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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE 1940 Indiana All-Stars…………..1 2017 State Tournaments……….. 3 Lewisville’s Marion Pierce…….. 5 Crossroads of .. 8 Indiana H.S. BB, WW II……12-13 IHSBHS Membership Form…...14 IHSBHS Profile Form………..... 15 Hall of Fame Membership…….. 16

THE 1940 INDIANA ALL-STARS (and first annual classic against Kentucky) by Cliff Johnson, Editor This was the initial year for the long-standing series of games still The 1940 Indiana All-Stars. Front Row: Bud Dunn, Gosport; Gene Yates, Anderson; being played between the Indiana Warren Lewis, New Castle; Ed Scheinbein, Southport; Oliver Troth, Spencer. Back and Kentucky All-Star teams. The Row: Coach Paul Hinkle, ; Henry Pearcy, Martinsville; Bill Fowler, Marion; Chet Gabriel, Kokomo; Dick Heacox, Bloomington; Jim Mace, Sheridan; Indiana All-Star selection process Coach Glenn Curtis, Indiana State. was actually started the year before, in 1939, and a game was indeed in terms of total gate receipts or by it was soon realized, was the fact that staged that summer by the team match-up levels. Before game the teams were unevenly matched. IHSBHS 2017 FALL ISSUE Page 2 This was largely attributable to an Warren Lewis (New Castle), 6-1 to their feet when twice Kentucky IHSAA eligibility rule that Gene Yate (Anderson), 6-0 gained ball possession and narrowly Bud Dunn (Gosport), 5-10 prohibited several key Frankfort Ed Scheinbein (Southport), 5-10 missed tieing the game when its two players from participating. The end Oliver Troth (Spencer), 5-9 FG attempts rolled the rim and spun result was therefore predictable, and out. “Jumping” Joe Fulks was the by the next morning most Kentucky All-Stars recipient of the “Star of Stars” sportswriters had declared the game Len Metcalfe (Calvert City), 6-4 award, scoring 16 points in a losing an obvious mismatch in their write- Joe Fulks (Kuttawa), 6-4 effort. Henry Pearcy was high for ups. Maury House (Manchester), 6-3 the , with 10. Here is a box Russ Van Noy (Hickman), 6-2 But the idea of staging some kind Norbert Walsh (L’ville. Xavier), 6-1 score recap: of a post-season All-Star game did Bernard Sloan (Ashland), 6-1 not fade away before the 1939-40 J.T. Harper (Nelson), 6-0 Kentucky (29) season had concluded. By the spring Elbert Nickel (Fullerton), 6-0 FG FT TP of 1940, officials of the Kentucky George Ashford (Southgate), 6-0 Metcalfe, f 0 0 0 Foster Kaiser (L’ville Male), 5-11 Walsh, f 1 2 4 High School Athletic Association Fulks, c 6 4 16 had met to discuss a proposal of Sloan, g 2 0 4 The very first All-Star contest using its own All-Star team selection Kaiser, g 1 2 4 between the two basketball-minded to annually challenge the Hoosiers in Harper, g 0 0 0 states was a thriller, by almost a bi-state classic that might Van Noy, f 0 0 0 anyone’s measure. The two teams House, f 0 0 0 perpetuate year-to-year. Travel battled to an 8-8 draw at the end of Ashford, g 0 1 1 expenses to Indianapolis had to be the first quarter of play, then considered though, since there was Indiana (31) Kentucky, with sharp-shooting Joe no high school arena in Kentucky FG FT TP Fulks leading the way, shot into the large enough to bring in the required Scheinbein, f 2 1 5 lead 18-12 at halftime. At the end of gate receipts to make such a game Pearcy, f 3 4 10 the three-quarter mark, Kentucky Gabriel, c 1 0 2 financially attractive. Nor were the had been able to maintain its Dunn, g 2 0 4 larger state universities interested in marginal advantage, 27-22, although Troth, g 1 0 2 getting involved with high school- Lewis, g 1 0 2 the Hoosiers seemed determined to level athletic endeavors at the risk of Yates, g 1 1 3 halt the Grassers’ offense. sustaining damage or financial loss. Mace, f 0 0 0 Neither team could successfully put Heacox, c 0 1 1 The 15,000-seat capacity of Butler more points onto the scoreboard Fowler, c 1 0 2 Fieldhouse, however, became the throughout the first four minutes of deciding factor. A sufficient revenue Glenn Curtis and the final quarter, but suddenly the sharing arrangement of the gate were the Indiana coaches, while Ed Hoosiers came to life with field goals receipts could cover the travel costs Diddle and Ted Hornback handled by Dunn and Pearcy. The gap was and possibly even yield