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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 Hoosiers were coached by Bob Knight, who was in his fifth season with the team.Indiana was coming off of a 1974–75 season in which they had a perfect 18–0 record in Big Ten Conference play and remained undefeated overall until losing in the regional finals of the 1975 NCAA Tournament. [4]
(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.
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
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.
May was the 1975–76 team's leading scorer, "its most dependable clutch scorer, and an outstanding defensive player and rebounder, too." [4] He was named NCAA men's basketball National Player of the Year in 1976. He won a gold medal as a member of the United States basketball team in the 1976 Summer Olympics. May graduated from Indiana in the ...
Dave McCollough’s first memory of Bob Knight was at a Lions Club spaghetti dinner in South Bend, early in Knight’s tenure at Indiana in the early 1970s.. McCollough would later meet Knight on ...
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.