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Indiana senior Mackenzie Holmes breaks scoring record at Purdue’s expense
Gearlds shared her thoughts after watching freshman Mary Ashley Stevenson score 25 points with a broken nose to beat Illinois in OT 77-72.
Gearlds shared her thoughts after watching freshman Mary Ashley Stevenson score 25 points with a broken nose to beat Illinois in OT 77-72.
BLOOMINGTON — The latest loss for Purdue women’s basketball against Indiana might sting awhile for Purdue coach Katie Gearlds.
Freshman Mary Ashley Stevenson made her first four shots and Purdue trailed 41-30 at halftime.
But then the onslaught came and her team’s defense faded on a historic afternoon for Indiana at Purdue’s expense.
Senior Mackenzie Holmes scored 17 points to become Indiana’s career leading scorer and her team daggered 13 3-pointers and Purdue fell on the road 95-62.
The points scored by Indiana (20-3, 11-2) are the second most scored in the rivalry’s history. Purdue scored 97 points against Indiana in 1999.
Purdue has lost 10 games straight to the Hoosiers, its last win coming in 2019. The Boilermakers haven’t won a game in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall since 2012.
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Purdue (10-13, 3-9) allowed Indiana, the 16th highest scoring offense in the country, to shoot 59% from the floor including 20 of 29 in the second half.
Indiana leads the country in field goal percentage and ranks fifth in 3-point percentage.
Senior guard Chloe Moore-McNeil scored 22 points and senior Sara Scalia added 19 points.
Scalia hit a step back 3-pointer in the third quarter but the rest were mostly open looks.
“Our inability to get stops doesn’t allow us to push in transition where Rashunda (Jones) excels and we couldn’t get everyone on the same page for whatever reason,” Gearlds said. “We have to find a way to win on the road.”
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Stevenson led Purdue with 16 points after having surgery to repair a broken nose on Tuesday.
“We knew coming in they were a very good team and they are a team that can hit 3-pointers pretty much unlike any team we’ve ever seen,” Stevenson said. “I think Caitlyn (Harper) did a really good job on Holmes but I think we weren’t there to have her back as far as the trapping.”
“My biggest takeaway was this is a very great environment to play in and I have three more times to play at this location. I want to come in here and get a win.”
Senior Caitlyn Harper scored 13 points and freshman Sophie Swanson added 11 points off the bench for Purdue.
Swanson looked more explosive offensively and is less then a year removed from a torn ACL.
“I still have some road blocks in my mind and it’s definitely tricky with that, with the confidence aspect now compared to pre injury,” Swanson. “I’m just kind of taking the little victories.”
Purdue turned the ball over 10 times in the first half while the program lacked the intensity it showed in all 40 minutes in its first meeting, a 74-68 loss at Mackey Arena on Jan. 21.
“It’s 94 feet, the basket is 10 feet high and the free throw line is 15 feet,” Gearlds said. “It doesn’t matter who you are or who you’re playing. The basketball is the same no matter where you’re at.”
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Retro Indy: Five years ago Covid confined March Madness to Indiana
Just three days before Selection Sunday in March of 2020, the NCAA announced that March Madness, like so many other events that spring, would be cancelled due to the new virus upending life. The decision marked the first time in tournament history that the final weeks of the college basketball season would not be played, squashing Atlanta’s plans to host the Final Four.
When the following year rolled around, the NCAA decided that March Madness would not succumb to the virus once more.
With a vaccine only on the horizon and hundreds of Americans still dying each day, the organization announced in November of 2020 that while the tournament would go on, it would certainly not be business as usual. All 67 games, NCAA officials said, would be held in one location. Central Indiana was the first choice as Indianapolis had been on tap to host the Final Four April 3-5.
The plan, said NCAA senior vice president of basketball Dan Gavitt in a November 2020 IndyStar article was to present “a safe, responsible and fantastic March Madness tournament unlike any other we’ve experienced.”
In January the NCAA made it official: All games would be played in and around Indianapolis in a modified version of a bubble.
Holding the tournament in one place just made sense, NCAA officials told IndyStar. Unlike in a typical year when a winning team would travel multiple times before the championship, this system would minimize travel, which could inadvertently expose players and coaches to the virus.
