Indiana University Women’s Basketball Head Coach Teri Moren Wins AP and Kay Yow Coach of the Year awards
Indiana head coach Teri Moren has 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. Moren was also 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.”
Six players earned All-Big Ten honors this season including a pair of first team honors for senior forward Mackenize 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.
Indiana University Men’s Basketball Junior Jordan Geronimo enters the Transfer Portal
Indiana sophomore forward Jordan Geronimo is entering the NCAA transfer portal. A four-star prospect in the 2020 recruiting class, the 6-foot-6 Geronimo spent three seasons in Bloomington. Recruited out of high school by Archie Miller, Geronimo entered the transfer portal after Miller was fired following the 2020-21 season but opted to return to play the next two seasons for Mike Woodson. Geronimo was a part of Indiana’s 2020 recruiting class which also included Anthony Leal and Trey Galloway.
He appeared in 27 games this season and made six starts. His playing time late in the season, however, was minimal as he battled injuries and inconsistent production when he did get on the floor. Geronimo averaged 4.2 points per game and shot 54.8 percent from the field in the 2022-23 season. The Newark, New Jersey native also averaged 2.4 rebounds per game. Over Indiana’s last six games, Geronimo played only six minutes and did not play in IU’s season-ending loss to Miami (FL) in the second round of the 2023 NCAA tournament. Geronimo will have two seasons of eligibility remaining at his next school.
Indiana University Football announces Spring Football Saturday April 15th
Indiana’s traditional spring football game is a thing of the past, but coach Tom Allen hopes he has something to offer that the fans will enjoy even more. On April 15, the date of Indiana’s final practice session of the spring, the program is inviting the fans to attend.
Here’s what Indiana says to expect: IU Football’s first-ever Indiana Spring Football Saturday on April 15 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington. This event coincides with the final practice session of IU’s 2023 Spring Football season and will offer you the chance to get the first look at Coach Tom Allen’s 2023 Hoosier Football Team. But getting a look at the new faces on the field and on the coaching staff is just part of what we have in store! You will also be treated to:
Free Big Indoor Tailgate Party – Memorial Stadium South Entrance | Tobias Nutrition Center
Hoosier Carnival – Games, Giveaways, IU Team Store & More | Sample Terrace
On-Field Meet And Greet The IU Football Team & Coaches – Following Practice
Last year Indiana didn’t have any kind of public event in the spring, and the pandemic took away the option the two years prior to that. Allen hopes this model gives the fans a more up and closer and personal look at his team before they start playing for real in September. “We’ve kind of gone away from a true spring game model for various reasons, but I wanted our fans here, and wanted them to interact, see us scrimmage, and see us in person,” Allen said. “I want the fans here, meet our players, sign autographs, take pictures with them and talk to them, and I want to do the same with them. I just want it to be very interactive. I want our fans to be able to see this team and watch our guys in the final preparation before we break to go into the summertime.” Fans can register for the event at this link.
Indiana University Men’s Swimming & Diving sweeps Big Ten awards
Following a fourth-place performance at the NCAA Championships and a second-straight Big Ten title, Indiana men’s swimming and diving swept the Big Ten’s postseason awards per the conference’s announcement on Wednesday. All four honorees are, in a way, repeat winners. IU head swimming coach Ray Looze and seniors Brendan Burns and Andrew Capobianco all won men’s awards last year, while head diving coach Drew Johansen was the 2022 Big Ten Women’s Diving Coach of the Year. At the NCAA Championships, three different Hoosiers won individual national titles, six program records were smashed, 10 medals were earned, and 10 IU athletes combined for 37 All-America honors. Indiana outperformed its No. 6 CSCAA national ranking as well as the psych sheet projections, which simulated a fifth-place performance.
Big Ten Swimming Coach of the Year: Ray Looze- Looze was named the Big Ten Swimming Coach of the Year for the 12th time in his career and seventh time on the men’s side. It’s his second-straight honor for the men as well as his sixth in eight years. Looze preached relay culture all season long, and it paid off at the national meet. All five of IU’s relays had top-10 performances for the first time since the team’s third-place finish in 2019, accounted for 136 points, and all five finished higher than their seeding. Indiana’s 400 medley relay repeated as the national runner-up after beating the previous NCAA record and setting a program standard in 2:59.09. Indiana had four of the conference’s top five scoring swimmers in Burns (46), senior Van Mathias (35), junior Tomer Frankel (30) and sophomore Josh Matheny (24). Burns, Mathias and Frankel all medaled as swimming tallied 275 points.
