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Published Feb 29, 2016
Indiana's Tyra Buss, Teri Moren earn major Big Ten accolades
Jeff Rabjohns  •  TheHoosier
Senior Writer

Indiana coach Teri Moren and standouts Tyra Buss and Amanda Cahill earned Big Ten honors today.

Moren was named the Big Ten Coach of the Year and Buss was named First Team All-Big Ten in voting by both league coaches and media.

Moren is the second IU women’s coach to earn Big Ten Coach of the Year honors, joining Maryalyce Jeremiah in 1983.

Indiana has won a school-record 20 games and finished 12-6 in the Big Ten, its second best finish in league play.

Indiana tied for the school’s best seed ever in the Big Ten Tournament at No. 4. IU went 7-1 down the stretch in Big Ten play.

As the fourth seed, the Hoosiers (20-10) get a double bye into Friday’s quarterfinals at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

Buss is the first Indiana player to be First Team All-Big Ten since 2006.

Cahill was named Second Team All-Big Ten by the media, honorable mention by the coaches.

A 5-foot-8 sophomore guard, Buss leads Indiana in scoring (19.0 points per game), assists (4.4 per game) and steals (2.2 per game), is second in 3-pointers made on the season (40) and third in rebounding (5.1 per game).

She is tied for ninth in single-season steals (65) in IU history and has set a single-season record for free throws made (187).

Buss is a two-time Illinois Miss Basketball from Mt. Carmel, Ill.

Cahill, a 6-foot-2 sophomore forward who was runner-up for Miss Basketball in Ohio, leads Indiana in rebounding at 8.5 per game, in 3-point shooting at 40.7 percent and is IU’s second-leading scorer at 14.6 points per game.

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