Northwestern took advantage of the size of 6-foot-11 center Luka Mirkovic in their 93-81 win over Indiana on Sunday. Mirkovic scored a career-high 20 points and grabbed 12 rebounds.

Coach Bill Carmody said he told Mirkovic before the game that NU needed to get the ball inside.

"We sort of stressed it tonight," Carmody said, "not necessarily because of their size but because if we're going to be good at doing anything we have to have an inside presence."

"Just getting the ball down to Luka opens so much up," junior forward John Shurna said. "I wasn't really driving too much, but once we threw it down to Luka everything gets moving, shots open up for everybody."

"When coach says we're going to get the ball down, it doesn't necessarily mean that I'm going to score," Mirkovic said. "At least I can get the ball and I can pass it back because coach feels like, and we all do, that if we have a good inside-out game, that's going to help us a lot."