Bill Garrett Archive

Intramural Center at IU to be renamed after Bill Garrett

  • Cameron Drummond 06/12/2020 1:28 pm  
 

During Friday’s meeting of the Indiana University Board of Trustees, a resolution was unanimously approved to rename the Intramural Center on the IU Bloomington campus after Bill Garrett, an IU basketball legend who was the first African American basketball player ...

The Greatest IU Basketball Player of All-Time Bracket: Pre-Knight Round of 64

  • Staff 03/23/2020 10:15 am  
 

Welcome back to the “Greatest IU Basketball Player of All-Time” tournament bracket, where Inside the Hall and Assembly Call teamed up to put together a field of 68 former Hoosiers who have left a tremendous impact on the Indiana basketball ...

IU legend Bill Garrett honored with historical marker

  • Josh Margolis 04/08/2017 9:36 pm  
 

BLOOMINGTON – Bill Garrett, the first African-American basketball player in the Big Ten, was honored Saturday with the dedication of an Indiana historical marker. By suiting up for Branch McCracken’s Hoosiers in 1948, Garrett broke an unwritten rule known as ...