The Indiana basketball program is actively pursuing key transfer targets and looking to add much different personnel and style than last season. One of those pieces could be with Minnesota wing Jamison Battle.
Indiana has conducted an in-home visit with Battle already and a potential visit is being discussed as well. The main reason for that is his ability to shoot the ball and be a floor spacer for the Hoosiers.
Battle is a career 35 percent shooter from three on 7.1 attempts per game. He has made 257 career 3s — with three years of more than 59 3s.
247Sports looked in-depth at the suitors for Battle and how he’d fit with each program. For Indiana, it is quite simple. His shooting ability and ability to be a knock down shooter.
“Mike Woodson already had a meeting with (Jamison) Battle, and his pitch centers around Indiana’s gaping hole on the wing after the graduation of Miller Kopp. Battle drained 52.8% of his unguarded catch-and-shoot 3-pointers in 2021-22. He can be more than just a “stand in the corner” guy for Indiana, too. While he didn’t grade out great in pick-and-rolls last season, the upgraded Indiana personnel could help Battle’s efficiency skyrocket.”
Jamison Battle is a 6-foot-7 wing who has good length and size for a perimeter player and has the ability to be a spot up or off of the dribble shooter. Battle averaged 12.4 points and 3.8 rebounds per game while shooting 31.1 percent from three this season.
As a junior, Battle was terrific. He averaged 17.5 points and 6.3 rebounds while shooting 36.6 percent from three on 2.4 made 3s per game. He made 75 3s that season.
Battle has made at least two 3s in 71 of his 103 career games.
Indiana shot 36.8 percent from three this season but ranked 353rd nationally in attempted 3s per game (15.5) and 334th in made 3s per game (5.7).
“Again, when you’ve got good looks — last year we were in the top five in the country in getting wide open threes, and we didn’t make them. We had some good … It’s a part of the game,” Woodson said earlier this year. “I don’t try to put a lot or read a lot into it when we go through a stretch like this.”
Battle would have ranked second — by five — in made 3s on Indiana last season. The year before, Battle made 22 more 3s than anyone on Indiana and attempted 70 more than Indiana basketball’s top three-point shooter in volume.
Battle has one year of eligibility remaining.
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