COLUMBIA, S.C. – Indiana’s girls’s basketball group is the one one of many two Hoosiers basketball applications to make the NCAA Event in 2025. The ladies’s basketball group, a No. 9 seed, takes on No. 8 seed Utah at 1:30 p.m. ET Friday at Colonial Life Area in Columbia, S.C.
Although the ladies discover themselves within the highlight, the boys’s basketball program got here up throughout Indiana’s pre-game press convention on Thursday.
Indiana employed Darian DeVries as the brand new males’s basketball coach on Tuesday. He was launched on Wednesday.
The ladies’s group had their very own priorities, touring to Columbia on Wednesday and their focus is on their very own recreation.
Moren was requested about DeVries throughout her press convention and what success in males’s basketball means to girls’s basketball.
“I am excited for what’s subsequent for males’s basketball. Indiana is such a particular place, and it takes any individual particular to be the chief over there in males’s basketball,” Moren stated.
“I have not met Coach (DeVries) but, however simply within the issues I’ve learn I am actually trying ahead to not solely assembly him, however watching him work and really feel like he’ll do some actually particular issues at Indiana,” Moren added.
As to the recognition of girls’s basketball and the way males’s basketball pertains to that? Moren stated her program has carried out lots to provide their very own ardour.
“I am going to say this: We have created numerous buzz, proper? We’ve not wanted males’s basketball for that,” Moren stated. “And so by what we have been in a position to do the previous few years and what we proceed to do within this program.”
Moren has some extent. Below Moren’s watch, Indiana attendance has skyrocketed. The Hoosiers averaged 10,828 per recreation over 16 residence video games in 2025. Throughout Moren’s first 12 months in 2015, common attendance was 2,609.
Gamers like Tyra Buss, Ali Patberg, Grace Berger, Mackenzie Holmes and lots of others have reached recognition at a stage males’s basketball gamers have skilled in the identical timeframe.
It hasn’t damage that Indiana’s girls’s basketball program has made six NCAA Event appearances since 2016 whereas the boys’s program has made simply two appearances in the identical interval.
Moren believes there’s a rising tide that lifts all boats when all of Indiana’s athletic applications win.
“(It) helps to have a superb soccer group, proper? And so there are 24 sports activities at Indiana. We love all of them. All of us wish to achieve success. However to have a profitable soccer program, to have a profitable males’s program solely helps all people else, and so we cheer like loopy for everyone,” Moren stated.
