Indiana University Athletics
NOTES: Indiana Heads to March Madness for First Time Since 2016
3/14/2022 10:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
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Indiana University is in its 122nd season of competition in men's basketball and will play in the First Four of the NCAA Tournament against Wyoming. It marks the 40th NCAA Tournament appearance for the Hoosiers and first since 2016. The Hoosiers hold a 3-0 record against the Cowboys with the last meeting coming in 1999 in Bloomington, a 99-80 IU win. The Cream and Crimson is 12-2 all-time against Mountain West foe with the last meeting coming on Nov. 25, 2015 in a 72-69 loss to UNLV at the Maui Invitational. Both teams are 12 seeds in the West Region with the winner facing the fifth-seeded Saint Mary's in Portland Thursday at 7:20 p.m. ET.
GAME INFORMATION
2022 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament First Four
Tuesday, March 15 • Approximately 9:10 p.m.
UD Arena (13,409) • Dayton, Ohio
Radio: IU Radio Network (Don Fischer, Errek Suhr, Joe Smith) | TuneIn App
Series History: Indiana leads 3-0
Last Meeting: IU 99, WYO 80 (Dec. 18, 1999 in Bloomington)
FIRST NCAA TOURNAMENT GAME FOR ALL
On its roster, IU has 641 combined starts among the group, but not one player has ever played in an NCAA Tournament Game. However, Sr./R-Jr. Race Thompson, Jr./So. Trayce Jackson-Davis, Sr./Jr. Rob Phinisee, Jr./So. Nathan Childress, and Jr./So. Michael Shipp would have been a part of a 2020 squad that likely would have earned an NCAA berth had it not been for the Pandemic.
DEFENSE LEADS THE HOOSIERS AGAINST ILLINOIS
The Hoosiers are the top-rated defense in the Big Ten according to KenPom (21st, nationally). IU is first in the Big Ten in field goal percentage defense (39.1%) and first in conference games only (41.3%). They are second in blocked shots (4.97). In the Big Ten Tournament, the Hoosiers held Illinois to 35.7% shooting and won its first game in nine tries when it trailed with 5:00 minutes to go (57-54). The Illini did not make a field goal in the final five minutes. Against Michigan, from the 12:52 mark until 1:42 remaining, the Wolverines did not make a field goal. In that time, Indiana went on a 28-6 run.
COACH MIKE WOODSON
IU Hall of Famer, All-American, Big Ten MVP and Indiana native Mike Woodson is the first Hoosier graduate to lead the program at the start of the season since Lou Watson in 1965. Woodson brings nine years of NBA head coaching experience (Atlanta Hawks and New York Knicks) back to his alma mater and worked for seven franchises as an assistant coach and won an NBA title in 2004 with the Detroit Pistons. He played 11 seasons in the NBA as a player and is the fifth all-time leading scorer in program history with 2,061 points.
Wyoming Coach Jim Linder is in his second year in Laramie.
MIKE WOODSON AND ONE OF HIS MENTORS
IU Coach Mike Woodson and his mentor, Larry Brown, are the only head coaches in NCAA history to begin their head coaching career in the NBA and earn an NCAA berth in their first year as a collegiate head coach. Brown did so at Kansas in 1983. Woodson was on Brown's staff in Philadelphia and was his defensive coordinator with the Pistons when they won the NBA title.
HOOSIERS IN THE NCAA'S IN DAYTON AND PORTLAND
This will be the fourth trip for the Hoosiers to Dayton in an NCAA Tournament event. In 1975, the greatest team in IU history to some beat Oregon State, 81-71, and lost to Kentucky, 92-90, in the Mideast Regional. In 1981, IU defeated Maryland, 99-64 in the second round of the Mideast Regional. In 2013, IU defeated James Madison, 83-62, and Temple, 58-52, in the first two rounds of the East Regional. IU won In Portland in 2012 in the first two rounds of the South Regional defeating New Mexico State, 79-66, and VCU, 63-61.