a profit for the reins for Kentucky. Joe Fulks closed to within a single , 27- Kentucky, if interest in such an went on to have a great career in 26, with three minutes remaining. interstate basketball rivalry were professional basketball. After a brief Kentucky’s strategy of protecting its high enough. Officials agreed that it two-year stay at Murray State, he lead was obviously failing, and probably would be, with adequate joined the Marines in May, 1942, not Indiana began to take more shots at publicizing via the media. Plans for long after the U.S. had entered WW its goal. Kentucky committed three the first interstate classic All-Star II. He remained in the Corps for straight defensive fouls, and game were thus executed and the four full years before being consecutive free throws by game scheduled for 8:30 p.m. on discharged in May, 1946. That fall Scheinbein, Yates, and Heacox gave August 16, 1940. he joined the Philadelphia Warriors the Hoosiers a 29-27 lead with of the BAA, at age 25. In his rookie limited time remaining on the clock. ROSTERS: season (1946-47) he captured the Another by Lewis widened Indiana All-Stars league’s scoring title, averaging 23.2 the margin to 31-27 before Fulks Chet Gabriel (Kokomo), 6-7 points per game and leading the sank his final goal for Kentucky, Bill Fowler (Marion), 6-5 Warriors to the league’s Dick Heacox (Bloomington), 6-4 bringing the end result to 31-29, championship title. He was equally Henry Pearcy (Martinsville), 6-2 Hoosiers winning. The final minute prolific the next several seasons, Jim Mace (Sheridan), 6-2 of play, however, brought spectators IHSBHS 2017 FALL ISSUE Page 3 with a high mark of 26.0 points per was the team everyone was talking left and Twin Lakes’ Bryce game in 1949. His specialty was the about going into the day, as a result Bennington tied the game with a free . On Feb. 10, 1949, he set of its history. As I’m sure most throw with 36.4 seconds to play, a new pro record by netting 63 points readers of this story already know, leading to the final sequence. Alex in a single game. That record stood Attucks was created as an all-black Cooley tried a 3-point shot from the for a full decade before it was broken school in the 1920s, was denied a top of the key, missed, and Harris by , and then later on by chance to be an IHSAA member for soared over Twin Lakes’ Blake . Joe remained years because of racial attitudes of Bennington, Bryce’s brother, to with the Philadelphia team until those times, won Indianapolis’ first make the winning shot. retiring in 1954 at age 33. two state basketball titles in 1955 Teyon Scanlan had 24 points and One final comment about the and 1956 with teams led by the great Nike Sibande 23 for Attucks, with Kentucky/Indiana ongoing series: (after losing to Chris Hawkins taking home a state After 77 years, controversy has eventual champion Milan in the title in his first year as coach. Bryce begun to grow recently about its semistate finals in 1954, Robertson’s Bennington had 32 for Twin Lakes, viability to continue. Many factors sophomore year), and won a third which set a Class 3A record by have given rise to the issue, not the state title in 1959. The building was making 61.1 percent of its 3-point least of which are (1) selectees often closed as a high school in 1986 attempts (11 of 18), was playing in not showing up for the games, (2) a because of citywide declining its first state title game, and was dwindling year-by-year spectator enrollment. It served as a junior high coached by 29-year veteran Kent attendance number, and (3) Indiana’s and then a middle school for 20 Adams. Justin Crabb of the Indians overall dominance in total wins. years before reopening as a medical won the Trester Award. Both teams This summer the series was split, but magnet high school in 2006. Eleven finished with 25-4 records. coming in Indiana had strung years later, the Tigers won their Class 4a Finals together 9 straight victories in the fourth state title on a basket In last year’s tournament review, I last five years, and historically had by Jamal Harris with 0.9 seconds to had written that I anticipated hearing won 93 of the 136 games played play. the familiar tune of the alma mater of since 1940. The fate of the series No one was happier about that Indiana University (and