The REAL STORY behind HOOSIERS

So was the movie Hoosiers even accurate? Did the final basketball game happen like they portrayed it?
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[@BrandonBartlingDrums]

So, I am from Muncie, and I can tell you something interesting about this game. My great grandpa was the Athletic director at Muncie Central, and during the final four that year, he actually had the school MAKE THE CHAMPIONSHIP BANNER, before even making the championship. So, for a long time, we had that banner in my Grandpa’s house, and it wasn’t until 10 years ago or so that the Indiana Basketball HOF contacted us to buy it from us. It’s currently in the IBHOF in New Castle, IN. I graduated from Muncie Central in 2013, and we are still tied for most state championships in basketball with 8 currently.

[@FivePointsVids]

LCRY WOW WHAT A STORY!!!! Omg thanks for sharing!!!!

[@BrandonBartlingDrums]

FivePoints Vids definitely! Another funny fact is that it’s kind of an unwritten rule to never speak about Hoosiers in Muncie, unless you aren’t from Muncie. It was pretty devastating, and kinda crazy that people still freak out about it. It’s almost like the ultimate “warriors blew a 3-1 lead.”

[@funkboy2850]

Wow. Not gonna lie. That’s a really, really cool story

[@king_supreme1102]

LCRY I’m from Muncie too. Good to see it getting recognition.

[@johnbrewer8024]

I'm a Bearcat - who are we tied with?

[@ronlemastersjr6304]

Interesting tidbit from the movie is, Ray Kraft, the leading scorer on that Milan team, is the official who lets Coach Dale and the team into Hinkle Fieldhouse. He was the IHSAA commissioner for many years as well. Last time I was in Indy, went to Bobby Plump's bar, called The Last Shot, and had a good time. It's on the southeast side of the city...

[@mc76]

In the late 1970s, I worked at a clothing store in the Castleton Mall in Indy. I waited on a very nice gentleman who handed me his credit card, which read "Robert Plump." I asked, "Are you THE Bobby Plump?" to which he replied, "How do you know who I am?" I said, "Sir, anyone who ever played or watched high school basketball in this state knows who you are."

[@kikesan1541]

Great story, excellent movie and awesome soundtrack. I love the way every secondary character has his moment of glory.

[@ryanbranigan231]

What if I told you....white men could jump...'cues 30 for 30 jingle'

[@Pfsif]

White men jumping is racist.

[@hotdogwater7037]

Not only can brian "white mamba" scalabrine jump, he can fly, float, and, if he needs to, burrow his way to the hoop

[@3jasonwebb]

My school in Indiana was Argos High School. My class had 49 people in it, and Argos holds the record in Indiana for most victories in a row with 76 regular season wins in a row. We never won the state. Only ever making it to the final 4 a couple of times. When they changed the rules in 1997 it was really hard, because we always lived with the dream that we would too would one day do what Milan did. After that everything was cheap.

[@spirosvelliniatis2165]

What rules were changed in 1997! thanks

[@danaharris5654]

@@spirosvelliniatis2165 1997 Indiana went to a 4 class system moving away from the single class.

[@billmcpheeters1888]

I found out shortly after the movie came out, that the basketball coach at my high school was on that Milam team - Ronnie Truitt. He took Cy-Fair (near Houston) to the Texas class 3A final 4 in 1970 and to Class 4A state championship in 1971. He was a great guy and later became a principle and has a middle school named after him in the Cy-Fair district. Unfortunately, he died too young in 1988

[@wayneengle4473]

I covered the basketball games of Shawe Memorial High School in Madison, IN during the 1980s and '90s. Once, after they'd just played Milan, I interviewed the Milan coach about the game, and before leaving the visitors' locker room, I said, "Say, coach, I forgot to ask you your name!" He answered, "Gene White." I said, "Are you the Gene White who played on the 1954 Milan state champs?" He said, "Yep!"

[@jamesdunn9714]

A movie must take license to be entertaining and create a heightened sense of drama. Best sports movie ever.

[@steviesevieria1868]

This. The movie was about a lot more than just basketball. But, in spite of technical inaccuracies, the heart of the movie was so true.

[@dominicandrew4863]

It really wasn't that big of underdog story when you consider Milan had at least 3 players (other than Bobby Plump who was the best) that would go on to play college basketball. You only need 5 players on a court at one time, so if you got 3 great ones it doesn't matter how small your school is. The incredible thing is a town of the size of Milan could produce 3 college players on 1 team.

[@Seryma86]

Yea it really is crazy a town and school that small (160 students give or take) managed to develop talent like that. They made the state semis the year before they won, and were a favorite to win it all coming into the season

[@ronharvey8442]

I can agree to your point, but the truth is that talent alone isn't enough. Hell, even talent in abundance loses more than it wins in big games. That's why they don't play the game on paper. Paper tigers fall all the time

[@lazomihajlovich3144]

I played for coach Wood later in his career. He was nothing like the Hackman character. All of 5'4". He headed the Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter at the school. If you cursed on the court, you sat. While we did have a ball control offense we ran whenever we had the opportunity, scoring 88 in our first game my last year (with no 3pt shot).

[@michaelcatron5918]

Loved the movie! My high school coach was Ray Craft who was the leading scorer in the final game !

[@gregcline8261]

Hi MIke, one thing that you probably already know is the coach that was there before Ray Craft was Gene Flowers who if I'm not mistaken played for Muncie Central that year.

[@legacyXplore]

Michael that is awesome. Did he ever use the run or anything from those old days as stories for teaching ball?

[@chaseemmert8879]

I live around Milan Indiana and that's literally all they talk about is when they won the State title in 1954

[@bobpapadopoulos5476]

SAD!!!

[@israelrivera3793]

Chase Emmert now there's 2 dislikes. I think it's the same person using a different account.

[@johnu1100]

They also feel a sense of entitlement as if they have some kind of special privilege in discussing the history of the sport in Indiana. They have their legacy, stop pretending nobody else is allowed to have one.

[@CSLucasEpic]

Makes sense actually. The small town were they filmed "Twister" Wakita, Oklahoma, only talks about how Twister was filmed there, they even have a small museum dedicated to that movie.

[@r0ckstar666]

Chase were you alive when Jimmy Chitwood won the state title for the Hickory Hoosiers?

[@steveeasterday7795]

Legendary Fort Wayne sportscaster Hilliard Gates (who also announced televised IU Hoosier Basketball games) was the radio/and or TV announcer during the Milan game. He was given the opportunity to reprise his announcer’s role during the movie.

[@paulgrotrian8385]

i grew up in Fort Wayne in the 60's and would listen to Hilliard Gates a great sports caster

[@mc76]

The PA announcer in the movie was Tom Carnegie, who was also the PA announcer for the IHSAA tourney and track announcer for the 500 for decades. Oh, and the South Bend Central coach was Ray Crowe, Oscar Robertson's coach at Crispus Attucks.

[@FullMetalXV]

Went to elementary with Kent Pooles son Trevin at Granville Wells. Sad day when we heard the news about his dad.

[@dr.reidsheftalltruthinscie2007]

" Probably one of the greatest basketball movies of all time"?? Hoosiers was the best sports movie-not just basketball- in the history of cinema, HANDS DOWN.

[@melissacooper4482]

I got to meet some of the Milan players a couple of years ago when they visited my hometown. I even got their autographs! The players were gracious and nice.

[@legacyXplore]

On another note when I was in 5th grade we moved from Muncie to a town named New Ross Indiana. Being a young kid we all would play in town. Somehow one day some of us ended up looking in a barn close to our homes. To our surprise the bus they used in the movie was just chilling in there lol. We loved it and didn’t touch it but looked at it forever. Looking back this was around 1989 so it was just two or three years after the movie came out. Wonder where it is now?

