Moren Named 2023 Associated Press Coach Of The Year
3/30/2023 12:00:00 PM | Women's Basketball
DALLAS – Indiana head coach Teri Moren been named the 2023 Associated Press Coach of the Year. Moren received the award in a ceremony at American Airlines Arena in Dallas on Thursday afternoon.
The Seymour, Indiana native is the program's first Associated Press Coach of the Year. 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. Moren becomes the fifth head coach, and sixth winner overall, in the Big Ten to win the AP Coach of the Year award since the award has been given annually since 1995.
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.
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The Seymour, Indiana native is the program's first Associated Press Coach of the Year. 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. Moren becomes the fifth head coach, and sixth winner overall, in the Big Ten to win the AP Coach of the Year award since the award has been given annually since 1995.
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.
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