BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana is playing with confidence, and it’s going a long way.

Coming into the game, the Hoosiers were on an 11-game winning streak, and they played like it as they are showing no signs of slowing down.

Senior Yogi Ferrell led Indiana with 17 points including shooting 50 percent from deep (3 of 6) as he helped the Hoosiers dismantle the Northwestern Wildcats 89-57 Saturday at Assembly Hall.

Indiana opened the game with a 13-0 run, and the Hoosiers never looked back. Collin Hartman scored eight of those 13 points and was a key to the Hoosiers early success. He finished the game with 11 points, five rebounds, and two assists. Hartman said that the Hoosiers’ mindset has been crucial to their ability to jump out to early leads.

“You’ve got to come in and be aggressive, Hartman said. “The Big Ten’s a tough league, anybody can win on any given night. If you don’t come in ready to play, you’re going to get beat.”

On defense, the Hoosiers have done a good job at limiting opposing offenses. Indiana only allowed Northwestern to .851 points per possession. The Hoosiers handled the Wildcats’ leading scorer Bryant McIntosh, who came into the game averaging 15.6 points per game, to only four points, a season-low.

That too, Hartman accredits to the team’s mindset.

“A lot of mentality is also experience,” Hartman said. “The young guys are really stepping up and being like sponges and absorbing our concepts and really studying extra film. So, if you learn concepts and people’s tendencies it’s just easier to get stops because you know what they’re doing before they do it.”

Max Bielfeldt finished the game with 13 points and four rebounds including a perfect 6 of 6 from the foul line. He scored one 3-pointer, bringing his season total to 12, which is more than his previous three seasons combined.

The Hoosiers have drained 32 shots from downtown in the past two games. Bielfeldt credits Indiana’s lethality from 3-point range to ball movement.

“We’re moving the ball, and we’re making the simple play,” Bielfeldt said. “We’re finding shooters with that movement, guys are getting open a little bit better, and we’re just knocking them down.”

In total, 11 Hoosiers made a basket in the game as Indiana had another high-scoring outing. Indiana made 30 of 57 shots, good for a 52.6 field goal percentage. Head coach Tom Crean said that the offensive production is a byproduct of how the Hoosiers have played on defense.

“The scoring is a by-product of the defense, the hustle, the energy the rebounding,” Crean said. “We had some really good possession, I think we had 11 straight scoring possessions in the middle of the second half. We had the same lineup in there for a while with Max, Troy, Yogi, Collin and Nick, and We didn’t turn the ball over.”

On the boards, Indiana controlled a Northwestern team that ranks in the top five in the Big Ten in offensive rebounds as the Hoosiers outrebounded the Wildcats 40-23. Also, Indiana did not allow Northwestern to score a second-chance point.

Up Next: Indiana will look to extend its win streak to 13 games on Tuesday as they head to Madison to take on the Wisconsin Badgers. Winning in the Kohl Center will be a tough task as the Hoosiers haven’t won a game there since 1998.