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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.
On March 28, 2021, Woodson was hired as head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team. [18] His contract provided him with roughly $3 million per year over six years, including $550,000 per year in base salary and $2.45 million annually in outside, marketing, and promotional income.
After taking the job at Indiana, his teams won three NCAA championships, one National Invitation Tournament (NIT) championship, and 11 Big Ten Conference championships. [3] His 1975–76 team won the 1976 NCAA tournament, and is the last men's team in Division I college basketball to go undefeated during an entire season (32–0). They remain ...
He was a captain of both the last undefeated NCAA Division I basketball champion and the 1976 Olympics gold medal team. [1] [2] Buckner was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks with the 7th pick of the 1976 NBA draft. He had a ten-year NBA career for three teams (the Bucks, the Boston Celtics, and the Indiana Pacers).
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
A bronze statue of John Wooden stands on the campus of UCLA, memorializing the coach who won 10 NCAA basketball titles in the 1960s and 1970s.
Two teams from the same conference played in the NCAA championship game for the first time, when Big Ten Conference members Indiana and Michigan met on March 29, 1976. [ 3 ] Bob Knight of Indiana became the first head coach to win the NCAA championship after playing for an NCAA championship team.