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1908–09 Indiana Hoosiers Men's Basketball Team
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The 1908–09 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University. Their head coach was Robert Harris, who was in his 1st and only year. The team played its home games at the Old Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana, and was a member of the Western Conference. The Hoosiers finished the regular season with an overall record of 5–9 and a conference record of 2–6, finishing 6th in the Western Conference. Roster Schedule/Results , - !colspan=8, Regular Season , - References Indiana Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball seasons Indiana Hoosiers Indiana Hoosiers The Indiana Hoosiers are the intercollegiate sports teams and players of Indiana University Bloomington, named after the demonym for people from the state of Indiana. The Hoosiers participate in NCAA Division I, Division I of the National Coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Harris (basketball Coach)
Robert S. Harris (December 6, 1886 – July 11, 1964) was an American football and basketball player and basketball coach. He played college football and basketball at the University of Chicago. He was the head coach of the 1908–09 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team. Early years Harris was born in 1886. He attended Hyde Park High School in Chicago where he played football as a center. He attended the University of Chicago, where he was a member of Amos Alonzo Stagg's football teams that won consecutive Western Conference championships in 1907 and 1908. He also played basketball at Chicago and was a member of the 1906–07 and 1907–08 Chicago Maroons men's basketball teams that compiled a combined 44–4 record and were recognized by the Helms Athletic Foundation as national champion for both years. Indiana University Harris was the head coach of the 1908–09 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team. The team compiled a 5–9 record. Military service and later yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illinois–Indiana Rivalry
The Illinois–Indiana rivalry is a college sports rivalry between the University of Illinois Fighting Illini and the Indiana University Hoosiers. The rivalry between these bordering-state schools dates back to 1899 when the Indiana Hoosiers joined the Big Ten Conference of which Illinois is a founding member. The rivalry is most prominent in men's basketball, where both teams are perennial "Final Four contenders" and combined have won several conference championships. In football, the rivalry is less intense, but notable for the two school's geographic proximity, the history and longevity of the series with 73 total meetings dating back to 1899 and their status as a previously "protected rivalry" in the Big Ten. This multi-sports rivalry is further hallmarked by the two schools' similarities. Both schools are flagship universities in bordering states in the Midwest, both schools start with the letter "I", both schools are longtime members of the Big Ten Conference, both school' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Lafayette, Indiana
West Lafayette ( ) is a city in Wabash and Tippecanoe Townships, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States, approximately northwest of the state capital of Indianapolis and southeast of Chicago. West Lafayette is directly across the Wabash River from its sister city, Lafayette. As of the 2020 census, its population was 44,595. It is home to Purdue University and is a college town and the most densely populated city in Indiana. History Augustus Wylie laid out a town in 1836 in the Wabash River floodplain south of the present Levee. Due to regular flooding of the site, Wylie's town was never built. The present city was formed in 1888 by the merger of the adjacent suburban towns of Chauncey, Oakwood, and Kingston, located on a bluff across the Wabash River from Lafayette, Indiana. The three towns had been small suburban villages which were directly adjacent to one another. Kingston was laid out in 1855 by Jesse B. Lutz. Chauncey was platted in 1860 by the Chauncey family of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greencastle, Indiana
Greencastle is a city in Greencastle Township, Putnam County, Indiana, United States, and the county seat of Putnam County. It is located near Interstate 70 approximately halfway between Terre Haute and Indianapolis in the west-central portion of the state. The city is the home of DePauw University. The population was 9,820 at the 2020 census. History Greencastle was founded in 1821 by Ephraim Dukes on a land grant. He named the settlement for his hometown of Greencastle, Pennsylvania. Greencastle was a village or town operating under authority of the Putnam County commissioners until March 9, 1849, when it became a town by special act of the local legislature. Greencastle, Indiana, officially became a city after an election held on July 8, 1861. The first mayor of Greencastle was E. R. Kercheval, a member of the Freemason Temple Lodge #47. The city became the county seat of Putnam County. 1933 Bank Heist John Herbert Dillinger, Jr. (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion, Indiana
Marion is a city in and the county seat of Grant County, Indiana, United States, along the Mississinewa River. The population was 28,310 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is named for Francis Marion, a brigadier general from South Carolina in the American Revolutionary War. The city is home to Indiana Wesleyan University, the largest Evangelicalism, evangelical Christian university in the Midwestern United States, Midwest and Indiana's largest private university, when online and regional campuses in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Illinois are included. The traditional campus enrolls about 2,800 students. Marion is the birthplace of actor James Dean and cartoonist Jim Davis (cartoonist), Jim Davis, and was the location of the wedding of actress Julia Roberts and singer Lyle Lovett in 1993. Ronald Douglas Morrell Jr. is the city's first African American mayor and has been mayor since 2024. History Founding The Battle of the Mississinewa was fought in December 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DePauw Tigers
