Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball

This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see Indiana Hoosiers women's basketball.
Indiana Hoosiers Men's Basketball
2024–25 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team
UniversityIndiana University Bloomington
First season1901
All-time record1,935-1,117 (.634)
Athletic directorScott Dolson
Head coachMike Woodson (4th season)
ConferenceBig Ten
LocationBloomington, Indiana
ArenaSimon Skjodt Assembly Hall
(capacity: 17,222)
NicknameHoosiers
Student sectionCrimson Guard
ColorsCrimson and cream[1]
   
Uniforms
Home jersey
Team colours
Home
Away jersey
Team colours
Team colours
Away


NCAA tournament champions
1940, 1953, 1976, 1981, 1987
NCAA tournament runner-up
2002
NCAA tournament Final Four
1940, 1953, 1973, 1976, 1981, 1987, 1992, 2002
NCAA tournament Elite Eight
1940, 1953, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1981, 1984, 1987, 1992, 1993, 2002
NCAA tournament Sweet Sixteen
1953, 1954, 1958, 1967, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2002, 2012, 2013, 2016
NCAA tournament round of 32
1975, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2023
NCAA tournament appearances
1940, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1967, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2022, 2023
Conference regular season champions
1926, 1928, 1936, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1967, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 2002, 2013, 2016

The Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represents Indiana University Bloomington in NCAA Division I college basketball and competes in the Big Ten Conference. The Hoosiers play at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall on the Branch McCracken Court in Bloomington, Indiana on the Indiana University Bloomington campus. Indiana has won five National Championships in men's basketball (1940, 1953, 1976, 1981, 1987) – two coming under Branch McCracken and three under Bob Knight. For forty-seven years and counting, Indiana's 1976 squad remains the last undefeated NCAA men's basketball champion.

The Hoosiers are sixth in NCAA Tournament appearances (41), seventh in NCAA Tournament victories (68), tied for eighth in Final Four appearances (8), and 10th in overall victories.[2] The Hoosiers have won 22 Big Ten Conference Championships, which is second most in conference history, behind only Purdue (25). The Hoosiers also rank eighth in all-time AP poll appearances (576) and sixth in the number of weeks spent ranked No. 1 (54).[3] Every four-year men's basketball letterman from 1973 to 2019 earned at least one trip to the NCAA basketball tournament.[4]

A 2019 study listed Indiana as the fifth most valuable collegiate basketball program in the country.[5] Indiana has ranked in the top 20 nationally in men's basketball attendance every season since Assembly Hall opened in 1972, and often in the top five.[6]

Indiana has two main rivalries including in-state, against the Purdue Boilermakers (see Indiana–Purdue rivalry), and out-of-state, against the Kentucky Wildcats (see Indiana–Kentucky rivalry).

  1. ^ "Primary Colors". Indiana University Athletics Brand and Uniform Guidelines (PDF). August 28, 2018. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
  2. ^ Indiana Basketball Game Notes Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 20 March 2012.
  3. ^ "Total AP Men's BB Poll Appearances Summary – College Poll Archive – Historical College Football and Basketball Polls and Rankings". www.collegepollarchive.com.
  4. ^ "MATAS: Indiana basketball's De'Ron Davis says missing out on NCAA Tournament will haunt him forever". WDRB. 2020-03-15. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  5. ^ Bozich, Alex (8 April 2019). "Study: IU basketball is nation's fifth most valuable program". Retrieved 8 April 2019.
  6. ^ "NCAA men's basketball attendance history" (PDF). ncaa.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 22, 2007. Retrieved 8 May 2007.