Hoosiers Continue To Roll, Improve To 8-0 With Win Over Butler

Wednesday, December 5

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Hoosiers Continue To Roll, Improve To 8-0 With Win Over Butler

12/5/2018 9:59:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Redshirt junior forward Brenna Wise recorded her second double-double of the season and three scored in double figures as Indiana Women's Basketball improved to 8-0 on the season with a 66-46 win over Butler on Wednesday night.

KEY MOMENTS

Indiana led from the start as a 6-0 run sparked by back-to-back buckets from sophomore guard Bendu Yeaney put Indiana up 14-5 with 4:33 remaining. They would take a 18-9 lead after the end of one behind Yeaney's eight points in the frame as the Hoosiers would come out with as much fire in the second quarter.
Back-to-back buckets from Penn and a triple from Patberg led to a Butler (6-1) timeout less than 20 seconds in to the quarter. It was part of a 9-0 run that stretch until the 8:02 mark and gave IU its largest lead of the quarter up 25-11.
The Bulldogs would come within as few as six but Wise's putback for two of her 13 points in the first half and a steal and transition layup pushed the margin back up 10, 29-19 with 4:05 left in the second quarter. IU would take a 35-23 lead at the break behind 13 of Wise's 22 points.
In the third, Indiana made 11 of its 15 points in the frame at the free throw line and held Butler to just 21.4 percent from the floor. It pushed IU's lead to 50-33 going into the final 10 minutes.
The Hoosiers would take its largest lead of the game in the fourth, up 25 with 6:32 to go in the contest, as they hit 53.8 percent of its shots (7-for-13) to close it out.

NOTABLE

With the win, the Hoosiers improve to 8-0 on the season, their best start since they started the 2013-14 season 14-0.
The Hoosiers have now won 14 straight games, which represents the nation's longest winning streak. Indiana has won 16 straight home games.
Indiana improves to 6-1 all-time against Butler.
Leading by one at 6-5 with 6:35 to play in the first quarter, Indiana used a 17-4 run to go up 23-9 with 9:16 to play in the second quarter.
Yeaney scored 13 points, which included eight of the Hoosiers first 12 points in the game.
Redshirt junior guard Ali Patberg added double figures with 16 points and five rebounds.
Patberg and Wise combined for 38 of the 66 Indiana points in the game.
Patberg and Wise scored 12 of the Hoosiers 15 points in the third quarter.
Wise scored a season-high 22 points and added a season-high 11 rebounds for her second double-double of the season. She added two assists and two steals.
Sophomore guard Jaelynn Penn also contributed six points and tied a career-high three steals.
Butler came into the game allowing opponents to score 48.7 points per game and Indiana scored 66 points. The Hoosiers also held the Bulldogs to a season-low 46 points, 30 points under its 78.6 average coming in to Wednesday's game.
The Hoosiers shot 16-of-19 from the free-throw line (84.2 percent) and outgained Butler by eight points at the free-throw line.
Indiana held Butler to 18-of-61 (29.5 percent) shooting from the field.
Fifth-year head coach Teri Moren won her 90^th game as Indiana's head coach, moving into a tie for third all-time with Maryalyce Jeremiah.

QUOTABLE
Indiana head coach Teri Moren
"It was a sound defensive performance tonight for us. I was frustrated. I thought we were very average on the offensive end as far as our ability to take care of the basketball. There were moments where it was great and we looked in sync, but then the second half, especially the third quarter, we just couldn't get any kind of rhythm, I didn't feel like. We just turned it over too much. That's an area where we only have five turnovers at half time, and then we come out and turn it over that much in the second half. It is inexcusable on our part. Nonetheless, I don't want to take anything away from our kids. I thought their effort was tremendous defensively. I thought they did what they needed to do and they took away a lot of Butler's things that they wanted do, and that was get the ball to the low block. I thought we competed and I'm proud of that, but we still have a lot of things to shore up here before Sunday."

UP NEXT
Indiana welcomes Missouri State in a nationally televised broadcast on Sunday afternoon. Tipoff on Big Ten Network is set for Noon ET.

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