HOOSIERS - Team Arrives for State Championship Game

Hoosiers is a 1986 sports film about a small-town Indiana high school basketball team that wins the state championship. The story is set during 1951/1952, when all high schools in Indiana, regardless of size, competed in one state championship tournament. It is loosely based on the Milan High School team that won the 1954 state championship.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoosiers

[@Rockhound6165]

This was a great example of showing your players that whether you're in your tiny gym in a small town or in a professional stadium, the dimensions are the same. This more than likely helped put his team at ease and focus on the game.

[@bradkays4514]

One of the best scenes in one of the finest sports films (or any film...imo) of all time!

[@tedduby2346]

My dad coached high school basketball in the 50's at a school in Kansas that was smaller that Hickory High. This movie felt so authentic. And Gene Hackman is one of the all-time great actors.

[@dmok42195]

I am so glad I went to Butler university and got to watch so many games in Hinkle Fieldhouse.

[@user-xu5xj3ym4k]

what's it like being someone's butler? i didnt even know it required a college degree.

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

Now, this is terrific coaching decision ...visionary move

[@forthedoggiesguitars2277]

Timeless film.

[@sleep4201]

One of the real classic sports movies of all time..great performance by Hackman.

[@timheiserman]

I enjoyed watching the Hoosiers movie.

[@danieldougan269]

As a Butler alum, Hinkle Fieldhouse (formerly Butler Fieldhouse) is my favorite place on earth. I'm sure it was awe-inspiring to kids back in the 1950s who played for state championships there. By today's standards, Butler is a small school playing in a small, old barn. It certainly looks quite different now than it did even in the 1980s. It's all blue, there are chairback seats except for the uppermost level, there are video screens showing ads, and there's a modern HD video scoreboard hanging over the court. But it's still the same in many ways as it was. It seats only 9,100 today (and much more comfortably)...it held a whopping 15,000 when this was filmed. Syracause plays in a dome, after all, and Big East rivals like Seton Hall, Georgetown, Villanova, and St. John's play at least some of their games in professional sports arenas. But the measurements that count are all the same.

[@cjags1232]

I honestly miss Hinkle before they did all the renovations. I remember going to games as a kid from and just the atmosphere was so special. It still has that magic but I miss the wood benches and the old-school feel to it.

[@sm1tty031]

I love that they took their shoes off to step onto the court

[@wilsonking1617]

Where the term “ sock hop” came from- having dances in the school gym with your shoes off!

[@johnjames8739]

My Hogs get to play here tomorrow night. Woo pig !can’t wait

[@hoosiermyrek]

I believe I read that the gentleman who greets the Huskers at the door is Ray Craft...one of the players from the original Milan team.

[@jmay35801]

Yes he was a player on the actual team.

[@IU90]

Best sports movie ever made.

[@dodge96neon]

love how the coach has the height of the basket from the floor and the distance of the free throw line from the basket measured.

[@GeoAce777]

Top 🎱 sports movie EVER, that Hickory echo was sweet

[@douglowry8674]

Being from a small town, this is my favorite scene to welcome a big city

[@faithcastillo9597]

Brilliant move.

[@windfall3838]

Best movie - bar none- the winning the glory is the Gift in you that God tucked away-you are more then meets the eye!

[@scribbled309]

"It is big..." Only Gene Hackman tosses off a line like that with just the right casual touch.

[@shawnbeck2303]

I am surprised that they didnt use the old Whitestown High School GYM. In Whitestown Indiana. A Great old hard wood floor and Stadium sitting. Its a Brew house now. But Man what a nice court for its age. I believe its over a 100 years old. I grew up there. I was in Kindergarten and it was closed down due Consolidation of small township's. 1965. Shawn

[@micahmcclure1860]

Why are you surprised they used the original gym instead of yours

[@stephenfermoyle1498]

BEST SPORTS MOVIE EVER MADE..of course RUDY is on the list but this OUTSTANDING

[@GeoAce777]

Chariots of Fire too ;-)

[@dpacheco7349]

College visit to Butler years ago, walked into the field house, didn't where I'd seen it before, but I knew I was there before...

[@Hammster69official]

One of the best scenes in the whole film...

[@bigerrn9404]

If your not from a small town. I mean SMALL town. You don’t understand how big the arena looks to them. I remember thinking a 3 story building was huge.

[@AnthonyBrianLogan]

Basketball ring.

[@jeremywatzke2796]

What's up with that

[@abbadabbba232]

"Actually coach, the goals back in Hickory are less than ten feet. Feller who put 'em up accidentally got hold o' one of them measurin' tapes with that new-fangled metric system on it. Thought he was measurin' feet but it was somethin' else. We just kep 'em that way 'cause it made it easier to shoot and it woulda cost too much to fix 'em anyway." "Oh, wow. Now THAT may be a problem!"