[@kilgoretrout6421]

The movie coach was (loosely) based on Bobby knight. Some similarities to the movie coach and coach Knight are 1) Emphasis on defense 2) At least 4 passes before taking a good shot 4) confrontational interaction with referees 5) In trouble for getting too physical with a player 6) Players (with few exceptions) love him

[@legacyXplore]

VERY good point. Something else that most people from Indiana miss. I just made comment about this review missing the mark. Not that big of a deal but still. I wish I would have referenced this point.

[@mrbuckaroobonzai]

It can't be, Knight was born in the 1940!! He was 14 yrs old when they won state. Knight copied him at those traits you mention!

[@garyreid6165]

I saw Hoosiers when it came out. I loved it. It was THE BEST basketball film I ever seen. I even bought the soundtrack with Jerry Goldsmith’s stirring score. In England, the film was titled Best Shot and the soundtrack was also released as Best Shot. I read an article in People magazine about the actual team and it was interesting.

[@racermac1988]

Other notes not mentioned. Radio announcer Hilliard Gates who called the 1954 title game on radio actually reprises his role for the movie as well. Hilliard was a legendary sportscaster in Northern Indiana, Fort Wayne specifically (where I live) and has a building named after him on Purdue-Fort Wayne's campus where the basketball team commonly plays known as the "Hilliard Gates Sports Center" The Public Address Announcer in the movie is actually "The Golden Voice" known as Tom Carnegie who, yes was the voice of the IHSAA State Tournament for MANY years on public address... He is more commonly known for being the Public Address Staple for over 50 years at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the "500" While sections of the movie are indeed "stretched" for Hollywood story telling, in general the movie serves as a love letter of sorts to Indiana basketball, and the stories that all go in hand with it and is almost "required reading" in late February or early March as the modern version of the state tournament is held.

[@dieterh.9342]

Milan to this day has no stop lights. And the guy at 4:47 was my history teacher junior year in high school. Great guy.

[@kenpainter7890]

Actually, the smallest school to win a state championship in Indiana is not Milan. Milan is the smallest in the current format, but the state tournament used to be an invitational tournament in the early days. The smallest school to win a state championship therefore belongs to Wingate in 1913 and 1914. The school does not exist anymore. The population of Wingate in 1910 was 446; today it is 261.

[@Captaind41]

I taught with an older gentleman who saw that championship game. He said that he didn’t remember any shots taken in the third quarter, with the exception of one at the end of the period. I’ve also had the opportunity to meet Bobby Plump, and he’s a great guy.

[@wayneengle4473]

I got to meet Bobby Plump for the first time, just the other day. He seemed like a great guy.

[@hairylarry6167]

We just visited Milan yesterday and the Milan Museum. If you have never been there, and you love basketball, you have to go there.

[@legacyXplore]

I feel like you really missed the mark with this video and I wanted to try and explain. Now to be fair this is the first movie review video of yours I’ve watched. So I’m guessing you have a certain style that’s kind of raw and testing to the plots. That said being from Indiana and being blessed with being my high schools all time leading scorer upon graduation in 96 I can tell you without question your missing the entire point of the movie. What it did was capture the spirit of Indiana basketball perfectly. It might seem insignificant to you but it’s not to the thousands upon thousands that have experienced this from the thousands of coaches, players, player parents and family, and every other example someone could give of being involved with the game there. It spans generations and it’s not overstated. With the change to class basketball in 97 you can’t deny things changed but trust me not much. Yes basketball even in Indiana is just a game and as big as it is it’s still just one example of the many things Indiana is proud of. I dare say some things on that list are way more important. But I couldn’t ignore this and not make a comment. From the players race, which why would it matter one way or another, to holding the ball four minutes, which was a accepted and frequently used tactic for most teams during those years, you just missed the mark completely and I would expect a person giving reviews on movie’s authenticity to be able to realize that a movie can have many elements that aren’t exactly true to life yet still capture the exact spirit and emotions that really are what is important. I’m going to watch more of your videos and subscribe. This one was just personal. By the way. My record only held 15 years :). I’m just one of those thousands I mentioned.

