Final: IU 103, Iowa 89

Whatever offensive woes the IU men’s basketball team had Thursday night at Wisconsin appear to have subsided.

IU (17-5, 5-5) had its best single game output in conference play and rolled to a 103-89 victory against Iowa (11-11, 3-6) on Sunday night at Assembly Hall.

IU’s 54 first-half points exceeded the squad’s entire offensive output in Madison on Thursday night. The Hoosiers shot 55 percent (37-of-67) from the floor en route to the highest offensive output by a team in any Big Ten game this season.

Leading the way for IU — via the slam dunk — was freshman forward Cody Zeller, who led all scorers with a career-high 26 points on 11-of-12 shooting.

Senior guard Verdell Jones III and junior forward Christian Watford also contributed to the offensive outburst with 14 and 15 points, respectively.

In his first start of the season, sophomore forward Will Sheehey chipped in 10 points and was 2-for-2 from beyond the arc.

IU also received post-production from the bench. Senior forward Tom Pritchard had a season-high seven points while junior forward Derek Elston scored 11 of his own.

After dishing out a season-low four assists at Wisconsin, the Hoosiers finished with 20 assists against the Hawkeyes.