The Archie Miller era at Indiana will begin with a familiar in-state opponent. Per sources, the 2017-18 season will start with a with a home game against Indiana State. The expected date would be Friday, November 10, the first day of the regular season for most teams across the country.

A longtime member of the Missouri Valley Conference, the Sycamores are coming off a 11-20 season and a 5-13 league mark.

Head coach Greg Lansing's team will be led once again by redshirt senior Brenton Scott. The former Fort Wayne Northrop guard led the team with 15.9 points per game as a junior and was named third team All-MVC. His twin brother Bryson Scott started at Purdue before transferring back home Fort Wayne. Last November, Bryson Scott had a game high 18 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Mastodons to a 71-68 overtime win over Indiana.

Brenton Scott comes into his final season third in school history in made 3-pointers (208).

Indiana State will have to replace point guard Everett Clemons, second on the team in scoring (9.8 ppg), and tops in assists at 4.5 per contest. Sophomore Jordan Barnes (6.5 ppg, 2.1 apg) was one of the team's top reserves as a freshman last year and could be poised to start opposite Scott.

On the wing the team will be bolstered by the addition of 6-foot-6 graduate transfer Qiydar Davis. At Louisiana Tech he averaged 10.6 points and 6.7 rebounds per game as junior but has his senior season end just five games in with knee surgery.

Down low the Sycamores return 6-foot-9, 250 pound center Emondre Rickman. As a junior he was third in the Missouri Valley with 1.3 blocks per game. He'll be helped by 6-foot-8, 205 pound Devin Thomas, a junior college transfer originally out of Richmond, Indiana.

Indiana owns a 17-5 all-time series edge over Indiana State but the Sycamores have won three of the previous five contests. Two of those three victories came in Terre Haute. In 1999 the MVC school came into Assembly Hall and upset the Hoosiers in the Indiana Classic, 63-60. It was the first loss ever by IU in that event.

The two schools haven't met since the 2006-07 season.

Indiana State finished this past season at No. 185 in the Sagarin rankings (link) and No. 233 in the ESPN measure for RPI.

This is the 10th non-conference game reported in what will be a 13-game game non-conference slate. Those games will have be sandwiched around two early December conference games the Big Ten will go to this season due to the move to playing the league tourney one week earlier than normal. That was necessary to have it in Madison Square Garden in New York.

Here's a chart of the known non-conference games with each team's RPI: