Holmes scores 23, No. 11 Indiana women beat Wisconsin 77-49

<p>MADISON, Wisc. &mdash; Mackenzie Holmes scored 23 points and grabbed nine rebounds, and No. 11 Indiana rolled past Wisconsin 77-49 on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Ali Patberg and Nicole Cardano-Hillary added 14 points apiece for Indiana (15-4, 13-2 Big Ten Conference), who won the first meeting 74-49.</p>
<p>The Hoosiers have won six straight to reach their highest ranking in school history.</p>
<p>Julie Pospisilova led Wisconsin (5-16, 2-16) with 16 points on 7-of-11 shooting. The rest of the Badgers were 13 of 47 (28%).</p>
<p>Holmes, who also had five blocks, was coming off two sub-par games when she scored a total of 13 points on 3-of-24 shooting. That dropped her shooting percent to 56.8 and her scoring average from 18.7 to 17.3. She was 8 of 14 against the Badgers and made all seven of her free throws for her seventh 20-point game of the season.</p>
<p>Cardano-Hillary and Grace Berger had eight rebounds each to help Indiana to a 50-22 rebounding advantage.</p>
<p>Indiana plays at No. 15 Ohio State on Saturday. Iowa is at Wisconsin on Sunday.</p>
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