PORTLAND, Maine – Graduate student forward Mackenzie Holmes scored a team-high 22 points in her return to her homestate and senior guard Sydney Parrish had a double-double as No. 17 Indiana fought for a 67-59 win over Maine at Cross Insurance Arena on Thursday night.
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KEY MOMENTS
- Maine outscored the Hoosiers in the first three quarters, as guard Anne Simon scored 30 of her 34 points in the first three frames.
- Indiana (7-1) trailed by as many as 10 with under a minute to play in the second quarter as it trailed at the break, 37-29.
- Parrish fueled the Hoosiers in the third as her conventional 3-point play and triple cut the deficit to two, with five minutes left in third quarter. The Black Bears (4-4) continued to provide answers as it pushed the game back to a two-possession game with 1:44 remaining. Indiana would come within three on another Parrish bucket, 48-45, heading to the final quarter of action.
- That’s where Indiana turned on the jets, outscoring Maine, 22-11. Parrish’s and-1 opportunity gave Indiana the lead for the first time since the early minutes of the first quarter, 57-54.
- They would build a lead on a jumper and 3-pointer from senior guard Chloe Moore-McNeil as Maine took a time out with 2:55 left to play.
- They would use a IU turnover to score a fast break with 1:01 remaining but the Hoosiers would capitalize at the free throw line down the stretch in the bonus.
NOTABLE
- Holmes finished 9-for-11 from the floor for 22 points – her fourth 20-point game of the season. The Gorham, Maine native added two blocks and seven boards in the win.
- Parrish notched her first double-double this season with 17 points and 10 rebound along with four assists and two steals.
- Indiana shot 43.1 percent from the floor and dished out 21 assists on 25 made field goals.
- Moore-McNeil dished out a team-high six assists, her fourth five-plus assists outing this season. She also had two steals.
- It was a sold-out crowd at Cross Insurance Arena for the matchup of 5,979, the second-largest women’s college basketball game attended in the state of Maine.
QUOTABLE
Indiana head coach Teri Moren
“Well, I’m really proud of our group. First of all, what a great crowd. I know half of them were from Maine and half were for Mackenzie. It was a great environment for women’s basketball. I was so pleased to see that tonight. A lot of people came out to watch two teams that really battled hard. It’s one of those games, where I said to the team, we had to grind it out. You’re going to have those games. That’s what sport is, especially our sport. We have nights where maybe some of your shots aren’t falling or teams make different runs. I thought we were much better in the second half. The pace of the game was so slow, it felt like a bad game. But then I look at the stat sheet. We had 21 assists to turnovers and win the rebounds by one. It feels like we were so bad, but were we actually that bad? We missed shots and I think we still have ways to go on defense. These guys will tell you that that performance in the first half is not what we are about. We found a way to win. Like I said, sometimes you have to grind it out and give credit to our kids for playing a much better second half.”
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