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Indiana women's basketball coach Teri Moren changed the starting lineup after two losses in three games.

Freshman and reigning Indiana Miss Basketball Maya Makalusky made her first collegiate start.

Senior Shay Ciezki led all scorers with 31 points for the Hoosiers.

Coming off a loss in the Big Ten opener for the first time in eight years, Indiana women’s basketball coach Teri Moren knew she needed to shake things up.

IU had lost two of its last three: first to No. 10 Iowa State in the Coconut Hoops Championship in Florida on Nov. 30, then a demoralizing 78-57 loss to Illinois in Champaign on Dec. 5.

Moren had to turn things around. And fast.

“ I think the game at Illinois was, you know, something,” Moren said after Thursday's 98-54 win over Louisiana-Monro

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