No. 24 Indiana Selected to Louisville Regional

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – For the sixth time in seven years, Indiana will be playing in the NCAA Tournament, as it was selected to the Louisville Regional. The No. 2-seeded Hoosiers will face Illinois State on Friday at a time to be determined. Louisville (No. 1 seed) and UIC (No. 4 seed) are the other participating teams in the regional.

This will be Indiana's ninth NCAA tournament appearance (1949, 1996, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019). Head coach Jeff Mercer joins Ernie Andres (1949) and Chris Lemonis (2015) as the three, first-year head coaches in program history to make an NCAA Regional.

This is Indiana's fourth ever at large bid in the NCAA Tournament (1949, 1996, 2009, 2013 and 2014 were automatic bids), with all four of those at large bids coming in the last five years.

Since the start of the 2008 season, Indiana leads the Big Ten in wins (423) and conference wins (180). The Hoosiers have made seven NCAA Regionals over that span, the most out of any current Big Ten team.

For the seventh time in program history, Indiana was the outright 2019 Big Ten regular season champions. It was program's first regular season title since the 2014 season. Mercer became the first Big Ten head coach since 1982 (John Anderson, Minnesota) to win a regular season conference title in his first season as the skipper. He is just the second coach in IU history – in any sport, men's or women's – to win an outright Big Ten championship in his (or her) first year. Everett Dean (1924-25) did it in baseball in his first year as both baseball and basketball coach.

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