Big Ten Diving Coach of the Year: Drew Johansen-Johansen returns as men’s diving coach of the year for the first time since repeating from 2018-19. Adding his 2022 award for women’s coaching, Johansen is now a five-time Big Ten Coach of the Year. Johansen led his group to a staggering 104 points at the national meet, 32.5 more points than any other diving team. IU diving recorded two national championships and five medal finishes, including the program’s first-ever NCAA title in platform diving via sophomore Carson Tyler. Three IU divers scored at least 30 points and earned a medal; Capobianco won gold on 3-meter and silver on 1-meter to tally 37 points, sophomore Carson Tyler was the national champion on platform and fourth on 3-meter to collect 35 points, and sophomore Quinn Henninger earned bronze medals on both 3-meter and platform for 32 points.
Big Ten Swimmer of the Year: Brendan Burns- Repeating as the Big Ten Swimmer of the Year, Burns also repeated as an NCAA Champion, though this time in a new event. After winning the 200-yard butterfly a year ago, Burns took the crown in the 100 back in 2023. Burns posted a program record and the third-fastest time ever recorded in 43.61 to become IU’s first 100 backstroke champion in 15 years and its seventh overall. On the same night, Burns was the top finisher in the 100 fly consolation final, taking ninth place overall. Burns finished top-10 in all six events he raced in, including relays. Individually, Burns was the national runner-up in the 200 fly in addition to his 100 back, 100 fly double performance. The senior helped IU to second place in the 400 medley relay, fourth place in the 800 freestyle relay and fifth in the 200 medley relay.
Big Ten Diver of the Year: Andrew Capobianco- Among his many accolades, Capobianco is now a four-time Big Ten Diver of the Year, the second-ever Big Ten athlete to win four times and first since Minnesota’s P.J. Bogart from 1993-96. Capobianco has won the award each of the last three seasons. In his final NCAA 3-meter diving final, Andrew Capobianco gave a dominant performance to win his third national championship in the event. The senior’s lowest-scoring dive earned him 81.00 points as he tallied a program record 522.60 and outscored the field by 74.3 points. He ended the performance with an exclamation mark, earning 91.20 points on a forward 4 ½ somersault tuck. The night before, Capobianco earned silver on the 1-meter springboard for the second-straight season. The fifth-year student-athlete closes his collegiate career a three-time national champion, six-time NCAA medalist and 12-time All-American.
WISH-TV and My Indy TV-23 in Indianapolis to broadcast Indy Eleven Soccer Games for 2023 season
DuJuan McCoy, Owner, President, and CEO of Circle City Broadcasting (parent company of WISH-TV and MyINDY-TV 23) today announced that the stations will be the Official Broadcast Partners with Indy Eleven for the tenth year in a row. Fans of Indiana’s Team will have an over-the-air option to watch all 20 matches this year, including the 17 home games at IUPUI Carroll Stadium. For the first time ever, WISH-TV’s statewide local sports clearance will broadcast the games to WHME 46 in South Bend and WLMO 2 in Fort Wayne. Four Indy Eleven games will air on WISH-TV and 16 will broadcast on MyINDY-TV 23, and the full game schedule can be found here.
Another pair of Indy Eleven “originals” – the on-air duo of play-by-play man Greg Rakestraw and color analyst Brad Hauter – are also set to return for their tenth season together in the broadcast booth. In addition, Tupelo Raycom a Gray Television Company will handle game day broadcast production for a ninth consecutive year. In addition to the two-hour game window, every Indy Eleven broadcast on WISH-TV and MyINDY-TV 23 will be followed by the Honda Post-game Show, a wrap up of the evening’s action featuring extensive highlights and interviews with personalities from Indiana’s Team.
Follow us on Facebook
For more local news . . . Check out our archived episodes of What’s Happenin’ and Talkin’ Sports with Nick Jenkinson