 The team played its home games in the Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference.The Big Ten Network included the team in a two-and-a-half-hour special that featured Midnight Madness events from several Big Ten campuses on October 17, 2008; the Indiana event to kick off the season was called "Hoosier Hysteria".The Hoosiers defeated the Northwestern St. Demons on November 14 in Head Coach Tom Crean's opening game.