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(02/08/19 5:27am)
On the heels of its biggest win of the season, IU coach Archie Miller said he was pleased with his team’s effort, albeit in a losing effort.
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Even though the effort level was there, Miller pointed out his team couldn’t quite finish. The Hoosiers cut the Iowa lead down to four late in the second half, but could never get over the hump. Pairing a defensive stop with a made bucket on the other end never came for Indiana.
There are signs the Hoosiers are putting the losing streak in the rearview following Saturday’s win at Michigan State. But on Thursday night, the Hoosiers didn’t do enough to earn a home win, losing 77-72 to the No. 20 Iowa Hawkeyes.
(02/06/19 12:49am)
During IU guard Ali Patberg’s recent slump, nothing was different for the redshirt-junior.
Through the struggles, IU coach Teri Moren said they went through the film with her to get her back on track. Because when Patberg is playing up to her ability, it makes Indiana that much more dangerous. The four-game slump saw her shoot just 9-of-39 with 18 turnovers.
Still, the mentality never changed. It was her toughest stretch as a Hoosier, but because she wasn’t affecting the game as positively as she had in the past, Patberg had to do it in other ways.
But Sunday’s 22-point performance in Indiana’s win at Nebraska was back to the norm for her. She shot 8-of-12 from the floor and looked more like the Patberg we saw during the non-conference season. The performance showed how important she is to Indiana’s success.
(02/06/19 12:31am)
Indiana is back at home Wednesday to face the Minnesota Golden Gophers following a 1-1 road trip. The past two games saw two very different performances from the Hoosiers. Which team will show up Wednesday at Assembly Hall? Josh, Austin and Connor discuss.
(02/03/19 7:26pm)
Indiana went into East Lansing and earned a massive and surprising win over No. 6 Michigan State. There was plenty to talk about coming out of the win. We break it all down. Josh, Eddie and Zain discuss.
(02/03/19 2:38am)
Indiana’s seven-game losing streak has finally come to a close.
The Hoosiers came into Saturday night’s game at Michigan State with just one win in their last 22 games at the Breslin Center in East Lansing. With improved 3-point shooting, a stellar defensive performance and depth players playing a big role, Indiana won for the first time since January 3 against Illinois.
Led by Romeo Langford’s 19 points, the Hoosiers earned a 79-75 overtime win over the No. 6 Michigan State Spartans.
Now, three takeaways from the win.
(02/01/19 10:28pm)
There may not be a team in America who is more excited to see the calendar switch from January to February.
The Hoosiers, who are currently riding a seven-game losing streak, have experimented with how deep rock bottom can get. Just when you think it couldn’t get worse, it did. The 15-point home loss to Nebraska wasn’t ideal. The blown leads at Rutgers, Northwestern and Maryland sting. The 17-0 and 22-0 runs given up vs. Michigan and Rutgers were hard to watch. And now the Hoosiers find themselves in a spot they didn’t think they would, or could, ever be in.
Yet, with the first half of the Big Ten season now complete, IU coach Archie Miller knows there is still a lot of basketball left to be played. And for Indiana, at least this weekend, it’s only going to get harder with a trip to No. 6 Michigan State on Saturday.
(02/01/19 2:57am)
On a night where Indiana once led by 14 points, the Hoosiers couldn't knock off the Big Ten leaders on the road. The Rutgers Scarlet Knights completed the comeback to beat the Hoosiers, 69-64.
With 5:34 to play, Rutgers took the lead for good after Indiana had led for over 32 minutes. The story, once again, was the 21 turnovers committed by the Hoosiers. Indiana had a chance to capture a big road win and put together a solid first half, taking a nine-point lead into halftime. The Scarlet Knights took control in the second half and eventually held court at home.
Thursday's loss starts the first of two straight road games and the first game of four road games in the next five games. Without further adieu, here are three takeaways from Rutgers' 69-64 win.
