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The Franklin Wonder Five was a 1920s basketball team from Indiana's "Hoosier Hysteria" era. With basketball king in Indiana, the team from Franklin was dubbed the "Wonder Five". This small town about 20 miles south of Indianapolis produced a team that captured the Indiana State Basketball Championship three years in succession, 1920–1922.
The tournament has often featured future NCAA and National Basketball Association (NBA) players. The Milan Miracle team in the 1953–54 season inspired the 1986 movie Hoosiers . In the early 1920s, the tournament was dominated by the Franklin Wonder Five , who won three consecutive state championships, followed by a college championship at ...
2x Indiana High School Boys Basketball Tournament championship (1930, 1938) Burl Rush Friddle (May 27, 1900 – October 11, 1978) was an American basketball player and coach. He was a member of the Franklin Wonder Five that won the Indiana high school boys basketball championship and went undefeated during the 1922–23 college basketball season.
Updated schedules, scores and pairings for the 2023-24 Indiana girls high school basketball semistate tournament. IHSAA girls basketball scoreboard: Semistate semifinals scores, championship game ...
March 12-16, Wednesday-Sunday: Big Ten tournament (Indianapolis) Indiana basketball roster 2024-25 (with number, name, height, year) Coach: Mike Woodson. 0, Jakai Newton, 6-3, redshirt freshman.
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.
The Basketball Tournament is a $1 million winner-take-all event involving 64 teams, ... Indiana basketball alumni will play in The Basketball Tournament. Show comments. Advertisement.
When he was a boy, Wooden's role model was Fuzzy Vandivier of the Franklin Wonder Five, a legendary team that dominated Indiana high school basketball from 1919 to 1922. After his family moved to the town of Martinsville when he was 14, [ 12 ] Wooden led his high school team to a state tournament title in 1927. [ 13 ]