Report: Mike Woodson will return as Indiana’s coach for 2024-25 season

  • 03/06/2024 7:13 pm in

According to Zach Osterman of The Indianapolis Star, Mike Woodson will return for the 2024-25 season as Indiana’s coach.

College basketball insider Jon Rothstein also reported the news of Woodson returning for a fourth season.

The Hoosiers, who are 16-13 overall and 8-10 in the Big Ten, play tonight at Minnesota.

Woodson is 29-29 overall in conference games in his IU tenure and made the NCAA tournament in each of his first two seasons.

IU’s third-year head coach recently told reporters that he planned to return to Bloomington next season.

“I came back to try to put this team in the best position possible,” Woodson said on February 20. “I’m going to continue to do that. I’m almost 66 but I feel good and I still move around and I think that I still think well in terms of the game and I still think I can teach the game. I don’t know, there are coaches that are coaching into their 70s. I don’t know if that’s something I’ll do, I don’t know. But at this point, I’ll take it a day at a time, a year at a time.

“I’m not going anywhere anytime soon guys. I’m just not. So I’m going to continue to build this team and try to put this team in the best position possible and see where it leads us.”

Following his first two seasons as IU’s head coach, Woodson’s salary was raised by $1 million in August, bringing his annual compensation to $4.2 million.

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