No. 14 Indiana Completes Perfect Regular Home Season With Win Over Maryland

Sunday, March 3

Bloomington, Ind.

3:00 P.M.

Indiana University

Maryland

BLOOMINGTON, IN - March 03, 2024 - guard Sara Scalia #14 of the Indiana Hoosiers during the game between the INSERT AWAY TEAM and the Indiana Hoosiers at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, IN. Photo By Pearson Georges/Indiana Athletics

No. 14 Indiana Completes Perfect Regular Home Season With Win Over Maryland

3/3/2024 5:51:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Senior guard Sara Scalia scored a game-high 19 points as No. 14 Indiana completed its second-consecutive regular season undefeated at home with a win over Maryland, 71-54, on Sunday afternoon.

KEY MOMENTS

Indiana starts the game 6-for-6 including a pair of and-1s from graduate student forward Mackenzie Holmes and Scalia and two triples from sophomore guard Yarden Garzon as it led 16-2 forcing a Maryland timeout with 5:38 in the first. The Terps would go in their own run pulling within as few as four, 16-12.
The Hoosiers would allow just one more field goal in the last 2:23 to take a 21-14 lead after one.
It was part of a defensive stand that lasted long through the second quarter, as IU held Maryland to just one field goal in nearly eight minutes of game action.
Garzon and Scalia added a pair of triples in the second as the lead grew to as many as 20 (36-16) with 2:52 to go before the break. Indiana held a 39-24 lead at the break with Scalia's game-high 14 points.
In a grind it out second half, senior guard Chloe Moore-McNeil scored 10 of her points in the frame as Indiana won the third and fourth quarters. The Hoosiers were able to hold off the Terps as it shot just 28.1 percent in the second half.
The lead was never under double digits in the final 20 minutes of action as Indiana cashed in on the bonus in the fourth, going 12-for-14 at the line.

NOTABLE

Indiana completed a perfect 15-0 record at home this season for back-to-back undefeated regular season at home. It has won 30-straight regular season games in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.
The Hoosiers have now won four-straight in the series over Maryland including its first ever season sweep. Their 17-point victory was also the largest for IU in the all-time series.
Scalia led the team with 19 points. She also pulled down eight rebounds.
Garzon added 17 points in the Hoosier win.
Scalia and Garzon both sank four three-pointers each.
Holmes went 5-5 from the field and 1-1 from the free-throw line for 11 points.
Moore-McNeil dished out eight assists, four of which were in the first quarter. Indiana had 14 assists on 23 made field goals.
All five starters scored in double-figures in the win against the Terrapins.
Indiana shot 85 percent at the free throw line, going 17-for-20.

QUOTABLE
Indiana head coach Teri Moren
"Well, this is always a bittersweet day when we have senior day and we have an opponent like Maryland that's coming in. Your focus, certainly, wants to be on the task at hand but you also reflect on your seniors and what they've meant. You try to keep the main thing, the main thing and I thought we did that that. I thought we got off to a great start, particularly in the first half. What I liked about our second half was our play. I thought Chloe (Moore-McNeil) after Mack(enzie Holmes) went out and it then didn't seem like we could generate. Maryland is a hard team because they switch everything, they go back-and-forth with the zone, they're big. We couldn't get any rhythm offensively, but I loved how Chloe just sort of took over in the moment and tried to get to the rim and tried to get to the free throw line. I thought she was a big reason why we were able to keep the lead, maintain the lead and then we just had to go to our bench and move some pieces around and try to get to the finish line. On a day where it's special for our seniors, it was kind of different in terms of how it ended with some injuries and what not, but I was really proud of the way we finished."

UP NEXT
The 2024 Big Ten Tournament bracket will be officially announced at the conclusion of today's games (final game tips at 7 p.m. ET) and runs from March 6-10, 2024, at Target Center in Minneapolis.

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