Hoosiers Fall To Northwestern In Overtime

Thursday, January 16

Bloomington, Ind.

7 PM

Indiana University

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Northwestern

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Northwestern

Indiana

1/16/2020 9:35:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – No. 15 Indiana Women's Basketball let another overtime game slip away as it fell to Northwestern 71-69, on Thursday night at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.

KEY MOMENTS

After falling behind early, 11-2, the Hoosiers (14-2, 4-2 B1G) went on a 7-2 run that was capped off by a Holmes and-one at the 2:23 mark of the first quarter. That was the second straight possession Holmes scored for IU.
Holmes hit a buzzard beater from just inside the arc to to send the Hoosiers into the second quarter trailing, 17-11.

Indiana scored on back-to-back possessions with a 3-pointer from junior guard Jaelynn Penn and a jumper from senior forward Brenna Wise to tie the game up for the first time at 18 and force a Northwestern (15-2, 5-1 B1G) timeout at the 5:04 mark of the second quarter.
IU took their first lead of the game two possessions after getting its first tie on a Holmes layup with 3:41 remaining in the first half.
The Hoosiers went on a 6-0 run and a Berger steal and layup with 27 seconds remaining sent IU into the half with a 31-24 lead.

Indiana took is first double-digit lead on a sophomore forward Aleksa Gulbe jumper at the 2:52 mark of the third quarter, 45-35.
A Gulbe layup just before the third quarter concluded gave the Hoosiers a 51-41 lead heading into the final quarter of play.

Northwestern cut their deficit to two but Berger made a short jumper and 1-of-2 free throws on the next possession to give Indiana a little cushion with 1:13 remaining in the contest, 62-57.
Wildcat guard Veronica Burton hit an and-one opportunity to tie the game up at 62 with 28 seconds remaining. Holmes' last second jumper was no good for IU and the game went to overtime.
IU took their first lead of the overtime period on two Holmes' free throws with 3:29 remaining, 66-65. Holmes made it a two-possession game on an and-one attempt to give the Hoosiers the lead, 69-65, with 2:05 left.
A 3-pointer by the Wildcats and two free throws by Burton gave Northwestern the lead, 70-69, with 32 seconds remaining. With the ball, Indiana had an opportunity with 24 seconds to go but turned the ball over as Northwestern ran out the clock.

NOTABLE

Holmes led the Hoosiers as she tied her career-high with 22 points on 9-of-14 shooting from the field. For the season Holmes is shooting 92-of-136 (67.6 percent) from the field. Holmes added a career-high nine rebounds.
The Hoosiers had three players score in double-figures as Berger had 16 and redshirt junior guard Ali Patberg 12. Berger added a career-high eight rebounds and Patberg had a game-high seven assists.
Wise scored eight points and pulled down a season-high 11 rebounds.
With Northwestern leading 18-11, Indiana used a 11-0 run to go up 22-18 at the 3:17 mark of the second quarter.
Indiana held Northwestern scoreless for 7:12 seconds during the stretch.
Indiana outscored Northwestern 20-7 in the second quarter and held the Wildcats to 2-of-13 shooting from the field in the period.
The Hoosiers got 22 points off the bench for the game.

QUOTABLE
Indiana head coach Teri Moren
"Well, you can imagine how disappointed we all are in the outcome for so many reasons. Whether we start with our turnovers, we turned the ball over 21 times, which obviously gave them more possessions offensively. Their 22 points off of our turnovers and nine points in the fourth quarter off of our turnovers; we were undisciplined. They got to 50-50 balls for most of the night. Balls would go through our hands; they just pursued and were quicker to the ball than we were and that was disappointing, especially on our home floor. Careless turnovers, when I think about it, and careless decisions down the stretch. Jaelynn Penn doesn't need to foul, worst case we are still up one and we get the ball. (Mac)Kenzie (Holmes) goes out and guards (Abi) Scheid, does a nice job until she turns it over goes down and guards her outside the arc then decides to walk back into the paint and leave their best 3-point shooter open outside the arc. We can say she is a freshman, but she should have known better than that. She shoots 46 percent from the 3-point line and we have prepared and talked about that for the last two days. So, this is on me, on our staff, on our players. The game should have never gone into overtime, just like the Iowa game. We've got to look at ourselves and accept this and hopefully learn from it. I thought we learned some lessons from the Iowa game, but we still have a lot of work to do in learning hard, hard, hard lessons. I am just really disappointed."

UP NEXT
Indiana will be on the road twice next week when they travel to Maryland at 8 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 20 and again to Penn State at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 23. Both games are live on Big Ten Network.

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