| Indiana Hoosiers | |
| University | Indiana University Bloomington |
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| Conference(s) | Big 10 (LEADERS DIVISION) |
| NCAA | Division I |
| Athletics director | Fred Glass |
| Location | Bloomington, IN |
| Varsity teams | 24 |
| Football stadium | Memorial Stadium |
| Basketball arena | Assembly Hall |
| Baseball stadium | Sembower Field |
| Soccer stadium | Bill Armstrong Stadium |
| Nickname | Hoosiers |
| Fight song | Indiana, Our Indiana |
| Colors | Cream and Crimson
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| Homepage | IU Hoosiers |
The Indiana Hoosiers are the athletic teams for the Bloomington campus of Indiana University (IU Bloomington). Athletic teams sponsored by IU Bloomington include cross country, track, baseball, golf, tennis, rowing, volleyball, soccer, football and basketball. The Athletic Director is Indianapolis lawyer Fred Glass.
The Hoosiers became a member of the Big Ten Conference on December 1, 1899. Indiana University's national affiliation is with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). National team titles (23 NCAA, 1 AIAW) have been won in six men's sports and one women's sport, including seven in men's soccer, a record-setting six straight in men's swimming and diving, and five in men's basketball. Indiana student-athletes have won 139 NCAA individual titles. Indiana University student-athletes have been named to the Academic All-Big Ten squad 2,280 times. Overall, IU student athletes have won more than 3,000 academic awards.
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The basketball teams play on the Branch McCracken Court in Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana.
The Indiana Hoosiers basketball team have won 5 national championships, 20 Big Ten championships and used to consistently rank in the nations top 25 teams, and have made it to the NCAA tournament 6 times in the past 10 years. In 1975–76 Bob Knight led the team to an NCAA championship without losing a game (the last men's Division I squad to achieve this feat).[1][2] His 1981 team was led to the title by Isiah Thomas, and his 1987 team by Steve Alford. The 1987 championship game was capped by Keith Smart's jumpshot with five seconds left to play over the Syracuse Orangemen. Knight's volatile temper, though, often brought as much controversy to the school as success, and eventually led to his dismissal in 2000 by then-University President Myles Brand.
Many students and alumni protested the Knight firing, and several players threatened to transfer unless Knight assistant Mike Davis was chosen to replace Knight. Davis ultimately got the job and took the team to the 2002 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament title game. After this initial success, however, the team struggled under Davis. On February 16, 2006, Davis announced he would resign but remain with the team for the rest of the 2006 season.
On March 28, 2006, Kelvin Sampson, formerly head coach at the University of Oklahoma, was named the successor. On October 14, 2007, he was found to have violated a 3-way phone conversation sanction imposed on him by the NCAA while he coached at Oklahoma. He and his staff were also charged with making more than the maximum alloted number of phone calls allowed under NCAA rules and giving inappropriate gifts to a recruit during a meeting deemed to be against NCAA rules. Indiana University punished Sampson by denying him a previously scheduled $500,000 raise, compelling one of his assistant coaches to resign, and taking away one of his scholarships for the 2008-2009 season.
On February 8, 2008, the NCAA informed Indiana that Sampson had "knowingly violated telephone recruiting restrictions and then lied about it." After launching another internal investigation, Indiana University announced on February 22, 2008, that Kelvin Sampson accepted a $750,000 buyout of his contract and resigned as the Indiana University men’s basketball coach. On April 1, 2008, Indiana hired Marquette University coach Tom Crean to succeed interim head coach Dan Dakich.
IU began playing football in 1884. The 52,692-seat, open-air Memorial Stadium was built in 1960. There have been many renovations since the original construction, including installing artificial turf in 1970, the replacement of wooden seats with aluminum, installation of sound and lighting systems, and laying of a new Astroturf surface in 1986, which was subsequently replaced with natural grass in 1998. In 2003, AstroPlay artificial turf was installed. Plans went through on September 22, 2006 to enclose the north endzone of Memorial Stadium. This addition is part of a $55 million overhaul of Indiana University's sports facilities. In the University's Facility Enhancement Plan the following was stated:
"The Memorial Stadium North End Zone Project will house a new, state-of-the-art strength development area used by over 600 Indiana student-athletes. In addition, coaches offices and meeting space for the football program, a Hall of Honor which will spotlight successful student-athletes and teams throughout the history of IU athletics and athletic administration offices will be a part of the plan. The project also calls for the removal of the north and south end zone bleachers."
