John Wooden coached the Sycamores before accepting the head coaching position at UCLA. The men's basketball team played their first season in 1896, making them the oldest team in the NCAA along with Bucknell, Minnesota, Washington and Yale, winning the 1950 NAIB National Championship and finishing as National Runner-Up in 1946 and 1948. They were also the NCAA College Division (Div II) National Runner-Up in 1968 and the Division I National Runner-Up in 1979. The 1950 team comprised the core of the 1951 Pan-American Gold Medal Team. In 1971, Coach Grete Treiber led the ISU Women's gymnastics team to a National Runner-up finish at the AIAW National Championships. Kurt Thomas led the Men's Gymnastics Team to the 1977 NCAA National Championship. Men's tennis player Vedran Vidovic holds the NCAA Division I record for most consecutive singles victories by winning 37 matches in a row from March 18, 2001, to October 28 of the same year.
=== Facilities ===
Hulman Center, originally named Hulman Civic-University Center, …
