Women’s Basketball Faces Indiana in Big Ten/ACC Challenge
June 28, 2017 | Women's Basketball
It is the first meeting between the two schools since a Louisville victory in 2005.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – It's been more than a decade since Louisville's and Indiana's women's basketball teams met on the hardwood.
The two schools, separated by nearly 100 miles, will renew the rivalry during the 2017-18 season as part of the 11th annual Big Ten/Atlantic Coast Conference Challenge, league officials announced on Wednesday.
Louisville, which defeated Indiana in the last meeting in 2005, travels to Bloomington on Nov. 30 to play in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. The Cardinals beat the Hoosiers 72-67 on Dec. 4, 2005, in Freedom Hall. Helen Johnson scored 20 points off the bench, and Jazz Covington contributed 11 points and 10 rebounds in the victory.
A year ago, ACC teams combined for nine wins over the Big Ten to win the 2016 ACC/Big Ten Challenge, 9-5. The outright title was the seventh overall for the ACC.
The ACC owns a 71-51 record against the Big Ten in Challenge games.
The Cardinals went 29-8 in 2016-17 and advanced to the program's seventh NCAA Sweet 16. All-Americans Asia Durr, who averaged 19.2 points and broke the school's single-season record with 119 3-pointers, and Myisha Hines-Allen, who contributed 13.9 points and 9.3 rebounds, headline the team's eight returnees.
Indiana posted a 23-11 mark last season, including a 10-6 record in league play, and reached the WNIT quarterfinals. It returns its top two scorers, Tyra Buss (18.2 points, 81 steals) and Amanda Cahill (14.8 points, 8.9 rebounds).
Indiana leads the all-time series 6-3.
Game times, as well as television coverage for the 2017 Big Ten/ACC Challenge, will be announced at a later date.
For the latest information on Louisville women's basketball, log on to GoCards.com, or, for up-to-the-minute updates, follow the team's Twitter account at www.twitter.com/UofLWBB or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/UofLWBB.
2017 Big Ten/ACC Challenge Schedule
Wednesday, Nov. 29
Notre Dame at Michigan
Wisconsin at Pittsburgh
Florida State at Iowa
Maryland at Virginia
Minnesota at North Carolina
Thursday, Nov. 30
Wake Forest at Penn State
Purdue at Georgia Tech
Northwestern at Syracuse
Louisville at Indiana
Virginia Tech at Illinois
Michigan State at Miami
Ohio State at Duke
Clemson at Nebraska
NC State at Rutgers
