After losing to in-state rival Michigan State last Sunday, the Michigan women’s basketball team needed to regain its mojo and get back on track, especially with just four games left in the regular season. It struggled offensively against the Spartans all night and scored just 56 points.

Luckily for the Wolverines, they played a team on Wednesday that gave them the shots they were looking for — and they took advantage of it.

Michigan (8-5 Big Ten, 15-10 overall) shot an incredible 50 percent from beyond the 3-point arc en route to a 88-76 win over Indiana at Crisler Arena. The Wolverines had five players score in double figures and a sixth player who scored nine points.

“Making (3-point) shots is a big part of our game,” Michigan coach Kevin Borseth said after the game. “We had open shots and we made them.”

Indiana (3-11, 9-17) played most of the game in a zone defense, leaving Michigan shooters wide open on the perimeter. The Wolverines were able to take advantage of the Hoosiers’ gameplan, hitting shot after shot from outside. Junior forward Carmen Reynolds came out of a recent offensive slump to score a team-high 19 points, including five 3-pointers.

“We were pretty much as a team able to get whatever shot we wanted to,” Reynolds said. “Passing it around the perimeter, passing it in and out — everyone was open, everyone was getting shots.”

Also helping out the Wolverines from the perimeter was Kate Thompson. The sophomore forward scored a career-high 18 points, including 15 from beyond the arc, hitting shots when Michigan needed them most.

Down by 18 with a little more than 11 minutes left in the game, the Hoosiers began to mount a comeback against a seemingly insurmountable lead, using a lack of focus by Michigan to storm back into the game. Before Borseth could blink, Indiana went on a 17-1 run to cut the Michigan lead to two with seven minutes remaining.

“Every time we play these guys, it’s almost a mirror image of what you just saw,” Borseth said. “These last two times that we played them and they did that, they beat us. The difference was, those games they threw the ball away — and this one we didn’t. This one we came back and answered.”

With all the momentum lost, Thompson hit her biggest shot of the night — a deep 3-pointer from the top of the key — that put Michigan back in the driver’s seat. Two possessions later, she made a driving layup to put the Wolverines up by eight, and they never looked back.

The Hoosiers were led by their stud senior guard Jori Davis, who scored 27 points on 48 percent shooting. She was the only reason Indiana kept it relatively close, as she repeatedly made shots from all over the court. It didn’t matter though, as Michigan neutralized the rest of the Hoosiers; the other four starters combined for 18 points.

Only three games remain in the regular season, and even though Indiana is not atop the Big Ten, this win might have shifted the momentum back into Michigan’s favor. That remains to be seen, but the players seem to think they are surging at the right time.

“We have the momentum at the end of the season right now, hopefully we will get the next three wins and get a bye into the Big Ten tournament and then carry that over and get a bid into the NCAA tournament,” Reynolds said. “That’s what’s on my mind right now.”