‘Voice of the Hoosiers’ Don Fischer Honored for Hall of Fame Induction, Indiana-Maryland Game

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — At halftime of the Indiana-Maryland recreation, Indiana soccer and basketball play-by-play broadcaster, also called the “Voice of the Hoosiers” Don Fischer was honored together with 5 others into the Indiana Athletics Corridor of Fame.

As Fischer walked towards the 50-yard line on the half, followers erupted with cheer shouting, “We love you Don!” Try the connected video of his honor.

Fischer was introduced first and needed to jet off the sphere to make it again to the broadcasting sales space to name the sport.

The “Voice of the Hoosiers”  began broadcasting at Indiana when he was simply 26 years outdated in 1973 and has seen the perfect and worst of Indiana sports activities. He is now in his fiftieth season on the place and has outlasted 9 soccer coaches from Lee Corso to present day head coach Tom Allen.

Fischer has broadcast greater than 2,000 Hoosier video games together with 12 bowl video games, 5 NCAA basketball Closing Fours, 4 NCAA championship video games and likewise two NIT championship video games.

The Rochelle, Ailing. native has been named Indiana’s Sportscaster of the 12 months 31 occasions by two separate organizations. He is additionally a member of each the Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Affiliation Corridor of Fame and the Indiana Broadcasters Affiliation Corridor of Fame.

Others being honored at halftime for his or her induction to the Corridor of Fame embody Ashley Benson of Indiana volleyball (2007-10), Jenn Cristy of girls’s swimming (1998-01), ladies’s tennis coach Lin Loring (1977-2017), Tina Parrot of girls’s observe and discipline (1983-86) and Indiana basketball’s D.J. White (2005-08).

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