Too many turnovers
The turnover bug has bitten Indiana in the last two games. After turning the ball over 20 times on Sunday at home vs. Maryland, the Hoosiers turned around and committed 21 turnovers Thursday night in Piscataway. At the end of the third quarter, the Scarlet Knights put on a full court press that continued into fourth quarter. That caused plenty of issues for the Hoosiers as they had trouble even advancing the ball past half court.
"We have an issue right now with ball security," IU coach Teri Moren told the media in Piscataway, New Jersey. "We're turning it too much, turned it over too much against Maryland at home, turned it over too much again the third quarter, obviously. Ball security has been our issue. It's our Achilles heel right now until our kids understand that and take ownership for that and fix it - we're going to be in tight games, but at times we'll be able to close it out."
In the final three minutes of the third quarter the Hoosiers turned the ball over seven times. Indiana committed 14 second half turnovers, as well. Turnovers continue to plague Indiana and it will continue to be a story. Five Hoosiers committed multiple turnovers including Ali Patberg who had five. Give Rutgers a ton of credit, however. Its pressure gave Indiana fits and made it very difficult for the Hoosiers to run consistent offense.
Balanced scoring
Something positive to take away from Thursday's win is the balanced scoring from the Hoosiers. Indiana had four players in double figures, including Brenna Wise who led the Hoosiers with 15 points. Behind Wise was Penn and Yeaney with 12 points each and Patberg who finished with 10 points, her first double-digit point game since her 22-point performance against Northwestern on January 16.
Even though it ultimately wasn't enough to get the job done, Moren has to be encouraged that she can get a solid performance from four different players. It gives them the ability to compete with the best teams in the conference and stay competitive.
Fixable issues
Moren talked after the game about the current issues still being fixable with her team. The 21 turnovers isn't ideal, but it's something Moren hopes her team can eventually fix. The turnovers are the first issue while shooting percentage might the other. Indiana shot just over 40 percent in Thursday's loss. It's interesting those two things have started to perk up as problems as there could be a correlation between the two, especially when a team speeds you up as Rutgers did to the Hoosiers Thursday.
"All of our issues seem to be fixable," Moren said. "We bring them to the forefront and they know they watch a ton of film. It's coached everyday in practice, it's just it resonates or they take ownership for how precious that thing is. It's disappointing."
Indiana is next in action Sunday at Nebraska as it puts its 5-5 Big Ten record on the line against the Cornhuskers.
(02/01/19 12:11am)
Indiana has now lost its last seven games after another loss, this time at Rutgers. Is there anything the Hoosiers can do to get back on track. We recap the Rutgers game and look ahead to the Michigan State game on Saturday. Zain, Josh and Eddie discuss.
(01/30/19 11:52pm)
We're back with another Indiana women's basketball podcast breaking down IU's last two games, a win vs. Michigan and a loss vs. Maryland. Now the Hoosiers hit the road for two straight games away from home. Can Indiana get back on track? Josh, Austin and Connor discuss.
(01/30/19 8:43pm)
The mantra throughout the season about the Big Ten has stayed consistent: the conference is stellar once again.
Every single game, no matter who the opponent, Indiana knows it has to bring its ‘A’ game to come away with victories. After another loss Sunday to No. 11 Maryland, the Hoosiers came away feeling like they didn’t put forth their best effort. As the schedule shifts towards February, Indiana is looking for that consistency it saw back in November and December to resurface where it won its first 10 games.
The next chance Indiana will get is Thursday at Rutgers. It’s an opportunity not only for a Big Ten win, but a chance to knock off one of the top teams in a conference full of good teams.
(01/30/19 1:10am)
Last time Indiana took the floor, IU coach Archie Miller called his team soft and scared.
The story from the Michigan game followed the same script as the previous five losses. A slow start, bad 3-point shooting and a 17-0 deficit took the raucous Assembly Hall crowd out of it early and made it nearly impossible to beat one of the best teams in America.
