Miscues Cost Indiana In Loss To No. 10 Ohio State

Saturday, January 13

Bloomington, IN

12 p.m.

Indiana University

8-11, 1-5B1G

No. 10 Ohio State

16-2, 5-0B1G

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Miscues Cost Indiana In Loss To No. 10 Ohio State

1/13/2018 2:37:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana miscues were too much to overcome as it fell short to No. 10 Ohio State Buckeyes, 77-62, inside Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.

Freshman guard Jaelynn Penn led Indiana with 20 points and was one rebound shy of a double-double with nine, while senior forward Amanda Cahill added 15 points and grabbed a team-high 10 boards for her eighth double-double of the season. Senior guard Tyra Buss put up 10 points and freshman guard Bendu Yeaney had a team-high six assists along with seven points.

Indiana (8-11, 1-5 B1G) turned the ball over 23 times and sent the Buckeyes to the line on 22 occasions, with OSU converting on 16 of those. The Buckeyes (16-2, 5-0 B1G) shot 42.3 percent from behind the arc and turned the Hoosiers turnovers into 22 points.

Neither team could find a bucket within first two minutes, but OSU broke the ice with a 9-0 scoring run. Cahill got the Hoosiers started on the scoreboard after her first of three 3-pointers. The Buckeyes converted on 4-of-5 trips to the basket, giving them a 20-7 lead with two minutes to go in the first quarter. After a pair by each team, Ohio State took a 22-9 lead into the second quarter.

The Hoosiers started the second frame with a 6-2 run to cut the deficit to nine. Down 31-19, the Hoosiers got a made free throw from Penn. Indiana collected the rebound on Penn's missed attempt and dished it back to Penn, who knocked down a three to cut the Buckeyes lead to eight. Penn scored 14 points in the second quarter. OSU answered with four 3-pointers in the final few minutes, including one with under 10 seconds. to go into half with a 43-27 lead.

In the third quarter, the Ohio State lead grew to 18, eventually halted by a 5-0 Indiana run that cumulated with a Cahill three and junior forward Kym Royster's layup. The Hoosiers went on to make four of their next five field goals, cutting their deficit to 11, and held the Buckeyes scoreless for over two minutes. Tyra Buss got the Assembly Hall crowd in a frenzy when she stared down a OSU defender and knocked down a three-pointer to make it 56-49 Buckeyes with 1:23 left in the third quarter. The Buckeyes responded with a 5-0 run and a 12-point lead after three quarters.

Throughout the first half of the fourth quarter, 4-of-6 points by Ohio State came from free throws as IU held them without a field goal for three and a half minutes. On the IU end, Penn and Wickware got jumpers to fall. The Hoosiers went on a 6-0 run after the under-5 media timeout, drawing their deficit to 10. Ohio State scored a bucket after the break, which became the only field goal by either team for a two-minute stretch. When the drought ended, the Buckeyes climbed to a 71-57 lead with under two minutes.

QUOTABLE
Head coach Teri Moren
"Well obviously, today our issue was the turnovers. They scored 22 points off our turnovers. Just looking off the stats, they had five more threes than we did. We were poor from the free throw line which is where you need to still some points. We were even on rebounds which is a plus, but the turnovers just did us in today. We could never really get anything going. I thought Jaelynn Penn was really good. She was aggressive although she leads us in turnovers. The rest of them I thought were pretty quiet throughout the night. Kim Royster who had such a great game in Columbus, I just thought she was too quiet from the low block tonight. I'm disappointed that we looked at this as a great opportunity to be back home. We felt like we had been playing well. After the Purdue game, we thought we played well at Michigan even though we played the last seven minutes of the fourth quarter without Amanda Cahill. But I really thought that was a game that we could have one and had some really positive takeaways. This afternoon I'm just waiting for this group to collectively have one of those nights like against Purdue where they all show up. Kym was great against Ohio State at their place, Amanda was great against Purdue, Bendu was great against Michigan, and Jaelynn was pretty great today. I just wish that we could consistently have better scoring from all of our positions."

NOTABLE

Freshman guard Jaelynn Penn scored 14 of her team-high 20 points in the second quarter for the Hoosiers. It was the second game this season Penn has scored 20 or more points. Penn added nine rebounds. Penn shot 8-of-13 from the field.
Senior forward Amanda Cahill notched her eighth double-double of the season with 15 points and 10 rebounds. It was the 37th double-double of her career, which ranks third most in IU program history.
With her 10 rebounds, Cahill moved into third on the Hoosiers all-time list for career rebounds and now has 976.
Senior guard Tyra Buss scored 10 points for her 105th career game in double figures. Buss is the Hoosiers all-time career leading scorer and now has 1,978 points.
Freshman guard Bendu Yeaney scored seven points and added six rebounds and a career-high six assists.

UP NEXT
Indiana visits No. 11 Maryland on Tuesday, Jan. 16 at 7 p.m. That contest will be shown on BTN Plus.

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