BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Going into the 2024-25 season, Indiana women’s basketball hadn’t had a losing streak of any kind since the 2021-22 season, but that ended when the Hoosiers lost consecutive games against Harvard and Butler in the early stages of the season.

That 2022 losing streak was a three-game skid – all against ranked teams – in the final three games of the 2022 regular season. On Friday, Indiana squandered a 10-point lead at Oregon and fell to the Ducks 54-47 for its first three-game losing streak since then.

Indiana hasn’t had a four-game losing streak since the 2019 season. The Hoosiers hope to avoid that fate when they take on Washington at Alaska Airlines Arena in Seattle.

Indiana hopes that it can get the West Coast split and right the ship. There are still five more games against currently ranked teams and Nebraska – Indiana’s next opponent on Sunday – is just outside the top 25.

Here’s how to watch Indiana’s women’s game at Washington.

How to watch Indiana at Washington

• Who: Indiana Hoosiers (12-7, 4-4) vs. Washington Huskies (13-7, 4-4).

• What: Big Ten regular season game.

• When: Monday, Jan. 27 at 9 p.m. ET.

• Where: Alaska Airlines Arena, Seattle.

• TV: Big Ten-plus.

• Radio: WBWB in Bloomington.

• Radio announcer: Austin Render.

• Last season: Indiana went 26-8 overall and finished 15-3 in the Big Ten. The Hoosiers made the NCAA Tournament lost to South Carolina in the Sweet 16. Washington was 16-15 and finished 10th the Pac-12 Conference.

• Last game: Indiana lost 54-47 at Oregon on Friday. Washington lost 85-61 to Iowa on Jan. 22.

• Series history: Indiana leads 2-1. The Hoosiers won their games in 1982 and 2000. Washington won the last meeting in 2001 in Seattle.

Statistics

Indiana Hoosiers

• Guards (as officially listed): Yarden Garzon (13.4 ppg, 5.1 rpg, 3.3 apg), Sydney Parrish (10.6 ppg, 6 rpg), Shay Ciezki (11.1 ppg, 2.5 rpg, 2.7 apg), Chloe Moore-McNeil (9.7 ppg, 3.8 rpg, 3.9 apg), Lexus Bargesser (3.3 ppg), Julianna LaMendola (3 ppg, 2.7 rpg), Henna Sandvik (2.4 ppg), Valentyna Kadlecova (2.2 ppg).

• Forwards/centers: Lilly Meister (9.7 ppg, 4.7 rpg), Karoline Striplin (9.2 ppg, 3.7 rpg), Sharnecce Currie-Jelks (0.4 ppg), Faith Wiseman (0.2 ppg, 1 rpg).

Washington Huskies

• Guards: Sayvia Sellers (16.6 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 3.6 apg), Elle Ladine (16.4 ppg, 4.4 rpg), Hannah Stines (9.2 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 2.7 apg), Teagan Brown (3.5 ppg), Devin Coppinger (3.8 ppg), Chloe Briggs (3.1 ppg).

• Forwards/centers: Dalayah Daniels (10.8 ppg, 7.2 rpg), Tayra Eke (6.2 ppg, 6.1 rpg), Shayla Gilmer (2.2 ppg, 1.9 rpg), Brenna McDonald (1.8 ppg, 2.4 rpg), Olivia Anderson (1.4 ppg, 1.4 rpg).

Rankings

• Neither team is ranked.

Meet the coaches

• Teri Moren, Indiana: Moren is in her 11th season at Indiana and has a career record of 238-106 with the Hoosiers. Her overall record in 22 years as a head coach is 437-236. Moren previously coached at Indiana State from 2010-14 and at the University of Indianapolis from 2000-07. Moren was also an assistant coach at Butler (1992-98), Northwestern (1998-2000) and Georgia Tech (2007-10). Moren, a Seymour, Ind. native, played collegiately at Purdue from 1988-92.

• Tina Langley, Washington: Langley is in her fourth season at Washington and she has a record of 55-53 with the Huskies. Overall, Langley is in her 10th season as a head coach. She was 126-61 in six seasons at Rice. Overall, Langley has a career record of 181-144.