The current head football coach of the Hoosiers is Kevin R. Wilson.
The team has made the following bowl game appearances.
Indiana's most successful football coaches to date were Bill Mallory and Bo McMillin.
The Hoosiers have won seven national championships in men's soccer: 1982, '83, '88, '98, '99, 2003 and 2004 - the first six teams led by six-time national Coach of the Year Jerry Yeagley. After leading the Hoosiers for 31 years, Yeagley retired after the 2003 season and was replaced by long time assistant and former Hoosier All-American, Mike Freitag. He was an assistant to Yeagley for 11 seasons before taking over the head job. Freitag added the program's seventh national title in his inaugural year in 2004. It marked the third occasion in which IU had won back-to-back national titles and it was the program's record 17th appearance in the College Cup. In December 2009, Jerry's son; Todd Yeagley was appointed Head Coach.
In the program's 32 seasons, Indiana owns more wins (563), has appeared in more College Cups (17) and has a higher winning percentage in both regular season (.821) and post-season play (.768) than any other school in Division I soccer. Its last NCAA Title came in 2004 when it beat UC Santa Barbara in penalty kicks 1-1 (3-2 PK's).
In addition to being a six-time National Coach of the Year, Yeagley also was the recipient of the prestigious Bill Jeffery Award, in recognition of his outstanding and unique contributions to intercollegiate soccer. In 1989, Yeagley was inducted into the United States Soccer Federation Hall of Fame.
IU players have won six Hermann Trophies (including Ken Snow twice) and three Missouri Athletic Club Player of the Year awards. The Hoosiers have had 13 United States men's national soccer team players, six Olympians and six World Cup players. In addition, Hoosier players have earned All-America honors 52 times.
Every year since the NCAA began tracking men's soccer attendance in 2001, the IU program has ranked among the top three in average or total attendance. Indiana led the nation in average attendance in 2004 and 2005 and in total attendance in 2003.
On September 2, 2007, the No. 8 ranked Hoosiers defeated the No. 1 ranked UCLA Bruins in front of a crowd of 7,243, the largest ever at Jerry Yeagley Field at Bill Armstrong Stadium.
On November 18, 2007, the Hoosiers defeated Purdue University in the NCAA Second Round to advance to the NCAA Third Round for the first time in program history.
Three Indiana Hoosiers played during the inaugural WUSA season: Wendy Dillinger, Atlanta Beat, Tracy Grose, Carolina Courage and Kelly Wilson, Bay Area CyberRays.[3]
Under former coaches James Counsilman and Hobie Billingsley, the men’s swimming and diving program won 140 consecutive dual meets, 20 consecutive Big Ten titles and an NCAA Division I record six consecutive NCAA Championships (1968–1973), most of which were won under swimming great Mark Spitz. A writer for Sports Illustrated in the early 1970s said, "a good case can be made for the 1971 Indiana swimming team being the best college team ever--in any sport." [1][2]
The Hoosiers have won the fifth-most NCAA Championships and their 23 Big Ten crowns ranks second in the conference's 90-year history. Indiana University has produced 79 individual swimming and diving champions, 191 Big Ten swimming champions, 24 conference diving champions and has won 45 Big Ten relay events. The 79 national champions ranks third among Big Ten schools while the individual Big Ten diving, relay and individual swimming crowns all rank second among the 11 conference schools. The success goes well beyond the Big Ten and the NCAA Championship as is evidenced by the eight straight U.S. National Diving Championships that Indiana divers have won.
In March 2006 the Hoosiers won the Big Ten title again, this time under coaches Ray Looze and Jeff Huber.
The Counsilman-Billingsley Center in the Student Recreational Sports Center is a 44,651-square-foot (4,148.2 m2) aquatics center used by Indiana's varsity swimming and diving programs. It features an eight-lane Olympic-sized pool spanning 30,512 square feet (2,834.7 m2) with depth ranging from seven to eight feet to allow for greater speed. The Billingsley Diving Center, complete with one of the country's few indoor diving towers, features four one-meter and two three-meter springboards as well as one-, three-, five-, seven- and 10-meter platforms.
The Indiana University Outdoor Pool serves as the team's training facility in the summer months. It features a ten-lane Olympic-sized pool along with a diving pool that includes a 10-meter platform.
