Berger Notches Second Triple Double And Holmes Has Career Night In Win At Penn State

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Berger Notches Second Triple Double And Holmes Has Career Night In Win At Penn State

1/7/2021 8:30:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Junior guard Grace Berger recorded her second-career triple-double and sophomore guard Mackenzie Holmes set a new career-high in a 85-64 win on Thursday night at Bryce Jordan Center.

KEY MOMENTS

The Hoosiers struck first with a 3-pointer by Patberg and a bucket down low for Holmes to take an early 5-2 lead. They would stretch its lead out to seven before a Penn State run saw IU fall behind by three with 2:36 to play.
Three-straight buckets would cap off the first quarter for IU and regained a 19-16 edge.
In the second, IU went up by as many as six, 29-23, as Patberg connected inside the paint out of the media timeout. Penn State would use a fast break runout as the half expired to give IU a 3-point edge at halftime, 33-30.
Patberg and redshirt junior guard Nicole Cardaño-Hillary hit a pair of 3-pointers in the third and Holmes completed the fast break to build a 10-point lead with 6:05 to go. It would be Indiana by 10 at the end of the third, 60-50, behind 9 points each from Holmes and Patberg.
Berger lit up in the fourth quarter, going 4-for-5 from the floor for 11 of IU's 25 points in the frame. In all, 13 points, seven assists and six rebounds in her triple double came in the second half.
Indiana used a 64.7 clip in the final 10 minutes to seal the victory.

NOTABLE

With the victory over the Lady Lions, Indiana improved to 6-3 on the season and 4-1 in Big Ten play.
The Hoosiers have now won three-straight contests against Penn State and seven of the last eight. This was the only meeting between the two this season.
Berger notched her and the program's second triple-double with 15 points, 12 assists, and 10 rebounds. She is the first player to two triple-doubles in NCAA Division I women's basketball this season.
Indiana saw three hit double-digit scoring. Sophomore forward Mackenzie Holmes knocked down 27 points, Senior guard Ali Patberg scored 24 and junior guard Grace Berger secured 15.
Holmes (27), Patberg (24), and Berger (15) scored 66 of the Hoosiers 83 points.
Holmes led all scorers with a career high 27 points. This was fifth straight game in double figures.
Patberg's 24 points was a season high for the Columbus, Ind. native.
Indiana shot 51% from the field and had 50 of its points in the paint.
Redshirt junior guard Nicole Cardaño-Hillary made her first start for the Hoosiers on Thursday night.
The Hoosiers committed just two turnovers which is a new season low and the fewest in a game since they committed five against Penn State on Feb. 27, 2016.

QUOTABLE
Indiana head coach Teri Moren
"It was a good win for us especially coming off a disappointing Monday night against Maryland. I asked our girls, anytime this happens, that we have some bounce back ability in us. Tonight, I liked the way Ali Patberg came out in the second half in particularly. I thought she was way more aggressive. Of course, Mack (Mackenzie Holmes) was tremendous around the rim. And G (Grace Berger), she gets her career triple-double which is pretty cool. Those three in particular I thought. For me what stands out, the best part of the stat sheet and what stands out is that we had 24 assists and two turnovers. That is sharing the sugar and is taking care of it. I am very pleased with that. We shot 52 percent from the field. Of course, not so good from the three-point line, but I thought we had a lot of good ones. 18, I think we should roughly be around 12-15 kind of team that is going to shoot those. But I am a person of hope and believe that those are going to go in for us. We work on them every single day and the work that these guys are doing outside of practice is going to pay off, so I am going to continue to encourage them to shoot them."

UP NEXT
Indiana returns home to host Wisconsin on Sunday afternoon. Tipoff at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall is set for 6 p.m. ET.

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