IUWBB @ Michigan State - 2/11/19

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

General IU basketball apathy may be setting in.  Game nearing the end of the 1st Q and we're just now getting a thread started.  Patberg in street clothes and considered day-to-day with her shoulder.  Yeaney picked up 2 fouls in the first 3 minutes of the game.  Grace Berger started in place of Patberg.

End of 1st Q  IU trails 18-14.  Berger playing well with 8 points; 3 reb. and 1 assist.  Yeaney and Penn both with 2 fouls.  

 

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana is back on the road for a two-game stretch in the state of Michigan as it first visits Michigan State on Monday night. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. ET.
 
INDIANA (17-7, 6-6 B1G) AT 23/21 MICHIGAN STATE (16-6, 6-5 B1G)
Monday, February 11, 2019 • 7 p.m. ET
Breslin Center • East Lansing, Mich.
Broadcast: BTN (Jordan Bernfield, Shelley Till)
Radio: WHCC 105.1 FM (Greg Murray)
Live Stats: MSUSpartans.com
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ABOUT THE COACHES

Indiana	Michigan State
Teri Moren	Suzy Merchant
Career Record: 298-189 (16th Season)	Career Record: 461-275 (24th Season)
Indiana Record: 99-59 (5th Season)	Michigan State Record: 260-128 (12th Season)

 
ABOUT THE SPARTANS
MSU is coming off a 86-71 loss at No. 16 Iowa on Thursday night. They are led by senior center Jenna Allen who averages 14.0 points and 7.0 rebounds per game. Four others add double figure averages including freshman guard Nia Clouden (11.5 ppg.) and junior guard Taryn McCutcheon (11.0 ppg.). The Spartans are averaging 78.7 points per game and a +11.2 scoring margin, both second best in the Big Ten. 

SERIES HISTORY
Michigan State leads 46-29
 
LAST MEETING
1/6/19 – W, 68-64 (Bloomington, IN)
 
NOTES

• Sophomore guard Jaelynn Penn once again led the way for the Hoosiers against Minnesota, scoring her 11^th straight game in double figures with 18 points. Penn is averaging 16.5 points per game in Big Ten action this season.
• Indiana is playing its third game in four outings on the road on Monday and are in a stretch of four of five away from home. It will also travel back to the state of Michigan to Ann Arbor to face the Michigan Wolverines on Thursday night.
• The Hoosiers have now won three-straight games over the Spartans dating back to the last time they visited East Lansing on Jan. 20, 2018. IU won the first meeting this season in a 68-64 win at home on Jan. 6. The three-game win streak is the longest in the series over Michigan State since it won four games from 2000-02.
• Michigan State is led by senior center Jenna Allen who averages 14.0 points and 7.0 rebounds per game. Four others add double figure averages including freshman guard Nia Clouden (11.5 ppg.) and junior guard Taryn McCutcheon (11.0 ppg.).

 
UP NEXT
Indiana plays again in the state of Michigan when it travels to the University of Michigan on Thursday night. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. ET on BTN Plus.

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

6 and half left in the 2nd Q and Yeaney goes down hard on her back/tailbone and takes her awhile to get back on her feet.  Don't think she'll play again at least the rest of this quarter.    MSU leading 25-21.  

 

Made a liar out of me - Yeaney already back in the game.

Edited February 12, 2019 by Class of '66 Old Fart

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Halftime and IU still trails 33-30.  Berger continues to play well with 10 pts, 3 reb. and 4 assts.  She does have 3 TOs.  Penn with 7 pts.; Royster with 5.  Gulbe with 4 reb and Wise with 3.   Outrebounded 22 - 19 but we've only committed 5 TO's as a team.  34% FG and 63% FT.

Sparty has a player that if you were watching a men's game would be referred to as a wide body.  However, I suppose using that term to describe a female player is considered sexist.  But you get the picture.

 

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

End of 3 and trailing 55 - 45.  Penn 11 pts., Berger 10; Royster and Wise 7 each.  Royster 7 reb; Wise 5; Gulbe 4.  Still only shooting 35% FG.   Yeaney and Penn both with 3 fouls.  

[mamasa]

Had to watch on fast forward- MSU is talented and well-coached. Ali could’ve been the difference here


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[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Just not enough firepower and don't think a healthy Ali Patberg would have made a difference in the overall outcome.  IU had no answer for MSU's Shay Colley who finished with 32 pts. in a 77 - 61 win for MSU.

IU led by 19 pts. from Penn who fouled out; Yeaney 12 and 10 from Berger.   Royster 7 reb; Wise 6; Gulbe & Penn each with 4.  38% FG; 35% on 3's and just 64% FT shooting 9-14.  After a solid first half, Berger didn't add anything to her stat line except 2 more TO's to finish with 5.  The team as a whole only had 11 for the game.

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

LOL 

mamasa - Ali could’ve been the difference here

me - don't think a healthy Ali Patberg would have made a difference in the overall outcome.  

[mamasa]

I agree generally- just a lot of “ifs” on plays she could make. Maybe Penn doesn’t foul out if Patberg is in there, idk. MSU came to play conference overall had more “oomph “


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[Hoosierfan31]

5 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

LOL 

mamasa - Ali could’ve been the difference here

me - don't think a healthy Ali Patberg would have made a difference in the overall outcome.  

While you cant deny that it certainly would help to have our leading scorer..the numbers that stand out in most games us our assist/TO ratio compared to our opponents..and its not better with patberg in the game.. our guards all have abysmal ast/to.

Bendu - 55 ast 62 to

Patberg - 119 ast 80 to B1G play 60 ast 44 to

Penn - 29 ast 71 to

Berger - 44 ast 44 to

Warthen - 7 ast 14 to

Wise - 31 ast 33 to

Royster - 8 ast 40 to

Gulbe - 7 ast 30 to

Marchese - 3 ast 8 to