many other may soon be sealed unless something result than Oscar, who jumped to his schools) being played at the end of unforeseen materializes to reverse feet immediately. He and his the 2017 Class 4A title game. That’s the present trends. teammates were on hand, and he because it serves as New Albany presented the Tigers with their High School’s fight song, and New 2017 STATE TOURNAMENTS: A championship medals--something Albany entered the season as a RECAP normally done by an IHSAA official. strong favorite to defend the state by Tim Puet (Somehow, I don’t think he would title it won in 2016. But the The 2017 State Finals were have been the presenter had Twin Bulldogs lost 72-64 to Castle in the dominated by Indianapolis teams, Lakes won. Having him do so was a Seymour regional finals. Instead, I which went three-for-three--the first nice nod to history and a slap in the heard another familiar tune at the end time three teams from one city have face to the ghost of former IHSAA of this year’s 4A championship game been champions in the same year. Commissioner Arthur Trester, who – “Here’s to Old Ben Davis High,” All three victories came in close was mainly responsible for keeping which is unique to the school and games, as Ben Davis defeated Fort Attucks, as well as other black which I became familiar with during Wayne North Side 55-52 in Class schools and Catholic schools, out of the Giants’ 1995 and 1996 title runs 4A, Crispus Attacks added to its the tournament decades ago.) It was and their consecutive appearances in legacy by edging Twin Lakes 73-71 a classic “game of runs.” Twin the one-class finals from 1993 to in 3A, and Tindley got by Lafayette Lakes, from Monticello in White 1996. Ben Davis’ Mark James won Central Catholic 51-49 in 1A. The County, went on a 10-0 run to start his first state crown in 35 years as a day’s only rout was Frankton’s 60- the second quarter, followed by runs head coach and the first for the 32 snoozer over Crawford County in of 10-3 by Attucks, 9-0 by Twin school since 1996, in what he said 2A. Lakes, 8-2 by Attucks, and 5-0 by was his first trip to Bankers Life Class 3a Finals Twin Lakes. Attucks overcame a Fieldhouse. He explained that he I’ll start my review of the day with seven-point fourth-quarter deficit to didn’t want to come there until he Attucks’ victory because Attucks lead 71-70 with less than a minute could do so as coach of a state IHSBHS 2017 FALL ISSUE Page 4 finalist. The victory was his 100th at coached by Shabaz Kaliq and don’t know what the general Ben Davis. He earlier spent 26 years finished 27-3--its uniform numbers, situation concerning charters is in at Franklin Central, after starting his in black bordered by on a Indiana, but in , they’ve been a career at Covington. black uniform, were probably the disappointment to a large degree, The game had an exciting finish, hardest to read that I’ve ever seen. It with many seeming to be run more but started very slowly, especially must have been extremely difficult for the benefit of their operators than when compared to the 3A game for writers and broadcasters for students. The Tindley system which preceded it. Ben Davis was 3- unfamiliar with the team to figure was founded in 2004 (it started in an for-12 from the floor in the first out who was doing what, at least old Cub Foods store) and is named quarter and trailed 13-9 at the end of early in the game. And the school’s after Charles Tindley, a noted black the quarter. Fort Wayne North led colors aren’t orange and black, but Methodist minister and Gospel music 27-23 at the end of a half in which and white. composer. no one was hitting their free throws. Returning to New Albany for a Enough history; back to North was 5-for-13 and Ben Davis moment: After his performance in basketball. The Tindley-Lafayette was 5-for-11 from the line at last year’s 4A title game, not just as Central Catholic game was a back- halftime. For the game, their a scorer but all around, I had been and-forth contest much like the respective figures were 7-for-20 and looking forward to the chance of Attucks-Twin Lakes game. LCC 9-for-18. Things got interesting in seeing the Bulldogs’ Romeo was up 26-20 late in the first half, the final minutes. Jalen Windham Langford again at Bankers Life but Tindley went on an 18-6 run