Indiana at the Battle 4 Atlantis: Women’s basketball game notes, how to watch, more

Indiana women’s basketball will 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 it?

Game date/time: Saturday 23 November to Monday 25 November

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

Fittings: 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.

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 min) and Yarden Garzon (18 pts, 8 reb) also stood out against the Cardinal.

Read more about it here.

Only eight Hoosiers played against Stanford on Sunday. So short a bench will not 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 going undefeated through five games.

The Lions are a good team. They went 23-7 last year en route to a second straight Ivy League regular season title. Head coach Megan Griffith took home her second consecutive league Coach of the Year award after her team went 13-1 in conference play.

That lone loss, and a conference tournament slip-up to Princeton, wasn’t enough to keep Columbia from its first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance. 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 definitely the goal at 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 are every other team in the B4A field.

Five of the event’s eight participants made the NCAA Tournament last year. Seeing several high-caliber opponents in quick succession should give fans a better idea of ​​what this Indiana is really about.