Author: Seth Tow

While the Big Ten women’s basketball tournament makes its Target Center debut, Sara Scalia doesn’t need an introduction. Growing up in Stillwater, Minn. — around a 30-minute drive from Minneapolis — the IU guard became very familiar with the arena. Her family had Minnesota Lynx season tickets, courtside, for eight years, from her fifth grade year through 11th grade. Maya Moore was her favorite player when she played at UConn, and then she became Scalia’s hometown hero in Minnesota. Sitting that close, she interacted with Moore a few times. Scalia joined the Lynx for their on-court victory dance on several…

Coming off its second loss of the season, Indiana women’s basketball was far from its best in its Big Ten Tournament opener. No. 9 seed Michigan State, one of just two teams to defeat the top-seeded Hoosiers this season, made life very difficult for IU for much of the afternoon. But good teams find a way to win games like that, and Indiana is one of the best teams in the nation. And IU found a way, pulling out an 94-85 win. Indiana (27-2) struggled on both ends for much of the first half. The Hoosiers trailed by 10 points…

After Indiana defeated Purdue on Saturday, Mike Woodson gave his players a clear message in the locker room. He told them that, while they could celebrate the victory on the ride home, they had to refocus for Tuesday’s game against Iowa at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. He told the Hoosiers that they needed to validate Saturday’s performance in their final two games of the regular season. IU didn’t heed those words. The Hawkeyes came to Bloomington, punched the Hoosiers right away, and never looked back. Indiana, for most of the evening, had no footing in the game. Iowa handed IU…

After winning its first outright Big Ten title in program history, Indiana women’s basketball brought home a haul of individual honors on Tuesday. Senior forward Mackenzie Holmes was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year, and Teri Moren was named Big Ten Coach of the Year. This is the second time Moren’s earned that honor, after receiving it in 2015-16. Additionally, each of Indiana’s primary six rotation players earned All-Big Ten recognition. Holmes and Grace Berger were named first team All-Big Ten by both media and coaches, and Chloe Moore-McNeil picked up second team All-Big Ten honors from media.…

Indiana women’s basketball has gotten used to winning. It’s only natural, when you win as much as the Hoosiers have this season. Indiana, ranked No. 2 in the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll and receiving its first-ever first-place votes in both polls last week, was 26-1 entering Sunday’s showdown at Iowa. The Hoosiers have been one of the best teams in the country this season, racking up nine wins over AP-ranked opponents, second-most in the nation. But even after already securing the outright Big Ten title, this game at Carver-Hawkeye Arena was IU’s toughest test to date. Four of…

Indiana women’s basketball was so close, but so far. The second-ranked Hoosiers, after trailing for most of Sunday afternoon at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, took an 85-83 lead over No. 6 Iowa with 1.5 seconds left on free throws by Mackenzie Holmes. But that was too much time for the Hawkeyes, and particularly, for Caitlin Clark. After a timeout that advanced the ball to mid-court, Monika Czinano set an off-ball screen for Clark, which tripped up Chloe Moore-McNeil on defense. And Clark caught the pass, turned towards the hoop, and drained a 3-pointer at the buzzer. That big moment snapped IU’s 14-game…

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — As Indiana came down the stretch of its best win of the season and one of its biggest regular-season victories in years, it felt abnormally smooth. This is an IU team that, with few exceptions, had become adept at making road games harder than necessary. And Saturday’s was far from just another away game. IU was playing its biggest rival at a deafeningly loud Mackey Arena. The Hoosiers hadn’t won here in 10 years. IU head coach Mike Woodson never won here as a player. IU led Purdue by nine points with 10 minutes left in…

Saturday’s showdown between No. 17 Indiana and No. 5 Purdue means a rematch of one of the best individual matchups in the country. Trayce Jackson-Davis and Zach Edey both had big games during the first meeting of these rivals this season. Edey is the favorite for national and Big Ten Player of the Year, and Jackson-Davis may be second. They’ll go at it again on Saturday at Mackey Arena. “It’s competition. I love it,” IU head coach Mike Woodson said. “That’s kind of, as a coach, what I live for, watching so much talent in college basketball. There were a…

Indiana utilized a lot of wide receivers in 2022. The Hoosiers rarely had their full complement of wideouts available, as injuries plagued D.J. Matthews Jr. throughout the season, and Cam Camper suffered a torn ACL in late October. Camper will be ready to go for the 2023, after a strong debut season in Bloomington. He ranked 14th in the Big Ten with 569 receiving yards, despite playing only seven games. It’s unclear, though, whether he’ll take part in spring football, and if so, how much he’ll be able to do. And after four receivers left the program in the offseason,…

Indiana’s bench has been inconsistent for so much of this season. On Tuesday, it finally reached a breaking point. The Hoosiers suffered their second loss in three games, falling to Michigan State, 80-65, in East Lansing. There are a number of things that led to that result, not all of which have to do with basketball itself. The Spartans played with heavy hearts and a particular desire to win in their first home game after the tragic shooting on campus last week. And in terms of the on-court performance, this was a rare occasion when Trayce Jackson-Davis was not the…