IU rebounds with win over Minnesota
Minnesota presented a number of defensive problems for IU women’s basketball on paper.
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Minnesota presented a number of defensive problems for IU women’s basketball on paper.
IU trailed Ohio State by 14 after one quarter of play Saturday afternoon. By halftime, as the Hoosiers shot just 25 percent from the field, the deficit rose to 19. They got the better of the Buckeyes in the second half, but first half struggles ensured there would be no miracle comeback on New Year's Eve.
IU women's basketball will take on its first ranked opponent of the season when No. 14 Ohio State comes to Bloomington for a New Year's Eve showdown at 3 p.m. on Saturday.
Riding a hot streak and having recently earned its biggest win of the season, IU women's basketball is entering what Coach Teri Moren calls its second season - Big Ten play.
For the third time already this season, an IU women's basketball player reached the 1,000-point mark for her career.
The IU women’s basketball team entered Tuesday night’s Sunshine Classic contest against Florida with a respectable 8-3 record, but lacked a top-notch win.
IU women's basketball has taken some lumps in the non-conference schedule, but with a four-game winning streak in progress, the Hoosiers will get a chance to score one last big win before Big Ten play when they battle Florida Tuesday at 7:45 p.m.
During the fourth quarter of a blowout win over Northern Kentucky last Thursday, senior guard Alexis Gassion had already notched 15 rebounds.
A blowout win Thursday night left IU women’s basketball coach Teri Moren unhappy with the team’s ability to put together a complete game.
IU Coach Teri Moren has preached defense recently. IU women’s basketball suffered a pair of losses in the past two weeks, and in both games Moren said lackluster defending was at least partially to blame for the defeats.
IU women’s basketball has been plagued with inconsistencies the past few weeks, and it has lost three road games already this season. Turnovers, defense and 3-point shooting have all been occasional points of weakness for the Hoosiers.
In its past three road games, IU women’s basketball has struggled to shoot higher than 40 percent from the field. With streaky three-point shooting and a rash of turnovers, the Hoosier offense simply wasn’t effective.
It’s December in Indiana, and for a freshman from Texas who’s rarely seen snow in her life and wore shorts on Christmas last year, homesickness would be expected to reach its apex right about now.
In the first half of Thursday’s loss to North Carolina State, IU women’s basketball turned the ball over often. In the second half, the Hoosiers curtailed their miscues, but they still turned it over when it seemed the possessions mattered most.
IU Coach Teri Moren re-watched the fourth quarter of her team’s collapse at Auburn on Sunday on the plane ride home from the game. When she got back home late that night, she watched it again.
Despite leading most of the game and having a 17-point lead early in the fourth quarter Sunday afternoon, IU was ultimately overcome by Auburn’s swarming defense and fell by a final of 71-67.
It’s the little things that matter most in big games, and with IU set to face its toughest test of the season thus far on Sunday, IU Coach Teri Moren is focused on the minute details.
IU suffered its first loss of the season on the back end of a two-game road trip Saturday, and dropped out of the AP Top-25 poll because of it.
With stifling defense and dominant rebounding, No. 6 IU raced past Liberty by a final of 87-48 on Saturday night in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.
In the second and final game of IU’s first road trip of the season, streaky shooting and foul trouble plagued the No. 23 Hoosiers in an 85-74 defeat at Western Kentucky.