in hit a 3-pointer with 3:12 left to give Fieldhouse. With 2,079 points, he the late second and early third Ben Davis a 49-46 lead. Trester needs 1,056 in his senior year to quarters to take a 38-32 lead. The Award winner R.J. Turner made the break ’s state scoring Knights cut the margin to 44-42 after first of two free throws and a record, and I’d love to see him with a three and went ahead 46-44 while rebound basket off his missed second shot at both another title and holding the Tigers scoreless in the shot to make it 52-46 at the 1:19 Damon’s mark next year in late first five minutes of the fourth mark. North got to within 54-52 March in Indianapolis. quarter. Sincere McMahon, a with 18 seconds left, BD’s Josh Class 1a Finals freshman, hit a 3-pointer, then stole Brewer hit the first end of a one-and- Tindley’s victory in the 1A finals the ball and scored to put Tindley up one to advance the margin to three, was a pleasing one because of what I 49-46. LCC’s Carson Barrett hit a and North’s Devontae Kinnie missed learned during the tournament about layup and followed that with one of a 3-point attempt at the buzzer. Ben that school. This was thanks to two free throws after a turnover, Davis had only four turnovers, while seeing the Tigers’ girls and boys tying the score at 49. Tindley’s North had 10. Windham had 15 teams through the magic of archived Hunter White made a driving layup points, Datrion Harper 14, and Aaron Internet TV on, of all places, the with five seconds left to put the Henry 12 for the Giants, who Greene County Sports Network, Tigers ahead, and Tindley’s Eric finished 23-5 and were an “under the which televised the regionals in Hunter stole an in-bounds pass on radar” team all year, finishing 12th in which both Tindley teams played. the final play. the Associated Press poll. Tindley Accelerated School is the Chris Murff had 13 points and North Side had two well- final destination of a six-school McMahon 10 for the 24-5 Tigers, publicized players in DePaul recruit network of public charter schools for coached by Bob Wonnell for each of Jaylen Butz and sophomore Keion urban students--three elementary, the school’s 10 seasons of basketball. Brooks Jr., whose father, Keion Sr., two middle, and the high school, all The Knights, coached by David was an assistant coach on this year’s located on Indianapolis’ east side. Barrett, finished 22-7 and were led team and led the (then) Redskins to a The schools enroll a total of 1,800 by Avery Denhart with 17 points. regional title in 1995. Both were students, and their unofficial model LCC was looking for its fourth 1A disappointments in the title game, is “College or Die!” because their title, having won championships in with Butz scoring 11 and Brooks 8. ultimate goal is to get all of their 1998 (the first year of the class era), Juan Quarles added 11 and Kinnie 10 students into college. From what 2000, and 2003. for North, whose nickname was I’ve read about the schools, they Perhaps no school has benefited changed this year to the more have been successful in reaching that from class basketball more than politically correct Legends. One goal and provide a model worth Lafayette Central Catholic. Besides other thing about North, which was emulating by other charter schools. I the three state titles, the Knights IHSBHS 2017 FALL ISSUE Page 5 have won 16 straight sectionals--by first quarter but had 23 for the game sessions for each) totaled 40,692, for far the longest sectional streak of the as the Eagles finished 23-6 under an average of only 10,173. class era. That’s not the longest coach Brent Brobston, a Frankton streak for a Lafayette team, though. graduate. The Wolfpack, in their MARION PIERCE, Lafayette Jefferson has what I first championship game and LEWISVILLE’S ALL-TIME believe is the state’s longest-ever coached by Levi Carmichael, ended SCORING ACE string of sectional victories, winning with a 22-7 mark and were led by by Gregg Doyel, IndyStar 29 in a row from 1944 to 1972. LCC Tyrell Nickleson’s 14 points. The columnist was the team which ended the streak Trester Award went to Frankton’s in 1973 and I’m sure was the loser in Keegan Freestone. several of Jeff’s sectional The IHSAA added a new award championship games during that 29- this year, the Richard Lugar Award season stretch. Jacob