The DePauw Tigers are the athletic teams that represent DePauw University, a small liberal arts school in Greencastle, Indiana. The university's teams play in the NCAA Division III and currently belong to the North Coast Athletic Conference. DePauw has a passionate and long-standing rivalry with nearby Wabash College, culminating each football season with the Monon Bell game, which is the sixth most-played Division III rivalry and the 12th-most played in college football. To date, there have been 116 total games played between the two teams, resulting in a lead for Wabash at 60–53–9. In 1933, head coach Ray "Gaumey" Neal led the DePauw Tigers football team to an unbeaten, untied, and unscored opening season. The Tigers compiled a 7–0–0 record and outscored their opponents 136–0. Neal nearly duplicated this feat in 1943, but DePauw, 5–0–1, finished the season with one scoreless tie and six points allowed in a different game. The only points surrendered that season w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indiana–Purdue Rivalry
The Indiana–Purdue rivalry is a rivalry between the Indiana University Bloomington Hoosiers and the Purdue University Boilermakers, the two flagship public universities in the state of Indiana. It is regarded as one of the most intense collegiate rivalries in the United States, and one of the strongest and most followed collegiate rivalries in the Big Ten Conference. Among all of college sports rivalries, ''Newsweek'' listed it among the top 12 and ''Huffington Post'' listed it as the fifth best rivalry overall. The intensity of the rivalry is augmented by the deep passion within Indiana for basketball (see Hoosier Hysteria). Both universities have very large student bodies in the tens of thousands; Purdue is a land-grant research university located in the northern portion of Indiana that traditionally focuses on engineering, science, agriculture, and technology, while IU Bloomington is located in the southern portion of the state and primarily focuses on liberal arts, busi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Purdue Boilermakers Men's Basketball
The Purdue Boilermakers basketball team is a men's college basketball program that competes in NCAA Division I and is a founding member of the Big Ten Conference. Purdue basketball has the most Big Ten regular season championships with 26 conference titles, and in 2024 became the first Big Ten program to be ranked as the #1 team in America for three consecutive seasons. , Purdue also holds a winning record against all other Big Ten schools in head-to-head match ups. The Boilermakers have reached three NCAA Tournament Final Fours and two NCAA championship games, but have not won an NCAA Championship. The 1931–32 team was retroactively named a national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. Purdue has sent more than 30 players to the NBA, including two overall No. 1 picks in the NBA draft. Purdue's main rival is the Indiana Hoosiers. History 1896–1916: The early years The history of Purdue basketball dates back to 1896 with their f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iowa Hawkeyes Men's Basketball
The Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball team is part of the University of Iowa athletics department. The Hawkeyes have had eight National Invitation Tournament appearances, won eight Big Ten regular-season conference championships and won the Big Ten Big Ten Conference men's basketball tournament, tournament three times. Iowa has played in 29 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournaments and advanced to the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament#Final Four, Final Four on three occasions, reaching the semifinals in 1955 and 1980 and playing in the championship game against the 1955–56 San Francisco Dons men's basketball team, University of San Francisco in 1956. Iowa basketball was widely successful in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s with a program resurgence under Lute Olson and the tenures of George Raveling and Tom Davis (basketball, born 1938), Tom Davis. Under Olson, the Hawkeyes won their last Big Ten Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball regular season champions, regular season championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evanston, Illinois
Evanston is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, situated on the North Shore (Chicago), North Shore along Lake Michigan. A suburb of Chicago, Evanston is north of Chicago Loop, downtown Chicago, bordered by Chicago to the south, Skokie, Illinois, Skokie to the west, Wilmette, Illinois, Wilmette to the north, and Lake Michigan to the east. Evanston had a population of 78,110 . Founded by Methodist business leaders in 1857, the city was incorporated in 1863. Evanston is home to Northwestern University, founded in 1851 before the city's incorporation, one of the world's leading research university, research universities. Today known for its ethnically diverse population, Evanston is heavily shaped by the influence of Chicago, externally, and Northwestern, internally. The city and the university share a historically complex long-standing relationship. History Prior to the 1830s, the area now occupied by Evanston was mainly uninhabited, consisting largely of wetlands a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwestern Wildcats Men's Basketball
The Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball team is an NCAA Division I college basketball team representing Northwestern University in the Big Ten Conference. Men's basketball was introduced at Northwestern in 1901. Since 2013, the team has been coached by Chris Collins (basketball), Chris Collins. The Wildcats have advanced to the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, NCAA tournament three times, in 2016–17 Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball team, 2017, 2022-23 Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball team, 2023, and 2023-24 Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball team, 2024, after being the only longstanding member of a Power Five conferences, Power Five conference to have never made the tournament. The Wildcats have won two List of Big Ten Conference men's basketball regular season champions, Big Ten conference championships (1931 and 1933). History Northwestern began its inaugural season of intercollegiate play in 1904–1905, losing its first game to the Chicago Maro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