But Wednesday provides a new challenge for the Hoosiers, and it comes at a time where it seems like things can’t get much worse than where they already are. A trip to Piscataway, New Jersey to face the Rutgers Scarlet Knights is a chance for Indiana to get back in a win column, something it hasn’t done since January 3.
(01/27/19 8:08pm)
Things finally reached a boiling point Sunday afternoon at Assembly Hall with 5:50 to play in the third quarter and the Hoosiers down 15 to the No. 11 Maryland Terrapins.
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IU coach Teri Moren had seen enough and was given her first technical foul of the season. At that point, the Terrapins were slowly starting to create more and more separation between themselves and the Hoosiers, and Moren needed to speak up. She said postgame that the technical wasn’t necessarily to stir up momentum again, but rather because she wants to fight for her team.
But the frustration from missed shots and costly mistakes was evident. Indiana shot just 38 percent from the field and turned the ball over 20 times in a 76-56 loss to the Terrapins.
“We beat ourselves,” Moren said. “You can’t turn it over, I thought we had some good looks at the bucket – one of the things we told our kids to do was attack and be aggressive, I thought they did that. But, shots weren’t falling at moments or we were attacking and coming up empty, we couldn’t get ourselves to the free throw line, it felt like.”
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It looked like Indiana was going to make it a game Sunday afternoon. The Hoosiers were even with the Terrapins, 20-20, after one quarter, but that momentum faded quickly. A 20-5 second quarter ballooned Maryland’s lead out to 15 at halftime. It was a second quarter in which the Hoosiers didn’t score for the final seven minutes, made just two shots and committed six turnovers.
Turnovers have started to become a bit of a problem for the Hoosiers. Coming into Sunday’s game, Indiana was committing 15.9 turnovers per game. IU guard Jaelynn Penn called them a “game changer” because it created fast break points for the Terrapins, a category in which Maryland controlled 25-18.
“It’s live ball turnovers,” IU guard Bendu Yeaney said. “It’s not like they are taking the ball out of bounds, so we can get our defense set. If we’re down on the court and they get a steal, that’s a wide-open layup… It was easy layups for them.”
Eleven of the 20 turnovers from Indiana came from guards Penn and IU point guard Ali Patberg. In the past three games, Patberg has committed as many turnovers, 13, as she has scored points. For the Hoosiers to be successful, that is something that needs to change.
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When Indiana has been successful this season, it is because Patberg has been leading the charge. She came into Sunday’s game as Indiana’s leading scorer at 16.3 points per game.
“The last three games she’s really struggled from the outside and being any kind of a scorer for us,” Moren said. “What we don’t do is give up on her. We have to get her going. Her regular routine has sort of stayed the same as far as being in the gym and getting her own individual workouts, her shots up, she’s been watching film. None of that has changed. I have to believe that some of it is mental inside of her head and we have to figure out how we can go back and show her clips of things when she was really good.”
After a stretch of four straight games in the state of Indiana, and three of those four at home, the Hoosiers now possibly have their toughest stretch of schedule. They will play four of the next five on the road, and it begins with a trip to No. 14 Rutgers on Thursday.
While Sunday’s game wasn’t what Indiana is looking for, there are still things to learn.
“We definitely learn from this one,” Yeaney said. “We can’t be lazy with the ball. That’s our main goal, we can’t have 20 turnovers in a game. That’s how you lose basketball games. You have to have less than 15 to win a basketball game in the Big Ten. That’s our take from this game.”
(01/26/19 3:09am)
As IU coach Archie Miller walked up to the podium for his postgame press conference, he set down a crumpled stat sheet to his right. He then proceeded to call his team soft and scared after a 69-46 loss to the No. 5 Michigan Wolverines.
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It was, yet again, another disappointing night for the Hoosiers at Assembly Hall. Having the No. 5 team in the country score the first 17 points of the game didn’t help matters, especially when Assembly Hall was in full throat. Everything that could have gone wrong went wrong for Indiana.