Page of LCC for distinguished service to was the winner of the Ray Craft interscholastic athletics, and the first Mental Attitude Award. Tindley winner was – Richard Lugar! (What started four juniors, so don’t be a surprise!) Seriously, he is a surprised to see the Tigers make a deserving honoree, as someone who return trip to the finals next year. truly has been a distinguished public Class 2a Finals servant and, in the minds of many, Here, take a look at my computer Frankton also might be back. The an example of what a politician screen. See what I see almost every Eagles start two sophomores and two ought to be like. week, for reasons I cannot explain. juniors. Their 28-point margin over Closing Comments There are days when I’m visiting the Crawford County in the 2A final It seems strange to be talking IHSAA website and clicking the link game was one point more than the about Ben Davis as an “upset” for “career scoring leaders” – just to previous 2A record, set by Park winner, considering it has 4,138 study a list of names I’ve already Tudor in 2014 and 2015. Frankton students, but at least the 4A champ memorized. A new name joined the was the opponent in the 2015 game. wasn’t Carmel. I have to admit top 10 this spring when Cloverdale Frankton also set an all-class record that’s one school I’m biased against senior Cooper Neese launched an with 19 steals, and that pretty much just because it’s so big and is in such assault on the top scorers in state tells the story of the game. a wealthy area. I was stunned to see history. He passed the likes of Kyle The championship was the second the latest IHSAA enrollment figures Macy and , Delray straight for schools in the Frankton- show Carmel at 5,000 students. Brooks and Chris Thomas, then took Lapel school district, with Lapel That’s 1,500 more than the largest aim at IU stars James Blackmon Jr. having won the title in 2016, and the school in Ohio--Mason High School, and , and Butler’s third championship game appearance in the Cincinnati suburb of Mason, Billy Shepherd. Neese finished just in a row for the district. It also was where Kings Island is located. I ahead of those three to sit seventh all the eighth title won by a Madison can’t say with certainty that Carmel time at 2,496 points, behind players County school (three by Anderson is the largest public high school in – behind names – I no longer have to during the single-class era, two by the nation outside of City, look up. But from time to time I still Lapel, and one each by Alexandria, but it’s certainly one of the largest, do, for reasons I cannot explain: Liberty Christian, and Frankton based on the limited Internet Trevon Bluiett. . Brody during the multi-class years.) Lapel research I’ve done on this. It’s no Boyd. . Marion and Liberty Christian won titles last wonder the Greyhounds have won so Pierce. Damon Bailey. year, and Frankton’s latest win gives many championships. Attendance Look at those names. That’s the county three championships in for this year’s state finals was about always my first thought. Followed by two years. Marion County schools what it’s been in recent years – this: Who’s the guy way up there at have won the most championships, 14,908 in the evening, 10,036 in the No. 2? Who is Marion Pierce? Had with this year’s three bringing their morning, for a total of 24,944. As to find out. Which is why I’m total to 30, including 21 during the I’ve said before, those numbers walking into this garage in multi-class era. aren’t what they used to be, but it’s Lewisville, about an hour east of Maurice Knight, Frankton’s lone worse in Ohio, where attendance at downtown Indianapolis. There’s a senior starter, was scoreless in the four state title games (separate man here changing the oil on his big IHSBHS 2017 FALL ISSUE Page 6 orange riding mower. He’s about 6- hit the rim, you almost couldn’t tell straight out of small town Indiana. 