page_title: Indiana Hoosiers
section_title: School colors
hierarchical_section_title: Indiana Hoosiers / Traditions / School colors
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a photo of the Indiana University men's basketball team in a huddle before their home game on January 15, 2003. Players are shown wearing their iconic candy striped pants and classic warm-ups with cursive "Indiana".
context_page_description: The Indiana Hoosiers are the intercollegiate sports teams and players of Indiana University Bloomington, named after the colloquial term for people from the state of Indiana. The Hoosiers participate in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 24 sports and became a member of the Big Ten Conference on December 1, 1899. The school's official colors are cream and crimson.
  The Indiana Hoosiers have won 24 NCAA national championships and one Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women national championship. In addition to 145 NCAA individual national championships. Titles won by teams include eight by the Hoosiers men's soccer team, a record-setting six straight in men's swimming and diving, five by the Hoosiers men's basketball team, three in men's cross country, one in men's track and field and one in wrestling.
  The Hoosiers' athletic program is perhaps best known for its basketball program, with its five NCAA Championships tying for fourth in history. Indiana's 1976 squad remains the last undefeated NCAA men's basketball champion. A 2018 study listed Indiana as the second most valuable collegiate basketball program in the country.
context_section_description: The school's official colors are cream and crimson. The official IU Crimson is Pantone 201.  However, in the 1970s former basketball coach Bob Knight and football coach Lee Corso started using uniforms that were more scarlet or bright red. During the same time, cream gave way almost universally to white. But those colors reverted mostly to cream and crimson in the early 2000s, after then-athletics director Michael McNeely decided that the team uniforms needed to reflect the school's official colors of cream and crimson. Indiana cheerleaders still chant "Go Big Red". The changes over the years has led to some clashing of colors in some varsity sport uniforms, as is the case with the baseball team's jackets being a different color than their caps and uniforms. Athletic Director Fred Glass said, "My view is that we're an awfully big and diverse place. I think cream and crimson and 'Go Big Red' can survive in one place." Only four other major college programs claim crimson as their dominant color: Alabama, Harvard, Oklahoma and Washington State. And only Oklahoma pairs crimson with cream.
caption: Basketball players huddle before a game in their iconic candy striped pants
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