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In 1954, Indiana conducted a single state basketball tournament for all its high schools. This practice continued until 1997. [6] Some plot points are similar to Milan's real story. Like the film's fictional Hickory High School, Milan was a very small high school in a rural, southern Indiana town. Both schools had undersized teams.
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.
IHSAA Boys Basketball Most State Championships Archived 2016-01-05 at the Wayback Machine; Greg Guffey, The Greatest Basketball Story Ever Told: The Milan Miracle (2003) Greg Guffey, The Golden Age of Indiana High School Basketball (2006) Zak Keefer, History of our Hysteria: How Indiana fell in love with basketball, IndyStar, March 16, 2014
The court is the same one where Jimmy Chitwood played. The locker room is exactly as it was when Norman Dale coached. About 35 miles east of Indianapolis is the little town of Knightstown, which ...
Indiana high school basketball: Ranking top 20 ... 8.0 rebounds and 1.9 assists for a Blackhawk Christian program that went 27-3 and won the Class 3A state championship. Pickett shot 52% from the ...
Bobby Gene Plump (born September 9, 1936) is a member of the Milan High School basketball team, who won the Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) state tournament in 1954. Plump was selected Indiana's coveted "Mr. Basketball" in 1954, the award bestowed upon Indiana's most outstanding senior basketball player as voted on by the press.
A bankruptcy filing involving the parent of Bally Sports Indiana has changed the availability for IHSAA championship events. Indiana high school football, basketball championship will be available ...
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.