Indiana University Athletics
#IUWBB Game 9 Preview: IPFW
12/9/2014 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
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GAME 9
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THE OPENING TIP
Indiana will host its final non-conference home game in Assembly Hall on Wednesday, Dec. 10 against IPFW at 7 p.m. ET. The game can be heard on WHCC 105.1 FM in Bloomington with Greg Murray on the call. The contest is also available as a live web broadcast on BTN Plus.
DID YOU KNOW?
• Indiana leads the all-time series against IPFW, 3-0.
• The Hoosiers outlasted the Mastodons in last year's meeting in Fort Wayne, 85-80, on Nov. 12, 2013. Larryn Brooks led the way for IU in that game, scoring 25 points with six assists and four rebounds.
• IU is averaging a Big Ten-leading 85.1 points per game this season. That scoring total ranks 12th in NCAA Division I women's basketball.
• Indiana also leads the conference in assists with 17.6 dimes per game. IU has dished for 22 or more assists in four contests this year, marking the first time since 2007-08 an Indiana team has had four games of 20+ assists for an entire season.
• The Hoosiers have hit 67 3-pointers to average 8.4 3-point field goals per game this season. That total leads the Big Ten and ranks 16th nationally in 3-point field goals made per game.
• This year's team is ahead of last year's record-setting 3-point pace. Indiana's 2013-14 team, which broke the school record for most 3-pointers made in a single season (259), hit 61 3-pointers through eight games.
• IU has taken care of the basketball so far this season as the Hoosiers rank second in the conference for fewest turnovers per game (13.4) and own a Big Ten-leading turnover margin of +6.63.
• Freshman Tyra Buss has 32 steals through eight games and is tied for second in the country in steals (4.0 spg). IU has not had a player with more than 36 steals in an entire season since 2010-11.
• Buss leads the Hoosiers in scoring (16.5 ppg) and steals and is second on the team in assists (3.3 apg).
• Brooks is shooting 44.4 percent from 3-point range so far this year while scoring 13.9 points per game and dishing for a team-best 3.4 assists per contest. Brooks has connected on three or more 3-point field goals in five games and only once has hit less than two treys in a game.
• Freshman Amanda Cahill just missed a double-double in IU's last game vs. IUPUI when she finished with 14 points and nine rebounds. Cahill is averaging a double-double so far this year with 11.6 points and 10.3 rebounds per game.
THE COACHES
Indiana
Teri Moren
Career Record: 206-131 (12th year)
Indiana record: 7-1 (1st year)
IPFW
Chris Paul
Career Record: 113-155 (10th year)
IPFW Record: 113-155 (10th year)
IPFW AT A GLANCE
IPFW arrives to Bloomington riding a two-game winning streak with victories at Chicago State and vs. Northern Kentucky in its last two contests. Senior guard Haley Seibert leads the way for the Mastodons as she averages 18.6 points per game while shooting 40 percent from 3-point range. She is also 51-of-52 from the free throw line this year to shoot 98.1 percent from the charity stripe. Seibert is tied for the team lead in assists. KeShyra McCarver leads IPFW in rebounds with 6.3 boards per game while scoring 9.6 points per contest. As a team, the Mastodons are shooting 36.3 percent from 3-point range and have hit 35 more 3-pointers than their opponents this year. In its win over Chicago State on Dec. 4, IPFW connected on 16 3-point field goals.
GETTING OFFENSIVE
Indiana is averaging a Big Ten-leading 85.1 points per game in 2014-15. That total ranks 12th nationally.
Three times this year IU has scored 97 or more points, marking the first time in program history an Indiana team has tallied 97 or more points three times in the same season. Only five times prior to this year has a Hoosier team scored 90 or more on three occasions in the same year.
In five games this year, IU has had five or more players score in double-figures, including two contests where six players tallied double digits. Prior to this season, the last time Indiana had six players score in double-figures in the same game was Nov. 14, 2008 vs. Ball State.
ALWAYS IN FRONT (ALMOST)
So far this season, Indiana has only trailed one time in any game during regulation play. The Hoosiers have been tied or have had the lead in 319 minutes and 16 seconds of regulation play in 2014-15 out of a possible 320 minutes. The only time IU has trailed in regulation was when IUPUI took a 3-0 lead for 44 seconds to begin the game on Dec. 7.
DIALING LONG DISTANCE
Land phone lines are thing of the past, but the Hoosiers are still dialing long distance in 2014-15. IU has hit 67 3-point field goals through eight games this year, ahead of last year's record-setting pace when Indiana hit a program record 259 3-point field goals (2nd highest total in Big Ten history). Last year through eight games, IU hit 61 3-pointers. The Hoosiers are shooting 37.4 percent from long distance as a team.
PASSING THE PUMPKIN
Indiana leads the Big Ten in assists with 17.6 dimes per game (20th nationally). In four games this year, IU has had 22 or more assists as a team. The Hoosiers have not had four games of 20 or more assists in the same season since 2007-08 when IU had four games for 20 or more dimes that year.
