Teri Moren
Head Coach
Teri Moren
Head Coach
Indiana native Teri Moren begins her fifth season at the helm of IU Women’s Basketball team in 2018-19.
Under Moren’s direction in 2017-18, the Hoosiers went on to win their first WNIT Championship and an overall record 23-14, winning 15 of its last 17 games of the season. For the first time ever, Indiana has won 20 or more games in three-straight seasons. On the way, the Hoosiers set a new single season average attendance record (4,102) as it also set the single game attendance record of 13,007 during the WNIT Championship game against Virginia Tech.
Success on the court was driven by a pair of All-Big Ten selections in Tyra Buss (first team) and Amanda Cahill (second team). Combined the duo set 10 school records and both rank in the top 5 of all-time scoring at Indiana. Buss also earned back-to-back WBCA All-American honorable mention honors and a finalist for the Senior CLASS Award along with being named the WNIT Most Valuable Player. They left Indiana having won a program record of 82 wins, the most for any four-year class. Freshman Jaelynn Penn also took home honors in 2017-18, earning a spot on the league’s All-Freshman team, the first for IU since 2014.
In the classroom, Cahill became the program’s second back-to-back CoSIDA Academic All-American with a 3.92 GPA in Elementary education as four players earned Academic All-Big Ten honors.
Year three saw continued success as she guided the 2016-17 team to a program record 23 wins and an appearance in the WNIT Quarterfinals. The 23 wins marked the seventh time in program history the Hoosiers have reached 20 wins or more, including back-to-back seasons for the first time ever. The program also featured its first All-American in 31 years, as junior guard Tyra Buss was named a WBCA All-American Honorable Mention.
For the first time since 2008-09, Indiana featured three players on All-Big Ten teams highlighted by a repeat All-Big Ten First Team selection Tyra Buss. Junior forward Amanda Cahill (second team) and senior guard Alexis Gassion (honorable mention) were also honored, as Gassion was selected to the league’s All-Defensive team, also the first selection since 2008-09. In addition, Cahill earned CoSIDA Academic All-American honors, the first for the program since 1989 and the fifth player ever in school history.
The Hoosiers went 15-3 inside Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, tying the most wins in a single season and secured 10 or more wins on its own court for the fourth-straight season. It also marked the fifth-consecutive winning season at home including all three under Moren. In Big Ten play, Indiana went 10-6 overall and earned a No. 4 seed in the league tournament for the second-straight season. The 2016-17 Indiana program also set a new record in points scored (2,547), points per game (74.9) and assists (564). IU also finished second in a single season in field goals made (934), third in 3-pointers made (216) and 3-point percentage (33.9).
In her second season at the helm of the IU program in 2015-16, Moren led the Hoosiers to the most regular season wins (20) in program history while also tying for overall wins (21) in a single season. Indiana had the school’s second-most Big Ten victories (12) ever on her way to being named Big Ten Coach of the Year. She became just the second IU coach to earn the award (Maryalyce Jeremiah, 1983).
Moren led IU to the program’s first NCAA Tournament berth in 14 years as Indiana was the No. 9 seed in the Lexington Region. The Hoosiers won their first NCAA Tournament game since 1983 with a 62-58 triumph over eighth-seeded Georgia in the first round at Notre Dame. Indiana’s 21 wins marked the sixth time in program history that IU had won at least 21 games in a season as its 12 Big Ten victories were the school’s most since 1982-83.
Moren’s 2015-16 Hoosiers finished fourth in the Big Ten, the school’s highest conference finish in 18 years, and earned a No. 4 seed in the Big Ten Tournament, tying for the program’s highest seed ever in conference tournament play.
IU went a perfect 14-0 at home in Assembly Hall, marking the most home wins ever without a defeat and tying for the most overall home victories in a single year in program history. The women’s team combined with the IU men’s basketball program to go a perfect 31-0 inside of Assembly Hall in 2015-16 for the first unblemished home season in school history between both men’s and women’s basketball teams.
Indiana defeated three ranked opponents during the season, tying for the program’s most wins over ranked foes in regular season play. The Hoosiers also won their most road Big Ten games in seven years.
