BLOOMINGTON — The Indiana women’s basketball cruised to a 95-61 win over Bellarmine on Sunday afternoon in what was easily its best offensive performance of the season. The Hoosiers (8-3; 1-0 Big Ten) went into halftime up by 24 points after ...

Indiana never trailed en route to its most lopsided victory of the season, beating out a 25-point win over Maine at the start of the month. It was the first time IU scored more than 80 points since the season-opener on Nov. 4 against Brown.

When the Indiana women’s basketball nonconference schedule was announced, the conventional wisdom was that the visit from Stanford on Nov. 17 and the Hoosiers’ trip to Battle 4 Atlantis were highlights surrounded by a lot of filler.

At the break, the Hoosiers led 54-30 over Bellarmine University on Sunday inside Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington. Senior forward Karoline Striplin led Indiana with 15 first-half points while the Cream and Crimson went 67.7% from the field alongside 50% from beyond the arc.

Indiana’s women’s basketball team has courted trouble with some of the mid-major teams it has brought to Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall this season. Indiana was on the wrong end of a 72-68 overtime defeat against a very good Harvard team on Nov.