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</div>Right away in Sunday afternoon's 76-56 loss to No. 11 Maryland, the IU women's basketball team controlled the pace.
The 4,555 people in attendance were loud. To that tune, the Hoosiers took an eight-point lead and stayed out in front of the Terrapins for the the majority of the first quarter.
Then the second quarter happened.
The Hoosiers' pace went from fast to frantic. They scored just five points on 2-of-17 shooting and committed six turnovers in the frame, resulting in a 15-point halftime deficit.
“We got off to a good start,” IU Coach Teri Moren said. “We turned it over way too much. We got to halftime, looked down at the stat sheet and felt like, as a staff, we were defending in the half-court, but it’s not hard to hit wide open layups.”
The Terrapins finished the game with 15 fast-break points, 13 second-chance points and 23 points off the Hoosiers' 20 turnovers.
Moren said the team talked about not beating itself in this game, but that was exactly what happened.
Maryland outscored IU 20-5 in the second quarter.
“That really was the game changer,” sophomore guard Jaelynn Penn said.
Penn and sophomore guard Bendu Yeaney were the only two Hoosiers to score in double figures.
But all they could focus on postgame was the turnovers and easy baskets for Maryland.
Yeaney went through a series of events in how the game was tied, turnovers occurred, the Hoosiers would get decent looks, miss the shots and Maryland earned open run outs.
That cycle seemed endless in the second quarter, and as Penn and Moren pointed out, it was the difference in the game.
“We just gave them the game basically,” Yeaney said. “We definitely learn from this one. We can’t be lazy with the ball, that’s our main goal. We can’t have 20 turnovers in a game, that’s how you lose basketball games. You have to have less than 15 to win a basketball game in the Big Ten. That’s our takeaway from this game.”