PROTECTING THE PUMPKIN
The Hoosiers are also taking care of the basketball so far this season as the IU leads the Big Ten in turnover margin (+6.63) and assist-turnover ratio (1.3). Indiana is second in the conference in fewest turnovers per game (13.4). Nationally, IU is 14th in the country in assist-turnover ratio and 21st in turnover margin.
BEWARE OF STEALERS
IU has had 10 or more steals in five games this season, including 18 steals in each of the first two games of the year, marking the first time in program history an IU team had 18 or more steals in back-to-back games. The 18 steals ties for the fourth-most steals in a single game in program history. Prior to this season, the last time an Indiana team had 18 steals in a game was Dec. 5, 2007 vs. Dayton (18). IU is averaging 10.6 steals per game. The last time an IU team had five games of 10 or more steals in the same year came during the 2011-12 season.
LIMITING FOES
As a team, IU is limiting opponents to shoot just 35.5 percent from the field. Five times this year, the Indiana defense has held opponents to shoot 34.9 percent or lower from the field. By comparison, IU held seven opponents under 34.9 percent shooting last year, and this year IU has accomplished that feat five times.
Indiana's defense has held opponents to shoot 25 percent or less from 3-point range six times this year, including a pair of games of 10 percent of lower. For the year, IU opponents are shooting only 23.9 percent from 3-point range, that total leads the Big Ten in that category.
CLIMBING TO THE CA-HILL TOP
Freshman Amanda Cahill has recorded three double-doubles and is averaging 11.6 points and 10.3 rebounds per game while shooting 48.6 percent from the field. Last time out vs. IUPUI, Cahill just missed a double-double as she led IU with 14 points, nine rebounds, three blocks (career high) and three steals (career high). Cahill has had 10 or more rebounds in five games this year, becoming the first IU player to have five games of 10+ rebounds in the same season since Sasha Chaplin in 2011-12. Against Indiana State on Nov. 30, Cahill led IU with 13 points and 18 rebounds. Her rebounding total vs. ISU tied for the third most ever by an Indiana freshman in a single game. Cahill has scored in double-figures in six of Indiana's eight games so far this year.
THE BUSS IS ROLLING
Freshman Tyra Buss has scored in double-figures in every game this season and currently leads the team in scoring (16.5 ppg) and steals (4.0 spg), while adding 3.5 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game. Buss is tied for second nationally in steals. Buss has had three or more steals in six games and has totaled 32 steals so far this year. IU has not had a player with more than 36 steals in an entire season since 2010-11 (Jori Davis, 52).
Twice this year, Buss has earned Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors (Nov. 17, Nov. 24). She became the first IU player to ever receive Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors on consecutive occasions and the second Hoosier to earn the award twice in the same season (Larryn Brooks, 2013-14). Buss became the first Indiana player to earn conference weekly laurels in back-to-back weeks since Cyndi Valentin was named Big Ten Player of the Week two straight times in 2005-06.
BROOKS IS BACK
Indiana sophomore Larryn Brooks is starting this year right where she left off last season. Brooks tied her season high with 21 points at Boston College on Dec. 3, shooting 8-of-12 from the field and 3-of-6 from long distance. She's averaging 13.9 points, 3.4 assists (leads team), 3.0 rebounds and 1.6 steals per game while shooting 49.4 percent from the field and 44.4 percent from long distance so far in 2014-15. Brooks has hit three or more 3-point field goals in five games this year and has only hit less than two one time.
Brooks had one of the most productive seasons by any freshman in the history of the program last year. She broke the IU freshman scoring record, tallying 554 points (7th on school single season list), breaking a 34-year-old freshman record held by Dorothy Reffel who scored 454 points in 1979-80. She was the first freshman in program history to ever eclipse 500 points in a season. Brooks also set freshman marks for 3-pointers made with 67 (T-4th), assists with 154 (3rd) and free throws made with 129. Brooks led the Hoosiers in scoring (16.3 ppg), field goals made (179), 3-point field goals made, 3-point field goal percentage (.379), free throws made, free throw percentage (.832) and assists.
Brooks earned Second Team All-Big Ten and Big Ten All-Freshman Team honors last season. She was the first Hoosier to earn second team all-conference honors since 2011 (Jori Davis) and just the fifth freshman ever at IU to be named to the conference's all-freshman squad and the first since 2006 (Whitney Thomas).
JENN BECOMING A GEM
Sophomore Jenn Anderson has started in each game this year and has made her presence known so far in 2014-15. Anderson is averaging 11.9 points and 4.6 rebounds per game while shooting 58.8 percent from the field. She has scored in double-figures in five games this year. Her shooting percentage ranks 23rd nationally and second in the Big Ten Conference.
Media Contact: Ryan Sheets, rmsheets@indiana.edu
