Indiana women’s basketball is a great program with a great team.
This year’s iteration has one inherent flaw: lacking a signature win over a power. The Hoosiers fell on the road to Stanford, Iowa and most recently Ohio State.
One thing all those teams have in common over Indiana is high-level talent. Stanford is among the sport’s blue bloods with top recruits up and down the roster, Ohio State has come a long way and is getting better and better at talent acquisition and Iowa has Caitlin Clark.
Indiana plays to a system that is meant to maximize the whole to be better than the sum of its parts.