BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The 2023-24 men’s and women’s basketball seasons officially kick off with Hoosier Hysteria Presented by Smithville at 7:30 p.m. ET on Friday, Oct. 20, at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.
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Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. with free admission. Fans are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to be donated to Hoosier Hills Food Bank. This is traditionally one of the organization’s most successful donation events of the year, bringing in as much as 12,000 pounds of food to support those in need in Monroe, Brown, Lawrence, Orange, Owen, and Martin counties.
The event will begin with the Homecoming Parade at 5:30 p.m. down Woodlawn Avenue between 13th and 17th Streets. Parade goers and Hoosier Hysteria fans should park in any lots surrounding Memorial Stadium and Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. The parade will conclude with a fireworks show over Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.
Food Trucks will be set up outside of Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall beginning at 4:30 p.m.
Hoosier Hysteria will officially begin with player and coach introductions from both the men’s and women’s teams at 7:30 p.m. Head coaches Mike Woodson and Teri Moren will address the crowd before special performances from the IU Cheerleaders and RedSteppers. Finally, players from both squads will participate in skills competitions. Meghan McKeown and Indiana alum Rhett Lewis will emcee the event.
The event will be streamed on B1G+. To order, click here https://www.bigtenplus.com/en-int/page/payment. A season pass which will bring you all of the live events featuring IU Athletics on BTN+ is $79.95. A monthly IU pass is $9.95. The men’s team will be featured on B1G+ three times this season with two exhibitions and one regular season matchup, while nine women’s games also will be shown on the service.
Woodson added 10 players to the 2023-24 men’s basketball roster, including three freshmen, three transfers, and four walk-ons. The program is coming off a season that saw the Hoosiers advance to the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament for the second-straight season and a second-consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament. Xavier Johnson was granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA, while Trey Galloway and Anthony Leal each return for their senior seasons. Sophomores Malik Reneau, CJ Gunn, and Kaleb Banks round out the returning core for Indiana.
The 2023-24 Indiana women’s basketball roster will feature four returners from a team that finished 28-4 overall and 16-2 in Big Ten play. The program won the Big Ten regular season championship outright for the first time in 40 years. First team All-American Mackenzie Holmes highlights Indiana’s roster for the upcoming season along with five other All-Big Ten selections from last season in rising seniors Chloe Moore-McNeil and Sydney Parrish, graduate student Sara Scalia, and rising sophomore Yarden Garzon.
Immediately following Hoosier Hysteria, Atlanta-based rapper Gucci Mane will perform. Gucci Mane has received various nominations at the Grammy Awards, BET Hip Hop Awards, iHeart Radio Music Awards, and MTV Video Music Awards. In 2015, Vice called Gucci Mane “the most influential rapper of the last decade.”
Indiana football will host Rutgers at noon on Saturday, Oct. 21, to close out the Homecoming festivities on campus.