The 46 points from Indiana was the lowest output by the Hoosiers since they scored that amount on February 25, 2010 at Wisconsin. The six game losing streak also equals Indiana’s longest since the 2010-2011 season when IU lost its last nine games.
“The fight isn't there right now, and the confidence isn't there on either end of the floor to be able to capitalize on any type of opportunity that we have, to be honest with you,” Miller said. “There's nothing we're doing well.”
(01/25/19 2:07am)
During the first quarter of Indiana’s 70-60 win over Michigan, Brenna Wise had to come out of the game due to picking up two early fouls.From that moment forward, the game belonged to Jaelynn Penn.
Wise had 11 points in the less than seven minutes in the first quarter, including a four-point play, while Penn ended the first frame with just three points on 1-of-3 shooting. But after that second foul from Wise was when Penn took the game into her own hands.
Ali Patberg said in a timeout around that time that Penn needed to get the ball more, and that’s what the Hoosiers did. In the second quarter, the sophomore out of Louisville was 5-of-7 from the field including 3-of-4 from behind the arc. That was apart of her career high 28-point performance.
(01/24/19 1:12am)
Indiana has lost five straight games following two more losses at Purdue and Northwestern. It seems nothing can go right for the Hoosiers, but a game against Michigan is another opportunity to right the ship. Can IU get it done? Josh's cousin Korey, a MIchigan student, joins the pod to discuss the Wolverines alongside Eddie and Zain.
(01/23/19 11:02pm)
The Hoosiers have all of a sudden lost two straight games after losses to Northwestern and at Purdue. The morale around the team is still high and they are still right in the Big Ten race, but Indiana needs to get back on track and the Hoosiers have two home games this weekend to do just that. Austin, Josh and Connor discuss.
(01/23/19 10:12pm)
With the game on the line Sunday at Purdue, the Hoosiers turned to a familiar name to win the game in Jaelynn Penn.
She pulled up just inside the free throw line, albeit a bit off balance, but had a good look at the bucket. Unlike games against Michigan State and UCLA where Penn provided the dagger, it ultimately ended up being the dagger for the Hoosiers. Her shot rimmed out the Hoosiers ultimately had their first losing streak of the season.
Even though it was a “better” performance at Purdue than what IU showed in its previous loss at home against Northwestern, a game in which IU coach Teri Moren said they weren’t tough enough, it was just that against Purdue. It just wasn’t enough for a second straight game.
“I thought for the most part, our ability to bounce back after such a poor performance against Northwestern – that was what we’ve seen our group do,” Moren said. I was probably a little bit surprised that we didn’t leave Lafayette with a win, just because of how we’ve shown we can bounce back after a tough loss.”
(01/18/19 8:34pm)
The Hoosiers will be looking to break a three game skid when they visit Purdue in West Lafayette. Indiana is looking for answers after a brutal loss to Nebraska at home. Who can IU turn to in order to get back on the winning track? Zain, Josh and Eddie discuss.
(01/17/19 11:28pm)
We're back with another IUWBB podcast and this time we're joined by the voice of IU women's basketball, Greg Murray. We break down the past week for the Hoosiers that saw them go 1-2, look ahead to Purdue this weekend and look at the entire Big Ten. Greg is joined by hosts Josh, Connor and Austin.
(01/15/19 3:05am)
Nebraska Coach Tim Miles knew holding Indiana in the fifties, especially at Assembly Hall, was a major feat Monday night.
The Cornhuskers made the Hoosiers uncomfortable on their home court en route to a 66-51 win. Indiana started three-of-18 from the floor and never found a rhythm offensively. Indiana Coach Archie Miller said his team was emotionless throughout the game. The defense deployed by the Cornhuskers held the Hoosiers to just 19 made shots and 37 percent shooting.
They also held Indiana to a season-low 51 points. But give Nebraska credit. Its rotation of looks on defense stifled a usually potent Indiana offense.