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Players' Perspective: Markus Burton, Jaeden Mustaf discuss Indiana's 91-57 win over EIU
BLOOMINGTON – After Indiana basketball’s 91-57 victory over Eastern Illinois in its 2026-27 regular season opener, Markus Burton and Jaeden Mustaf answered questions from reporters. They discussed the feeling of playing a game in Assembly Hall for the first time, how they felt they performed, and much more from the one-sided win on Monday night.
Below is their Q&A video as well as a full transcript.
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Transcript
Q. Markus, the offensive flow that you guys got tonight, it might have taken a little bit to get going, but nine 3s, almost 38 percent from 3. First game, your thoughts are what as far as the offensive flow?
MARKUS BURTON: Like I said, it’s a lot of new guys obviously. It’s going to take time for us to just come out and be efficient like out of the gate. I feel like today was just a learning experience. Obviously the outcome was the outcome that we like, and I feel like we competed and played hard at a high level. So that was all that mattered.
Q. In the second half it looked like Darian challenged you guys defensiv...