MINNEAPOLIS — A short-handed No. 3 seed Indiana women’s basketball team faded down the stretch in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals on Friday night.

No. 6 seed Michigan erased a 17-point deficit in the third quarter to win 69-56.

The Wolverines advanced to the Big Ten semifinals for a matchup against No. 2 seed Iowa that will tipoff 25 minutes after the game between No. 5 Nebraska and No. 8 Maryland ends. The Terps knocked out No. 1 seed Ohio State on Friday afternoon.

Indiana women's basketball breaks emergency glass in the fourth quarter

Indiana forward Mackenzie Holmes (knee) was dressed out, but kept her warmup shirt on all the way until the fourth quarter. Michigan outscored the Hoosiers 12-5 in the fourth quarter to go up 52-48 when Moren called timeout and put her All-American into the game with 6:28 left in the game.

Moren told reporters earlier in the week she would monitor Holmes' minutes if she played, but she tried holding her out until the semifinals and the gamble didn't pay off.

Holmes first two shot attempts rolled off the rim and she was called for an illegal screen while Michigan was on fire for final 10 minutes. The Wolverines shot 61% from the floor (11 of 18) and hit all four of their 3-point attempts.

Backup Indiana forward Lilly Meister, who was dealing with an ankle injury, played 22 minutes in the loss.

Sydney Parrish's brief absence revives Michigan's chances

The last thing Indiana needed was another injury, but Sydney Parrish was shaken up less than 30 seconds into the third quarter. Parrish limped off the floor and went to the locker room area accompanied by the team's training staff.

Parrish tweaked the right ankle injury that sidelined her for seven games this season. She came off the team bus on Friday at the Target Center wearing a boot on that same foot.

While she wasn't gone for long, Michigan went on a 12-0 run in her absence to cut what was a 17-point lead to 38-33 with 5:19 to go in the quarter.

Indiana didn't score while Parrish was being evaluated.

Michigan guard Laila Phelia, who played 40 minutes, scored 10 of her game-high 30 points in the quarter. She set up an open 3-pointer from Jordan Hobbs with a cross court pass that made it a one possession game, 43-40, with 2:04 to go. The Wolverines also had 11 points off seven turnovers in the quarter.

Sara Scalia settles the Hoosiers down in her home state

Scalia hit IU’s first 3-pointer with 1:46 to go in the first quarter. The Hoosiers hit five total over an 11-minute span that put them in control with a 35-21 lead going into halftime.

The Minnesota native did much of the damage herself going 3 of 6 from 3-point range, but Parrish and Chloe Moore-McNeil hit back-to-back 3-pointers to give their team a double-digit lead for the first time. She had a team-high 14 points and finished 4 of 12 from 3-point range with her lone long distance shot in the second half coming with 26 seconds left.

It was nothing new for an Indiana team that led the NCAA with a 40.5% 3-point shooting percentage and averaged 8.3 made 3-pointers per game (ranked No. 27 in the NCAA). Michigan was 0 for 5 from 3-point range in the first half.

Indiana women’s basketball has less than perfect start in quarterfinals

Moore-McNeil hit the team’s first shot attempt right after Yarden Garzon won the tipoff, but points weren’t as easy to come by the rest of the quarter.

The Hooisers were 1 of 12 after that while missing their first four 3-point attempts — they had a pair of scoring droughts that totaled about seven minutes of game time — as Holmes watched on from the bench.

It was a much different start from the game the team played back in early January when Indiana hit 15 straight shot attempts to open the game and had a perfect first quarter (13 of 13). The Hoosiers led by as many as 23 points in the first half of that game.

They went into halftime on Friday night with less points (35) than they had in the first quarter (36) of that regular-season matchup.

Michael Niziolek is the Indiana beat reporter for The Bloomington Herald-Times. You can follow him on X @michaelniziolek and read all his coverage by clicking here.

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