Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball
| Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball | |||||||||||||||
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| University | Indiana University Bloomington | ||||||||||||||
| First season | 1900–01; 126 years ago | ||||||||||||||
| Athletic director | Scott Dolson | ||||||||||||||
| Head coach | Darian DeVries 1st season, 18–14 (.563) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Bloomington, Indiana | ||||||||||||||
| Arena | Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall (capacity: 17,222) | ||||||||||||||
| NCAA division | Division I | ||||||||||||||
| Conference | Big Ten | ||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Hoosiers | ||||||||||||||
| Colors | Crimson and cream | ||||||||||||||
| Student section | Crimson Guard | ||||||||||||||
| All-time record | 1,968–1,144 (.632) | ||||||||||||||
| NCAA tournament record | 68–36 (.654) | ||||||||||||||
| NCAA Division I tournament champions | |||||||||||||||
| 1940, 1953, 1976, 1981, 1987 | |||||||||||||||
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| NIT champions | |||||||||||||||
| 1979 | |||||||||||||||
| Conference regular-season champions | |||||||||||||||
| Big Ten: 1926, 1928, 1936, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1967, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 2002, 2013, 2016 | |||||||||||||||
| CCAT champions | |||||||||||||||
| 1974 | |||||||||||||||
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The Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represents Indiana University Bloomington in NCAA Division I college basketball and competes in the Big Ten Conference. The Hoosiers play at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall on the Branch McCracken Court in Bloomington, Indiana on the Indiana University Bloomington campus. Indiana has won five National Championships in men's basketball, (1940, 1953, 1976, 1981, 1987) – two coming under Branch McCracken and three under Bob Knight. Indiana's 1976 team remains the last undefeated NCAA men's basketball champion.
The Hoosiers have 41 NCAA Tournament appearances and 68 victories, 8 Final Four appearances, and 22 Big Ten Conference Championship victories. A 2025 study listed Indiana as the third most valuable collegiate basketball program in the country. Indiana has ranked in the top 20 nationally in men's basketball attendance since 1972.
Indiana has two main rivalries including in-state, against the Purdue Boilermakers (see Indiana–Purdue rivalry), and out-of-state, against the Kentucky Wildcats (see Indiana–Kentucky rivalry). The Hoosiers also have a rivalry with the Illinois Fighting Illini (see Illinois–Indiana rivalry).