[@timdavisfitness]

Brilliant

[@jrizzledrizzle4697]

Smart coach

[@TheBatugan77]

David Halberstam (?) Wrote about Bobby Plump, who Jimmie is based on. In real life, people mailed letters to Bobby, addressed "Bobby Plump, Indiana". And he got every one.

[@daviddemaria3982]

Oregon State did the same thing yesterday playing in the same field house. They pulled the upset win.

[@stephenfermoyle1498]

GENE OF COURSE IS THE BEST

[@GasCityGuy]

Wish I didn't know the actual story of the Milan team so well because I keep wanting to nitpick great scenes like this one. When the real team arrived for the championship game in 1954, they had a record of 6-1 in tournament games in the Fieldhouse through the 1953 and 1954 tournaments.

[@rockvilleraven]

GasCityGuy Milan went to the final four the previous season, and most of the team came back next year, so this wasn't as much a miracle.

[@michaelhartman683]

Well, Greg, maybe this could have been the case when they arrived the first time in 1953? 😄

[@HoosierBigfoot]

This movie is not about Milan. The Milan story inspired this movie. This movie is fictional, Milan was the real deal.

[@carseye1219]

@@HoosierBigfoot It doesn't even pretend to be a "docu-drama". It is fiction. Nobody should ding them for "non-factual" instances. "Remember the Titans" was supposed to be factual, but the real HS won that state championship game like 35-0, not on a 70 yard reverse. But I enjoyed both movies.

[@kenfromnj6929]

Ncca women's coaches should have pulled out the measuring tape

[@georgesouthwick7000]

Since the Milan team had finished 4th. in the state the previous year, they would have already been familiar with the arena. Just another example of Hollywood not letting the facts get in the way of a good story. This is particularly true in the case of the movie Hoosiers where just telling the story the way it actually happened would have been just as good or better than the fictionalized version Hollywood put out.

[@michaelscholl4116]

I saw footage of Coach Tom Osborn of Nebraska with 3rd string walk on QB Matt Turman, he pointed at one end zone and then the other. I thought of this scene. It was against a very tough Kansas state team in 1994. Nebraska Won.

[@BIGSHAY41]

Classic

[@mreaganismyhero]

Love this movie but why, if this is loosely based on the 1954 Milan Hi school team, is the movie set in 1951-52?

[@TheBatugan77]

Because it's loosely based, slick. Not tightly based. Not biographical. Loosely based. Got it? Glad to help.

[@vernonpitts6630]

Because it is a movie, not a documentary.

[@the_jcbone]

I came here from Ted Lasso.

[@bernardhernandez1174]

We’re here now, at this Wembley, the one that Freddie Mercury never stepped foot in!

[@BigBoFromBtown]

So corny. So good lol

[@adijayaification]

What is the name of this stadium? 👍🏿❤️ I think it's very good and possible for some local governments or colleges in my 250 million population country to have useful mid-big but not too fancy facility like this one

[@D5A5Y5]

Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.

[@meesalikeu]

why is your country a mystery? must be a russia military trollbot they are cowards like that.

[@clevelandbci9562]

GREAT parenting. Hats removed

[@johnu1100]

Milan loves to say it's loosely based on them so they can famously deny that there's any comparison (cue, let's hear it for Milan!) ... if they had done it on the real team, the movie would have been dreadfully dull.

[@TheBatugan77]

David Halberstam (?) Wrote about Bobby Plump, who Jimmie is based on. In real life, people mailed letters to Bobby, addressed "Bobby Plump, Indiana". And he got every one.

[@rogeranderson6980]

I played BB at NVHS. I WAS CUT FROM THE TEAM MY SENIOR YEAR. WE HAD THE WORST TEAM AND COACH IN OUR CONFERENCE. WE LOST THE SECTIONAL 28 TO. 27 IN THE LAST FEW SECONDS.THE COACH BROUGHT IN A FRESHMAN HE IMMEDIATELY THREW THE BALL AWAY THE OTHER TEAM GOT THE BALL AND SCORED. AFTER NOT MAKING THE TEAM AT SCHOOL I WENT TO COLLEGE MADE THE TEAM AS THE ONLY FRESHMAN TO EVER START FOR THE SCHOOL. I WAS DRAFTED IN TO THE ARMY. I PLAYED AS TJE TEAM CAPT ON TWO CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS I STILL HAVE THE TROUPES. THAT WAS 53 54 AND55. NY THE WAY THE COACH WAS FIRED THE YEAR LATER AND REPLACED BY THE FOOTBALL COACH.HE WAS LATER FIRED ALSO. HELLO MARLENE FRAHS!!!!