Box Score BLOOMINGTON, Ind.- For the first five minutes of the game, Savannah State and Indiana were involved in a tight contest. But the Hoosier strung together a 15-3 run that gave them a 25-12 cushion and they never looked back in a 95-49 non-conference victory over the Tigers.
 
The crowd of 17,472 in Assembly Hall saw the Tigers take a brief 3-1 lead after a 3-pointer by Demarcus Bryant.
 
Indiana went ahead 10-3 but SSU battled back with a jumper from Bryant, a dunk by Saadiq Muhammad and a layup from Javaris Jenkins to pull within one with 14:55 left in the first half.
 
That is when the Hoosiers responded with their big run.
 
Savannah State got within 25-15 after another 3-pointer by Bryant with 5:48 left but Indiana held SSU without a field goal the rest of the half as they finished the period with a 18-2 run.
 
SSU only made 6 of 26 shots from the field in the first half while Indiana mad 50 percent of their shots.
 
The Hoosiers continued their hot shooting after intermission.
 
Indiana opened the second half with a 17-6 surge to increase their advantage to 60-23 and with 1:48 remaining had their largest lead of the game, 93-45.
 
Bryant came off the bench to lead SSU (3-6) with 14 points. Muhammad added 13 points, 6 rebounds and 4 steals while Jenkins chipped in 11 points and Terel Hall dished out six assists.
 
The Tigers ended the contest shooting 32.1 percent from the  field.
 
SSU basketball coach Horace Broadnax thinks that playing these type of games will help his young squad later this season when they begin conference play.
 
"The venue in itself is great for my guys. I've got four freshman, four sophomores and one senior, and in our league, we're not going to have this type of environment and pressure. I want these guys to try to work under pressure. We did some things good, but this is Indiana. I wanted the guys to try to work hard and work on their conditioning. You could see Muhammad there at the end starting to get tired, but he didn't roll over and die. I just want these guys to get better. We just have to keep working and try to put a 40-minute game together against these type of guys."
 
Indiana, who out-rebounded SSU 42 to 24, had four players in double figures.
 
James Blackmon and Kevin Ferrell each had 18 points for the Hoosiers (7-1).
 
Indiana shot 57.4 percent from the floor and made 23 of their 25 free throw attempts.