IUWBB vs Miami (FL) in the Bahamas - 11/27/21 @ 8:30

[Class of '66 Old Fart 81,082]

No letdown after a tough game against Stanford.  Need Mackenzie to get her game focus back.

No. 4/6 Indiana will look to bounce back on Saturday night as it faces Miami (FL) in the finale of the Pink Flamingo Championship. Tipoff is set for 8:30 p.m. ET.
 
#4/6 INDIANA (4-1) VS. MIAMI (FL) (4-1)
Saturday, November 27, 2021 • 8:30 p.m. ET
Baha Mar Convention Center • Nassau, Bahamas
Broadcast: FloHoops
Radio: WHCC 105.1 FM (Austin Render)
Live Stats: Statbroadcast
Social Media: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
 
ABOUT THE COACHES

Indiana	Miami (FL)
Teri Moren	Katie Meier
Career Record: 351-211 (19th Season)	Career Record: 307-199 (17th Season)
Indiana Record: 152-81 (8th Season)	Miami (FL) Record: 383-244 (21st Season)

 
ABOUT THE HURRICANES
Miami opened the seaosn 4-0 before it dropped its Pink Flamingo opener to Washington State, 62-47. They are led by Kelsey Marshall who averages 11.6 points and 4.0 rebounds per game. As a team, they're averaging 58.0 points per game while shooting 33.1 percent from the floor.
 
SERIES HISTORY
Series tied at 2-2
 
LAST MEETING
12/4/19 – W, 58-45 (Coral Gables, Fla.)
 
NOTES

• Junior forward Mackenzie Holmes paces her team with 15.6 points per game and one of five players averaging double figures. Senior guard Grace Berger adds 14.4 points per game while senior guard Nicole Cardaño-Hillary chips in 14.0 per outing.
• Senior forward Aleksa Gulbe and Holmes lead on the boards with 6.8 rebounds per game.
• Graduate student guard Ali Patberg was named to the Big Ten Player of the Week honor roll for her two-game performance last week against Norfolk State and at Quinnipiac. The Columbus, Ind. native averaged 14.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, 4.0 assists, +2.7 assist-to-turnover ratio and 1.0 steals per game while shooting 62.5 percent from the field, 57.1 percent at the 3-point line and 83.3 percent at the free throw line.
• Indiana will look to rebound after a loss on Thanksgiving to No. 7/5 Stanford, 69-66. Three players scored in double figures for the Hoosiers led by Patberg who scored 19 points.
• IU meets Miami for the second time in three seasons on Saturday. It traveled to Coral Gables for the Big Ten/ACC Challenge in 2019, a game the Hoosiers won 58-45.
• For the first time since the 2009-10 season, Indiana will play in the Bahamas during Thanksgiving week in the inaugural Pink Flamingo Championship. The Hoosiers went 1-1 in the last time on the island at the Junkaroo Jam where it fell to then No. 15/18 Virginia and defeated Charlotte.

 
UP NEXT
The Hoosiers return home to host No. 5/5 North Carolina State in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge on Thursday, Dec. 2. Tipoff on ESPN2 is set for 7 p.m. ET.

[Aaron 4,147]

2 hours ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

No letdown after a tough game against Stanford.  Need Mackenzie to get her game focus back.

No. 4/6 Indiana will look to bounce back on Saturday night as it faces Miami (FL) in the finale of the Pink Flamingo Championship. Tipoff is set for 8:30 p.m. ET.
 
#4/6 INDIANA (4-1) VS. MIAMI (FL) (4-1)
Saturday, November 27, 2021 • 8:30 p.m. ET
Baha Mar Convention Center • Nassau, Bahamas
Broadcast: FloHoops
Radio: WHCC 105.1 FM (Austin Render)
Live Stats: Statbroadcast
Social Media: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
 
ABOUT THE COACHES

Indiana	Miami (FL)
Teri Moren	Katie Meier
Career Record: 351-211 (19th Season)	Career Record: 307-199 (17th Season)
Indiana Record: 152-81 (8th Season)	Miami (FL) Record: 383-244 (21st Season)

 
ABOUT THE HURRICANES
Miami opened the seaosn 4-0 before it dropped its Pink Flamingo opener to Washington State, 62-47. They are led by Kelsey Marshall who averages 11.6 points and 4.0 rebounds per game. As a team, they're averaging 58.0 points per game while shooting 33.1 percent from the floor.
 
SERIES HISTORY
Series tied at 2-2
 
LAST MEETING
12/4/19 – W, 58-45 (Coral Gables, Fla.)
 
