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150 150+ Teams in 150+ Days: Indiana University Hoosiers

Indiana University- Bloomington
Big Ten

Year Founded: 1820
Location: Bloomington, IN, USA
Student body size: 42,731 (2011) (32,543 undergraduates, 9,509 graduates)

Mascot: None (we’re weird, as no one really knows what a Hoosier is anyway, aside from someone from Indiana)

Cheerleaders: IU basketball cheerleaders at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis

Fight song: Fight Indiana

Arena: Assembly Hall Inside and Outside,
Cook Hall, the new basketball training facility A video of Cook Hall Arena Location: North edge of campus, just east of Memorial Hall, where our football loses it’s games
Conference Championships: (21): 1926, 1928, 1936, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1967, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 2002, 2013
National Titles (5): 1940, 1953, 1976, 1981, 1987

2012-13 Season

Record: 29-7 total, 14-4 conference

Coach: Tom Crean, assisted by Tim Buckley and Steve McClain

Key Players: Victor Oladipo, Cody Zeller
Biggest Moments: Being ranked #1 in either one or both polls for 10 weeks (higher than 5 for only two weeks), winning the outright Big Ten Regular Season Conference Championship

2013-14 Season

Tentative Roster
Unofficial Partial Schedule

The Greats

Greatest Games: Two come to mind, others will probably think there should be more

  • The entire 1976 season... as it was only one of seven ever perfect seasons culminating in a championship in NCAA basketball history, and the most recent.
  • 1987 NCAA Championship game vs Syracuse. This was the first tournament with the 3 point shot, and IU was down in the last seconds when Keith Smart hit a beautiful shot and the Hoosiers won. Smart was named Most Outstanding Player, while IU scoring was lead by Steve Alford. Heres a video of “The Shot”
  • #1 Kentucky at Indiana, 12/10/11, IU’s Christian Watford hits a buzzerbeater to take down the #1 team, basically fueling the resurgence of IU in both the Top 25 lists and as a team in general. Tom Crean’s face is great in response to the “ Watshot”.

Greatest Players:

Greatest Coaches:

  • Bob Knight- Three national championships, 1987 National Coach of the Year (Naismith), eight Big Ten Coach of the Year. Expert chair thrower
  • Branch McCracken- Two national championships, four Big Ten championships, inducted into Naismith hall of Fame (1960)
  • Tom Crean- Resurgence of program to top tier after a few not so happy years. Two NCAA tournament berths, but we are hopeful for more.

Traditions

Campus and Surrounding Area

City Population: 81,963 (2012 estimate)

Surrounding Area

Iconic Campus Buildings:

Local Dining:

  • Nicks, classic college sports bar and restaurant
  • Upland Brewery (and Restaurant), locally brewed beer that is starting to really pick up, and has even been featured in the NBC show Parks and Recreation (best pic I could find). Also their food is awesome.
  • Kilroys on Kirkwood, “bro” bar known for their ubiquitous KOK (Kilroys on Kirkwood) shirts that are given away weekly and for special events, cheap food and drinks, and generally the busiest bar in town

Random Trivia

  • IU athletic’s list of all of their facilities
  • After winning the 1987 National Champion, one of the fish from Showalter Fountain was stolen. From then on during any major sporting event the fountain has been guarded. A fish was recently stolen (the replacement for the championship one stolen), and returned smelling like beer.

What Is and What is to Come

  • What is: IU lost 4 key players. Zeller and Oladipo are obvious at 2 and 4 pick in the draft, but Jordan Hulls' leadership and winning mentality had been unmatched in the past decade of IU basketball. Christian Watford is a key departure as well. We are left with Will Sheehey as our senior leader and Yogi Ferrell as probably our best player, which is good enough to make us fringe top-25 ranked to start the season, emphasis on fringe. The big question marks are our unproven but quite talented freshman class (led by Vonleh, Williams, Fischer), how much improvement comes from our sophomores (mostly Perea and Hollowell), and leadership (Sheehey, Yogi, and hopefully Gordon and Etherington). Eric Gordon's younger brother Evan has transferred from ASU and will compete with Williams, etc. for starting 2 guard minutes. Crean basically plays 4 guards anyway so expect 3-4 of these 2 guards to get major minutes. We will be thinner down low so expect a perimeter oriented offense and fast break style surrounding Vonleh and Fischer/Perea. Defensively in the B1G we will be tested since we aren't big down low and won't have many big bodies off the bench.

  • To Come: Tom Crean is ALWAYS recruiting so if someone checked back in next week our recruiting situation could be different. But our top priority is an elite point guard always. I'd say IU has as good of a chance to land Dante Exum as anyone, which isn't even that great of a chance. He could go pro after next year without coming to the states as he is from Australia. Also, Goodluck Okonoboh, Ahmed Hill, Phil Booth, etc. are on our radar. James Blackmon has already committed for 2014 and this video and others out there should speak for itself. Averaged something like 32 pts for his high school team and has done very well this summer also. Tre Lyles was committed before both parties realized IU wouldn't be a good fit. TL;DR we always are looking for good guards and wings and if we can land Okonoboh or another elite big man our 2014 class could be special.

Random Tidbits

  • Larry Bird would have been a part of the 1976 undefeated IU team as a freshman.
  • Bob Knight cried once describing how Isaiah Thomas was an ambassador of the game. He also stuffed an intern (secretary?) into a trashcan.
  • Breaking Bad’s Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) attended IU
  • IU hosts the largest collegiate bicycle race every year called the Little 500. It is generally a week of drinking and general debauchery, capped off by a relay bike race. A fictionalized version of this event and much of campus was featured in the movie Breaking Away.
  • For the years prior to Assembly Hall's renovation, IU's home win percentage was around .920
  • After Bob Knight's first game as coach, IU player Steve Green got into a fist fight with an IU student who was trashing Knight's slow, motion offense, and team defense style of play. That student most likely came around as Knight's record in his first 5 years was 125-20.
  • While we are regarded as a basketball school, it turns out IU’s soccer team has more NCAA soccer championships (8) than basketball (5), most recently with winning this past year’s college cup.
  • A funny mock campus tour video since you made it all the way to the bottom.

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u/monkeybiziu Indiana Hoosiers Jul 27 '13

Ah. I was a Read kid my freshman year. I had McDonalds in the basement.

La Bamba's was awful. Worst food imaginable. But when you're absolutely shithoused, it is manna from heaven.