Indiana women’s basketball’s season came to an abrupt halt last night as the top-seeded Hoosiers fell to the ninth-seeded Miami Hurricanes in an exciting, bittersweet 70-68 game. For the final time this season, here’s three things:

The First Half

Much like in the men’s second round loss to Miami, Indiana got straight up outworked in the first half. Hurricanes forward Lola Pendande was getting the best of a not-100%-looking Mackenzie Holmes in the paint while guard Destiny Harden looked automatic from deep.

They each finished the first half with twelve points and Harden was 3-4 from the perimeter.