BLOOMINGTON— Indiana women’s basketball coach Teri Moren wasn’t counting as her team’s shots kept falling. She just knew the Hoosiers were hot, not that they hadn’t missed. For visiting Michigan, it was like Dante’s Inferno.

Thursday night, IU made all 13 shots taken in the first quarter and was still shooting 81 percent from the field by half-time in an 80-59 drubbing of the Wolverines before 8,723 fans at Assembly Hall.

It was the 11th win in a row for the Hoosiers, now 12-1 and in a three-way 3-0 tie with Iowa and Nebraska for first place in the Big Ten. No. 14 nationally ranked IU is at Nebraska Sunday afternoon.

Guards Sydney Parrish (14 points) and Sara Scalia combined for 25 points in the first period, making it rain three-pointers. Michigan, 11-4, seemed stunned.

IU center Mackenzie Holmes, who still ended up the team’s high scorer with 20 points as she usually does, wasn’t.

“They were just taking risks and leaving some people open,” said Holmes. “I don’t know why you would ever leave Sara Scalia open on the perimeter, but they did. Same with Sydney Parrish.”

Parrish got all of her points early, Scalia (16) added some later, and Holmes did her damage in the low post, alternating between lefty and righty spins and lay-ins.

Scalia said she didn’t know IU hadn’t missed a shot in the early going until the game was over.

“That’s cool,” she said.

The score was 36-17 after one quarter and the margin hovered mostly around 20 points for the rest of the night with the biggest lead of 24 points at 72-48.

For a time, it appeared the Hoosiers might win by 40, but the entire pace of play slowed to a crawl and turned into a festival of whistles with 44 fouls called in a not particularly physical game.

At one point in the second half, the officials sent the wrong Michigan player to the free-throw line and when they switched players still gave the Wolverines an extra foul shot. Booing fans recognized what type of night the refs were having.

Meanwhile, it was party time for the Hoosiers, who are seeking to defend last year’s league regular-season championship, a first in 40 years.

“I love the start we got off to,” Moren said of the sizzling first quarter, even if she did not realize there had been zero missed

shots. “I loved how we shared the ball in the first quarter. I loved how fast we played. We had to strike first. We talked a lot about being the more aggressive team, so I loved our mindset in the first quarter.”

Michigan’s record seemed more made of paper mache than a solid foundation once the game began. Just one player, Laila Phelia, with 23 points, was in double figures.

“The great thing is we built a lead,” Moren said, “and they had to chase us the rest of the game.”

Moren, always the demanding coach, likes it best when the Hoosiers can hold an opponent under 60 points, regardless of how many her team scores. This is the ninth time this season IU has accomplished that feat, something Moren believes bodes well for the tougher conference games ahead.

Michigan made just one three-pointer in the game. Normally tough on foes on the boards, Michigan was also out-rebounded, 30-27 by the Hoosiers.

“We’re moving in a direction where we see moments we’re stingy,” she said.

Overall, IU put on a good show for spectators, who have been turning out in larger numbers. Not so very long ago a crowd of this size would have been rare, but is becoming routine. Not long before this game, it was announced the Hoosiers’ Feb. 22 contest with Iowa was sold out seven weeks ahead of time. There has been just one prior women’s basketball sellout of 17,222.

And the players and coaches hear those chanting rooters.

“It brought a lot of great energy to us,” Holmes said of the fans roaring.