Indiana
Yarden Garzon’s career night lifts Indiana women’s basketball past Washington
It might not have been a must win for Indiana women’s basketball at Alaska Airlines Arena on Monday night, but it was pretty close.
The Hoosiers ended a three-game losing streak and avoided falling under .500 in the Big Ten with a 73-70 win over Washington. They gave themselves a nice cushion by dropping 30 points on the Huskies in the third quarter.
Indiana (13-7, 5-4 Big Ten) hit a season-high 13 3-pointers (56.5%) with Yarden Garzon doing much of the heavy lifting. Garzon scored a career-high 35 points while hitting a career-high eight triples on 10 attempts.
The Hoosiers improved to 3-4 against Quad 1 opponents by shutting down a late rally from Washington (13-8, 4-5). The Huskies trailed by 14 points before going on an 11-0 run in the fourth quarter while holding IU without any field goals for more than four minutes.
Garzon ended that scoreless drought by banking in a jumper through contact that set her career high with 4:31 to go in the game. She knocked down the free throw to give her team a 65-59 lead.
Washington kept on coming and tied the game multiple times down the stretch, but IU got a clutch 3-pointer from Sydney Parrish — she had 16 points and was 4 of 6 from long range — and jumper from just inside the 3-point line from Garzon in the final minute.
Indiana women’s basketball’ forward’s Yarden Garzon finds shooting touch against Washington
Garzon gave IU some reason for optimism when she knocked down her first five shots, including a pair of 3-pointers in the first half. The junior was just 1 of 12 from the outside in the team’s previous three games.
Indiana coach Teri Moren called her recent struggles “concerning” after a loss to Oregon considering how much the Hoosiers rely on her offensive production.
She bested her season average (13.4 points per game) going into halftime with 15 points and that flurry of early offense was a sign of things to come.
Garzon hit three straight 3-pointers coming out of halftime to push IU’s lead to double digits. She surpassed 1,000-career points with the first of those outside shots and is the second Hoosiers player (Chloe Moore-McNeil) to reach the milestone this season.
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Moren probably had a bit of déjà vu in the second quarter as Indiana gave away the lead while turning it over nine times. On Friday, Moren called out her team’s sloppy play after watching the Hoosiers turn it over seven times in the fourth quarter of a loss to Oregon.
It’s been a season-long issue for an Indiana team averaging 14.6 turnovers per game.
The Hoosiers have turned it over on 20% or more of their possessions five times — they turned it over on 32.4% of their possessions in the first half — and only did that four times last season.
Indiana closed out the half with a scoring drought of more than three minutes, which allowed Washington to go into the break with a 31-29 advantage. The Hoosiers finished the second quarter with only eight points on eight field goal attempts.
Michael Niziolek is the Indiana beat reporter for The Bloomington Herald-Times. You can follow him on X @michaelniziolek and read all his coverage by clicking here.
LAFAYETTE, IN — The Journal & Courier asked candidates in contested primary races to answer questions to help voters learn about them.
A complete list of Tippecanoe County candidates on the May 5 Primary Election ballot can be found online.
Indiana State Senate District 23
Incumbent State Sen. Spencer Deery faces a Republican primary challenge from Paula Copenhaver, a former Fountain County clerk and current Fountain County Republican Party chair.
Tell us about yourself.
Deery: Age: 43. Current occupation and any political experience: higher education administration, and I was elected to the state senate in 2022, the first and only office I have sought or held. City you live in: West Lafayette.
Copenhaver: Age: 53. Current occupation and any political experience: current governmental affairs director for the lieutenant governor’s office, Covington City Council member, Fountain County Republican Party chairman, and former Fountain County clerk.
What are the three biggest issues you’re hearing from constituents in this election cycle?
Deery: Affordability, Indiana’s independence, and education
Copenhaver: Property taxes, the cost of living and protecting conservative values are the top concerns I hear from Hoosiers every day. Families are being taxed out of the homes they worked hard to buy, and the state senate has failed to deliver meaningful property tax relief. At the same time, rising prices are making it harder to afford groceries, gas and everyday essentials. Hoosiers want leaders who will cut taxes, rein in government, and stand up for conservative principles. I’m running to make Indiana more affordable and put working families first.
How do you plan to address those issues if elected?
Deery: Affordability: You can’t stop inflation from a state senate seat, but we can do our part. Increasing the housing supply, reducing property taxes, following through on recent utility reforms, pursuing health-care reform, stabilizing gas taxes, and building up our child-care infrastructure all would help.
Indiana’s independence: Dark money groups in Washington, D.C., are trying to buy Indiana elections and to control our state. The Constitution gives sovereignty to Indiana in many areas, and we need leaders who will not be beholden to anyone other than their constituents — especially not to forces in D.C.
Education: Recruiting and retaining high-quality teachers will have the most impact. We do that by continuing to remove barriers to entry into the teaching profession, providing competitive compensation, and supporting those making a difference in the classroom.
Copenhaver: We have to get serious about cutting government spending. Wasteful spending and unfunded mandates are driving up costs for Hoosier families.
As state senator, I will fight to deliver real property tax relief, reduce the size and cost of government, and stop using taxpayer dollars to subsidize projects Hoosiers don’t support, like data centers, solar farms and carbon capture pipelines.
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Thousands of firefighters from around the world are in downtown Indianapolis for one of the world’s largest fire and rescue training events.
The 99th Fire Department Instructors Conference started Monday and runs through Saturday at Lucas Oil Stadium and the Indiana Convention Center.
This is the 32nd year the FDIC has been held in the Circle City, and over 38,000 firefighters are in town for the event.
The conference includes hands-on fire and EMS training scenarios, classroom sessions, workshops, guest speakers, and 900 exhibitors.
“We’re uniquely positioned where we do 138 hands-on training sessions. That means the students get on the buses, they go out to fire academies, they go out to structures through our network of 350+ instructors,” Chief David Rhodes, editor-in-chief of “Fire Engineering,” told News 8.
Rhodes says conventions like FDIC help take firefighters to the next level in training situations.
“They not only get to learn to do it, but they get to do it. Whether it’s going into a fire, whether it’s searching a building, or cutting someone out of a car.”
Click here to learn more about FDIC International.
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