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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."
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 ...
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
To date, Indiana is the last team to go the entire season undefeated at 32–0. Both advanced to the Final Four, with Indiana winning the title and Rutgers losing to Michigan in the semifinals and UCLA in the third-place game. This had been the last tournament both Duke and Kentucky missed in the same year until 2021. [1]
BLOOMINGTON – Securing a number of key returners from last year’s 19-win team, Indiana basketball coach Mike Woodson used last spring to reinforce his roster with key additions from both the ...
South Bend, Indiana: 1973 1976 Starter on the undefeated 1976 National Championship team. 3rd round pick in 1976 NBA draft. [1] Steve Alford: Guard New Castle, Indiana: 1984 1987 1983 Indiana Mr. Basketball. Member of the 1987 National Championship team. Was a 1987 Consensus All-American. 2nd round pick in 1987 NBA draft. [2] OG Anunoby: Forward