Women's Basketball December 31, 2015

Game Notes vs. Indiana

Badgers open Big Ten season 1-0

Women's Basketball December 31, 2015

Game Notes vs. Indiana
Dec. 31, 2015
Kohl Center, Madison, Wis.

Team Notes

The Badgers improve to 5-6 on the season and have won two straight games for the first time this year.
Wisconsin also moves to 14-19 in Big Ten Conference openers, including a 10-8 mark at home. UW has won its last two Big Ten openers at home. Head coach Bobbie Kelsey improves to 3-2 in conference openers.
UW didn't show any letdown after being off for 15 days, tying for the longest break by an NCAA women's basketball team this season.
The Badgers went 16-of-23 from the free-throw line today, marking their second-highest makes of the season. Wisconsin held Indiana, the Big Ten's most prolific free-throw shooting team to 13-of-21 from the line, only the second time this season that an opponent has shot more free throws than the Hoosiers.
Wisconsin turned the ball over just nine times, tying a season low.
UW tied a season low by taking just 12 3-point attempts. Wisconsin went 5-12 (41.7 percent) from behind the arc.
The Badgers were outrebounded 36-25, the second-lowest team total by UW this season.
Indiana made just five 3-point field goals, tying an opponent season low. The Hoosiers also had an opponent season-low 12 3-point field goal attempts.
Wisconsin drew a season-high crowd of 4,410.

Individual Notes

Senior Nicole Bauman tied her season high with 24 points. The 5-10 guard scored 12 points in the fourth quarter, going 4-of-6 from the field and 4-of-4 from the free throw line. She was 6-of-6 from the free throw line for the game, setting a career best and tying a UW individual season high.
Bauman needs just 29 points for 1,000 in her career.
Bauman has scored 10-or-more points in the last six games. She has also been the team's scoring leader the last five games in a row.
Bauman has had at least four assists in six games this season.
Bauman went 2-of-5 from 3-point range, moving into eighth on the UW career record list with 462 attempts.
Senior Dakota Whyte scored 17 points, one short of her season best. She has scored in double figures in the last six games in a row.
Redshirt senior Rosanna Gambino had a season-high four rebounds against the Hoosiers.
Sophomore Cayla McMorris earned her fifth start of the year, playing for the ill Tessa Cichy. McMorris scored 12 points, her fourth double-figure scoring game this season. She was 4-of-6 from the field and 4-of-5 from the free-throw line. McMorris added two rebounds, one assist and one steal.

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