BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Nike Juvenate Olive Online . -- A five-day game break should have No. 9 Indiana refreshed and ready for a Saturday afternoon visit from Houston Baptist at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.The Hoosiers (7-1) will be looking to extend their home winning streak to 24 games, sixth longest in program history, in a first-ever meeting with the Huskies (3-4). Indiana is 8-0 all-time against the Southland Conference while Houston Baptist is 0-4 against the Big Ten.Indiana is the Big Tens highest-ranked team and won four home games in eight days through last Sunday to jump into the top 10. The streak included a 76-67 victory over then-No. 3 North Carolina.Houston Baptist has won all three home games but lost its four road games by a combined 77 points. The Huskies used a 16-point run in the second half to defeat visiting Saint Peters 62-47 on Wednesday.Senior forward Colter Lasher leads Houston Baptist at 13.7 points per game. Junior 6-foot-11 center Josh Ibarra is averaging 10.7 points and 6.4 rebounds. Ibarra had a season-high 16 points and 12 rebounds for his first double-double of the season on Wednesday.Huskies coach Ron Cottrell, in his 26th year, is the eighth-longest tenured active coach in NCAA Division I with a 455-344 career mark (.569). His team averages 82.6 points while allowing 80 per game.They score a lot of points, their average time of possession is 15 seconds so they have a fast pace of game, Indiana coach Tom Crean said on a radio show. We dont want to be out there trading baskets, we want to get out and get our break.Houston Baptists ability to score will be severely tested by the Hoosiers, whose opponents have shot just 37.4 percent from the field. In the last four games, Indiana opponents have scored 58.5 points per game.The Hoosiers have limited opponents to just 28.6 percent 3-point shooting in each of the last six games, the longest such stretch since 2008-09.Were getting better, no doubt about it, Crean said.Indiana junior guard James Blackmon averages a team-high 16.7 points and is shooting 40.4 percent from 3-point range. Hes also averaging 7.1 rebounds. Junior guard Robert Johnson is hitting 55.7 percent of his shots with a 12.8-point average.Hoosiers sophomore forward Juwan Morgan has started the past two games for injured sophomore OG Anunoby (left sprained ankle) and has made all 12 of his shots, averaging 14.5 points while grabbing 6.5 rebounds in those games. Freshman reserve forward DeRon Davis scored 14 points in back-to-back games, making 19-of-31 shots.Since 2011-12, the Hoosiers have had the Big Tens best offense at 78.1 points per game, a 47.9 field-goal percentage and 40.1 3-point shooting percentage. Indiana leads all major conference schools in field goal percentage and 3-point percentage during that same time frame. Adidas Supercolor Lichtblauw . PETERSBURG, Fla. Nike Roshe Run Dames Zwart Wit .Y. -- Sabres forward Drew Stafford has witnessed plenty of turmoil during his eight seasons in Buffalo. http://www.flyknittrainer.nl/nike-air-presto.html . PAUL, Minn.Skipper Shahid Afridi struck 49 off 19 balls and bagged 2-27 to propel Pakistan to a thumping 55-run World Twenty20 victory over Bangladesh in Super 10 Group 2, at Eden Gardens. Afridi weighed in with four sixes after Ahmed Shahzad (52 off 39) and Mohammad Hafeez (64 off 42) had completed fifties, Pakistan finding form after a disappointing Asia Cup campaign to post 201-5 - their highest total in a World T20 and only the second time in their history they have reached 200.Bangladesh, who finished top of Group A in the qualifying stage, were overpowered despite a battling 50 not out off 40 balls from Shakib Al Hasan and finished well short on 146-6.Shahzad and Hafeez (64 off 42) put on 95 for the second wicket in 11.5 overs after left-arm spinner Arafat Sunny (2-34) struck with his third ball, bowling Sharjeel Khan (18 off 10 balls) off stump as he attempted to cut.Hafeez got off the mark second ball, launching Sunny down the track for six to set the tone for a dominant knock featuring seven fours and two maximums.From 90-1 after 10 overs, the pair kicked on until Shahzad - pulling Sabbir Rahman leg-side with a flourishing follow-through - picked out Mahmudullah at midwicket.AAfridi, who promoted himself up the order to four, plundered 14 off three Mashrafe Mortaza deliveries to get going before belting Al-Amin Hossain over long on with classical efficiency as Pakistan powered on. Nike Free 4.0 Flyknit Dames. .It took a stunning boundary catch to remove Hafeez - Soumya Sarkar leaping high to prevent a six, then flicking the ball up in the air as he stepped over the rope, before athletically completing the catch while facing towards the crowd.Afridi fell just short of his fifty in the final over, holing out to Mahmudullah at deep midwicket off Taskin Ahmed (2-32) as he sought to swat his fifth six.Bangladeshs chase faltered in the first over as Soumya lost his off-stump to Mohammad Amir to fall for a second-ball duck but had just rallied to 44-1 when Afridi struck in successive overs, bowling Sabbir Rahman and picking up the key wicket of Tamim Iqbal, who failed to clear Imad Wasim on the mid-wicket rope.Shakib Al Hasan played a lone hand thereafter, becoming only the second Bangladesh player in history to reach 1,000 T20I runs, reaching his fifty in the final over after striking five fours and a six in total.Watch highlights of Pakistan v Bangladesh at 6pm on Sky Sports 2. 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