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Missouri State Lady Bears Lose To Unbeaten Indiana

Missouri State Lady Bears Lose To Unbeaten Indiana

Missouri State Lady Bears Lose To Unbeaten Indiana

The Lady Bears come up short on Sunday in Bloomington, losing to Indiana 98-74.

Missouri State falls to 1-6 on the season, while Indiana extended the nation’s longest active winning streak to 15 games.

Here is the game recap courtesy of Missouri State Athletics:  

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana extended the nation’s longest active winning streak to 15 games Sunday afternoon by defeating the Missouri State Lady Bears 98-74 at Assembly Hall.

Danielle Gitzen’s 16 points led 12 different Lady Bears (1-6) in the scoring column, Alexa Willard and Sydney Manning each shot 3-for-5 from beyond the arc, and Brice Calip dished out a career-high seven assists.

MSU reached 73 points for the fifth consecutive game, the team’s longest streak since the 2015-16 campaign, and shot 42.2 percent overall, 7-for-18 (.389) from 3-point land, and 13-for-16 from the foul line.

Indiana (9-0) shot 60.6 percent overall and won the rebounding battle, 38-25, handing MSU its first setback in that category this season. The Hoosiers placed five scorers in double figures, with Ali Patberg handing out 13 assists.

Missouri State jumped ahead 8-2 in the first three minutes, but IU runs of 8-0 and 6-0 had the Hoosiers ahead 18-12 five minutes later.

The Lady Bears climbed within a basket at 20-18 early in the second period, and the Hoosiers countered with a 9-0 run to push the lead to double digits for the first time.

The teams exchanged 7-0 runs with Willard’s rebound and score of her own miss pulling MSU to 31-27 at the 4:31 mark before IU had the margin back at 11 three minutes later. The Lady Bears trailed 42-33 at halftime, and had the deficit to 42-35 to start the second half before IU scored six straight for its largest lead yet at 48-35 with 8:34 on the clock.

Missouri State briefly cut the margin to single digits at 54-45 on a Willard triple at the 6:49 mark, but the Hoosiers again had the response, out-scoring the Lady Bears 32-25 in the quarter and leading by as many as 17 points on the way to a 74-58 tally after three periods.

Gitzen’s jumper at the 7:27 mark of the fourth quarter cut the deficit to 78-67, but MSU would get no closer than that.

Missouri State is off until next Sunday when the Lady Bears host 24th-ranked Gonzaga (8-1) at 2 p.m. at JQH Arena. That game begins a stretch of seven consecutive games in Missouri.

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