[@flpndrox]

Marv Wood is the only person I ever met who left me starstruck. He was very gracious.

[@MrShanester117]

The movie doesn’t say they are a rag tag bunch. They say they are good players. Like literally ten times

[@FivePointsVids]

ollie shoots underhand free throws

[@steviesevieria1868]

@@FivePointsVids best technique….

[@mitchelljordan3398]

GREATEST SPORTS FILM OF ALL TIME.

[@Iconhulk]

Was... Truth just came out.. lol

[@spencerpearson3986]

Iconhulk nah

[@chrisferrante1976]

But there is also: Pride of the Yankees. The first Rocky movie. Raging Bull. Breaking Away. You can make a decent case for it being the best basketball movie, I suppose. Any votes for Space Jam?

[@zanti4132]

@@chrisferrante1976 Not even the best basketball movie. Hoop Dreams should be #1.

[@kevinsmrz1622]

Rudy, 42, 61*, Jesse Owens' Story (forget the title)

[@bartbutkis]

That was a great little video. Thanks. I had no idea that Oscar Robertson played against Milan in the semis in 1954. I learned something new today.

[@victormodjeski4173]

I did not realize they made the final 4 the previous year. Good bit of info.

[@philipweimer6443]

yes milian did made the final four in1953 they lost to the real south bend central 1952 Illinois had a tiny school when the state Hebron

[@stephanieritter4771]

Really cool to know but doesn't change how great that movie was

[@mitchelljordan3398]

Best sports movie ever.

[@mmcintyre5438]

My father, and my teammates father and uncle were on that team,,,,,,I heard the story from the time I was about four

[@jimmcallister1507]

I had the pleasure of visiting Milan a few years ago and spent two hours at the museum with a relative (by marriage) of one of the players on the 1954 team. I bought a wonderful book about the team and the town and have read it twice. Sad to see the state of Milan these days.

[@stephenfermoyle1498]

THANK YOU FOR THE HISTORY LESSON....THE MOVIE WILL ALWAYS BE MY FAV

[@treymagathan847]

Hoosiers is easily the best basketball movie of all time.

[@alex-qr6ci]

Your high to say Hoosiers is better than space jam

[@brycedailey7345]

Ur dumb asf

[@brycedailey7345]

@@alex-qr6ci Ur dumb asf

[@jamesdunn9714]

Best "sports" movie of all time. Basketball, football or baseball, it does not matter this film sits atop the heap.

[@Detroit-gx5nd]

James Dunn watch yourself there James, “remember the Titans”...might be better IMO

[@Kiddman32]

You mentioned some other tiny-school state title winners, but you missed the best one... Cuba, KY, 1952 state champs. Great story!

[@steviesevieria1868]

I n d i a n a

[@ronburgandy5006]

I was born in Bedford. Grew up in PA. I wasn't born until 10 years later after title game. But I love the story as if I lived it myself. So glad the world got to know this great team and what they accomplished...PS: I watched "Hoosiers" at least 50 times over the years!!! LOL

[@ethanrichter3444]

Last time I was this early, the Hoosiers won a national championship

[@JasonCorfman]

Milan team member Ray Craft made a cameo appearance in the movie as the state official who welcomes the team to the stadium as they are getting off the bus.

[@wskyjoe]

there's a pub in the Broadripple village that's named Plump's Last Shot, rickety old basketball goal hung on a pole back by the alley

[@donniekuzma9517]

“Terre ‘hot’” lol

[@Everythingis22]

Bobby Plump was also Mr Basketball his senior year when they won.

[@BrianD0313]

One thing I don't understand is why "ball control" isn't being used more often these days. I officiate High School basketball where there is no shot clock (5 and 3 seconds still exist). I would see teams get a sizable +10pt lead and still attack the basket, sometime squandering that lead. If I were coaching, I'd have the players sit at the top of the key and just swing the ball. Sure it's boring but it's still a winning strategy like in NFL where you wait until 5 secs before snapping the ball to eat up that time.