Langley was previously an assistant at Maryland (2008-15), Georgia (2005), Clemson (2003-05) and Toledo (1998-2003).

Associated Press

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Quinn Hughes scored twice and the Vancouver Canucks beat NHL-leading Washington 2-1 on Saturday night, keeping Capitals star Alex Ovechkin 20 goals shy of breaking Wayne Gretzky’s league record.

Hughes has five goals and two assists in a five-game points streak.

Defenseman Filip Hronek added two assists, and Kevin Lankinen stopped 32 shots.

Pierre-Luc Dubois scored for Washington, capping the scoring midway through the third. Charlie Lindgren made 23 saves for the Capitals.

Takeaways

Capitals: Ovechkin tested Lankinen just over four minutes into the game when he launched a rocket from the top of the circle off of a faceoff. Lankinen got his elbow into the puck’s path, sending it up into the netting. On Thursday night, Ovechkin scored an empty-netter for his 875th NHL goal. Gretzky had 894.

Canucks: Coach Rick Tocchet mixed up his forward lines, playing star center Elias Pettersson with wingers Nils Hoglander and Linus Karlsson and moving Pius Suter up to skate between Jake DeBrusk and Conor Garland. Defenseman Elias Pettersson, called up from the American Hockey League’s Abbotsford Canucks, played his first NHL game.

Key moment

Lindgren was on his way to the bench with just over a minute to go in the game when Canucks’ winger Danton Heinen sailed a shot toward the Washington net. The goalie sprinted back and dove to make a glove save.

Key stat

Hughes has 57 career goals to tie Ed Jovanovski for the sixth among Canucks defenseman.

Up next

The Capitals are at Calgary on Tuesday night. The Canucks are at St. Louis on Monday night to open a three-game trip.

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It has been a somewhat busy offseason of late for the Washington Nationals, who have been trying to improve their roster heading into 2025.

For the last two years, the Nationals have won 71 games. While that isn’t ideal, they have been in a rebuilding mode after winning the World Series back in 2019. Now, some of the young talent that they have been stockpiling over the last number of years is starting to come up to the big leagues, or are flourishing in the majors.

Last year, CJ Abrams and Luis Garcia Jr. each took a big step forward in their games. Abrams was named to his first All-Star team, and Garcia put up All-Star caliber numbers.

In the outfield, top prospects James Wood and Dylan Crews both made their debuts and performed well.

While the lineup is heading in the right direction, they are still lacking power, which has been an issue for years.

Zachary D. Rymer of Bleacher Report recently spoke about the wish list for the Nationals before the start of spring training. He highlighted the additions that they have made to the lineup being weak solutions to their problems and spoke about the timing being right to add a star.

“The Nationals needed a first baseman and a right-handed hitter as of the winter meetings, but they have since added Nathaniel Lowe and Amed Rosario. However, those are relatively weak solutions, particularly given that this team finished last in the National League for home runs in 2024. It probably won’t happen, but the time is right for them to become a mystery team in Alonso’s market.”

With Pete Alonso’s market not being anywhere near what he was likely hoping for or expecting, seeing a team out of left field signing him really would be that surprise.

When the Nationals were making a similar jump a decade ago, they made a big move to bring in Jayson Werth. This splash ended up helping change the course of the franchise, resulting in their World Series.

This offseason, the Nationals did add first baseman Nathaniel Lowe already. However, Alonso would be helpful to slide into the designated hitter spot, considering he isn’t the same caliber fielder as Lowe.

While his market might not be what he was expecting, this is a player who is one of the best home run hitters in baseball. Unfortunately, a down season by his standards in 2024 has seemingly hurt his value.

Furthermore, even though Washington has spent some money this offseason, it was largely on one-year deals. Their team should have the financial resources to pull off a deal for the slugger, and he would be a big upgrade to the lineup.

If the Nationals are looking to support their young core, adding a player with the ability to hit for power like Alonso would make this lineup one of the better ones in the National League with a ton of upside.