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COLUMN: Red-hot first half fuels No. 14 Indiana women’s basketball past Michigan
No. 14 Indiana women’s basketball was back in action Thursday against Michigan in its third Big Ten game of the season.
This was one of the games the entire Big Ten landscape had circled on their calendars when the schedules were announced. The Hoosiers came to play, earning an 80-59 victory.
“I think a big thing was we got our shooters going in the first quarter there, Syd hit a couple, it opened it up for me and obviously Mack is good down low,” fifth-year guard Sara Scalia said.
Here are three factors that led the Hoosiers to their third conference win in dominant fashion:.
Parrish leads Hoosiers with 14 points in team’s perfect first quarter
Media, fans and viewers all know that this Indiana team is capable of shooting well, but 15 shots in a row? That is quite an impressive stat. Indiana didn’t take no for an answer from the field in the first quarter, but that totally slipped the mind of Moren.
“I had no idea that we were perfect, until I got to see it,” Moren said postgame. “I wasn’t paying attention to that. I really wasn’t paying attention to that.”
It was the Sydney Parrish show in the first frame as the senior guard hit all five of her attempted field goals which included three from beyond the arc, totaling 14 first quarter points.
“It was really fun to watch Syd get going the way she got going,” Moren said.
This performance is huge for a player like Parrish who has really critiqued her game this season. If Indiana wants a sure-fire chance at both Big Ten championships this season, they’ll need more of this from the senior.
The Hoosiers continue to share the ball effectively, collecting 17 assists
The key to Indiana’s offensive successes is all about ball movement. Whether it is multiple passes around the perimeter leading to an entry pass or a 3-pointer, Indiana will always find an open player to lead into an efficient shot.
Scalia is one example of a player sharing the ball at a high level, posting six dimes in Thursday’s matchup. Two of those assists were fastballs, finding Parrish for big 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions. Parrish was the Hoosiers’ second leading assister against Michigan with five.
These two performances really hold true to the idea of Indiana has several viable offensive weapons.
“One of the common denominators for us is we have different people who show up,” Moren said.
Indiana prevails on defense, allowing only one 3-pointer to the Wolverines
Indiana’s defense has been up and down so far this season, and Moren has been very upfront about the effectiveness and weakness of the unit. But tonight, the defense showed another stride in the right direction, whether it’s one-on-one guarding or forcing bad shots. One area where the Hoosiers excelled was rebounding. The Wolverines came into Thursday’s matchup as one of the best offensive rebounding teams in the conference, but the Hoosiers allowed 10 and allowed the same amount of second chance points.
Michigan’s biggest scoring threat, junior guard Laila Phelia, totaled 23 points, but the combination of complimentary offense and holding Michigan to only one 3-pointer on nine attempts kept Phelia from being a real threat thursday.
“It was more about our players executing the game plan,” Moren said in response to keeping the Wolverines from being effective from three.
Next up for the Hoosiers is a road test against Nebraska at 2 p.m. Sunday. It will be the first road game for Indiana since Dec. 9 against Rutgers.The contest will be televised on the Big Ten Network.
PLAINFIELD, Ind. (WISH) — Suspects fled a Plainfield bank after it was robbed Tuesday afternoon, police say.
Plainfield Police Department was called at 2:10 p.m. Tuesday to the robbery of a bank in progress at Chase Bank, 807 Southfield Drive. That’s southwest of the intersection of Quaker Boulevard and Stafford Road/East County Road 450 South in the Hendricks County town.
Deputy Chief Ryan Salisbury of the Plainfield Police Department said detectives were working on the case.
The police department posted on social media on Tuesday night that no one was hurt in the robbery, and the suspects, who were not in custody, fled prior to the arrival of first responders.
INDIANAPOLIS — Sophie Cunningham wants to emphasize she’s perfectly happy with the Indiana Fever. She just wishes she could be locked down longer.
Cunningham, who signed a one-year, $665,000 deal with the Indiana Fever for 2026, said on her podcast, “Show Me Something,” on Tuesday night that she was frustrated with the free agency process in the condensed offseason.
She shook her head vehemently when her co-host West Wilson asked if the contract was better than she thought it would be, then said in part, “It’s tough because I came off an injury … I’m not even going to lie to you, that’s a little, kind of, frustrating.”
Fans on social media largely took that as she did not get interest from other teams, she didn’t want to return to the Fever, or she was unhappy with the salary she got.
