Poor shooting leads to loss

The women's basketball team played an even first half with No. 23 Minnesota Sunday in Minneapolis, before the Gophers outscored the Hoosiers 49-34 in the second half.\nTwo critical runs in the second period sealed the win for Minnesota (15-4, 5-3 Big Ten) before 11,389 fans at Williams Arena. Behind center Jill Chapman's 18 second-half points, the Hoosiers tied the Gophers at 56-56 with 4:45 left, but Minnesota went on a 19-4 run to defeat IU for the second time in 11 meetings since 1994. \nMinnesota started the second half with a 23-12 run to take a 49-38 advantage with more than 12 minutes remaining. But the Hoosiers went on an 18-7 run to tie the game at 56 before the eventual Gopher win. \n"Our defense in the second half was poor," IU coach Kathi Bennett said. "We fell apart in the last six minutes of the game."\nOnly Chapman scored in double figures for the Hoosiers (9-11, 3-6 Big Ten). Chapman carried her team with 26 points on 13-of-23 shooting and eight rebounds. She has averaged 28 points in the last two games.\n"She had a very nice game," Bennett said. "She demanded the ball and she finished around the basket. A lot of times she scored with three defenders around her."\nIU point guard Heather Cassady added nine points before fouling out. Guard Jenny DeMuth and forward Erin McGinnis each contributed eight points and six rebounds.\nIU held a 24-16 lead with 7:48 remaining in the first half, but the Gophers spurred a 10-2 run to tie the game 26-26 at halftime.\nIU's trend of poor offense continued. With a shooting percentage of 37.1 percent for the game, the Hoosiers have shot less than 40 percent for 11 consecutive games. The Hoosiers made 20 percent from behind the three-point arc (5-of-25). \nMinnesota hit 50 percent of its attempts (29-of-58) and 36.4 percent of its three-pointers.\nThe Gophers visited the foul line more often than the Hoosiers. Minnesota hit 59 percent on foul shooting (13-of-22). IU completed 30 percent, 3-of-10.\nFor Minnesota, guard Lindsay Whalen tallied 22 points (7-of-13), five assists and five rebounds.\n"I looked at the stat sheet and it read Whalen drive, Whalen to the lane, Whalen three," Bennett said. "I feel we did a terrible job containing her down the stretch."\nGopher forward Kadidja Andersson added a career-high 18 points (with 12 in the first half) and guard Corrin Von Wald added 16.\nEach team committed 16 turnovers.