Indiana University Athletics
Moren Is Recipient Of 2023 Kay Yow Award
3/30/2023 1:00:00 PM | Women's Basketball
BOSTON –Indiana head coach Teri Moren been named the 2023 Kay Yow Award winner, presented annually to the Division I women's head college basketball coach who embodies a winning spirit while displaying great character, on and off the court.
"It's impressive anytime you do something, which hasn't happened in 40 years, but Teri Moren did a lot more than just lead the Indiana women to a Big Ten regular season title," said Angela Lento, Vice President of CollegeInsider.com. "It was a season of firsts for Indiana women's basketball and Coach Moren is a very deserving winner of National Coach of the Year honors."
In her ninth season at the helm, she led her squad to a multitude of new program first and record setting numbers in the 2022-23 season. She guided the Hoosiers to a school record 28 wins with a 28-4 overall record and a first-place finish in the Big Ten. They claimed their first regular season title in 40 years, with a mark of 16-2 mark. Indiana posted wins over nine top 25 foes this season, five of which came against top 5 opponents.
Six players earned All-Big Ten honors this season including a pair of first team honors for senior forward Mackenzie Holmes and graduate student guard Grace Berger. The duo of Berger and Holmes also earned a variety of All-American awards this postseason including College Sport Communicator Academic All-American honors. Holmes was a first team All-American by The Athletic, USBWA and Associated Press along with being named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year while Berger placed on the honorable mention team by the USBWA and Associated Press.
They ranked in the top 10 nationally in five team categories, highlighted by its 49.7 field goal percentage, which is second amongst all Division I teams. Indiana is also fourth in scoring margin (+18.8), sixth in scoring offense (80.9) and assist-to-turnover ratio (+1.45) and seventh in assists per game (18.2). The Hoosiers have been ranked in both national polls consecutively for the last three seasons, reaching as high as No. 2 in both national polls. They earned the program's first ever No. 1 seed in the 2023 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.
On Jan. 18 in a win at Illinois, Moren became the program's all-time winningest coach with 189 career victories. She holds a current record of 200-93 (.682) in her nine seasons leading the program and eclipsed the 200-win mark at IU in the victory over Tennessee Tech in the NCAA First Round. Moren was also named the 2023 Big Ten Coach of the Year, her second league honor as she also earned the selection in 2016 and was a finalist for the 2023 Werner Ladder Naismith Coach of the Year.
ABOUT THE KAY YOW AWARD
College Insider pays tribute to one of the true icons of women's college basketball with the Kay Yow Award, which is presented annually to the Division I women's head coach who embodies a winning spirit while displaying great character, on and off the court.
Yow, who lost a long battle with cancer in 2009, became the sixth head coach in the history of Division I women's basketball to reach the 700-win plateau, finishing with a sterling record of 737–344 in her 34 seasons at NC State.
She was the first women's coach in ACC history to eclipse 600 wins at the same school and directed NC State to 19 top-three finishes in the ACC standings. Her 1997-98 squad advanced all the way to the Final Four in Kansas City.
She was wildly successful in every forum in which she coached, leading gold medal winners at the 1981 World University Games, the 1986 Goodwill Games, 1986 World Championship Games and the 1988 Olympic Games.
As an assistant, Yow was on the Olympic gold medal winning 1984 coaching staff in Los Angeles. In addition, she was an assistant on the gold medal-winning teams at the 1979 World University Games, the 1983 Pan American Games and the 1984 R. Williams Jones Cup.
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"It's impressive anytime you do something, which hasn't happened in 40 years, but Teri Moren did a lot more than just lead the Indiana women to a Big Ten regular season title," said Angela Lento, Vice President of CollegeInsider.com. "It was a season of firsts for Indiana women's basketball and Coach Moren is a very deserving winner of National Coach of the Year honors."
In her ninth season at the helm, she led her squad to a multitude of new program first and record setting numbers in the 2022-23 season. She guided the Hoosiers to a school record 28 wins with a 28-4 overall record and a first-place finish in the Big Ten. They claimed their first regular season title in 40 years, with a mark of 16-2 mark. Indiana posted wins over nine top 25 foes this season, five of which came against top 5 opponents.
Six players earned All-Big Ten honors this season including a pair of first team honors for senior forward Mackenzie Holmes and graduate student guard Grace Berger. The duo of Berger and Holmes also earned a variety of All-American awards this postseason including College Sport Communicator Academic All-American honors. Holmes was a first team All-American by The Athletic, USBWA and Associated Press along with being named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year while Berger placed on the honorable mention team by the USBWA and Associated Press.
They ranked in the top 10 nationally in five team categories, highlighted by its 49.7 field goal percentage, which is second amongst all Division I teams. Indiana is also fourth in scoring margin (+18.8), sixth in scoring offense (80.9) and assist-to-turnover ratio (+1.45) and seventh in assists per game (18.2). The Hoosiers have been ranked in both national polls consecutively for the last three seasons, reaching as high as No. 2 in both national polls. They earned the program's first ever No. 1 seed in the 2023 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.
On Jan. 18 in a win at Illinois, Moren became the program's all-time winningest coach with 189 career victories. She holds a current record of 200-93 (.682) in her nine seasons leading the program and eclipsed the 200-win mark at IU in the victory over Tennessee Tech in the NCAA First Round. Moren was also named the 2023 Big Ten Coach of the Year, her second league honor as she also earned the selection in 2016 and was a finalist for the 2023 Werner Ladder Naismith Coach of the Year.
ABOUT THE KAY YOW AWARD
College Insider pays tribute to one of the true icons of women's college basketball with the Kay Yow Award, which is presented annually to the Division I women's head coach who embodies a winning spirit while displaying great character, on and off the court.
Yow, who lost a long battle with cancer in 2009, became the sixth head coach in the history of Division I women's basketball to reach the 700-win plateau, finishing with a sterling record of 737–344 in her 34 seasons at NC State.
She was the first women's coach in ACC history to eclipse 600 wins at the same school and directed NC State to 19 top-three finishes in the ACC standings. Her 1997-98 squad advanced all the way to the Final Four in Kansas City.
She was wildly successful in every forum in which she coached, leading gold medal winners at the 1981 World University Games, the 1986 Goodwill Games, 1986 World Championship Games and the 1988 Olympic Games.
As an assistant, Yow was on the Olympic gold medal winning 1984 coaching staff in Los Angeles. In addition, she was an assistant on the gold medal-winning teams at the 1979 World University Games, the 1983 Pan American Games and the 1984 R. Williams Jones Cup.
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