my last year, and I haven't beat them once," Moye said. "I just want to beat them one time because every time I see them in the summer, they rub it in."\nAn obvious crowd favorite, Moye said he wants to leave a winning legacy so that when Senior Night rolls around, the Hoosiers will have a winning record. \n"I want them to say 'The guy was a winner, and he played hard,'" Moye said. "I don't want them to say 'His senior year, they had the worst season in IU history.' I want to have a great season and show coach Davis that I appreciate everything he's tried to do for me."\n-- Contact staff writer Natalie A. Trout at natrout@indiana.edu.