BLOOMINGTON -- IU women's basketball coach Teri Moren isn't big on her personal accolades.

Enough so she didn't know she was coaching for her 400th win Thursday until media availability the day before the season-opener. Still, once she knew, it wasn't something she cared about.

"It's stuff that I don't pay attention to," Moren said postgame following No. 9 IU's 96-43 win. "The only focus I had was being our opener and it being Eastern Illinois, and us getting off to a good start ... It's great, the milestone, and hopefully there's more in the future. And I think it just reminds me of all of the great stops that I've been at, and all the great players."

Moren started her head coaching career with a seven-year stint at Division II University of Indianapolis. She then became the associate head coach at Georgia Tech for a couple years before moving back to the Hoosier State as head coach of Indiana State from 2010-13.

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Then, she got the call from IU in 2013. Over half of her career victories have come at IU (201) .

But it was something she didn't feel the need to make a big deal about — her own players didn't know it was a milestone game until Assembly Hall's PA announcer congratulated her.

"I love playing under coach Moren," sophomore Lexus Bargesser said. "She didn't even tell us it was going to be her 400th win today, she's such a humble coach. It's a joy every day to come into the gym and play for her."

If her assistant coaches knew, they weren't allowed to say anything, either.

"We don't talk about that," Moren said. "Eastern Illinois was the focus."

But in the back of her mind, it was still a special moment when her players found out.

"It's always special when you can do it with a group that you feel close to, and they're great, great kids," Moren said. "I hope there's more down the road, and this is just one of the things we can check off and move forward."

Moren's disregard of a milestone like this shows who she is as a coach — she is more focused on winning the game and have her players play well than what her individual career has looked like. Her desire to be a good coach outweighs any milestone she could have, whether it's 100, 400, or 1,000 wins.

The milestones that matter to her are the ones that directly bring her players in — the Big Ten regular season championship, the No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament, the program-record 28 wins last season.

She just wants to win. She wants her team to be great.

She made that known by talking about her team's free-throw shooting (2-of-11 from the line) while acknowledging her milestone victory.

"When you look at the stat sheet, there are a lot of things that you can pick out," Moren said, "and the one thing I'm going to pick out are free throws. I said to them, when they congratulated me on my 400th win, I said, 'so we get to shoot 400 free throws tomorrow.'"

This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: IU women's basketball Teri Moren gets 400th career win to start season