SETTING THE STAGE
Indiana State Basketball concludes the regular season on Saturday, February 25 at 1:00 p.m. (ET) as they travel to Evansville. It is the last game for each club prior to next week's State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Tournament in St. Louis. Indiana State is coming off a 69-59 win at home over Evansville and are 11-18, 5-12 MVC while Evansville enters with a 14-16 overall record and a 5-12 mark in league play.
 
QUICK HITS
- Indiana State is 80-9 when holding teams to 63 points or less under seventh-year head coach Greg Lansing (and 18-0 when limiting teams to 53 or less). The Sycamores have won each of the six games in which have hit this defensive mark this season.
- Indiana State has earned 65 close victories (five points or less) since 2005. Under Greg Lansing, the Sycamores are 39-26 in close games. 16 of Indiana State's games so far this season have been within one possession in the final two minutes of regulation this season.
- Greg Lansing is just the sixth head coach in the history of the program to record at least 100 victories at the helm of the Sycamores as he owns 120. He is tied with John Longfellow for fifth on Indiana State's all-time career list and needs one more to tie Gordon Stauffer for fourth.
- Junior Brenton Scott owns 204 trifectas in his career which is third-best in the history of the program. He is one of just three Sycamores to record at least 200 career 3-pointers.
- Senior Matt Van Scyoc has scored over 1,000 career collegiate points as he tallied 807 in two prior seasons at The Citadel plus 489 with the Sycamores. He now has 1,301 career points scored during his career with the two institutions.
- The Sycamores opened the season with back-to-back overtime games and had two more in a row go to extra time against Missouri State and Southern Illinois (Dec. 31 & Jan. 4). It was the first time Indiana State has played consecutive overtime games since the 1986-87 season when they did it in the first two games of 2016-17. Of the Sycamores' 26 games, 12 have been decided by one possession or in overtime, including five of the last seven victories. ISU has set a new school record with six overtime games so far this season. The NCAA record is eight while the MVC standard is seven.
- Indiana State head coach Greg Lansing owns a school record five victories over nationally-ranked teams during his tenure, a new standard set on December 7 in the win over No. 15 Butler.
- Indiana State head coach Greg Lansing led the Sycamores for the 200th time against Missouri-St. Louis. He is one of just four head coaches at Indiana State to coach at least 200 games. Duane Klueh, Royce Waltman and Gordon Stauffer are the others.
 
An Indiana State Win Over Evansville Would ...
• Give the Sycamores their first season series sweep over the Purple Aces since the 2013-14 campaign.
• Tie head coach Greg Lansing with Gordon Stauffer for fourth on the ISU all-time coaching victories at Indiana State with 121.
 
The Indiana State Head Coach
Indiana State head coach Greg Lansing (South Dakota, 1990) is 120-106 (.531) overall in his seventh season as a head coach. He is 65-60 all-time in MVC games, including a 45-18 mark at home and a 20-42 record on the road. During his career, he is 71-28 in all home games, 33-60 on the road, 16-18 in neutral court contests and 39-26 in games decided by five points or less. Lansing is 10-6 against Evansville and is 2-4 against the Purple Aces n the road. With the Trees, Lansing is 10-10 in overtime games and 80-9 when holding teams to 63 points or less. Lansing led the Sycamores to the postseason in each of his first four seasons at the helm (2011 NCAA, 2012 CIT, 2013 & 2014 NIT). Lansing is the second head coach to lead the Sycamores to the NCAA Tournament in their rookie campaign in the history of the program, with the other being Bill Hodges leading ISU to a 33-1 record and a Final Four appearance in the 1979 NCAA Tournament. Lansing was just the 14th rookie head coach in the history of the MVC to lead his team to 20 victories during their debut season. Lansing holds the school record for most victories over a nationally-ranked team (five) in the history of the program. Lansing is currently tied for fifth on the Indiana State all-time coaching victories list with 120 and needs one more to tie Gordon Stauffer for fourth.
 
Television Particulars
The Evansville game will air live on The Valley On ESPN3 and worldwide on the Watch ESPN app.
 
A Little History
Indiana State is currently in its 121st season of college basketball at the school. The Sycamores are 1,467-1,273 all-time on the hardwood.
 
Coach Lansing Climbing The Leaderboard In Career Victories & MVC Victories
Indiana State seventh-year head coach Greg Lansing continues to climb the Indiana State al-time victories list as he earned win No. 120 against Northern Iowa on February 22. He is currently tied with John Longfellow for the fifth-most victories all-time as the Sycamores head coach (Although John Longfellow did begin the 1954-55 season as coach and earned two victories, the NCAA awarded all of that season's results to Paul Wolf). With each of his next two additional victories, Lansing will move up one spot on the ISU coaching wins list.  His next victory will be No. 121 and will tie with Gordon Stauffer for fourth place on the career coaching victories list. He needs four more to catch Royce Waltman for second at 124 and the school record is held by Duane Klueh who owns 182 career victories. Lansing also now owns 65 victories in Missouri Valley Conference play which is just four off the school record of 69 held by Indiana State's second all-time winningest head coach Royce Waltman (1997-2007). Lansing has led the Sycamores to the MVC Championship Game twice, the Arch Madness semifinals four times and has never done worse than a Friday appearance at the league's annual tournament.
 
