Hot Scoring Leads IU Over ULM
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Senior guard Shay Ciezki dropped her third 30-point game of the season as the Indiana women’s basketball team shot 64.2 percent from the floor in a 98-54 win over ULM on Thursday night.
KEY MOMENTS
- Ciezki scored or assisted on the first 10 points for the Hoosiers, giving them a 10-2 lead with 4:51 into the first.
- IU (9-2) went on a 20-10 run in the second quarter to extend the lead to 40-19 with 1:52 left in the quarter. Indiana held ULM (5-4) to a 25.7 field goal percentage (9-35) in the first half.
- Redshirt sophomore guard Lenée Beaumont highlighted the Hoosiers’ offensive efforts in the second half, scoring 16 of her 18 points after the break.
- Indiana closed out the game on a 24-7 run in the last 7:30 of the fourth quarter and shot a blistering 68.8 percent from the floor and 60 percent from the 3-point line in the last 10 minutes alone.
NOTABLE
- The Hoosiers went 34-for-53 (64.2%) from the field, notching the sixth-best field goal percentage in a single game in school history.
- From three, Indiana knocked down a season-high 13 triples and shot 54.2 percent on the evening.
- Indiana’s 98 points was a season-high.
- Freshman forward Maya Makalusky notched a season and career high 22 points, going 8-for-12 shooting and 6-for-10 from beyond the arc. The Fishers, Ind. Native also made her first career start for IU.
- Ciezki led the team with 31 points, her ninth-straight game scoring over 20, while going a perfect 4-for-4 at the charity stripe and shooting 12-of-17 from the field.
- The home team totaled a season-high 20 assists Beaumont leading the team with five and sophomore guard Phoenix Stotijn, sophomore guard Valentyna Kadlecova and Makalusky each adding three.
UP NEXT
Indiana will entertain Eastern Michigan on Sunday afternoon in a 1 p.m. ET tip.