No. 12 Indiana Improves To 4-0 In Big Ten With Win Over Purdue

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No. 12 Indiana Improves To 4-0 In Big Ten With Win Over Purdue

1/9/2020 9:42:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – For the first time in school history, No. 12 Indiana opened up Big Ten play 4-0 with a 66-48 over in-state rival Purdue on Thursday night. Leading the Hoosiers was redshirt junior Ali Patberg with 18 points and sophomore forward Aleksa Gulbe followed with 10 points, eight rebounds and four blocks.

KEY MOMENTS

Indiana took their first lead of the game with 4:52 remaining, 5-4, on two senior forward Brenna Wise free throws. It ended the first quarter on a 14-2 run to lead 14-6.
The Hoosiers took their first double-digit lead of the game with 9:20 remaining in the first half on two sophomore guard Grace Berger free throws, 16-6.

Indiana forced Purdue to take a timeout at the 7:23 mark of the second quarter after the Hoosiers took a 20-7 lead on a Wise put back.
A 3-pointer by Patberg with 1:33 remaining put Indiana up at the half 28-16. Patberg had 11 first-half points on 4-of-5 shooting.

A jumper by Wise put the Hoosiers up 34-16 with 8:17 remaining in the third quarter as the Hoosiers opened the half on a 6-0 run.
The Hoosiers extended their run to 11-1 and lead to 39-17 on a Patberg fast break layup and forced the Boilermakers to call a timeout with 6:20 remaining in the third quarter.

They would lead by as many as 24 in the fourth quarter with just under four minutes to play.

NOTABLE

With the win Indiana improves to 4-0 in Big Ten games, their best start in conference play in program history.
Indiana has now won five of the last six games in the series against Purdue and have won six straight at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.
Indiana held Purdue to 48 points, their seventh time this season holding an opponent below 50 points. Purdue came into the game averaging 64.2 points per game.
The Hoosiers held the Boilermakers to 2-of-13 shooting from 3-point range and are holding opponents to 23.8 percent from three this season.
After Purdue scored the first four points of the game, Indiana used a 14-2 run to close the first quarter up 14-6. Indiana held Purdue scoreless the final 4:38 of the quarter.
Indiana held Purdue to 16 points in the first half, the lowest point total for an opponent in a half this season.
Patberg led Indiana with 18 points and has 37 points in her last two games for the Hoosiers. Patberg shot 7-of-10 from the field
Gulbe scored 10 points and added eight rebounds. Gulbe tied her career-high with four blocks.
Berger scored seven points and added five assists and three rebounds.
IU won the rebounding margin, 35-32.

QUOTABLE
Indiana head coach Teri Moren
"First of all, thank you to our crowd tonight that came out to support us. I thought it was your typical turn out for an Indiana, Purdue game. The crowd obviously gives us energy, always. We appreciate everyone who came out and supported us tonight. Good win for us. I didn't think we played particularly clean or as pretty as we did the other night against Illinois in terms of our ball movement. Our ball movement was not as crisp as it was the other night. Shot selection particularly in the first half, we were just shooting the ball too quickly. We made one or two passes and took contested shots or shots outside the 3-point line when we easily could have gotten shots up at the rim. We tried to make some adjustments there at half time. I thought we did a much better job in the second half. I thought defensively, tonight, we were terrific. We didn't give Purdue anything easy. Arianna Harris is a very good post player. She is a very tough kid to have to guard on the low block. I thought it was very good for Mackenzie Holmes to see what a senior post player of her caliber plays like. Aleksa Gulbe did a terrific on her and made her fight for all of her points. Jaelynn (Penn) did a good job guarding (Karissa) McLaughlin and AP (Ali Patberg) went back and forth who was guarding her was really good. I thought AP did a great job on (Kayana) Traylor as well. I am really happy defensively. Give Coach Box and Rhet (Wierzba) and JB (Janese Banks Constantine) over there credit for getting the matchups right, but also for making some subtle adjustments to how we were guarding ball screens. Give our kids credit for sticking to the game plan."

UP NEXT
The Hoosiers will go on the road to continue Big Ten play when they square off with the Iowa Hawkeyes at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 12 on Big Ten Network.

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