BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Teri Moren was like so many Indiana kids. She went to church on Sundays, to grandma’s house for lunch, then watched the Bobby Knight Show and Hoosier men’s basketball games.
While Knight’s teams won two NCAA titles in the 1980s, the Indiana women went to one NCAA tournament that decade, in 1983. They were barely an afterthought on their own campus, and Knight famously didn’t want to share the same arena with them.
As one of the top high school players in the state in 1987, Moren didn’t even consider attending Indiana.
“At the time, there just wasn’t really a good vibe,” she said. “IU women’s basketball had very, very little relevancy.”
Moren, who grew up in Seymour, Indiana, 45 minutes southeast of the Hoosiers’ Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, instead played at Purdue.
“I don’t know that I ever thought I’d be at Indiana,” Moren said. “But I always thought if they could find the right person to be here, it was sort of the best-kept secret. Because I know Indiana and Indiana fans. If you put a product on the floor that is good basketball, the fans will…