Two months later when the tournament kicked off on March 18, 55 of the 67 games were scheduled to be played in Indianapolis venues, such as Gainbridge (then Bankers Life) Fieldhouse, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indiana Farmers Coliseum and Butler’s Hinkle Fieldhouse. Purdue’s Mackey Arena and IU’s Assembly Hall also hosted games.
While the first Covid vaccine had arrived a few months earlier, few people outside of first responders and the most vulnerable had been immunized, so in an effort to avoid large crowds, the Indianapolis sites all capped tickets at 25% capacity. That meant only 17,500 people could attend games at the largest venue, Lucas Oil Stadium. The college arenas allowed far smaller audiences, with IU limiting attendance to 500 people.
A week before the tournament began Marion County Public Health Department officials and Mayor Joe Hogsett asked attendees to make smart public health choices, such as social distancing and obeying the face masks mandate. Referees donned masks as much as possible as did coaches and players on the bench.
The NCAA regularly tested athletes, administering 28,311 tests Covid tests during the tournament, 15 of which came back positive.
Post-mortems after the tournament asked whether the NCAA had made the right call. Two high profile deaths occurred in the aftermath of the tournament — one a University of Alabama superfan who had traveled to Indy for the games and the other a St. Elmo bartender. But proving a direct link between their deaths and the tournament would prove impossible, and some public health experts said the NCAA had done everything it could to protect athletes and fans short of canceling the event.
A study conducted by IU, Regenstrief researchers and others that appeared in August 2021 in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that while mask wearing had theoretically been compulsory, about a quarter of attendees at the games were either not wearing masks or doing so inappropriately. Still, in an IndyStar article about the study Indiana Sports Corps president Ryan Vaughn termed the event “a resounding success.”
The following year, with a vaccine widely available and far fewer daily deaths from the virus, the tournament returned to a typical schedule, concluding in New Orleans’ Ceasars Superdome. More than 69,00 fans attended the final games, according to the NCAA. Local authorities had lifted the mask requirement by this point.
“Last year was about survival. Just having championships in any way, single site, keep everybody safe and be successful,” Gavitt said in an NCAA news release in late April 2022. “I think this year was about advancing.”
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Record warmth followed by strong storms tonight | March 26, 2026
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH-TV) – Strong thunderstorms likely later this evening with all severe weather threats possible. It is going to be warm and windy with record highs today. Much cooler air works into Indiana for the end of the week.
TODAY: Partly cloudy conditions later this afternoon with warm and breezy conditions. It is going to be a beautiful and summer-like day across parts of Indiana. We will look for high temperatures to climb into the lower eighties which will set a new daily high record. The record for today is 80 set back in 1907. Winds will be gusty out of the southwest near 20 to 30 mph.
TONIGHT: A cold front approaches the state bringing a really good chance of strong to severe thunderstorms. A few thunderstorms may develop out ahead of the main line and some of those thunderstorms could contain some large hail along with a tornado risk as well. We are under a level 3 risk of strong storms out of a level 5. So there is confidence that a lot of these storms could reach severe criteria. Threats would be damaging winds and large hail. The tornado risk is low across parts of Indianapolis but it is not zero. A slightly higher risk of tornadic activity is possible in northern sections of Indiana.
Heavy rainfall could also lead to some flooding in parts of the state. Areas may see anywhere between 1 to 3 inches of rainfall.
Best timing on the thunderstorm activity will be anytime after 8:00 p.m. and lasting until Friday morning around 4.
TOMORROW: A few early morning rain showers will be possible on Friday. The main weather story is that it will be much cooler. High temperatures will climb around 49 which is below our normal high of 56. Winds switch direction out of the northeast and it will be a bit breezy at times as well. Low temperatures late Friday night into Saturday morning will drop into the upper twenties.
7 DAY EXTENDED FORECAST: A chilly start early Saturday morning but we will see lots of sunshine for the afternoon. High temperatures will climb around 52 for the afternoon.
Cloud cover returns on Sunday but it will be dry for the most part. Look for high temperatures to climb into the lower 60s.
Warmer next week with temperatures reaching the low and even middle and upper 70s by the middle part of the week. A dry start on Monday with some scattered showers possible on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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