The Indiana State Sycamores Football is Your NCAA Division I men’s basketball program of Indiana State University at Terre Haute.

They compete in the Missouri Valley Conference. The team played at the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament in 2011.
The Sycamores’ first season was 1896, which makes them the basketball team in the NCAA along with Bucknell, Minnesota and Washington; nonetheless, the documents from 1896 to 1899 no more exist. The Sycamores boast 2 College Players of the Year, 14 All-Americans, 39 1,000-point scorers and 1,496 victories. They are placed by their success count at the Top 70 of NCAA Division I programs. [4][5]
In addition, the Sycamores have 26 Post-Season Appearances (7 NCAA, 4 NIT, 1 CBI, 1 CIT, 12 NAIA and the 1936 Olympic Trials) with 5 National Championship Appearances (two NCAA, 3 NAIA). Seven Sycamores were members of this 1951 Pan-American Games Gold Medal-winning team. The most memorable year of the Sycamore was the UPI National title, in addition to 1978 — 79, when star Larry Bird led an undefeated team to its first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance. However, it lost the national title game versus the Magic Johnson-led Michigan State group; and finished the season. This is the strangest run with a first-time player in the Division I tournament, and one of only three times a first-time team has progressed as far as the Final Four (UNCC at 1977 and Georgia in 1983). They would not have another postseason appearance.
The Sycamores were the National Runner-Up at the NCAA College Division (now Div II) in 1968; they won the NAIA National Championship in 1950, had NAIA Finals looks in 1946 & 1948 and NAIA National Semifinals looks in 1949 & 1953. The Sycamores were led Duane Klueh by All-Americans, Dick Atha and Lenny Rzeszewski. As the program transitioned from NAIA to the NCAA, one last NAIA highlight was Ray Goddard leading the Country in FT percentage (91.2percent )[6] through the 1961-62 season. Former Head Coaches comprise the legendary John Wooden, Purdue All-American Dave Schellhase, Indiana training legend Glenn M. Curtis and well-known college coaches such as Bob King, Royce Waltman, Tates Locke and Ron Greene. Former assistants include present collegiate head coaches such as Thad Matta (Butler, Xavier, Ohio State), Rick Ray (Mississippi State, Southeast Missouri), Kareem Richardson (Missouri-Kansas City), Phil Hopkins (Western Carolina), Mel Garland (IUPUI), Stan Gouard (Indianapolis) and NBA Great Mel Daniels.
The Indiana State Sycamores men’s basketball team currently play their home games in Hulman Center (10,200) and are trained by Greg Lansing.

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