She shut those thoughts down on social media Monday night, then expounded on her frustrations with local media at Fever training camp on Tuesday morning.
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“I think Twitter kind of blew up last night about a comment I made on my podcast. But that wasn’t what I meant at all,” Cunningham said. “I think if you listen to the full clip, you really understand that I just wanted to be somewhere for more than one year. I’m almost 30 years old. I want to have a home. I want to get established. And I would love to get established in a place like Indiana.”
The Fever prioritized as much financial flexibility as possible this offseason because of the new EPIC clause, which allows both Aliyah Boston and Caitlin Clark to renegotiate their fourth-year salaries up to the max with an extension. Boston’s salary was bumped to $1 million in 2025, and she will make the supermax from 2027-29. Clark is eligible to negotiate up to the max in 2027, and both Clark and Boston could be making the supermax starting in 2028.
Only Lexie Hull and Monique Billings got major multi-year deals with the Fever out of free agency. Hull signed for $765,000 in 2026 and $803,250 in 2027, per Her Hoop Stats, while Billings got $800,000 for both 2026 and 2027. Damiris Dantas is the only other player that got a multi-year deal out of free agency, but that was for the minimum cap hit of $277,500.
Kelsey Mitchell signed a one-year, $1.4 million supermax, Cunningham returned on a one-year deal, and Myisha Hines-Allen and Tyasha Harris each signed one-year deals.
Cunningham added that she got multi-year offers from other teams, but chose to stay with Indiana on a one-year deal.
She wanted to return to Indiana, she said, because of friendships she created with her teammates and the potential they showed, even after six separate season-ending injuries on the roster. She is also closer to her hometown of Columbia, Missouri.
“When you find a group of girls who really make you fall in love with basketball games and you enjoy it, you enjoy them, not only on the court, but off the court, like, you want to hold on to that,” Cunningham said. “ … it was never about the money, it was just about the years, because I wanted to be with them. And God forbid a girl loves her teammates, you know what I mean?”
Cunningham is also coming off a major knee injury after she tore her MCL in August 2025. She was ruled out for the rest of the 2025 season and got surgery in Indianapolis, then had a six-month rehab process before she was cleared in February.
Since then, she has been ramping back up as much as possible, including playing one-on-one, three-on-three, plyometrics, and everything she does to get ready for a regular season.
Still, she said, she’ll need to actually play to get back into full basketball shape.
“Basketball shape is just different,” Cunningham said. “You can run as many suicides as you want, you can get your butt kicked however you want, but until you’re out here playing, you’re never fully going to be in game shape until you’re playing games.”
Chloe Peterson is the Indiana Fever beat reporter for IndyStar. Reach her at chloe.peterson@indystar.com or follow her on X at @chloepeterson67. Get IndyStar’s Indiana Fever and Caitlin Clark coverage sent directly to your inbox with our Caitlin Clark Fever newsletter. Subscribe to IndyStar TV: Fever for in-depth analysis, behind-the-scenes coverage and more.
CLOVERDALE, Ind. (WKRC) – Authorities in Indiana found a semi trailer loaded up with hundreds of pounds of suspected cocaine.
According to a statement issued by the Indiana State Police (ISP), 27-year-old Harmandeep Singh of Bakersfield, California was taken into custody after nearly 400 pounds of suspected cocaine were reportedly found in the trailer of a commercial truck.
Per the statement, an ISP trooper seized the suspected cocaine during a traffic stop on Interstate 70 in Putnam County, authorities said.
The stop occurred Tuesday morning near the 37-mile marker, just east of Cloverdale, after a commercial motor vehicle was observed exceeding the posted speed limit.
Police said Singh displayed several indicators of possible criminal activity during the encounter. After obtaining consent to search the vehicle, troopers discovered multiple duffel bags and cardboard boxes in the trailer containing approximately 392 pounds (178 kilograms) of suspected cocaine.
Authorities estimated the street value of the drugs at about $9 million.
Singh was taken into custody and taken to the Putnam County Jail, where he is being held on a $30,000 cash bond.
He faces the following preliminary charges, per the post:
- Possession of a narcotic drug
Formal charges will be determined by the Putnam County prosecutor.
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Indiana State Police said drug interdiction remains a priority, with troopers focusing on major highways to disrupt the flow of illegal narcotics into the state.
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