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Indiana Hoosiers
March 9, 2007
In 2001, the event set an all-time attendance record of 109,769, an average of 21,954 per session at the 2001 Big Ten Tournament at the United Center. The total exceeded the 2000 mark of by 9,475 and bettered the previous record by 4,937.
That year, Indiana advanced to the championship game - for the first and only time thus far in tournament history - with a two-point win over Illinois in the quarterfinals.
Although coach Kelvin Sampson spent 11 years in the Big 12 at Oklahoma, the first-year sideline mentor for the Hoosiers got his start in the Big Ten as a graduate assistant for Michigan State during the 1979-80 season (the year following the program's national championship run with Magic Johnson). He received a master's in coaching and administration.
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