8th Ranked Indiana Women’s Basketball Beats 13th Ranked Kentucky 88-67
The 8th Ranked Indiana Women’s Basketball team beat 13th ranked Kentucky 88-67 before a 5,394 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall Sunday Evening and National TV Audience on ESPN. The Hoosiers are 2-0 while Kentucky falls to 2-1.
Mackenzie Holmes scored the teams first 11 points and finished the game with a career high 29. Grace Berger scored 19 including a three to beat the halftime buzzer to give the Hoosiers a 38-32 lead at halftime. Ali Patberg added 18 along with 12 points from Nicole Cardano-Hillary. Indiana went 18-21 from the foul line and had 18 assists. Indiana outscored the Wildcats 50-35 in the second half and shot 54 percent from the field.
Kentucky was led by All American Rhyne Howard with 23 points and 9 rebounds. Jada Walker scored 16 points off the bench and Robyn Benton added 11. Kentucky shot 41 percent from the field, 30 percent from the three-point line and 9-15 from the foul line for 60 percent.
Indiana Head Coach Teri Moren gets her 150th career win at IU and the all-time series with Kentucky is tied up at 13 apiece. Indiana also welcomed back several Women’s Basketball Alumni as the program celebrates its 50th year of Women’s Basketball with at least one player from each decade that was in attendance this evening. Indiana will host Norfolk State Tuesday Night at 7pm.
Greene County Native Awarded Bloomington District Trooper of the Year
The Indiana State Police held their annual awards ceremony to recognize Troopers and State Police civilian employees throughout the state for various accomplishments and awards, being recognized for their service, bravery, and devotion to the department and the citizens of Indiana.
Through his hard work and dedication to public service, Master Trooper John Yung has been selected as the 2020 Trooper of the District by the Command Staff from the Bloomington Post. The factors used to determine the Trooper of the Year included, but were not limited to, traffic and criminal enforcement, community involvement, and special assignments such as SCUBA, ERT, Meth Lab Team, Instructor ratings, or other services performed for the department that goes beyond normal expectations.
M/Trp. Yung was awarded a plaque that read, “Presented to the Trooper who has achieved outstanding enforcement efforts in the areas of traffic and criminal enforcement, case and crash investigations, public information programs, and community service, and who has exemplified the professionalism and integrity expected of an Indiana State Trooper.”
Bloomington District Commander, Lieutenant Paul Bucher stated “Master Trooper Yung has always been one of the hardest working police officers I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with; he is a valuable asset not only to the citizens of the State of Indiana but to the other law enforcement officers he serves with daily. His work ethic and professionalism do not go unnoticed and we are lucky to have him serving in the Bloomington District”.
Kelley School economic forecast predicts continued labor shortages into 2022
Economists at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business expect the United States’ and Indiana economies to remain somewhat resilient amid challenges presented by COVID-19 and supply-chain issues, but labor shortages will continue to be a major concern for many businesses in 2022.
The U.S. economy may average only about 300,000 in added jobs each month against a current 12-month average rate of about 450,000 per month, according to a forecast released today by the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. Indiana, which has seen about 60,000 workers drop out of the labor force, will mirror the nation with labor growth close to 2 percent in 2022. Most job gains in the state will be in services.
One sector of the labor market particularly expected to hamper economic output in Indiana is trucking. The Commercial Carrier Journal reported a shortage of 80,000 truck drivers nationally. “This leaves manufacturing-oriented states like Indiana in the middle of the supply-chain bottleneck,” said Timothy Slaper, co-director of the Kelley School’s Indiana Business Research Center. “With aging truck drivers and early retirements fostered by COVID-19, as well as logistics interruptions for shipping, the problem is only amplified.”
Kyle Anderson, clinical assistant professor of business economics and faculty chair of Kelley’s Evening MBA Program, said the Indianapolis Metropolitan Statistical Area, which accounts for 31 percent of the state’s population and about a third of state employment and income, will continue to be the economic driver for the state. But Anderson added that downtown Indianapolis may need to reinvent itself in some ways as fewer people return there for work.
“Tourism and convention business should pick up in 2022, bringing in welcome dollars from across the country,” Anderson said. “Residential development in the area marks a shift toward a more balanced and healthy economy. However, these gains are offset by work-from-home trends that will continue for the foreseeable future. Office real estate will remain underutilized, limiting economic growth for the city.”
Additionally, the study offers that growth in output will come back in 2022 but will decelerate during the year. Growth will total about 4 percent for the year. The world economy is expected to expand by 4.9 percent in 2022, although growth will be uneven, partially due differences in their ability to provide fiscal and monetary stimulus to support the recovery. A detailed report on the outlook for 2022 will be published in the winter issue of the Indiana Business Review, available online in December. In addition to predictions about the nation, state and Indianapolis, it also will include forecasts for other Indiana cities and key economic sectors.
This Week in Hoosier History
1863 – Indiana Governor Oliver P. Morton boarded a train to go to ceremonies dedicating the cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Two days later, he was on the speaker’s platform behind President Abraham Lincoln as Lincoln gave what has become one of the most famous speeches in history. Morton accompanied the President on the return train to Washington.
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