[@steviesevieria1868]

Same reason in any sport why you don’t get off the gas. Check out 28-3 for more details.

[@ethan5017]

I live in batesville which is 10 minutes away from Milan my grandparents live in Milan and my mom went to school there

[@mitchelljordan3398]

2 of 10 before the big shot. DAMN JIMMY.

[@paulespinoza974]

Hey 5 Points, it’s a movie...and the point is to point out the accomplishment of the game at Milan.

[@steviesevieria1868]

Exactly

[@amyreynolds3619]

My father played for South Bend Central Bears in the early 1950s against a small school in Indiana.

[@shag139]

So the main plot line of small school beating big school is factual.

[@leviwittorp7071]

It's pronounced terre hote, not hut

[@Iconhulk]

Probably never seen A Christmas Story..

[@rebeccaquartieri5509]

But of course it is french

[@peggywilsondobbs3235]

YES! Levi, you are so right.

[@danielminnich9034]

Rhymes with boat

[@Anthony-hu3rj]

@@danielminnich9034 But where I'm from we pronounce boat bot, whatcha gonna do?

[@king_supreme1102]

After 1997, Indiana did move to a class system. My school, Delta Highschool (the Eagles), was the last small/Cinderella school to make a run at the state title. In 1997, the made it all the way to the state championship game. Unfortunately they did lose. But that was the last we would see of the small school magic.

[@peggywilsondobbs3235]

My sons went to and graduated from Delta and so did some of our cousins. It was a great school!

[@king_supreme1102]

Peggy wilson dobbs awesome!

[@ronlemastersjr6304]

Proud 1983 graduate of Delta HS...lived in Royerton by what used to be the Delta Queen. And my dad was sports editor of the Star (Star-Press today) for 25 years. I have the 1997 team T-shirt from that game and wear it occasionally.

[@king_supreme1102]

Ron Lemasters Jr aye that’s awesome

[@peggywilsondobbs3235]

@@ronlemastersjr6304 All 5 of my sons graduated from Delta. Great school!!

[@Dmiller7239]

The move to class basketball killed the underdog story. 😔

[@carseye1219]

It was never intended to be an "accurate" movie. If so, why did they change the name of the town, high school, etc.? They took a thread of a true story and made a Hollywood movie out of it. As someone who grew up in Ohio, it captured the Midwest so well.

[@Noahrangel]

my town is small its called natalia tx there is only 1600 people and my class is only 80

[@jayseaborg3895]

The movie is not supposed to be the story of Milan. The Milan team suggested the storyline to the screenwriter, but it isn't supposed to be the Milan story, just a story about a small school beating an urban High School. In fact, Milan had been in the finals the year before as well.

[@taylorfree824]

SEE RANK David Anspaugh is from Decatur, IN which is my home zip code (I lived out in the country not in town). What is interesting is that Milan used the "Ball Control Offense". My grandpa played in a famous/infamous game in this area known as the "stall game" that was in either 54 or 55. The previous game my grandpa scored quite a bit (30+) and the team (Pleasant Mills Spartans) scored I believe 86 or so points. Their opponent of the stall game, the Berne Bears, (where my grandma had went to school before having to move) decided that wasn't going to happen. So they played stall ball for basically the entire game. Pleasant Mills ended up winning 5 to 4 over Berne. My grandpa scored 3 of the 5 points. It would have probably ended up a tie if my grandpa hadn't done some "gamesmanship" (to put it nicely). He made one of the opponents commit a lane violation (using a dirty tactic and I'll leave it at that LOL) to wipe out the game tying free throw. Grandpa ended up being the all time leading scorer in school history. That will never change as Pleasant Mills consolidated with my alma mater Adams Central. Grandpa is still going strong and maybe after all the COVID is done, Adams Central and South Adams (Berne consolidated into South Adams) could play a tribute game with jerseys from Pleasant Mills and Berne. Also if any living players from that game are around, they can be honored at half time.

