No. 14 Indiana Picks Up Road Win At Rutgers; Penn Scores 1,000th Point

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No. 14 Indiana Picks Up Road Win At Rutgers; Penn Scores 1,000th Point

12/31/2019 6:17:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Four players landed in double figures as No. 14 Indiana handled business on the road at Rutgers, 66-56, on New Year's Eve. Junior guard Jaelynn Penn led the way with 14 points as she scored her 1,000^th point in the victory.

KEY MOMENTS

KEY MOMENTS
Sophomore guard Grace Berger would get IU (12-2, 2-0 B1G) on the board first as she would pace her team with four points to take the lead after an error-filled quarter, 9-8. The two teams combined for just 7 makes on 11 turnovers.
In a back-and-forth second quarter, Penn started things off by hitting her career milestone with a steal and transition layup to push the lead to three. It would prove to be the largest lead of the frame as a pair at the line from sophomore forward Aleksa Gulbe hit two at the line to give IU the lead at the break, 25-23.
Indiana maintained its lead early in the third quarter as Rutgers (11-2, 1-1 B1G) came within two with just under seven minutes to play. Penn's 3-pointer and a bucket from Holmes with 1:54 in the quarter helped IU keep the margin at eight while Gulbe drew contact with under a second on the clock to make it a 10-point lead, 46-36, with a quarter to play.
Penn knocked down a 3-pointer less than a minute in to the final quarter for its largest lead at 13. They would keep its lead in double figures until just under four minutes to play when Rutgers pressure kicked in.
The Scarlet Knights would come within as few as five with 1:14 remaining but the Hoosiers would step up in the bonus as Gulbe, Patberg and Berger as they made 7-of-8 down the stretch.e

NOTABLE

Junior guard Jaelynn Penn became the 27^th player to reach 1,000 career points as she paced the Hoosiers with a team-high 14 points.
Sophomore guard Grace Berger notched her eighth game in double figures this season with 13 points and tied a team-high seven rebounds.
Sophomore forward Aleksa Gulbe (11 points) and freshman forward Mackenzie Holmes (10 points) each added double figures.
Redshirt junior guard Ali Patberg led the way with four assists while also adding nine points and four rebounds.
Indiana improves to 2-0 in the Big Ten for the second-straight season and ninth time overall in program history.
The Hoosiers shot 42.6 percent on the night while limiting the Scarlet Knights to just 33.9 percent from the floor and 1-for-15 from the 3-point line.
They also went 75 percent at the line (21-for-28).
IU moves to 6-4 in the all-time series with the Scarlet Knights in the only meeting between the two teams this season.

QUOTABLE
Indiana head coach Teri Moren
"This is a great win for the Hoosiers. As Brenna (Wise) and Ali (Patberg) were walking, one of the things that Brenna said this is a really difficult place to play and win. Night in and night out we know that the Big Ten schedule, it's a grind and whether you're in the haul or whether you're in the rack, it's going to be difficult. To get out of here tonight with a win, it's big for our program. It's big for our team and our staff. We knew the press was something that we were going to have to handle. A year ago we didn't do that very well here. We had to learn a hard lesson. I thought we did a much better job tonight. I thought once we got across the timeline we remained aggressive and that was the difference from a year ago as well. It wasn't all the time clean as far as offensively and just being fluid and getting easy shots but that's kind of how Rutgers wants it to be. They want to make it difficult. To walk out of here with a win, we're grateful and we know it doesn't get any easier."

UP NEXT
Indiana will take the weekend off before returning home to host Illinois on Monday, January 6. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. ET on Big Ten Network.

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