Indiana University Athletics
Holmes And Berger Named College Sport Communicators Academic All-America
3/15/2023 12:00:00 PM | Women's Basketball
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – For the first time since 1989, Indiana women's basketball has two 2023 College Sport Communicators (CSC) Academic All-Americans in senior forward Mackenzie Holmes and graduate student guard Grace Berger. Holmes is on the first team and Berger is a second team selection.
This is the first time in school history the program has placed two on the Academic All-America team. This is the fifth and sixth Academic All-American honor in the program's history, as five of those six selections have played for ninth year head coach Teri Moren.
Holmes holds a 3.62 GPA in human development & family studies at Indiana. This season, Holmes has pulled in a variety of national and conference honors including Associated Press First Team All-America,
Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year and All-Big Ten first team. She has also been named to the 2023 Lisa Leslie Award finalist and the first Hoosier to appear on the national ballot. She is also a candidate for a national player of the year awards including 2023 Wooden Award national ballot, 2023 Jersey Mike's Naismith Trophy, 2023 Lisa Leslie Award finalist, 2023 Wooden Award and 2023 USBWA Ann Meyers Drysdale Player of the Year.
The Gorham, Maine native averages a team-high 22.3 points, 7.3 rebounds, 1.9 blocks and is one of the nation's most accurate shooters by going 68.8 percent from the floor. She is second in the nation and leading the Big Ten in field goal percentage, fifth in field goals made (271), seventh in points per game (22.3) and eighth in points scored (670). Holmes has led the Hoosiers in scoring on 24 occasions this season. She has scored in double figures in all 30 games, scoring 20 points 17 times and has three 30-point scoring efforts this season. Her nine double-doubles leads her teams as six of her double-doubles have occurred in conference play, which ranks eighth all-time in a single season. She led the league in blocks (56) and blocks per game (1.9) and averages 1.1 steals (33) per game. She set a season-high five blocks against Nebraska and Michigan while recording multiple blocks in 14 games. Holmes is now in the top five in scoring in school history (1,875) and second in all-time blocks (206).
Berger earns a spot on the second team with a 3.89 GPA in her undergraduate studies in sport marketing & management while holding a 3.94 GPA in her master's degree work in athletic administration. She previously earned honors from the organization back in 2021 when she was an All-District selection. The Louisville, Ky. native became the program's first four-time All-Big Ten first team selection in 2022-23 while also being up for national awards including the 2023 Cheryl Miller Award preseason watch list, 2023.Jersey Mikes Naismith Trophy preseason watch list and 2023 Wooden Award preseason Top 50. In 22 games this season, is averaging 12.5 points, 5.8 assists and 4.6 rebounds per game while shooting 48.5 percent from the field, 40 percent from 3-point range and 74.6 percent at the free throw line. She has scored in double figures 16 times including a season-high 26 points in the win over Iowa. A player who does a little bit of everything, Berger has dished out multiple assists in 19 games and averages 1.1 steals per outing while holding a +2.3 assist-to-turnover ratio. She collected three double-doubles this year including two on the road at then No. 11/4 Tennessee and in a win at Ohio State while also having the first point/assist double-double for the program since 2017.
The Hoosiers were selected as a No. 1 seed in the upcoming NCAA Tournament, which begins on Saturday, March 18 against the winner of the play-in game between Tennessee Tech and Monmouth. Tip time is set for 11:30 a.m. ET at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall and will be live on ESPN2.
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This is the first time in school history the program has placed two on the Academic All-America team. This is the fifth and sixth Academic All-American honor in the program's history, as five of those six selections have played for ninth year head coach Teri Moren.
Holmes holds a 3.62 GPA in human development & family studies at Indiana. This season, Holmes has pulled in a variety of national and conference honors including Associated Press First Team All-America,
Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year and All-Big Ten first team. She has also been named to the 2023 Lisa Leslie Award finalist and the first Hoosier to appear on the national ballot. She is also a candidate for a national player of the year awards including 2023 Wooden Award national ballot, 2023 Jersey Mike's Naismith Trophy, 2023 Lisa Leslie Award finalist, 2023 Wooden Award and 2023 USBWA Ann Meyers Drysdale Player of the Year.
The Gorham, Maine native averages a team-high 22.3 points, 7.3 rebounds, 1.9 blocks and is one of the nation's most accurate shooters by going 68.8 percent from the floor. She is second in the nation and leading the Big Ten in field goal percentage, fifth in field goals made (271), seventh in points per game (22.3) and eighth in points scored (670). Holmes has led the Hoosiers in scoring on 24 occasions this season. She has scored in double figures in all 30 games, scoring 20 points 17 times and has three 30-point scoring efforts this season. Her nine double-doubles leads her teams as six of her double-doubles have occurred in conference play, which ranks eighth all-time in a single season. She led the league in blocks (56) and blocks per game (1.9) and averages 1.1 steals (33) per game. She set a season-high five blocks against Nebraska and Michigan while recording multiple blocks in 14 games. Holmes is now in the top five in scoring in school history (1,875) and second in all-time blocks (206).
Berger earns a spot on the second team with a 3.89 GPA in her undergraduate studies in sport marketing & management while holding a 3.94 GPA in her master's degree work in athletic administration. She previously earned honors from the organization back in 2021 when she was an All-District selection. The Louisville, Ky. native became the program's first four-time All-Big Ten first team selection in 2022-23 while also being up for national awards including the 2023 Cheryl Miller Award preseason watch list, 2023.Jersey Mikes Naismith Trophy preseason watch list and 2023 Wooden Award preseason Top 50. In 22 games this season, is averaging 12.5 points, 5.8 assists and 4.6 rebounds per game while shooting 48.5 percent from the field, 40 percent from 3-point range and 74.6 percent at the free throw line. She has scored in double figures 16 times including a season-high 26 points in the win over Iowa. A player who does a little bit of everything, Berger has dished out multiple assists in 19 games and averages 1.1 steals per outing while holding a +2.3 assist-to-turnover ratio. She collected three double-doubles this year including two on the road at then No. 11/4 Tennessee and in a win at Ohio State while also having the first point/assist double-double for the program since 2017.
The Hoosiers were selected as a No. 1 seed in the upcoming NCAA Tournament, which begins on Saturday, March 18 against the winner of the play-in game between Tennessee Tech and Monmouth. Tip time is set for 11:30 a.m. ET at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall and will be live on ESPN2.
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