{"id":392615,"date":"2026-01-05T07:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/392615\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:08:07","slug":"column-no-7-maryland-brought-ball-pressure-indiana-womens-basketball-didnt-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/392615\/","title":{"rendered":"COLUMN: No. 7 Maryland brought ball pressure. Indiana women\u2019s basketball didn\u2019t respond"},"content":{"rendered":"

COLLEGE PARK, Md. \u2014\u00a0In multiple games this season, Indiana women\u2019s basketball has been turnover\u00a0prone. The Hoosiers\u2019\u00a0highest total was against\u00a0Marshall University<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Nov. 11, when\u00a0they\u00a0committed\u00a028\u00a0turnovers. And in Indiana\u2019s\u00a0first\u00a0three\u00a0Big Ten\u00a0games,\u00a0the\u00a0Hoosiers\u00a0averaged\u00a019 per contest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With Indiana matching up\u00a0Sunday\u00a0against No. 7 Maryland\u00a0\u2014 a team\u00a0that has forced opponents\u00a0to make\u00a021.6 turnovers per game \u2014\u00a0the turnover issues continued to hurt the Hoosiers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Indiana finished the contest with 21 turnovers, which\u00a0tied\u00a0the\u00a0Hoosiers\u2019\u00a0second\u00a0most\u00a0in a game this season.\u00a0As a result,\u00a0Indiana lost its fourth Big Ten game<\/a>\u00a0of the season \u2014 and third game in a row \u2014 82-67\u00a0to the Terrapins.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Indiana\u2019s troubles on offense stemmed from the Terrapins\u2019\u00a0sustained ball pressure throughout the\u00a0contest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI think we\u2019re going to look back and be very, very frustrated,\u201d Indiana head coach Teri Moren said postgame Sunday, \u201cby\u00a0some of the times that we just literally gave them the\u00a0ball,\u00a0and they were able to go down and get an easy layup.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maryland finished the\u00a0game with\u00a025 points off turnovers and 38 points in the\u00a0paint, two\u00a0totals that outmatched Indiana\u2019s amounts. The Hoosiers only caused\u00a011 turnovers for the Terrapins, turning their\u00a0giveaways\u00a0into\u00a013 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For Maryland, the game plan\u00a0was\u00a0simple: shut\u00a0down\u00a0Indiana senior guard Shay Ciezki.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe made life difficult,\u201d Maryland head coach Brenda Frese said\u00a0postgame. \u201cShay\u00a0only got nine shots up compared to what\u00a0she\u2019s\u00a0been having to do, and we made other people\u00a0have to\u00a0beat us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ciezki\u2019s nine shots taken\u00a0were\u00a0the second-lowest amount\u00a0the Buffalo, New York, native has taken\u00a0in a game this season\u00a0and only the second time she\u00a0had less than 10 shots in a game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ciezki\u00a0finished\u00a0with 17 points \u2014 thanks to a 6-for-7 performance from the free throw line \u2014 extending her streak of not scoring 20-plus points\u00a0to four\u00a0straight\u00a0games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other than Ciezki, Indiana\u2019s chances of beating Maryland were helped by a 20-point performance\u00a0from\u00a0freshman\u00a0forward Maya\u00a0Makalusky. She\u00a0drained six 3-pointers, which tied\u00a0her season-high.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, Indiana\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0receive much help from any other Hoosier in the scoring department.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Redshirt sophomore guard\u00a0Len\u00e9e\u00a0Beaumont had 11 points, but\u00a0a\u00a0team-high five turnovers counteracted her\u00a0contributions.\u00a0Sophomore\u00a0forward\u00a0Zania\u00a0Socka-Nguemen\u00a0returned to the\u00a0lineup\u00a0since\u00a0last playing on\u00a0Nov.\u00a028,\u00a0but\u00a0she picked up\u00a0four fouls before the end of the second quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Socka-Nguemen\u00a0finished the contest with only four points in\u00a017 minutes\u00a0on Gary Williams Court. But her less-than-stellar performance\u00a0wasn\u2019t\u00a0aided\u00a0by junior forward Edessa Noyan finishing with a similar\u00a0stat line:\u00a0four points and four\u00a0fouls.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The turnovers\u00a0Maryland caused\u00a0helped the Terrapins finish with 14 more attempts from the floor and four more free throws\u00a0than Indiana.\u00a0Junior guard Oluchi\u00a0Okananwa\u00a0compiled\u00a0a season-high 34 points, with\u00a0many\u00a0of her wide-open shots\u00a0happening\u00a0because the Hoosiers were\u00a0a step slow\u00a0and missed assignments on\u00a0defense\u00a0after trying to grind for open\u00a0attempts on the offensive end.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Indiana\u00a0slowed\u00a0down\u00a0the\u00a0barrage of turnovers in the second half\u00a0\u2014 16 turnovers in the first half, five in the second \u2014 but the damage to the\u00a0Hoosiers\u2019\u00a0confidence was already done.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Indiana came out of halftime only down\u00a039-32, but in just under four minutes, the game seemed all but over. The Hoosiers gave up a 12-0 scoring run to Maryland\u00a0to open the second half, which has been\u00a0a trend\u00a0for Indiana recently<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was going to be more (turnovers)\u00a0…\u00a0that we\u2019re just self-inflicted,\u201d Moren said. \u201cJust\u00a0careless.\u00a0You just\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0do that against a team like Maryland. You\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0do that against any team in the Big Ten.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve gone\u00a0on and on<\/a>\u00a0about the bleak chances Indiana has in the Big Ten this season based on\u00a0its\u00a0previous\u00a0results to start conference play.\u00a0But the Hoosiers looked like a sloppier\u00a0team compared to\u00a0Maryland on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Before the game,\u00a0the\u00a0XFINITY Center celebrated Maryland\u2019s 2006 NCAA championship team\u00a0\u2014 an\u00a0achievement that\u00a0the women\u2019s basketball team in Bloomington\u00a0hasn\u2019t\u00a0been close to reaching \u2014 and the difference between the two programs was shown on the court.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Terrapins can\u00a0comfortably\u00a0look\u00a0ahead\u00a0to\u00a0their matchups in March and the feeling of winning a game \u2014 or games \u2014 in the\u00a0NCAA Tournament. But Indiana\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0have\u00a0the\u00a0same luxury. The Hoosiers stand at 0-4 in the Big Ten this season, the worst start to conference play since\u00a02011-12.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Hoosiers finished considerably\u00a0worse\u00a0that season, 6-24, than this year, but the point still stands.\u00a0Indiana must change\u00a0its\u00a0mentality with 14 games\u00a0remaining\u00a0on\u00a0the\u00a0schedule, especially with\u00a0No. 20 Nebraska\u00a0on\u00a0Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot be result\u00a0oriented,\u201d Moren\u00a0said\u00a0postgame. \u201cWe have to be process\u00a0oriented, and we just got to keep chipping away and continue to get better.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE PARK, Md. \u2014\u00a0In multiple games this season, Indiana women\u2019s basketball has been turnover\u00a0prone. The Hoosiers\u2019\u00a0highest total was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-392615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}