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The 1975–76 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University Bloomington and were the winners of the NCAA Men's Division I Tournament, the school's third national championship. The Hoosiers included three All-Americans and were led by head coach Bob Knight , in his fifth year, to an undefeated 32–0 record.
The team played its home games in Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference. Coming off an undefeated season (32–0), the Hoosiers faced a disappointing season by completing the regular season with an overall record of 16–11 and a conference record of 11–7, finishing 4th in the Big Ten Conference.
^A. Indiana and Purdue first met on March 2, 1901 in Bloomington, with a 20-15 Purdue win. Indiana originally planned to play a second game against Purdue in West Lafayette, but according to the Arbutus (the Indiana school yearbook) those games were "declared off, and the season ended at Indiana."
The last basketball season for the Yankee Conference, which dropped all sports except football at the end of the season. Indiana went undefeated (32–0) during the season. In the Pacific 8 Conference, UCLA won its 10th of what would ultimately be 13 consecutive conference titles. The National Invitation Tournament contracted from 16 to 12 teams.
Tom Abernethy, a junior on that team said of Krzyzewski: “He was a part of probably the best team in Indiana history." 1. 1975-76 — 32-0, Big Ten champions (18-0), national champions
Other players on the Hoosiers' roster included guards Bob Bender, Jim Crews, and Jim Wisman, and forward Rich Valavicius. [6] Indiana began the season as the number-one ranked team in the country. The team's first game, on November 29, 1975, was against UCLA, the previous season's national champions. By a 20-point margin, the Hoosiers opened ...
(As of 2024, all four of the 1976 Final Four participants will be members of the Big Ten.) Also, this was the last men's Division I tournament to date to feature two unbeaten teams, as both Indiana and Rutgers entered the tournament unbeaten. To date, Indiana is the last team to go the entire season undefeated at 32–0.
∎Ethan Roseman, Bishop Chatard: The 6-foot point guard was one of the most productive freshmen in Central Indiana last season. He averaged 14.2 points, 3.4 assists and 3.0 rebounds and shot 33% ...