No. 6 Hoosiers Improves To 4-0 In Big Ten Play With Win At Wisconsin

Wednesday, January 5

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7:30 P.M. ET

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No. 6 Hoosiers Improves To 4-0 In Big Ten Play With Win At Wisconsin

1/5/2022 9:45:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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MADISON, Wis. – Graduate student guard Ali Patberg led the way with 18 points as No. 6 Indiana improved to 4-0 in the Big Ten with a 76-53 win at Wisconsin on Wednesday night.

KEY MOMENTS

Indiana (12-2, 4-0 B1G) had to chip away at an early deficit but used a 12-2 run to close out the first quarter including a go-ahead 3-pointer by Patberg, who had seven in the first frame.
Keeping its foot on the gas, junior forward Mackenzie Holmes got on the board early in the second to give her team a 23-14 lead. The Badgers would cut the deficit back down to four but Patberg drained a corner triple on a pass from senior guard Grace Berger.
IU would go on to shoot 57.1 percent in the second and took a 36-21 lead into halftime.
In the third, the Hoosiers would push to its lead to 23 with 6:09 remaining as Gulbe went to the line for a pair, 48-25. Wisconsin chipped away slowly at the lead towards the end of the third on a 7-0 run and came within 13.
Holmes and Patberg helped pad the lead back up in the fourth with back-to-back buckets as the Hoosiers led by as many as 27.

NOTABLE

Indiana improves to 4-0 in Big Time play for the second time ever. It started the 2019-20 season at 4-0.
The win gives IU its 11^th-straight road victory and secures the nation's second longest active win streak away from home.
The Hoosiers have now won eight in a row against the Badgers and 10 of the last 11 matchups.
Patberg led the way with 18 points on 6-for-8 shooting including a 4-for-5 clip from the 3-point line. She finished one point shy of a season-high.
Three others added double figures including 16 points from Holmes and tied a team-high eight rebounds. Senior forward Aleksa Gulbe had 13 points and seven boards along with a team-high two steals. Graduate student guard Nicole Cardaño-Hillary added 11 points.
Senior guard Grace Berger also put up a solid stat line as she tied a season-high 11 assists to go along with nine points and eight rebounds.
The Hoosiers shot 48.2 percent from the floor and 42.1 percent from the 3-point line. They knocked in eight triples, tying a season-high from beyond-the-arc.
In the battle of the boards, IU outrebounded Wisconsin, 36-25.

QUOTABLE
Indiana head coach Teri Moren
"These are always difficult games on the road, not much of a crowd for a Wednesday night, which we anticipated. It was pretty quiet gym unlike the other day in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall agiant Maryland. We certainly had to bring our energy and I thought we got off to a sluggish, slow start and then we picked up the pace and then it got back in to a lull. I really liked some of the things that we did, we just kind of had to keep chipping away. I thought Ali Patberg was tremendous. I thought Aleksa Gulbe did a lot of good things and Mack(enzie Holmes) was steady on the inside but this is a great win. Any time you can win on the road like I said, in a very quiet atmosphere where we had to bring our own energy, that's a good day for us. It was nice to see how we responded from such an emotional win with Maryland and how we responded today was really good."

UP NEXT
The Hoosiers will return to action at home on Thursday, January 13 against Nebraska. Tipoff is set for 6 p.m. ET on Big Ten Network.

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