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1936–37 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team

American college basketball season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ22022875 ↗
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The 1936–37 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University. Their head coach was Everett Dean, who was in his 13th year. The team played its home games in The Fieldhouse in Bloomington, Indiana, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference.

The Hoosiers finished the regular season with an overall record of 13–7 and a conference record of 6–6, finishing 6th in the Big Ten Conference.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1936—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Indiana, Hoosiers and men's can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “1936–37 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.