The Hoosiers began the season with blowout wins over Vermont and UMass Lowell.
The result is an unquestionably talented roster, one with a balance of youth and experience, that hasn’t quite gelled yet. The first two games were beneficial in building chemistry, but now the gradual process has no choice but to continue as competition increases.
Whether IU wins or loses, it will be with its own methods. Ohio State handed Tennessee its first loss of the season Tuesday by forcing turnovers with its full-court press. Indiana doesn’t regularly press and doesn’t plan to in Knoxville. One of the Volunteers’ biggest strengths is rebounding; 6-6 center Tamari Key averaged eight per game last year. Moren has liked what she’s seen from the Hoosiers’ four-guard starting lineup. That won’t change either.
If IU is going to make a deep tournament run, it will have to be on its own merits and because it’s a team good enough to do so. There are different adjustments and priorities against every team — against Tennessee the Hoosiers are focused on crashing the boards and preventing fast breaks — but Indiana has ambitions that go beyond a single game in November.
It wants to play its own game, and Monday will be the first chance for it to learn if that game is enough to win in as difficult of conditions as exist in college basketball: against a ranked opponent in enemy territory. “There’s gonna be very few — I think there will be some — Indiana fans, but the majority of them, as we know it, is gonna be filled with orange and white playing Rocky Top throughout the 40 minutes,” Moren said. “It’s everything that I think we need right now: an early, early test in a ruckus environment like they’re gonna provide for us.”
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