TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Indiana State plays its final road game of the 2024-25 season Saturday evening when it travels to Evansville for a 6 p.m. tip.
 
Saturday's game tips at 6 p.m. and will be carried on ESPN+, while John Sherman will also have the radio call on WVIG-FM/105.5 The Legend.
 
Last Time Out
Indiana State had three starters score 20-plus points Thursday night, but it came in a high-scoring setback at the hands of Drake, 107-86, inside the Knapp Center.
 
Keslyn Secrist and Savannah White paced the Sycamores with a career-high 24 points each, with White also adding a team-high 11 rebounds for her second double-double of the season. Bella Finnegan added 22 points and Deja Jones flirted with another double-double (nine rebounds, eight assists) for the Trees, who shot a season-best 52.4 percent from 3-point range.
 
Indiana State came out swinging from the start, as the Sycamores hit six threes in the first quarter and built a double-digit lead early on. The Trees led 35-33 after the opening frame and kept the lead until the late stages of the second quarter. A 16-2 Drake run to close the half saw the Sycamores go behind 59-49 at the intermission, and the Bulldogs took control from there. Indiana State never got closer than eight in the second half, as Drake withstood a valiant effort from the Blue and White to pull away late.
 
Off To The Races
Indiana State hardly looked like a team that has won four games all season in the first quarter of its last game at Drake. The Sycamores led wire-to-wire in the first 10 minutes of the game and finished with 35 minutes in the opening frame. Indiana State's 35 points in the first quarter were its most in a quarter all season, and also represented the most points allowed by Drake in a quarter all season.
 
» The Sycamores' hot start to Thursday's game came on a 13-for-19 clip from the field (68.4 percent), including a 6-for-9 mark from behind the arc (66.7 percent. Bella Finnegan (13) and Savannah White (11) both were in double-figures by the end of the opening period.
 
Long Distance Launching
Indiana State had one of its most productive games from behind the arc at Drake, as the Sycamores were 11-for-21 from 3-point range against the Bulldogs (52.4 percent). The 11 threes and 52.4 percent clip from deep were both the second-best marks for the Sycamores in a game this season (15 three at SIU, 53.8 percent 3FG vs. UNI).
 
Keslyn Secrist (five), Bella Finnegan (four) and Queen Ruffin (two) combined to hit all 11 treys for the Trees, with that trio going 11-for-17 from behind the arc in Thursday's game (64.7 percent).
 
Roaring 20s
Indiana State had a trio of starters score 20-plus points in Thursday's game at Drake, marking the first time in more than six years that the Sycamores had three 20-point scorers in the same game. Savannah White and Keslyn Secrist each recorded a career-high 24 points, while Bella Finnegan added 22 against the Bulldogs.
 
Indiana State's last game with three 20-point scorers came on Nov. 23, 2018, an 88-81 double overtime win at Grand Canyon (Alexis Delgado 22, Ashli O'Neal 21, Tamara Lee 20).
 
Scorin' And Boardin'
Indiana State has had a player record a 20-point, 10-rebound game in each of the last two games, with Savannah White being the most recent Sycamore to accomplish the feat. White had career highs of 24 points and 11 rebounds against Drake.
 
White joined Deja Jones as Sycamores with a 20-10 game this season, with Jones recording a 20-point, 12-rebound game at Valparaiso.
 
Long Haul
Indiana State's final road trip sees the Sycamores travel nearly 1,500 miles on the road over a 10-day span, which started with games at UIC and Valparaiso.
 
The long stretch of the trip started with Thursday's game at Drake before closing out the road trip Saturday at Evansville. Indiana State will accrue more than 1,000 miles on the road in traveling for its last two away conference games.
 
Indiana State is no stranger to being on the road, as the Sycamores closed their non-conference slate with seven straight games away from home. That road stretch consisted of nearly 2,000 miles on the road for the Blue and White.
 
Evansville At A Glance
Evansville enters Saturday's game with a 6-22 record, including a 2-15 mark in conference play. The Purple Aces have lost each of their last four, including a 71-54 defeat at Northern Iowa in their last game.
 
Maggie Hartwig leads the Purple Aces with 16.3 points and 9.1 rebounds per game, while Camryn Runner also scores in double-figures at 15.3 points per game. Runner and Julia Palomo both average more than 2.5 assists per game, and Palomo also leads the team with 50 steals this season. Hartwig and Claudia Clement both have 20 blocks for Evansville.
 
Robyn Scherr is in her fourth season as head coach at Evansville and owns a 29-91 record at the helm of the Purple Aces. Scherr is 3-5 in her career against Indiana State, including a 2-1 mark in Evansville.
 
Series History Against Evansville
Indiana State is 45-22 all-time against Evansville and has won each of the last three meetings, including the earlier matchup this season in Terre Haute.
 
The Sycamores are 18-13 all-time against the Purple Aces in Evansville, and defeated Evansville 66-48 in their last trip to southern Indiana.
 
Last Meeting Against Evansville (Jan. 12, 2025)
Bella Finnegan matched her season high of 22 points while Saige Stahl added career highs of 16 points and 17 rebounds to lead Indiana State to a 90-74 win over Evansville inside Hulman Center.
 
Keslyn Secrist tacked on 16 points and a career-high nine rebounds for the Trees, while Deja Jones joined her in double-figures with 11 points as the Sycamores scored 20-plus points in all four quarters.
 
Indiana State took the lead for good on a Secrist three-ball just before the first quarter horn, and broke out late in the second quarter with a 10-0 run to push its lead to double-digits at the intermission. A pair of threes from Finnegan midway through the third upped the advantage to 57-36, but Evansville rallied back to cut the Sycamore lead to 10 heading into the fourth. The visitors got within eight early in the fourth, but an 8-0 Sycamore run followed to put the game out of doubt. Stahl's final basket of the game gave the Sycamores their most points in a game in over a decade.
 
Up Next
Indiana State begins its final homestand of the season Thursday at 7 p.m. against Belmont
 
Follow the Sycamores
For the latest information on Sycamore Women's Basketball, visit GoSycamores.com. You can also find the team on social media, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Fans can also receive updates on Sycamore Athletics by downloading the March On App from the both the App Store and the Google Play Store.