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The first Indiana basketball team (1900–01) Indiana fielded its first men's basketball team in the 1900–01 season, posting a 1–4 ledger under coach James H. Horne. In their first game the Hoosiers traveled to Indianapolis and lost to Butler 17–20. [14] Indiana's first victory was a 26–17 win over Wabash College that same year. [14]
^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 Indiana Hoosiers are the intercollegiate sports teams and players of Indiana University Bloomington, named after the demonym for people from the state of Indiana.The Hoosiers participate in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in 24 sports and became a member of the Big Ten Conference on December 1, 1899.
Indiana has a rich basketball heritage that reaches back to the formative years of the sport itself. Although Canadian educator and inventor James Naismith developed basketball in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891, Indiana is where high school basketball was born. In 1925, Naismith visited an Indiana basketball state finals game along with ...
The following is a list of Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball head coaches. The Hoosiers have had 30 coaches in their 120-season history. Coaching history Source ...
It shows how dominant the state of Indiana was in college basketball was from the mid-70s through the mid-1980s. Most people know that Purdue and ISU share John Wooden's legacy, as a player and coach.
The 1980–81 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University. Their head coach was Bobby Knight , who was in his 10th year. The team played its home games in Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana , and was a member of the Big Ten Conference .
In the five years from 1924 through 1928, they were in the state championship game every year but 1925. He was the first Indiana high school coach (and one of four) to win four state championships. Curtis was the co-head coach with Tony Hinkle of the first Indiana all-star team to play Kentucky and he also coached six Indianapolis Star all-star ...