ISU women settle in for three at home

NORMAL — Illinois State women’s basketball senior Katrina Beck lived through two seasons of only eight wins apiece as a Redbird freshman and sophomore.

That means Beck fully appreciates ISU’s current 9-6 overall record only four games into an 18-game Missouri Valley Conference schedule.

“You don’t want to have a season you only win eight games. That’s nobody’s goal,” Beck said. “To see where the program has come from me being a freshman to being a senior is phenomenal.”

While Beck isn’t taking the Redbirds’ progress under second-year coach Kristen Gillespie for granted, Gillespie wants to make sure her team doesn’t take having the next three games at Redbird Arena for granted beginning with…