Under Moren in 2015-16, Tyra Buss was named First Team All-Big Ten, becoming the first IU player to earn first team honors since 2006. Amanda Cahill earned Second Team All-Big Ten accolades. Buss and Cahill become the first IU duo to earn all-conference recognition in the same season since 2010.
During her first year in Bloomington in 2014-15, Moren led the Hoosiers to the program’s best scoring average (71.9 ppg) since 1995-96, the best team free throw percentage (74.3 percent) since 2003-04 and the most steals (284) since 2010-11. IU nailed 236 3-point field goals, the second best total in school history, and also cracked the top five in program history in free throw percentage (4th), points scored (5th, 2,229), points per game (5th) and 3-point field goal percentage (5th, 33.1 percent).
The 2014-15 Hoosiers became the first team ever in program history to achieve back-to-back games of 18 steals as IU tallied that total against Gardner-Webb and Valparaiso in consecutive games to begin the year.
Indiana also set single game records for scoring (115) and 3-pointers made (16) in the season opening win over Gardner-Webb on Nov. 15, 2014. IU also tied the school mark for field goals made in that game (46).
Off the court, Moren’s team achieved a team grade point average of 3.23 in 2014-15.
Indiana University Vice President and Director of Athletics Fred Glass announced the hiring of Seymour, Ind., native as head coach of the IU women’s basketball program on August 9, 2014. Before arriving in Bloomington, Moren spent four seasons as head coach at Indiana State University where she led the Sycamores to their first 20-win season in eight years in 2013-14.
In her four years at Indiana State, Moren guided the Sycamores from a middle of the pack Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) team in her first year to a conference championship program in 2013-14, including a postseason tournament appearance in the WNIT. Twice in her four years, Moren led the Sycamores to a WNIT berth while six players earned All-MVC honors.
ISU finished with a 20-12 record in 2013-14, the program’s first 20-win season in eight years and just the fifth 20-win campaign in school history. With a 14-4 record in conference games, Moren’s Sycamores won a share of the regular season MVC title and earned the No. 1 overall seed in the MVC Tournament. Moren led Indiana State to six-straight victories and seven wins in eight games to end the regular season last year to secure a share of the MVC crown. It was only the third time in program history that ISU won a regular season conference championship and the first since 2006.
In 2012-13, Moren’s Sycamores finished with an 18-13 record, the program’s most wins in six years at the time. ISU went 10-8 in conference play, its most MVC victories in four seasons, to finish fourth in the MVC standings.
The Sycamores would go on to play in the WNIT for the first time since 2006. Moren’s 2012-13 team set a program record for fewest points allowed per game (55.5 ppg) while holding 10 opponents to less than 50 points.
In her second year at ISU in 2011-12, Moren led the Sycamores to a fifth-place finish in the MVC.
During her first year at the helm in 2010-11, Moren won the most games by a first year coach in ISU history as the Sycamores played into the semifinals of the 2011 MVC Tournament.
Prior to ISU, Moren was associate head coach at Georgia Tech. In each of her three years there, the Yellow Jackets made an NCAA Tournament appearance and won 22 or more games each season.
Moren began her head coaching career at the University of Indianapolis. She spent seven seasons at UIndy beginning in 2000-01.
The 2003 WBCA Region 4 Coach of the Year in NCAA Division II, her teams went to three consecutive NCAA Division II Tournaments and earned Great Lakes Valley Conference regular season and tournament titles in 2003. That squad finished with a 29-3 record overall and an 18-2 mark in conference play.
Moren began her coaching career in 1992-93 at Butler as an assistant coach for six years, leading the Bulldogs to three 20-win seasons. Moren then spent two years as an assistant at Northwestern.
A 1992 graduate of Purdue University, Moren earned her bachelor’s degree in therapeutic recreation. She was a four-year basketball letterwinner and two-year starter for the Boilermakers under Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame Coach Lin Dunn. She was part of three NCAA Tournament teams and Purdue’s first Big Ten championship.
Moren graduated from Seymour High School in 1987 and was named an Indiana All Star that year. She led the Owls to four sectional titles, two regional championships, a semi-state win and a 1987 state finals appearance. She was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame on April 26, 2014 and was part of the inaugural class of inducted into the Seymour High School Athletics Hall of Fame in December 2017.
