Teri Moren wants good juice.
Not a beverage. No, this is something more esoteric, an attitude that she wants to permeate her team at all times.
When Moren took the job as Indiana’s head coach in 2014, she had three tenets for her program, each of which are inscribed on a basketball that sits in her office. The first says “graduate,” the second one “win,” and the last is “serve.” And Moren is specific about what her players should serve each other.
“I talk to our kids a lot about the circle you keep, who’s in your circle that’s pouring into you every day,” she says. “And trying to get them to understand that the people that pour into you, the people that give you good juice, all right, you want to keep in your small circle. And the ones that drag you down and want to complain … try to eliminate them from the circle you keep. It’s just something that I really believe in, trying to pour into people, trying to give them good juice.”
For her players, it translates to having great energy, hyping up others no matter the situation. Senior center Mackenzie Holmes is one of Indiana’s best distributors of good juice, constantly talking on the floor and instilling confidence in her teammates — in practice and games. Moren loves communication. When there’s…
