KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee women’s basketball team has added a road game at Indiana to its schedule this week.
The Lady Vols (3-1) and 15th-ranked Hoosiers (2-1) will meet in a 4 p.m. ET contest on Thursday at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington. The game will be streamed live on Big Ten Network Plus.
UT and Indiana have played only one time previously, meeting in the Communiplex Classic in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Nov. 27, 1987. No. 1/3 Tennessee cruised to a 91-52 victory on that occasion. The Lady Vols carry a 79-14 all-time record vs. current members of the Big Ten Conference into Thursday’s contest.
Indiana is directed by head coach Teri Moren, who is 129-75 in her seventh season with the Hoosiers and has guided them to five-straight 20-win campaigns. LVFL Briana (Bass) Schomaeker is the director of player development for IU.
The Hoosiers, who have been picked for the first time ever to win the Big Ten, return four starters and nine total letterwinners from a 2019-20 squad that posted a 24-8 overall record and 13-5 league mark to place fourth. The squad is led by a trio of players scoring in double figures, including 6-3 sophomore forward McKenzie Holmes (18.3 ppg.), 6-0 junior guard Grace Berger (17.0 ppg.) and 5-11 senior guard Ali Patberg (12.7 ppg.).Berger and Patberg were selected by the coaches and media to the Preseason All-Big Ten Team.
IU STATEMENT ABOUT FAN ATTENDANCE
Consistent with IU Athletics’ ongoing efforts to protect the health and safety of students, coaches, staff, spectators and the local community, all men’s and women’s basketball games scheduled at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall will be played without fans indefinitely. IU Athletics’ decision is in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and is consistent with what has transpired on all Big Ten campuses during the 2020 football season.
IU Athletics will continue to work with local and state health officials, the Big Ten and campus leadership to determine if and when fans will be permitted to attend men’s and women’s basketball games at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall during the 2020-21 season.
-UT Athletics
