Although last Friday marked the first day of official practice for the IU men's and women's basketball teams, Friday night was the first time that a largely full Assembly Hall could catch a glance of a very different IU men's basketball team, including six freshmen and a graduate student.
Both men's and women's players highlighted the night with the skills competitions that drew the majority of the cheers during the more than two hours of action, including a 3-point competition and two-ball competition that included both the men's and women's teams. The dunk contest, featuring freshmen Devin Davis and Stanford Robinson and sophomores Hanner Mosquera-Perea and Jeremy Hollowell, capped off the skills competitions before the finale of the night, the inter-squad scrimmage.
Results for each skills competition are below:
3-point competition:
Kevin "Yogi" Ferrell (18 points) defeated Nicole Bell (17)
Evan Gordon (12) defeated Kayla Agler (11)
Kaila Hulls (18) defeated Will Sheehey (11)
Noah Vonleh (14) defeated Tabitha Geradot (9)
Austin Etherington (16) defeated Karlee McBride (15)
FINAL: Ferrell (17) defeated Hulls (13)
Two-ball competition:
Lyndsay Leikem and Taylor Wayer (40 points) defeated Sasha Chaplin and Johnny Marlin (36)
Larryn Brooks and Collin Hartman (38) defeated Alexis Gassion and Peter Jurkin (30)
CHAMPIONS: Leikem and Wayer
Dunk contest:
1st round
Devin Davis: Landed a sideways windmill dunk, received two 9's and three 8's
Jeremy Hollowell: Missed all four of his attempts catching it off the side of the backboard
Hanner Mosquera-Perea: Caught a rebound off his shot and landed a left-handed windmill, received 9's and 10's
Stanford Robinson: Miss all four of his attempts
2nd round:
Davis: Tossed it over the backboard and caught it off the bounce for a right-handed dunk, received an 8 and four 9's
Hollowell: Missed all four of his attempts trying to catch a header feed from Johnny Marlin off the backboard
Mosquera-Perea: Caught a ball off the backboard from Ferrell and dunked that ball and another he was holding, received all 10's
Robinson: Landed a 180 degree dunk after starting from the 3-point line and catching his shot off the bounce, received three 7's and two 8's
FINAL:
Davis: Caught a pass from Sheehey, who was in the stands and slammed it, received all 10's
Mosquera-Perea: Caught a toss off the bounce and landed a 180 degree dunk, received four 9's and a 10
WINNER: Devin Davis
