Indiana Women’s Basketball to Face No. 9 Maryland in Top-10 Home Matchup

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — On Thursday, No. 6 Indiana girls’s basketball will tackle No. 9 Maryland in a top-10 dwelling matchup at Simon Skjodt Meeting Corridor.

The Hoosiers are coming off a street win they made look straightforward as they took down Northwestern 72-50 in Evanston, In poor health. on Sunday. As for the Terrapins, they’re on a six-game profitable streak most not too long ago over Michigan State at dwelling.

“It is a good group,” Indiana girls’s basketball coach Teri Moren mentioned. “It is a completely different group than Brenda’s had previously, however you already know it is a very balanced group. They’re nonetheless athletic as they’ve all the time been.”

Brenda Frese is in her twenty first season on the helm of the Terrapins and boasts a powerful 548-143 document. Since becoming a member of the Huge Ten convention, Maryland has made the NCAA Match all seven years. 

Mixed with Maryland’s time spent within the ACC underneath Frese, the embellished coach has solely missed the NCAA match two occasions, a kind of years in Frese’s first season on the job.

The Hoosiers noticed Maryland thrice final season, as soon as in an extra time dwelling win, a 3-point street sport loss practically two months later and at last within the Huge Ten Match when Indiana knocked out the Terrapins 62-51.

“That is nonetheless Maryland, and that is the group once I bought into the league was the bar for everyone,” Moren mentioned.

This season, Maryland is led by senior guard Diamond Miller who’s averaging 18.7 factors per sport and 6.7 rebounds. She’s adopted by sophomore guard Shyanne Sellers with 14.7 factors and senior guard Abby Meyers with 14.6.

Moren mentioned Miller is an efficient three, 4 combo child with versatility and loads of athleticism. She remembers Meyers from the Hoosiers’ second spherical sport of the NCAA match versus Princeton. Former Tiger Meyers put up 11 factors and bought into foul hassle within the Corridor.

As for the Hoosiers, senior ahead Mackenzie Holmes is main the cost averaging 21.1 factors per sport adopted by 4 different gamers averaging double-figure scoring. Plus, star level guard Grace Berger is again after a month and a half of nursing a proper knee damage.

Berger totaled a season-high 16 factors in her return to the courtroom versus Northwestern and have become the tenth all-time scorer in program historical past with 1,609 factors.

Maryland is only one spot behind Indiana on the Huge Ten offensive leaderboard averaging 79.7 factors per sport in comparison with the Hoosiers’ 81.2. The biggest distinction is that Indiana is the highest defensive group whereas Maryland is 11-of-14 within the Huge permitting opponents 71.2 factors per sport.

To Moren, Maryland continues to be the most effective, and will probably be a troublesome matchup to win.

“I do not know that the custom piece of it, the moxie, the arrogance ever leaves while you’ve constructed what Brenda’s constructed at Maryland,” Moren mentioned. “I simply suppose they play with a special type of chip whether or not they’re at dwelling or they’re on the street.”

Following the Hoosiers’ 6:30 p.m. tipoff and completion of the late sport, they may flip round and welcome Wisconsin to Bloomington on Sunday.

“So as to do and obtain the targets we need to obtain, we’ve got to beat dang close to all of them,” Moren mentioned.

Easy methods to Watch Maryland Vs. Indiana

• Who: No. 9 Maryland Terrapins (13-3)(4-1) vs. No. 6 Indiana Hoosiers (14-1)(4-1)
• When: Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, 6:30 p.m. ET
• The place: Simon Skjodt Meeting Corridor — Bloomington, Ind. 
• Broadcast: BTN
• Radio: WHCC 105.1

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