March 30, 2023
BOSTON, MA -- Indiana’s Teri Moren is the recipient of the 2023 Kay Yow Award, presented annually to the Division I women’s head basketball coach who embodies a winning spirit while displaying great character, on and off the court.
In her ninth season at the helm Coach Moren led Indiana to a few program firsts, and many record setting numbers.
With a 28-4 overall record and a first-place finish in the Big Ten this season, its first regular season title in 40 years, with a mark of 16-2 mark. Indiana is the only team nationally to have nine top 25 wins this season, five of which came against top 5 opponents and ranked fifth in the NET.
“It's impressive anytime you do something, which hasn’t happened in 40 years, but Teri Moren did a lot more than just lead the Indiana women to a Big Ten regular season title,” said Angela Lento, Vice President of CollegeInsider.com. “It was a season of firsts for Indiana women’s basketball and Coach Moren is a very deserving winner of National Coach of the Year honors.”
Indiana ranked in the top 10 nationally in five team categories, highlighted by its 50.0 field goal percentage, which is second among all Division I programs. Indiana is also fourth in scoring margin (+19.5), sixth in scoring offense (81.3) and assist-to-turnover ratio (+1.43) and seventh in assists per game (18.3).
The Hoosiers have been ranked in both national polls consecutively for the last three seasons and were No. 2 in the WBCA/USA Today Coaches poll and the Associated Press Top 25. They earned the program's first ever No. 1 seed in the 2023 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.
CollegeInsider.com pays tribute to one of the true icons of women’s college basketball with the Kay Yow Award.
Yow became the sixth head coach in the history of Division I women’s basketball to reach the 700-win plateau, finishing with a sterling record of 737–344 in her 34 seasons at NC State.
She was the first women’s coach in ACC history to eclipse 600 wins at the same school and directed NC State to 19 top-three finishes in the ACC standings. Her 1997-98 squad advanced all the way to the Final Four in Kansas City.
She was wildly successful in every forum in which she coached, leading gold medal winners at the 1981 World University Games, the 1986 Goodwill Games, 1986 World Championship Games and the 1988 Olympic Games.
As an assistant, Yow was on the Olympic gold medal winning 1984 coaching staff in Los Angeles. In addition, she was an assistant on the gold medal-winning teams at the 1979 World University Games, the 1983 Pan American Games and the 1984 R. Williams Jones Cup.
Coach Yow had been on a leave of absence from coaching since early January 2009 because of her battle with cancer. She passed away from stage 4 breast cancer on January 24, 2009.
Note: Some of the content from the press release came directly from Indiana University media releases.
