Indiana State University Athletics

In his seventh season as an assistant coach for the Indiana State Basketball program is Terry Parker.

In 2014-15, the Sycamores entered the season with a roster that featured seven newcomers. Despite a slow start in non-conference play, the Sycamores recorded an 11-7 mark in the Missouri Valley Conference and earned the No. 3 seed at Arch Madness. Indiana State has earned at least the No. 3 seed at the conference tournament in three of the last five seasons.

Several Sycamores earned postseason recognition from the league office. Devonte Brown was named the league’s Most Improved Player and was tabbed to the All-MVC Second Team. Brenton Scott picked up the program’s third-ever MVC Freshman of the Year honor while Tre’ Bennett was selected to the All-Bench Team. Justin Gant and Jake Kitchell were each First Team selections as MVC Scholar-Athletes.

In 2015-16, Devonte Brown and Brenton Scott were each named to the All-MVC Second Team while Everett Clemons took a spot on the MVC All-Newcomer squad. Brandon Murphy was selected as a Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete. The Sycamores advanced to the MVC Tournament semifinals with a win over Illinois State as the sixth seed. 

Brenton Scott added his second All-Missouri Valley Conference honor in 2016-17 after helping lead the team to another victory over a nationally-ranked team. This time in December of 2016 the victim was No. 15 Butler which fell to the Sycamores by the score of 72-71 inside Hulman Center.

In the spring of 2018, the Sycamores had three honorees in the Missouri Valley Conference Postseason Awards. Jordan Barnes was named an All-MVC Second Team selection while also appearing on the MVC Most Improved Team and was named the MVC's Most Improved Player of the Year. Senior Brenton Scott wrapped a career in which he finished as the program's fourth all-time leading scorer with All-MVC Third Team honors. Tyreke Key parlayed a successful initial campaign into MVC All-Freshman Team plaudits.

The 2017-18 season opened in historic fashion as the Sycamores recorded a 21-point victory over Indiana inside Assembly Hall. The Sycamores set a new record by connecting on 17 3-pointers -- the most ever by a visitor in the iconic venue and recorded the largest margin of victory for the program against the Hoosiers. ISU went on to become the only team to defeat 2018 NCAA Final Four participant Loyola-Chicago inside Gentile Arena with a four-point victory early in MVC play.

In the spring of 2018, the Sycamores had three honorees in the Missouri Valley Conference Postseason Awards. Jordan Barnes was named an All-MVC Second Team selection while also appearing on the MVC Most Improved Team and was named the MVC's Most Improved Player of the Year. Senior Brenton Scott wrapped a career in which he finished as the program's fourth all-time leading scorer with All-MVC Third Team honors. Tyreke Key parlayed a successful initial campaign into MVC All-Freshman Team plaudits.

   It was more of the season in 2019 as Tyreke Key was named to the All-MVC Second Team and was selected as the league's Most Improved Player. He led the league in scoring bcoming just the fourth Sycamore ever to earn that honor as he joined Larry Bird, John Sherman Williams and David Moss in that elite club. Cooper Neese was picked for the MVC All-Freshman Team and Jordan Barnes surpassed the 1,000-point mark in just 77 career games -- the fourth fastest in the history of the program to accomplish that feat.

    During the 2019-20 season, the Sycamores defeated every Missouri Valley Conference team at least once and complemented their 18-12 overall record with an 11-7 ledger in MVC play. Tyreke Key was named First Team All-MVC while Jordan Barnes picked up Third Team All-MVC plaudits. Key and Barnes were both named to the NABC Second Team All-District squad. Key was also a All-MVC Scholar-Athlete while Jake LaRavia was tabbed to the MVC All-Freshman and All-Newcomer teams and Christian Williams picked up a spot on the MVC All-Defense Team. Jordan Barnes became the first Sycamore in the history of the program to rank in the ISU Top 10 for career points scored, 3-pointers made as well as assists and steals. Tre Williams became the first Sycamore since John Sherman Williams to start every game as a true freshman.
    
