Indiana players wear warm-up pants that are striped red and white, like the stripes of a candy cane. 10.6 Big Ten regular season championships.7.10 National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Famers.7.9 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famers.5.5 Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall (1971–present).

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). Indiana has ranked in the top 20 nationally in men's basketball attendance every season since Assembly Hall opened in 1972, and often in the top five. Ī 2019 study listed Indiana as the fifth most valuable collegiate basketball program in the country. Every four-year men's basketball letterman from 1973 to 2019 earned at least one trip to the NCAA basketball tournament. The Hoosiers also rank eighth in all-time AP poll appearances (560) and sixth in the number of weeks spent ranked No. No team has had more All-Big Ten selections than the Hoosiers with 53. The Hoosiers have won 22 Big Ten Conference Championships and have the best winning percentage in conference games at nearly 60 percent. The Hoosiers are sixth in NCAA Tournament appearances (40), seventh in NCAA Tournament victories (67), tied for eighth in Final Four appearances (8), and 10th in overall victories. For forty-six years and counting, Indiana's 1976 squad remains the last undefeated NCAA men's basketball champion. Indiana has won five NCAA Championships in men's basketball ( 1940, 1953, 1976, 1981, 1987) – the first two under coach Branch McCracken and the latter three under Bob Knight. The Hoosiers play at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall on the Branch McCracken Court in Bloomington, Indiana on the Indiana University Bloomington campus. The Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represents Indiana University Bloomington in NCAA Division I college basketball and competes in the Big Ten Conference.

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