NOTES

• Junior forward Mackenzie Holmes paces her team with 15.6 points per game and one of five players averaging double figures. Senior guard Grace Berger adds 14.4 points per game while senior guard Nicole Cardaño-Hillary chips in 14.0 per outing.
• Senior forward Aleksa Gulbe and Holmes lead on the boards with 6.8 rebounds per game.
• Graduate student guard Ali Patberg was named to the Big Ten Player of the Week honor roll for her two-game performance last week against Norfolk State and at Quinnipiac. The Columbus, Ind. native averaged 14.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, 4.0 assists, +2.7 assist-to-turnover ratio and 1.0 steals per game while shooting 62.5 percent from the field, 57.1 percent at the 3-point line and 83.3 percent at the free throw line.
• Indiana will look to rebound after a loss on Thanksgiving to No. 7/5 Stanford, 69-66. Three players scored in double figures for the Hoosiers led by Patberg who scored 19 points.
• IU meets Miami for the second time in three seasons on Saturday. It traveled to Coral Gables for the Big Ten/ACC Challenge in 2019, a game the Hoosiers won 58-45.
• For the first time since the 2009-10 season, Indiana will play in the Bahamas during Thanksgiving week in the inaugural Pink Flamingo Championship. The Hoosiers went 1-1 in the last time on the island at the Junkaroo Jam where it fell to then No. 15/18 Virginia and defeated Charlotte.

 
UP NEXT
The Hoosiers return home to host No. 5/5 North Carolina State in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge on Thursday, Dec. 2. Tipoff on ESPN2 is set for 7 p.m. ET.

This is a game you win comfortably if IU is the team we think they are.

IU is certainly better than Washington State and the Cougars handled the Hurricanes pretty easily. Also, Miami is picked a middle to bottom ACC team and they didn't exactly win comfortably in their cupcake games.

This is a decent win for the resume, but it's one you get if you want to be a top 4 seed and host NCAA games as Coach Moren keeps talking about. 

[Class of '66 Old Fart 81,082]

After 1 qtr. Hoosiers with a 17 -11 lead.  Patberg 7 pts; Gulbe 4; Berger 3.   Holmes 4 reb.

[Class of '66 Old Fart 81,082]

 32 - 26 IU lead at the half.  We had a double digit lead that evaporated over the last 4 min. of the 2nd Q.  Patberg 9; Holmes 8; Berger 7; Gulbe 6 pts.  Holmes 6; Gulbe and Browne 4 reb. apiece.  Grace with a surprising 5 TOs in the half.

Miami with some foul concerns.  2 players with 3 and 3 with 2.  Holmes our only player with 2 fouls. 

[mamasa 14,821]

Hard to get a feel for how we’re really looking tonight, feels like we’re a little sluggish? But, this seems like the kind of game we’ll end up pulling it together 

[Class of '66 Old Fart 81,082]

Midway thru the 3rd Q and we're hanging on to a 38 - 33 lead.  Grace flirting with a double-double but a bad one not a good one.  She has 9 pts. and 7 TOs.  Team with 16 total TOs.

[mamasa 14,821]

Stats won’t load for me, odd

 

[Class of '66 Old Fart 81,082]

6 minutes ago, mamasa said:

Stats won’t load for me, odd

 

Can't use the IU site.  Try this one:  http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=378338&vislive=ind

[Class of '66 Old Fart 81,082]

End of 3 and we're still hanging in there with a 41 - 38 lead.    We've turned it over 20 times, 8 coming from Grace.  Patberg and Holmes each with 11; Berger 9; Gulbe 8.  Holmes with 8 reb; Gulbe 7.   Team just 1-7 from 3.

[Class of '66 Old Fart 81,082]

5 min. left in the game and we're leading 52 - 40.  

[Class of '66 Old Fart 81,082]

Should never have allowed the women to eat popcorn as a pre-game meal.  24 TOs.  Thankfully we've dominated the boards outrebounding Miami 42 - 27.

[Class of '66 Old Fart 81,082]

52 - 49 with 48 sec. left.  Can we hang on?

[Class of '66 Old Fart 81,082]

An ugly win is still a win.  Final score IU 53 - 51 over Miami. 

[Aaron 4,147]

Ugh. Inexcusable to let a mediocre Miami team back into the game twice after building a big lead and the Hurricanes had a great look at a three for the win at the buzzer they missed.

Never apologize for a win, but for first time this season we looked anything but the top 5-10 team we are. Hopefully this a fluke. 

Maryland got pounded by Stanford today (rather than the close game we had), so if we play up to our ability I feel better about the NC State game Thursday now and also our ability to compete with Terps in the Big Ten. Still improvement needed but 5-1 is exactly where I had us at this point.   

[Class of '66 Old Fart 81,082]

Post-game story.  

https://www.idsnews.com/article/2021/11/no-4-indiana-womens-basketball-defeats-miami

[Class of '66 Old Fart 81,082]

Another post-game story

https://www.thehoosiernetwork.com/2021/11/28/takeaways-indiana-bounces-back-with-win-against-miami-after-losing-to-stanford/

[Aaron 4,147]

An update on Maryland who suffered blowouts to both our next opponent NC State and a Stanford team we just talk to wire.

Maryland was without two of their top players. With that said they have five other top players who are were available. 

Gives me more confidence we can compete with NC State at full strength since we did the same with Stanford when they did not. The Terps though still should of been more competitive and I hope IU is. When you have seven of the top 15 players in the Big Ten, losing two should still be more than adequate to stay with anyone in country.

I liken it to IU soccer. When you have 11 players and five bench guys who would start almost anywhere else in country, losing two to three top players should not drastically alter your results. Any other team in the Big Ten can use that as an excuse with two to three top players, but Maryland having seven it should be better.