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The 1954 Milan High School Indians won the Indiana High School Boys Basketball Tournament championship in 1954. [1]With an enrollment of only 161, Milan was the smallest school ever to win a single-class state basketball title in Indiana, beating the team from the much larger Muncie Central High School in a classic competition known as the Milan Miracle.
Milan High School is most famous for its 1954 basketball team, which won the Indiana state championship against Muncie Central High School, a school ten times its size. The 1986 movie Hoosiers is based on the story of this team, which had lost in the semifinals the preceding year.
The boys team won the IHSAA cross country tournament in 1956, 1958 and 1967. The girls volleyball team won the state tournament in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005 and 2010. [7] Muncie Central High School also is the site of the Muncie Fieldhouse, the fourth-largest high school gym in the United States. [8]
Attending the event will be four of the eight surviving members of the 1954 Milan Boys Basketball team including Bobby Plump, Indiana's Mr. Basketball 1954. ... the mighty Muncie Central Bearcats ...
Milan will host 70th anniversary celebration in March to honor 1954 state champion team. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...
Muncie Central Art Beckner 26-4 Evansville Reitz 60-58 1951-52 Muncie Central Jay McCreary: 25-5 Indianapolis Technical 68-49 1952-53 South Bend Central Elmer McCall 25-5 Terre Haute Gerstmeyer 42-41 1953-54 Milan: Marvin Wood 28-2 Muncie Central 32-30 1954-55 Indianapolis Attucks Ray Crowe: 30-1 Gary Roosevelt 97-74 1955-56 Indianapolis Attucks
Muncie hosted the first "Fieldhouse Classic" boys basketball event on Saturday, a new showcase hoping to bring more fans back to the historic gym.
Hoosier hysteria is the state of excitement surrounding basketball in Indiana or, more specifically, the Indiana high school basketball tournament. [1] [2] The most famous example occurred in 1954, when Milan (enrollment 161) defeated Muncie Central (enrollment over 1,600) to win the state title.