No. 18 Indiana Falls To No. 13 Maryland

Thursday, February 6

Bloomington, Ind.

8 PM

Indiana University

18-6,8-4Big Ten

No. 13/12 Maryland

19-4,10-2Big Ten

Maryland

Indiana

2/6/2020 10:53:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – No. 18 Indiana had a lead at halftime but couldn't hold on as it fell to No. 18 Maryland, 79-69. Redshirt junior guard Ali Patberg led the Hoosiers with a double-double with 16 points and 11 assists.

KEY MOMENTS

Fueled by Patberg in the first quarter, Indiana (18-6, 8-4 B1G) jumped out to a 11-4 lead at the media break thanks to a 6-0 run with 4:56 to play. Maryland (19-4, 10-2) came within three but senior forward Brenna Wise added five points to push the lead to 15-10.
Indiana would go on to shoot 75 percent in the opening quarter as a Penn 15-footer went down and the lead back up to eight. But the Terps made a push in the final 40 seconds to knock the IU lead to 23-19 after one.
Freshman forward Mackenzie Holmes got involved in the second quarter, hitting eight of her 10 first half points in the frame as it helped keep Maryland at a distance, including a 10-point lead with 6:24. A pair by Ashely Owusu and a bucket from Blair Watson made it a four point game with 3:22 to go in the first half as Penn's bucket with two seconds to go was the final field goal of the half to give her team a 38-32 edge.

In the third, the Terps would outscore the Hoosiers, 26-11, in the frame. IU cooled off from the first half as it shot just 33.3 percent. Down 10, Indiana used back-to-back scores from Berger and Holmes but a 3-pointer from Maryland's Blair Watson made it 58-49 at going to the fourth.
Penn started the final 10 minutes of play with an and-1 to close the gap at seven. Indiana would come within as few as four on a couple of occasions in the quarter with back-to-back buckets from Gulbe and a jumper from Berger with 7:25 to go. It was as close as Indiana would come as Maryland stretched the lead to 10 with 1:03 to go.

NOTABLE

Indiana had four players score in double figures in the game.
Redshirt junior guard Ali Patberg led Indiana with 16 points. Patberg added a season-high 11 assists for her first double-double of the season and third double-double of her career.
Freshman forward Mackenzie Holmes scored 12 points on 6-of-7 shooting from the field. Holmes is shooting 65.6 percent from the field for the season. It was the 15^th double-figure scoring game this season for Holmes.
Jaelynn Penn scored 13 points and Grace Berger added 12 points for the Hoosiers.
Indiana shot 27-of-53 (50.9 percent) from the field. It's the 10^th game this season the Hoosiers have shot 50 percent or better.
The Hoosiers made 15 of their first 20 shots in the game.
Indiana had 40 of their 69 points in the paint.

QUOTABLE
Indiana head coach Teri Moren
"Well, we're disappointed, as you guys can imagine. 22 points in transition, it was like watching a track meet there off of made big baskets. And usually, you worry about your transition off missed baskets, bad shots, turnovers, blocked shots. But they were equally as good off of even a made basket. There were moments where they were flying down the floor and we hadn't even turned around and that was disappointing to watch. And then, the third quarter just really did us in. As perfectly as we played, I thought, in the first half - especially that first quarter - the third quarter kind of did us in. Outscoring us 26-11, and we didn't have any rhythm. It didn't look like we had a very good plan for that match-up zone, and that's on me. I have to take responsibility for that. We've seen a lot of zone, but yet, we were unable to execute the way we needed to tonight against a good team. They're athletic; they're long. I thought we handled ourselves against the press, even though we had 17 turnovers. I don't know that any of them came off the press; they all came inside the half-court. And that was disappointing because we have very, very little room for error, as we talk about all the time. And ball security, getting good looks at the basket is paramount to beating a team like Maryland. On a night where we out rebound them, only by one, just missed too many free-throws, in timely moments. 17 turnovers, gave up 22 fastbreak points, you're not going to beat a team like Maryland if you can't stay with them within an arm's reach each quarter. As I said, that third quarter really did us in."

UP NEXT
The Hoosiers travel to Nebraska for a 3 p.m. ET tipoff on Sunday inside Pinnacle Bank Arena.

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