Teri Moren had a challenge for her posts.

After a near-loss to Southern Indiana earlier this week, the longtime IU head coach wondered if her bigs, Lilly Meister and Karoline Striplin, were ready for Big Ten play. She believed they would have struggled to establish a post presence against Southern Indiana — a team that has five starting guards — in a four-point comeback win over the Ohio Valley Conference members.

“I was disappointed with our post play,” Moren said after the Southern Indiana game. “I thought Lilly and Strip were just OK offensively and defensively. I think about some of the post players we’re going to see in the Big Ten, right… we’re going to be playing against some of the best post players in the country, and we need to be able to respond a lot better, and we need to respond to them as a staff help.”