| Indiana Hoosiers In addition to the conference’s athletic prowess, it also has a well deserved reputation for high academic standards. In the 1985 book Public Ivies, nine of the Big 10’s 10 public institutions (Northwestern is the only private university in the conference) were deemed to “provide an Ivy League collegiate experience at a public school price.” The decision to favor the Big 10 brand over accuracy is understandable. Founded in 1896, the Big 10 is the oldest Division I college athletic conference in the United States. The conference as a whole provides nearly a hundred million dollars annually in direct financial aid to over eight thousand male and female student-athletes. For the fourth season in a row, 2007-08 saw five or more Big Ten teams earn twenty or more regular season wins in men’s basketball. Wisconsin set a school-record with 31 wins, the Michigan State Spartans recorded 27, the Purdue Boilermakers and the Indiana Hoosiers each won 25 contests, Ohio State won 24 and Minnesota notched 20 wins. Awesomeseating.com is your go-to broker for NCAA Basketball tickets. Whether you’re looking for cheap seats behind the backboards, a luxury sky-box or something closer to courtside, we’re your Awesome ticket broker for Indiana Hoosiers tickets for the basketball regular season and Indiana Hoosiers postseason tickets. Since 1971 home court for the five-time NCAA champion Indiana Hoosiers has been Assembly Hall, a 17,456-seat arena on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. The Hoosiers have been Big Ten regular season conference champs 20 times since 1926 but only once since 1993. The Hoosiers have made 35 appearances in the NCAA Tournament since 1940, including the past three. In 2006 the Hoosiers entered the Oakland Regional as the 6 th seed. They faced 11 th seeded San Diego State in the first round and moved on with an 87-83 victory. In the second round the team went up a Gonzaga Bulldog team that had been eliminated in the first round for four seasons consecutively. The streak was broken with a 90-80 elimination of the Hoosiers. In 2007 the Hoosiers finished 20-10 and made the NCAA Tournament on an at-large bid. At the West Regional the 7 th seeded Hoosiers went up against the 11 th seed, their old friends, Gonzaga. This time, the Hoosier handled them handily, 70-57. But the team could not get out of the second round once again, losing to UCLA, 54-49. The Hoosiers finished the 2008 regular season in third place in the Big Ten, with a conference record of 14-4 and an overall record of 25-7. They entered the East Regional as the 8th seed and were eliminated by 9th seed Arkansas, 86-72, in the first round. |