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No. 6/7 Indiana Defeats Northwestern On The Road
1/8/2023 4:48:00 PM | Women's Basketball
EVANSTON, Ill. – Senior forward Mackenzie Holmes posted her third-straight double-double as No. 6/7 Indiana cruised past Northwestern, 72-50, on Sunday afternoon in Welsh-Ryan Arena.
KEY MOMENTS
- The Hoosiers (14-1, 4-1 B1G) opened up the game on a 7-0 advantage and only further built their lead as freshman guard Lexus Bargesser hit Holmes in the post for a pair to lead 12-4 with 5:42 to play.
- Four players scored four points or more in the first quarter, paced by seven from freshman guard Yarden Garzon to take a 20-12 lead after one.
- Holmes would open the second quarter with three-straight buckets, as she scored 14 of Indiana's 20 points in the frame. It would lead by as many as 18 before the break, as Holmes capitalized on an offensive rebound. Halftime featured a 40-24 lead for the Hoosiers.
- Northwestern (8-7, 0-5 B1G) narrowly edged IU in the third, as seven of their 16 points came at the line in the quarter, going 7-for-9 at the charity stripe. Indiana was able to limit the Wildcats to just 15.7 percent in the fourth quarter, closing out the game with four points each from junior guard Sydney Parrish and graduate student guard Grace Berger.
NOTABLE
- Holmes posts her third-straight double-double and sixth of the season with a team-high 24 points and 13 rebounds. She now owns 16 double-doubles all-time and is 10th on the all-time double-doubles list in school history.
- Holmes eclipsed 1,500 career points in the win, the 15th player in school history to record over 1,500 points and now has 1,522 career points and 14th all-time in school history.
- Berger returns for the first time since Nov. 25 after dealing with a knee injury. She scored 16 points, pushing her career total to 1,609, which is 10th all-time in school history. She also had five assists and two steals in 27 minutes.
- Parrish also ended her day in double figures with 12 points, eight rebounds and a team-high four steals.
- The Hoosiers went 19-for-21 at the line on the afternoon including a 6-for-7 effort by Berger.
- It marks the third-straight win in the series against the Wildcats and back-to-back wins at Welsh-Ryan Arena for the first time since wins on Dec. 31, 2007 and Feb. 19, 2009
- Indiana outscored the Wildcats 20-12 in the first and second quarters.
QUOTABLE
Indiana head coach Teri Moren
"Road wins are never easy. On a day like today where we did not shoot the ball extremely well from behind the arc which is uncharacteristic of our team. We still made enough plays and found ways to win. It certainly helped that Mackenzie Holmes was so good today. I thought Mackenzie was really good to get us going. It was a great blessing to have Grace Berger back and back in the lineup. She just makes everyone else around her better. We did get unto some early foul trouble which was a little frustrating because I thought from the onset we were rolling. Sydney Parrish got into some foul trouble, and it messed up our rhythm offensively, but I am proud of the way we shot from the free-throw line today. That is always a good thing. Our assists were down. Everything was a little but down except for our rebounds, but sometimes you just have to grind it out and find ways to win. Our defense I thought held us and did what it needed to do. It was keeping Northwestern at bay. Proud of our group because we have been on the road in the Big Ten at Michigan State and didn't handle ourselves in the right kind of way and I though today we did that on a day where we didn't shoot particularly right."
UP NEXT
IU is back in Bloomington on Thursday when it hosts No. 13/14 Maryland. Tip is set for 6:30 p.m. ET on Big Ten Network.
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