[@r0ckstar666]

Jimmy Chitwood should be in the hall of fame

[@dougsundseth6904]

If you want to see another extremely small school that won a state championship, take a look at Halstad, MN, which won the Minnesota State HS Baseball championship in 1952. Halstad is a town of about 600 people (about a third the size of Milan, IN).

[@gregpaspatis9425]

If I'm not mistaken, when the story in the movie goes into the post-movie credits, the black-and-white fictional team photo is marked as the "1952 State Champions", leading the viewer into believing the movie setting for the fictional team from Hickory is the early months during 1952, when the actual team from Milan played in the state semifinal in '53, then won the the title the next year.

[@cobycuzzocrea9142]

The 1 who played the Worst Player Actually in Real LIFE was The Best Player on the That Team

[@JStarStar00]

I interviewed Marvin Wood in 1995 and he said the only really accurate part of the movie was the final Game winning shot. There was no drunken assistant coach and there was no campaign in the community to have him fired. And Wood said he coached basketball for like 30 years and he got a total of two or three technical fouls (one was the result of a mistake filling out the scorebook) unlike Gene Hackman who got dozens of technicals.

[@bratmojmojbrat7727]

Swear to god i said right away this is hollywood " campaign to get him fired ", and drunken assistant also too stupid.

[@steviesevieria1868]

whooosh

[@MarkWick]

The Hoosiers story is fiction, and was never presented as something else. The Milan game was not won at the buzzer, there were about three second left. Only one Indiana High School boys championship game was ever won at the buzzer. That happened when Jeff Poisel hit a long shot at the end of the second overtime for a Ben Davis championship. The only photo taken of that winning shot is hanging in permanent display in the Indiana basketball Hall of Fame, at the top of the ramp leading to the lower floor. I took that photo.

[@stevebean1543]

Gordon Hayward hit a shot at the buzzer to give Brownsburg a 40-39 win over Marion in the 2008 4A state championship game. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2espamLg7mfoqs

[@stevebean1543]

Luke Zeller hit a half-court shot at the buzzer in OT to give Washington a 74-72 win over Plymouth in the 2005 3A state championship game. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bX-QooScnNNsg6M

[@MarkWick]

@@stevebean1543 Indiana hasn't had a state champion since the class system was instituted. Now, it just has class champions.

[@stevebean1543]

@@MarkWick 🙄

[@lencoleman7719]

One of you basketball scholars should look up the 1956 Larado Martin, high school boys team out of Laredo Tx. The State's 1956 champs who were greatly undersize, Mexican American kids , from a boarder town who competed in Texas largest boys division 4A , playing against teams from Houston and Dallas's largest schools. Unbelievable story, no one knows about.

[@steviesevieria1868]

Why don’t you make a movie about it …then we’ll talk

[@lencoleman7719]

@@steviesevieria1868 Hey, l Love Hoosiers, l still watch it a couple times a year. l wasn't trying to say anything bad about the movie at all or there acompments. I was just talking basketball . The coach of the Laredo team Bill Batey passed away a couple of years ago and l was just talking about another young underrated team that stepped up and did something extraordinary.

[@steviesevieria1868]

@@lencoleman7719 that’s cool, sorry! One question I would wanna look at for 1956 in Texas, were black players even allowed in the tournament lol?

[@lencoleman7719]

@@steviesevieria1868 Man, l learned about this 1956 team back when l was coached by Coach Batey in the early 80's. He never talked about it, but others would bring it up. I never once thought about if there were black players playing on the other teams. Our teams were mixed, never a problem, we all revered Coach Batey. I looked it up and as far as l can tell , black players had there own high school league up until 1960s. If you read some of the articles about the 56 game ,it makes a point of the Mexican kids that were on the team . When you asked me that ,l was embarrassed that it had never crossed my mind. Now ,tell me something cool about the movie Hoosiers.