Scott's 3-Point Shooting Moving Up ISU Career Ranks; Now 15th All-Time In Scoring
Indiana State junior Brenton Scott became just the third Sycamore to ever record at least 200 career 3-pointers  He now sits at 204 for his career. Scott has now joined school record holder Michael Menser (1997-2001) who owns 283 career trifectas and Jordan Printy (2008-12) who has 215 as the only Sycamores to post at least 200 career trifectas. Scott has also crept into the Indiana State Basketball all-time top 15 against Drake and now has 1,283 career points scored. His next target is Dan McDonald (1947-50) who had 1,298 career points and is currently 14th.
 
Close Game Alert! Sycamores Set School Record For Most Overtime Games In A Season
For Indiana State, 12 of the Sycamores' games this season have been decided by just one possession or have entered overtime. The Sycamores have now set a new school record by playing in six overtime contests this season. Indiana State is 3-3 in overtime games. The NCAA record for most overtime games played in one season is eight, and the MVC record is seven. The Sycamores had not played consecutive overtime games since the 1986-87 season before doing that twice this year (first two games at Northern Illinois and Ball State as well as at Missouri State and at Southern Illinois). Additionally, the Sycamores have had 17 games that have been within one possession with less than two minutes to go in regulation.
 
Everett Clemons Near Top Of Valley Leaderboard In Several Categories
Indiana State senior Everett Clemons is ranked highly in seven different statistical categories inside the Missouri Valley Conference. Clemons lead the Sycamores in rebounding with a 6.2 average which ranks eighth. His field goal percentage is an outstanding .533 which ranks seventh-best in the league. Always a distributor, Clemons is averaging 4.8 assists per game which is second while he is third in assist-to-turnover ratio with a mark of 2.3. On the defensive end, Clemons averages 1.7 steals per game which is the third-highest this season inside the MVC while he is pulling down 4.8 defensive rebounds per game to rank sixth. Finally, Clemons' 32.3 minutes per game is ninth-most in the MVC.
 
Sycamores Tally School Record Fifth Victory Over Nationally-Ranked Team Under Lansing
Indiana State ended a skid of nine loses to nationally-ranked teams when No. 15/16 Butler fell inside Hulman Center on December 7 by the score of 72-71. Coach Lansing has led the Sycamores to a school-record five victories against nationally-ranked teams during his time at the helm of the program. He passed Bill Hodges (head coach of the Dream Team in 1978-79) and Royce Waltman (head coach of the Sycamores during back-to-back NCAA Tourney trips in 2000 & 2001) for the most in program history with the win over Butler. It was just the second victory for the Sycamores under Lansing at home against a nationally-ranked team and the first overall since a win at No. 21 Notre Dame in 2013.
 
Sycamore Success Inside Hulman Center Under Greg Lansing
The Sycamores are 71-28 (.717) inside Hulman Center under seventh-year head coach Greg Lansing. The Sycamores have won 61 of their last 85 home games. Additionally, the Sycamores have won 45 of their last 63 MVC games at home. The longest stretch of current success against a league member is eight wins in a row at home against Bradley after this season's 81-71 victory over the Braves.
 
Oh So Close! Everett Clemons Nearly Posts Triple-Double At Ball State
Indiana State senior guard Everett Clemons scored 11 points and pulled down 10 rebounds to record the Sycamores' first double-double of the season as part of the overtime win over Ball State. He also posted nine assists (of the team's 13) and narrowly missed his first career triple-double and the first by a Sycamore since Jake Odum did it in the 2011 Old Spice Classic (now Advocare Invitational). There have been just two triple-doubles in the MVC era with Odum owning one as well as Larry Bird in 1979. Currently, Clemons is averaging 5.5 rebounds per game which is 13th-best in the league while he is tied for the league lead while his is third in the MVC with 1.8 steals per game.
 
63 Is The Magic Number
The Sycamores win by the score of 69-59 on February 22 against Northern Iowa was ISU's sixth this season in which they held an opponent to 63 points or less and earned the victory. Under seventh-year head coach Greg Lansing, the Sycamores are 80-9 when allowing less than 63 points to the opposition (including a 18-0 mark when holding teams to 53 or less).
 
Good Starter On The Battery
Indiana State's starting five outscored the opposition's top five three times this season and earned the win. Under seventh-year head coach Greg Lansing, the Sycamores are 73-23 when the ISU starting five scores more than their opponent's starters after doing so in the win over Drake on February 11.
 
Greg Lansing Selected For Induction Into Iowa High School Basketball Hall Of Fame
Indiana State head coach Greg Lansing was inducted into the Iowa High School Athletic Association Basketball Hall of Fame as part of their 2016 class.  Lansing and the other selected inductees were honored individually at halftime of the Iowa Class 4A State Championship Game at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines on March 12. The IHSAA Basketball Hall of Fame is the highest honor the Iowa High School Board of Control can bestow on a high school coach or former player. Lansing graduated from Harlan High School in 1986, where he was coached by his father Dave, who was inducted into the IHSAA Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999 as a coach. The Lansing father/son combination of Dave and Greg are just the 10th father/son duo to both be inducted into the Hall of Fame since 1969.
 
Up Next
Indiana State will open play in the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Tournament on Thursday, March 2 at either 7 pm or 9:30 pm (ET) at the Scottrade Center. The complete tournament bracket will be announced on Sunday.