No. 12/9 Indiana Cruises Past Quinnipiac

Sunday, November 20

Bloomington, Ind.

1 PM ET

Indiana University

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Quinnipiac

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Quinnipiac

Indiana

11/20/2022 3:15:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Senior forward Mackenzie Holmes scored 22 points as No. 12/9 Indiana breezed to a victory over Quinnipiac, 92-55, on Sunday afternoon at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.

KEY MOMENTS

IU (5-0) started out the game scoring from the perimeter, hitting five out of their first seven three pointers including three from freshman guard Yarden Garzon, who finished with 11 points total. A 10-0 run closed out the first period, with IU leading 27-12.
Holmes scored five straight to start the second for the Hoosiers as she led her team in the frame with 11 points. Following the media timeout, graduate student guard Grace Berger hit a midrange jumper, then junior guard Chloe Moore-McNeil found Holmes for a layup in the pain. Indiana would go on to take a 49-26 lead at the break.
Opening the second half of play, Holmes got early looks in the paint, scoring two straight baskets and a trip to the line. Limiting Quinnipiac to just 23.5 percent from the floor in the third, the Hoosiers used nine from Holmes and five from Berger to push its lead to as many as 34.
Using its bench in the fourth quarter, freshman guard Lexus Bargesser and sophomore guard Kaitlin Peterson racked up steals late in the quarter leading to fast break opportunities as 12 players recorded four points or more in the victory.

NOTABLE

For the first time since 2019-20, IU starts the season off with a 5-0 record. It's the third time the Hoosiers have won their first five in Teri Moren's tenure.
Indiana improves to 2-0 in the all-time series with the Bobcats.
Holmes led all scorers with 22 points, her first with 20 points or more since she scored 30 in a win at Ohio State on Dec. 12, 2021. She started the game off 7-for-7 and recorded the 18^th 20-point or more scoring game in her career. Holmes finished 8-for-9 from the floor and 6-for-7 from the free throw line with seven boards and three blocks
Berger dished out a team-high six assists, her 38^th game of her career with five or more. She has recorded six assists for three-consecutive games.
Garzon recorded another strong effort from long range, going 4-for-5 from the arc for 14 points.
Joining Holmes and Garzon in double figures were Berger (13 points) and graduate student forward Alyssa Geary (11 points). Geary notches her IU career-high going 5-for-6 from the floor.
Sophomore forward Mona Zaric notched a career-high four points.
Indiana dished out 24 assists on the afternoon, its third-straight game with 21 or more assists.
The Hoosiers also shot 53 percent from the floor. Its third game shooting 50 percent or more this season.

QUOTABLE
Indiana head coach Teri Moren
"I thought it was a solid win for our group. I really wanted them to come back today and obviously have the lower turnovers, which is good to see that we are under 10 today. 24 assist once again today, I think the other day it was 25, so we are sharing the ball at a high clip. Finding scoring from a lot of different people. Yarden (Garzon) with 14 points in 18 minutes I thought she came out and was really good early and got us off to the start that we got off to. I love how we are sharing the ball and I love how we have different people on different nights scoring the ball. Grace Berger I thought, she has had a lot of special moments, but for whatever reason I thought she was really good this afternoon in terms of her running her basketball team with six assists. She did some really nice things. Again, another opportunity for us to get better, I did think we got better. I've challenged them especially with our screening, we thought against Bowling Green, we had some miscues, some slippage there offensively and I thought tonight, especially in our dead ball situations, our BLOBs, we got some really nice action and some open shots, so I thought there was some improvement there. Happy, we know we still have a lot of work to do and we're looking forward to Vegas, that trip and being able to play away from here, on the road against a really good Memphis team and Auburn team."

UP NEXT
The Hoosiers will travel to Las Vegas during the Thanksgiving break to play in the Las Vegas Invitational against Auburn (Nov. 25) and Memphis (Nov. 26).

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