[@andymacedo5821]

Ron thanks for buffering - I appreciate that man your oozing goodness 🤣🤣

[@nbaki-he7sh]

I goto to a school right out side of Milan called east central. And we play there at least once every and they have a huge memory for that state champ team the year of there 60th anniversary they sold the movie Hoosier at the front door.

[@Suzi64grad]

Muncie may have the most state championships but I am an Indiana girl from Indianapolis and it is Milan who will always be the golden star in our state! They should be proud! When you think of a special team, a special school and that tiny school who beat the bigger Muncie they really shine! 😊

[@drsalt328]

Last time I was this early Indiana did not have a tier system

[@FivePointsVids]

LOL

[@rydawg26]

You better score in the UEFA final vs Liverpool

[@nbaki-he7sh]

Cristiano Euronaldo it was a smart decision it make the best of the best always play each other

[@janicemorales6547]

If you like Hoosier like stories, check out the book, One Shot At Forever, by SI writer, Chris Ballard. It's about the 1971 Macon High School baseball team, the Ironmen. Preposterous that a movie or series hasn't been done. Last I knew, Jon Hamm had purchased the rights.

[@terryisaac8195]

In the 1960's, I grew up in Donaldson, IN, just outside of Plymouth, IN. I will always be a Hoosier!!!

[@perryfiscus5178]

That was an awesome movie. I was there all four nights they filmed at Hinkle. I can see myself in a couple of shots, including when I walked right behind the camera during the first time out. I also got to run onto the court after the final shot was made, but it's too crowded and I can't see myself. Oh well, it was a great experience.

[@FivePointsVids]

Thats AWESOME

[@FoolishPrankster]

Sober acting from Dennis Hopper (Bravo)

[@JurijFedorov]

Nice video. Good history lesson.

[@dwaynerichie441]

I grew up in southern Indiana in Georgetown and went to Floyd Central the Super Hicks and I can remember watching the 1971 final 4 on a small b/w TV set at the barber shop and we lost in the semi final and it was such a big deal we were the smaller out in the county school my senior year we made a run again in 81 and lost in semi state to the eventual state champs Vincennes

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

This is a well made movie with a great story. But one thing that bothers me in basketball movies is showing a player taking a shot and then they cut to a close up of the ball going through the hoop, and it's obvious that somebody up on a ladder dropped the ball in or stood under the basket and tossed the ball up and in. I really hate that!!

[@Scottocaster6668]

Awesome movie. Every time I watch it is like the first time.

[@tomverderber1565]

"I'll make it." Jimmy Chitwood (errrr, Bobby Plump) had titanium stones.

[@josephhickman1306]

Off the bench "give me the ball, I will make it" great line of never say die,leadership!😎

[@king_supreme1102]

I go to see Muncie Centrals games all the time. They aren’t very good as of recently lol.

[@elikernaghan6511]

Great video dam son

[@FivePointsVids]

Thanks brother

[@DJWestrick]

1 more true statement... the announcer was the same for both the 54 state final and the movie. Hillard Gates

[@nothanksguy]

if you want to visit bobby plumps bar... its called "plumps last shot" and is in indianapolis indiana

[@jockellis]

Can’t play but five at a time. If you have the best five, all the others can be cheering. It does happen that a little school is blest with the best. A football coach whose team I covered liked to have a small squad; he said they understood their importance to the team.

[@myimorata7678]

Why the need to figure all this out? Was the Iliad and the Odyssey true? Not entirely. Cultures craft their own myths. It's the way of things. Was all of Hoosiers correct? Who cares!

[@familyguyfan8899]

There are separate state finals for tiers

[@king_supreme1102]

FamilyGuyfan889 It’s only been like that since after 1997

[@NattyBumppo48]

Now, yes. At that time however, no...

[@wowmartiean]

My mom went to Aurora high school & Milan defeated them in the regionals the year their won the state championship.