Indiana University is in its 122nd season of competition in men's basketball and will play in the First Four of the NCAA Tournament against Wyoming. It marks the 40th NCAA Tournament appearance for the Hoosiers and first since 2016. The Hoosiers hold a 3-0 record against the Cowboys with the last meeting coming in 1999 in Bloomington, a 99-80 IU win. The Cream and Crimson is 12-2 all-time against Mountain West foe with the last meeting coming on Nov. 25, 2015 in a 72-69 loss to UNLV at the Maui Invitational. Both teams are 12 seeds in the West Region with the winner facing the fifth-seeded Saint Mary's in Portland Thursday at 7:20 p.m. ET.
GAME INFORMATION
2022 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament First Four
Tuesday, March 15 • Approximately 9:10 p.m.
UD Arena (13,409) • Dayton, Ohio
Radio: IU Radio Network (Don Fischer, Errek Suhr, Joe Smith) | TuneIn App
Series History: Indiana leads 3-0
Last Meeting: IU 99, WYO 80 (Dec. 18, 1999 in Bloomington)
FIRST NCAA TOURNAMENT GAME FOR ALL
On its roster, IU has 641 combined starts among the group, but not one player has ever played in an NCAA Tournament Game. However, Sr./R-Jr. Race Thompson, Jr./So. Trayce Jackson-Davis, Sr./Jr. Rob Phinisee, Jr./So. Nathan Childress, and Jr./So. Michael Shipp would have been a part of a 2020 squad that likely would have earned an NCAA berth had it not been for the Pandemic.
DEFENSE LEADS THE HOOSIERS AGAINST ILLINOIS
The Hoosiers are the top-rated defense in the Big Ten according to KenPom (21st, nationally). IU is first in the Big Ten in field goal percentage defense (39.1%) and first in conference games only (41.3%). They are second in blocked shots (4.97). In the Big Ten Tournament, the Hoosiers held Illinois to 35.7% shooting and won its first game in nine tries when it trailed with 5:00 minutes to go (57-54). The Illini did not make a field goal in the final five minutes. Against Michigan, from the 12:52 mark until 1:42 remaining, the Wolverines did not make a field goal. In that time, Indiana went on a 28-6 run.
COACH MIKE WOODSON
IU Hall of Famer, All-American, Big Ten MVP and Indiana native Mike Woodson is the first Hoosier graduate to lead the program at the start of the season since Lou Watson in 1965. Woodson brings nine years of NBA head coaching experience (Atlanta Hawks and New York Knicks) back to his alma mater and worked for seven franchises as an assistant coach and won an NBA title in 2004 with the Detroit Pistons. He played 11 seasons in the NBA as a player and is the fifth all-time leading scorer in program history with 2,061 points.
Wyoming Coach Jim Linder is in his second year in Laramie.
MIKE WOODSON AND ONE OF HIS MENTORS
IU Coach Mike Woodson and his mentor, Larry Brown, are the only head coaches in NCAA history to begin their head coaching career in the NBA and earn an NCAA berth in their first year as a collegiate head coach. Brown did so at Kansas in 1983. Woodson was on Brown's staff in Philadelphia and was his defensive coordinator with the Pistons when they won the NBA title.
HOOSIERS IN THE NCAA'S IN DAYTON AND PORTLAND
This will be the fourth trip for the Hoosiers to Dayton in an NCAA Tournament event. In 1975, the greatest team in IU history to some beat Oregon State, 81-71, and lost to Kentucky, 92-90, in the Mideast Regional. In 1981, IU defeated Maryland, 99-64 in the second round of the Mideast Regional. In 2013, IU defeated James Madison, 83-62, and Temple, 58-52, in the first two rounds of the East Regional. IU won In Portland in 2012 in the first two rounds of the South Regional defeating New Mexico State, 79-66, and VCU, 63-61.
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