Indiana Hoosiers women's basketball
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| University | Indiana University Bloomington | ||
| Conference | Big Ten | ||
| Location | Bloomington, IN | ||
| Head coach | Teri Moren (3rd year) | ||
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Assembly Hall (Capacity: 17,222) |
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| Nickname | Hoosiers | ||
| Student section | Crimson Guard | ||
| Colors | Crimson and Cream |
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| NCAA Tournament second round | |||
| 1983, 2016 | |||
| NCAA Tournament appearances | |||
| 1983, 1994, 1995, 2002, 2016 | |||
| Conference tournament champions | |||
| 2002 | |||
| Conference regular season champions | |||
| 1983 | |||
The Indiana Hoosiers women's basketball team is the intercollegiate women's basketball program representing Indiana University Bloomington. The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The Hoosiers play home basketball games at the Assembly Hall on the university campus in Bloomington, Indiana.
The Maxwell Era of Women's Basketball at Indiana University saw the expansion of athletic opportunities and acceptance of women as athletes. Basketball was integrated into the physical education curriculum followed by interclass competition and intramurals. Juliette Maxwell dedicated her career to the advancement of athletics for the women at Indiana University.
The 1922 Arbutus reported women's athletics had taken hold of the coed especially basketball: "Basketball, the most popular sport of the Indiana coed, attracted more attention this year than ever before. More than two hundred from the freshman class alone tried out for team membership. Closely matched teams from all classes played a hotly contested tournament, which was won by the freshman without a single defeat."
In 1927-1928, the program was expanded to include within the Department of Physical Education for Women an Intramural Association, with a program geared to encourage participation in sports by the less highly skilled women students.
The Departmental Era concentrated on the expansion of athletics by increasing the sports offered, hiring more faculty, and expanding the interclass and intramural programs sponsored by the department. Edna Munro oversaw the expansion of the intramural program, Collegiate and High School Play Days, Women's Athletic Association, Women's Recreational Association, and basketball interest groups.
Around 1928-1930, the national "Play Day" program of non-coached intercollegiate sports competition for women was initiated as part of the National Women's Athletic Association's program. Indiana University's WAA supported the program and created opportunities for Play Days to occur for the next several decades. It entered its contestants in the annual state-limited gatherings which rotated yearly from one campus to another. These programs provided the opportunity for women to experience competition in a wholesome healthy atmosphere, devoid of bias and strong emotion. The success of the college-sponsored competitions influenced the Indiana University faculty to initiate "Play Days" for high school girls under their Girls’ Athletic Association organizations.
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