[@chilled7509]

I went to a small high school in Indiana called Borden who won the state championship in basketball in 2013 and we only had about 150 kids in our high school.

[@NattyBumppo48]

Thats great and everything (really), but you won in the era of class basketball. Milan won it when everyone, big or small, played the same tournament.

[@elliottryan13]

I HATE BASKETBALL and that video had my ADHD ass paying attention for 6 minutes and 47 seconds. Bravo! I was digging it!

[@FivePointsVids]

THANKS MAN THAT MEANS ALOT TO ME!!!!!

[@elliottryan13]

FivePoints Vids You bet brother!

[@brinkerhoffbasics9608]

The slow little kid cut should have came a few seconds earlier

[@alexandergeiser3854]

The movie takes place in 1952 not 1954

[@joelpelster6663]

I'm 99% sure the movie says Indiana 1951 as Gene Hackman drives up to the school at the beginning so they had the year the coach came correct but didn't have the right year for them winning.

[@MisterManseattle]

Great info. Thanks!

[@r0ckstar666]

NORMAN DALE SHOULD BE IN THE HALL OF FAME

[@stevenbrewer9306]

im waiting on a movie or documentary on Bob Night,

[@94dcowboysfan]

One dislike? Seriously who dislikes this 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@cranjismcbasketball1638]

Probably Kevin Blackistone. That dumbass actually called the movie racist

[@daviddechamplain5718]

Gene Hackman

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

Players from that Muncie team.

[@2Imperius5]

@@cranjismcbasketball1638 Did he really? He obviously did not know the facts of the game. That had to have been the most boring championship game of all time. Thank god for the shot clock @Milan!

[@cranjismcbasketball1638]

@@2Imperius5 yep, on whatever epsiode of Around the Horn that they discussed the Pacers' Hickory jerseys

[@brucemercer7753]

Small schools ARE NOT prohibited from winning the State Title in Indiana. 1 Small school WINS the State Title EVERY YEAR And another 1 wins the State Title for schools slightly larger than them And another 1 wins the State Title for schools slightly larger than them etc etc

[@robertwhitmer2712]

The 1952 Cuba Ky Cubs is another great real story.

[@ekrewer]

There's also Hebron, Illinois, which won the Illinois state tournament in 1952 and was the smallest school ever to do so (98 students) before Illinois went to a two-class tournament in the 1970s. Like Milan and Cuba, that title is Hebron's claim to fame and their water tower is painted to look like a basketball.

[@robertwhitmer2712]

@@ekrewer Thanks! I'll look into it. Sounds like another great story.

[@amyreynolds3619]

My dad was a South Bend Central Bear in the 1950s.

[@jimhays4711]

Excellent. One aspect not covered here: why did the screenwriter stray so much from the truth? Wouldn't a movie with Milan beating Oscar Robertson be kinda interesting? And why call them South Bend Central (a real school) when the Muncie Central Bearcats are one of the most legendary high school basketball teams in American history? Why so much fiction when the truth is so much more thrilling?

[@blucy10]

The movie skipped the two semi-state games and the semi-final. I think it’s a matter of how much you can put in to the movie.

"...But it’s probably also not fair to assume that “Hoosiers” represents all Hoosiers. Oscar Robertson’s Attucks teams weren’t underdogs on the court but faced undeniable racism. Attucks’ title in 1955 came just 14 years after the Indiana High School Athletic Association first allowed black schools as members. Plump remembers walking with his teammates in Downtown Indianapolis before Milan’s game against Attucks in 1954 and hearing people shout, “Beat those (expletive)!” Which they did.

[@whattowatchrightnow]

This is Indiana. EVERY kid plays basketball; especially in the 1950s. I grew up near Milan in Hayden, Indiana in another train-stop town in SE Indiana.

[@imserious2187]

My first time watching this movie was 9-10-21.....good movie

[@aridgerat]

I was Bobby Plump's next door neighbor.