No. 12 Indiana Drops Heartbreaker At Iowa In Double Overtime

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No. 12 Indiana Drops Heartbreaker At Iowa In Double Overtime

1/12/2020 8:08:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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IOWA CITY, Iowa – In a double-overtime thriller, No. 12 Indiana couldn't find a way to hold off Iowa in Carver-Hawkeye Arena as it fell, 91-85, on Sunday afternoon. Junior guard Jaelynn Penn paced three Hoosiers in double figures with a season-high 24 points.

KEY MOMENTS

Indiana (14-3, 4-1 B1G) found some separation in the first quarter after a back-and-forth start as a sophomore guard Grace Berger's back-to-back buckets with just under four minutes to play gave IU a 13-6 lead.
Iowa (14-3, 4-1 B1G) would cut it to two with 2:10 remaining but the Hoosier offense, who shot 62.5 percent in the frame, added scores from Penn, Berger and sophomore forward Gulbe to help take a 22-15 lead after the first.
Back-to-back buckets from freshman forward Mackenzie Holmes and Penn with just under five to play pushed Indiana's lead to its largest at 14, 34-20, forcing an Iowa timeout.
But the scoring would stop there for the Hoosiers, who went scoreless for over three minutes as the Hawkeyes climbed their way back in to and cut the deficit to just five at the break, 37-32.
In the third, Iowa went on a 10-0 run and tied the game up at 44-all. They would lead by as many as four but a Holmes offensive board and bucket made it just a two-point deficit, 53-51, heading to the fourth quarter.
That's where IU stretched its lead to as many as six in the early goings as it went on an 8-0 run to go up 59-53. They led by as many as seven as Gulbe connected on her second made triple of the day with 6:02 remaining in regulation.
Maintaining a lead until the final 1:18 of play, Iowa would get a baseline 3-pointer from Mackenzie Meyer to regain the lead. Redshirt junior guard Ali Patberg countered when her right side baseline floater fell through with 33 seconds remaining that gave IU the one-point edge. With the Hawkeyes forced to foul, Penn stepped up to hit one in the bonus and make it a 74-72 lead for the Hoosiers with just 10 second on the clock.
Iowa senior guard Kathleen Doyle – who finished with 31 points on the night - would drive to the bucket and draw the foul as she couldn't complete the 3-point play as the game went in to overtime, tied 74-74 at the end of regulation.
Each team would just score three points each in the first overtime as Berger had IU's only field goal in the first five-minute overtime sending the game to its second extra period tied 77-all.
After the Hawkeyes took a 3-point lead, Penn responded with her third triple of the day with 3:18 remaining. However, Iowa would go on an 11-5 run in the final three minutes of action to win its 30^th-straight home game.

NOTABLE

Junior guard Jaelynn Penn scored her 51^st career double figure scoring game with a season-high 24 points.
Sophomore forward Aleksa Gulbe ended her night with a new career-high 18 points and finished one shy of a double-double as she tied a season-high nine rebounds.
Sophomore guard Grace Berger added 16 points and grabbed seven rebounds and six assists.
Senior forward Brenna Wise went 4-for-7 from the floor for nine points and added seven rebounds while senior guard Ali Patberg had six points and a team-high seven assists.
The Hoosiers combined to shoot 45.3 percent on the afternoon and won on the glass, 41-39.
Indiana drops its first Big Ten game of the season after starting the season with four-straight wins.
The two teams played their second double-overtime game in three seasons as Indiana edged out the Hawkeyes, 80-77, in double overtime at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall on Feb 22, 2017.

QUOTABLE
"We are disappointed. It was a great game against two really good teams. (Iowa senior guard) Kathleen Doyle was superior tonight and we didn't have an answer for her. You can't really help off of her. If you bring secondary help, you are going to leave shooters open on the outside. They really challenge you off the bounce. We just didn't do a very good job. I thought Kathleen proved tonight that she is the leader of that basketball team. She is a veteran and is experienced. She basically willed them to a victory. We are disappointed, but we will have to go back and regroup and set our sights on a really good Northwestern team that is coming into the Hall on Thursday."

UP NEXT
The Hoosiers return home to face Northwestern on Thursday night at 7 p.m. inside Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.

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