mamasa Posted January 5, 2019 Posted January 5, 2019 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana Women's Basketball will square off against its first ranked opponent of the season when No. 15/17 Michigan State comes to Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall on Sunday. Tipoff is set for 2 p.m. ET. It will be the annual Head To The Hall game as tickets for all fans will be $1. RV/RV INDIANA (13-1, 2-0 B1G) VS. NO. 15/17 MICHIGAN STATE (11-2, 1-1 B1G) Sunday, January 6, 2019 • 2 p.m. ET Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall • Bloomington, Ind. Broadcast: BTN Plus (Josh Eastern, Dan Black, Molly Levine) Radio: WHCC 105.1 FM (Greg Murray) Live Stats: HoosierStats.com Social Media: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram Tickets: http://bit.ly/2wpEcVD Promotion: HEAD TO THE HALL: All tickets are $1 (students, faculty and staff still free with IU ID) | First 500 fans get an IU Women's Basketball ¾ sleeve t-shirt | Knothole Kids Club Day ABOUT THE COACHES Indiana Michigan State Teri Moren Suzy Merchant Career Record: 294-184 (16th Season) Career Record: 456-244 (24th Season) Indiana Record: 95-54 (5th Season) Michigan State Record: 255-124 (12th Season) ABOUT THE SPARTANS After opening up Big Ten play by beating No. 16 Iowa at home, Michigan State is coming off an 70-62 loss at Northwestern on Thursday night. They are led in scoring and rebounding by senior center and Big Ten Player of the Week Jenna Allen (15.9 ppg., 8.3 rpg.). Redshirt junior Shay Colley (14.9 ppg.) and B1G Freshman of the Week Nia Clouden (12.5 ppg., 4.6 apg) adding double digits for the Spartans. They average 83.7 points per game while shooting 48 percent from the floor. SERIES HISTORY Michigan State leads 48-26 LAST MEETING 3/1/18 – W, 111-109 (4OT) (Big Ten Tournament) NOTES Indiana improved to 2-0 in the Big Ten for the first time since 2010-11 in ab 83-75 win over Penn State. The Hoosiers were led by redshirt junior guard Ali Patberg's 26 points, eight rebounds and four assists. Patberg leads the way for IU in scoring, averaging 18.4 points per game to go along with a team-high 4.9 assist per game and 6.6 rebounds per outing. Three other Hoosiers are averaging double figures with redshirt junior forward Brenna Wise (14.1 ppg.) and sophomore guards Jaelynn Penn (11.6 ppg.) and Bendu Yeaney (10.7 ppg.). At the free throw line, Indiana is shooting 75.5 percent behind three players who shoot 82 percent or better. Their clip is second in the Big Ten and 33rd overall in the country. Wise leads the way at the charity stripe with a 91.4 percent clip. For the fifth-straight week, Indiana is receiving votes in both major polls, A season-high crowd of 4,481 fans saw the Hoosiers play the Lady Lions on New Year's Eve as Indiana is 29th in the country in overall attendance. The Hoosiers hold the fifth-longest active home win streak in the country at 18 consecutive home wins. UP NEXT The Hoosiers hit the road for the next two games first at Ohio State on Thursday, January 10 at 6 p.m. ET. The game will be televised live on Big Ten Network. LockdownD, HoosierAloha, Class of '66 Old Fart and 1 other 4 Quote
mamasa Posted January 6, 2019 Author Posted January 6, 2019 Pretty sloppy/rough start, but hanging in vs. MSU. MSU is more experienced than we are, and it's showing. 17-14 MSU early in 2nd q Quote
mamasa Posted January 6, 2019 Author Posted January 6, 2019 Starting to click, down 1. Berger w/ 6 so far Quote
mamasa Posted January 6, 2019 Author Posted January 6, 2019 First lead of the day! HoosierAloha 1 Quote
mamasa Posted January 6, 2019 Author Posted January 6, 2019 ccgeneral, Class of '66 Old Fart and IUsafety 3 Quote
ccgeneral Posted January 6, 2019 Posted January 6, 2019 Nice 9-0 run to finish out the half. Let's go girls! HoosierAloha, mamasa and Class of '66 Old Fart 3 Quote
ccgeneral Posted January 6, 2019 Posted January 6, 2019 6380 in attendance. 9th best. mamasa, Class of '66 Old Fart and HoosierAloha 3 Quote
mamasa Posted January 6, 2019 Author Posted January 6, 2019 6380 is the announced attendance- 9th largest crowd in IU WBB history! WayneFleekHoosier and HoosierAloha 2 Quote
ccgeneral Posted January 6, 2019 Posted January 6, 2019 IU 48-47 end of Q3. IUsafety, WayneFleekHoosier and Class of '66 Old Fart 3 Quote
ccgeneral Posted January 6, 2019 Posted January 6, 2019 Penn for 3 with 46 seconds left! IU 65-62 Class of '66 Old Fart, WayneFleekHoosier and HoosierAloha 3 Quote
mamasa Posted January 6, 2019 Author Posted January 6, 2019 So proud of our ladies today!!!! WayneFleekHoosier, ccgeneral and Class of '66 Old Fart 3 Quote
ccgeneral Posted January 6, 2019 Posted January 6, 2019 Hoosiers win 68-64! Our first 3-0 start in the B1G since 2008. We travel to OSU on Thursday. LockdownD, southsidehoosier, HoosierAloha and 2 others 5 Quote
Class of '66 Old Fart Posted January 6, 2019 Posted January 6, 2019 WAY TO GO LADIES. GREAT WIN Love the fact we're so much deeper than we were last year. Gulbe 9 pts. and 3 reb. and Berger 10 pts. 3 reb. 2 assts, both off the bench. That's a luxury we didn't have last year. And Wise and Patberg what a couple of great transfers for the program. mamasa, ccgeneral, WayneFleekHoosier and 1 other 4 Quote
WayneFleekHoosier Posted January 6, 2019 Posted January 6, 2019 Nice win ladies!Amazing to think we’d be 14-0 if we didn’t lay that egg.Gotta like this team and the direction of the program. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners Class of '66 Old Fart, LIHoosier, mamasa and 1 other 4 Quote
Class of '66 Old Fart Posted January 6, 2019 Posted January 6, 2019 17 minutes ago, ccgeneral said: Hoosiers win 68-64! Our first 3-0 start in the B1G since 2008. We travel to OSU on Thursday. And - Hoosiers' first win over a top 15 team since 2010 (over then-No.4 Ohio State). ccgeneral, HoosierAloha, mamasa and 2 others 5 Quote
ccgeneral Posted January 7, 2019 Posted January 7, 2019 Wow. Illinois won @ #12 Minnesota last night. LockdownD, mamasa and Class of '66 Old Fart 3 Quote
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