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.

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.

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.