For a few minutes, she drifts away.
She doesn’t speak to anyone. The world feels still, tranquil. There’s commotion around her — blaring rap music through speakers, bubbling anticipation for the night — but not here. Not at her courtside seat.
A little less than two hours before Indiana women’s basketball hosts No. 8 Ohio State inside Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in mid-February, Yarden Garzon walks onto Branch McCracken Court and makes a beeline for a rack of basketballs.
She picks one up and studies it for a moment, her hands engulfing the seams of the ball.