Men's cross country began on the IU campus in 1910. Since the inception of cross country as an NCAA sport, Indiana is one of only nine schools in the nation to have won more than two men's national titles, and is one of seven programs to win at least three national titles. The school's three team national titles came in 1938, 1940, and 1942. IU's 29 NCAA men's championship team appearances are tied for ninth-most in the sport’s history. Indiana has found itself in the top five at the NCAA Men's Championship on nine different occasions. A Hoosier has captured the men's individual crown three times, making Indiana one of only six schools in the country, and the only Big Ten school, to have more than two individual NCAA men's cross country champions. The three individual titles rank as the fourth-most by any school.
Women's cross country began in Bloomington in 1978. The NCAA began sponsoring the sport in 1981. The women have had a pair of individual national champions, something only three other schools in the nation, and just one other in the Big Ten, can claim. On four occasions, the Hoosiers have competed for the NCAA crown as a team (1988, 89, 90, 2002). The 1988 season saw Indiana winning an individual men's and women's national cross country championship, a feat that had never happened before in the sport, and has never happened since.
The men's ice hockey team has existed as a non-NCAA sport since the 1968 and currently competes at the Division I level of the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) and is a member of the Central States Collegiate Hockey League (CSCHL). The team plays off-campus at the historic Frank Southern Ice Arena.[4] The team holds the 1971 and 2001 Big Ten Hockey League championships, 8 Midwestern Collegiate Hockey League (MCHL) championships during the 1980s and 1990s, and the 2002 Great Midwest Hockey League (GMHL).[5] The Hoosiers men's ice hockey team was the national runner-up in the 1995, 1998, 2000, and 2008 ACHA DII National Championships. In 2009 the program left the GMHL and ACHA Division II to join the ACHA Division I level, after playing one season as an independent team the team joined the CSCHL for the 2010-11 season.
Purdue
The Hoosiers' biggest traditional rival is the Purdue Boilermakers. The West Lafayette (Purdue) and Bloomington (IU) campuses are the largest in the state of Indiana and are flagship campuses of the Purdue University and Indiana University systems respectively. IU and Purdue have competed for the Old Oaken Bucket in football since 1925, a series which Purdue leads 70–36–6. In basketball, IU's 20 Big Ten Championships are second only to Purdue's 22. The Boilermakers also lead the men's basketball series 110–84. Since the 2001–02 year, IU and Purdue have also competed for an all-sports trophy called the Crimson & Gold Cup. IU leads the series 5–3–2 [3].
Illinois After Purdue, the Hoosiers' biggest football rival would be the Illinois Fighting Illini. Often pitting two basketball schools who are consistently struggling in football, the series usually remains fairly competitive. IU's rivalry with UI in basketball, however, is much more heated. IU leads the all-time series on the hardwood 82–80. The rivalry has lasted through the ages, from Lou Henson and Bob Knight publicly feuding to Kelvin Sampson and Bruce Weber's heated interaction recently.
Kentucky IU also has a heated border rivalry with the Kentucky Wildcats. The annual basketball game between the two often carries national significance as they have combined for 12 national championships Since 1991, the game has rotated between neutral sites in Indianapolis and Louisville. This neutrality ended during 2006 when the game was played at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky with the 2007 game played at Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana. Basketball games between the Hoosiers and Wildcats have at times drawn over 30,000 fans. The rivalry also spreads over into a very competitive football series with Indiana leading all-time 18-17.
Michigan State
Indiana also has a rivalry with Michigan State Spartans which started in 1950. They battle for the Old Brass Spittoon in football. Michigan State is leading 40–12–1 with Michigan State winning the last two years.
What began as one man's idea of a bicycle race to raise scholarship money has become annual IU springtime tradition. The Little 500, which was first held in 1951, inspired the 1979 Academy Award-winning film Breaking Away. Sports Illustrated and USA Today have featured the race in their pages, and it has been covered on national television by CBS, ESPN, Fox Sports, the Outdoor Life Channel, and live in high-definition television by HDNet. Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong called the Little 500, which has raised more than $1 million in scholarship money, "the coolest event I ever attended." [4]
Between the Los Angeles 1932 games and the Athens 2004 games at least one former alumni medaled at every Summer Olympics. In world record times, Mark Spitz captured seven swimming gold medals in at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Following the Beijing games, at least 173 IU athletes have competed in the Summer Olympics, of these are representatives of 15 nations. On twelve occasions, Olympic coaches have come from Indiana University. In total, the IU medal count is 84, which include 49 gold, 16 silver and 21 bronze.
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