For most of Mackenzie Holmes’s young life, women’s college basketball has been dominated by a handful of teams.
Since 2010, Connecticut has won five Division I national championships, while the reigning champion, South Carolina, and Baylor each won two apiece. Stanford, Notre Dame and Texas A&M also won one championship each during that span.
“You knew it was going to be one of those teams every year winning the championship,” Holmes, the 6-foot-3 All-Big Ten forward at Indiana, said Sunday in a phone interview.
After reaching the round of 16 last year and the final eight in 2021, Holmes and the Hoosiers (27-3) believe they can crash the Final Four party and contend for the program’s first championship at a school where the storied men’s team has won five.