In-season tournament time.
Indiana women’s basketball is set to play three games in Paradise this weekend at the Bad Boy Mowers Battle 4 Atlantis in Nassau, Bahamas.
Here’s everything you need to know about the event:
When is the event and how can I watch?
Game Date/Time: Saturday, November 23 thru Monday, November 25
Location: Imperial Arena, Nassau, Bahamas
TV: First and second rounds on FloHoops, 3rd place game on ESPNU, championship on ESPN2
Participants: Ball State, Baylor, Columbia, Indiana, North Carolina, Southern Mississippi, Texas A&M, Villanova
Bracket: 2024 B4A bracket
First Round Notes
Indiana (2-2, 0-0 Big Ten) picked up a much-needed, 79-66 win over No. 24 Stanford last time out.
Fifth-year guard Chloe Moore-McNeil stepped up and dropped 21 points to lead the Hoosiers in scoring. Junior guards Shay Ciezki (19 pts, 38 mins) and Yarden Garzon (18 pts, 8 reb) also stood out against the Cardinal.
Read more about that one here.
Only eight Hoosiers played against Stanford on Sunday. Such a short bench won’t be sustainable with three games in three days this weekend. The potential return and impact of injured junior guard Lexus Bargesser will be Indiana’s X-factor in Paradise.
Columbia (4-1, 0-0 Ivy) is a one-point loss at Villanova from being undefeated through five games.
The Lions are a good team. They went 23-7 last year en route to a second consecutive Ivy League regular season title. Head coach Megan Griffith took home her second straight league Coach of the Year award after her team went 13-1 in conference play.
That sole loss, and a conference tournament slip-up to Princeton, were not enough to keep Columbia from its first-ever NCAA tourney. The Lions made the field as an at-large but fell in the First Four to Vanderbilt.
With four returning starters, including 2023-24 All-Ivy second-team guards Cecelia Collins and Kitty Henderson, a true trip to March Madness is absolutely the goal in Morningside Heights.
Given recent meetings with Princeton and an early-season overtime loss to Harvard, Indiana knows the Ivy League is legit. Columbia is capable of knocking off the Hoosiers, as is every other team in the B4A field.
Five of the event’s eight participants made the NCAA tournament last year. Seeing multiple high-caliber opponents in rapid succession should give fans a better idea of what this Indiana truly is.