Just 15 days after Curt Miller unexpectedly resigned, the IU women’s basketball team has found its newest basketball coach.
IU Vice President and Director of Athletics Fred Glass announced Saturday the hiring of former Indiana State head coach Teri Moren to serve as head coach of the IU women’s basketball program. Glass called Moren Saturday afternoon to offer the job which she accepted immediately.
“This is an unbelievable day for me and my family,” Moren said in an IU athletics release. “It is a dream come true. I’m an Indiana kid who dreamed of having an opportunity like this and today it is happening to me. I’m very grateful and blessed to become a part of the IU family.”
Moren is a native of Seymour, Ind. and grew up an avid IU fan before playing under women’s basketball hall of fame coach Liz Dunn at Purdue. As a player, she was a two-year starter and four-year letterwinner.
Moren was selected as IU’s newest head coach in a fashion similar to the baseball team’s hiring of Chris Lemonis.
Glass led the coaching search alongside a Search Advisory Committee that consisted of key administrators, support staff and junior guard Nicole Bell who served as a bridge to the student-athlete during the team’s search.
Glass and the committee reviewed “dozens” of potential candidates, and would eventually have three sitting head coaches, including Moren, on campus for interviews with the committee.
“We are thrilled that Teri Moren will be leading Indiana women’s basketball,” Glass said in an IU athletics release. “Not unlike our recent head baseball coaching search, we were very pleased with the extremely high caliber of coaches who expressed interest in the position.”
In four seasons at the helm of Indiana State, Moren built the Sycamores into a Missouri Valley Conference championship program last season with a 20-12, 14-4 record to claim a share of the 2013-14 regular season title.
Twice in her four years of coaching in Terre Haute, Moren led Indiana State to a WNIT berth while six of her players earned all-conference honors.
Prior to her time at Indiana State, Moren was an associate head coach at Georgia Tech. During each of her three seasons, the Yellow Jackets made an NCAA Tournament appearance and won at least 22 games.
Moren began her head coaching career at the University of Indianapolis where she coached seven seasons beginning in 2000-01. Her teams went on to appear in three consecutive NCAA Division II Tournaments and won the Great Lakes Valley regular season and tournament crowns in 2002-03.
For her career, Moren holds a 199-130 record over 10 seasons as a head coach. She had a 69-57 record at Indiana State.
“Teri emerged early in the process as a lead candidate and I am confident with her at the helm, the future of Indiana women’s basketball is very bright,” Glass said.
