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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
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 2026 in-state basketball class looks like it could be promising. Kyle ranks the top 10 and then offers 10 more names to know. Indiana high school basketball: Ranking the top 10 sophomores in ...
The Apache, Pueblo and Navajo tribes in northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico are home to several high schools. In these areas, basketball is very important. In Arizona, three of the top six largest crowds at a boys' basketball game are rezball games (regardless of school size), with one of the two games tied for the highest-ever attendance being a game between Apache and Navajo ...
The Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) is the arbiter of interscholastic competition among public and private high schools in the U.S. state of Indiana.. Member schools are classified into four classes based on enrollment, ranging from the smallest, 1A, to the largest, 4A.
The first Indiana Mr. Basketball was George Crowe of Franklin High School in 1939. [2] The Indiana Mr. Basketball award is the oldest such award in the nation, predating the second oldest by over a decade; California would be the next state with such an award in 1950. [3] Only seniors are eligible to win the award.
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.
The first basketball game was played on February 21, 1901, when Indiana lost to Butler 24–20. In March 1911 the gym hosted the first ever Indiana high school basketball tournament and was hosted by the IU Booster Club instead of the IHSAA. As basketball began to outgrow the facility, students went so far as to characterize the gym as a public ...