    Indiana State set a new program record by limiting Loyola Chicago to just 39 points in its game with the Ramblers inside Hulman Center. That is the second-best defensive showing under coach Lansing and the lowest point total in a Missouri Valley Conference contest since ISU joined the league prior to the 1977 campaign. Additionally, when Christian Williams was named the MVC Player of the Week and Jake LaRavia the MVC Newcomer of the Week on the same day late in the season it was the first time since 2006 that the Sycamores swept the league's weekly awards.

    The Sycamores finished the season ranked 16th nationally in 3-point field goal percentage while Jordan Barnes joined Brenton Scott and Michael Menser in the MVC All-Time Top 10 for career 3-pointers made.

   Indiana State parlayed victories over Colorado and UNLV into a Championship Game appearance against Top 50 N.E.T. opponent TCU at the 2018 Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic. It was the first non-conference title game appearance for the Sycamore Basketball program since they won the 1999 Indiana Classic – becoming the first team not named Indiana to win the Bloomington, Ind., based tournament. The Sycamores were vying for their first tournament championship of any kind since the 2011 edition of Arch Madness in St. Louis. In the process, the Sycamores downed Colorado for their first win against a member of the PAC-12 since 1946 when they beat Oregon. Additionally, the Sycamores earned their league-best fifth consecutive win over the Mountain West Conference with its win over UNLV. The Sycamores wrapped up the MVC / Mountain West Conference Challenge with a league-best all-time record of 5-3.

    Tyreke Key and Cooper Neese entered the collegiate portion of their careers having reached the Top 10 in career scoring in both of their respective home states. Key finished his career at Clay County High School in Celina, Tenn., with 3,287 points scored which is 10th most in the history of the state of Tennessee. As a senior, he set the Tennessee High Schoolrecord for most points scored in a season, breaking a 25-year old record held previously by Kentucky legend Tony Delk. Cooper Neese, who will sit out the 2017-18 season serving his year-in-residence as a transfer, enters his Indiana State career having scored 2,496 career points at nearby Cloverdale High School which is seventh-best in the Indiana High SchoolBasketball history.

    With Cooper Neese and De'Avion Washington on the roster being joined by Cobie Barnes and Jake LaRavia in 2019-20, the Sycamores will have four former Indiana All-Stars on the roster which is the most for the program in a single-season since the 1998-99 campaign.

  Parker came to Indiana State for Utah Valley State, where he guided the Wolverines to a 20-12 (13-3 Western Athletic Conference) overall record in 2013-14 including a WAC regular season title in their first year in the league and the first NIT appearance in school history. In addition, Parker helped guide seniors Ben Aird and Holton Hunsaker to all-WAC first team honors.

   Prior to Utah Valley, Parker, a native of Stone Mountain, Ga., also served as an assistant coach at Nicholls State for three seasons (2010-13) after four years as a NCAA Division I player. 

   Parker began his Division I career at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in the Horizon League.  As a freshman in 2002-03, Parker played in all 30 games making 17 starts as a freshman before breaking into the starting lineup as a sophomore.  Parker started 26 of UW-Green Bay's 28 games in 2003-04, averaging 8.3 points/game.  Parker connected on 17 of 48 three point attempts in his sophomore season, compiling a .354 three point percentage, the second best mark on the team with a minimum of 45 attempts.  In his sophomore year, Parker helped Green Bay to a 17-11 season and a Horizon League Tournament appearance.

   Parker transferred to Louisiana Tech for his junior and senior seasons, where he was coached by former ISU assistant Lou Gudino. In 2005-06, Parker was part of a La Tech squad that went 20-13 overall and 11-5 in the WAC.  The Bulldogs advanced to the second round of the WAC Tournament and earned a trip to the National Invitational Tournament in his junior year. 

   In 2006-07, Parker played in all 30 games and was one of the first subs off the bench for the Bulldogs, averaging 5.0 points, 1.2 assists, 1.3 rebounds and 16 minutes per game.  Parker stayed on at La Tech after graduation, working with the Bulldog coaching staff in a support capacity.

    Parker was married in the summer of 2017 to his wife Stacy. The couple resides in Terre Haute.