4, and everything about him is huge: if it went in or was an air ball,” he Pierce went to Lindsey Wilson, a his head, his hands, his thick swell of says. “My buddies and me got in a junior college in Columbia, Ky., and silver hair. lot of arguments over that, mm- averaged 32 ppg as a freshman. He hmm.” scored 79 in one game. He quit By the time he was a freshman at before his sophomore season. Told Lewisville High, he was 6-4 and his coach: “Hey, this isn’t for me.” averaging 24 points per game. As a Marion Pierce went back home. Still senior he scored 38 ppg. His favorite here, 55 years later. shot was a turnaround jumper. “I’d post up anywhere in a 15-foot The keys are in the ignition. radius,” he says. “You might as well Marion Pierce leaves them there, the turn and run to the other end, truck parked in his driveway, because I’m going to bury it, mm- because this is Lewisville. “Nobody hmm.” So that’s how the basketball would even think about stealing it,” legend of Marion Pierce starts, with he says. “Mm-hmm.” We’d been a rim and a gunnysack. How it talking in his garage about growing

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The big guy, he sees me coming. He’s smiling. This happens to him, from time to time. He sure does wish he had that old rim, mm-hmm. Oh, sorry. That’s how 75-year-old Marion Pierce talks: Short sentences that he ends by confirming what he has just said. Mm-hmm. And that old rim, that was the one Marion Pierce used to hone the shot that scored 3,019 points in four years at Lewisville, nearly 1,000 more than anyone in state history had scored when Pierce was done in 1961. Kids don’t make rims like that anymore. Kids don’t make rims at all, do they? Marion was about 10 when he decided he needed a rim. His dad, who was just starting an auto salvage business, decided Marion needed to make it himself. So here’s what Marion did: He worked some steel off an old Chevy and took it to a local welder. They hammered it into a circle. Marion took it home, took it out back and attached it to a corn crib. He didn’t have a net at first, but eventually he had to put something below the rim. Marion Pierce (No. 52), 1961. He used a burlap bag. “If you didn’t ends? Well, that’s another story up here when Pierce decides to show IHSBHS 2017 FALL ISSUE Page 7 me Lewisville himself. Who is Life in Lewisville has been good, this is Marion. So he walks over Marion Pierce? Pinch me: He’s the see. His dad turned that old salvage with a big smile. “Everyone knows guy driving me around town. That’s yard into a used auto parts empire, Marion,” the coach says. “This is where the old high school was, mm- with lots in Lewisville and Muncie one of the best guys in town. And if hmm, though it was torn down after and New Castle and even New Paris, there’d been a 3-point line when he Lewisville High consolidated with Ohio. Cars were stripped and played, nobody would’ve touched two others into Tri High. He takes stacked, far as the eye could see. the guy.” I look at Marion. He nods. me a mile north on Ind. 103 and “We had 256 acres of cars,” he says. “Mm-hmm.” shows me the new school. On our “Mm-hmm.” Marion and his eight He doesn’t play anymore. Not way back into town we pass a large brothers inherited the business and competitively, anyway. He played in wooden sign welcoming folks to ran it until a few years ago, when men’s leagues for years, played with Lewisville. Just behind that is a they passed it down to some of their friends and nephews and had no smaller green sign that says, in white boys. Marion's retired now, he and plans to quit, but he was 68 when he letters: The Home of Marion Pierce. his high school sweetheart, Sandy suffered the first major injury of his Cooley. They’ve been married more basketball career, a busted ankle. than 50 years. Lived in the same The ankle never did come back, and house for more than 40. Ol’ his team just sort of drifted away. Tucker’s buried out back. Tucker Now when he gets the urge to shoot, was the last dog in Marion's house, he goes onto the slab of concrete he and the last dog he’ll ever have. carved into the yard next to his house Broke his heart, what happened to and shoots on a basket he installed Tucker. They were together at the about 40 years ago. Real rim, real foot of his driveway a few years net, real glass backboard, though the back when Marion headed for the glass is so old it’s a frosty white. Inside the truck, Marion Pierce looks house. Tucker usually followed, but Marion figures he can still shoot. at me. Just wants to know if I saw not this time. He went into the road “It’s a gift,” he says. “I was just that. “Mm-hmm,” I tell him. instead. A car was driving by and--. born with it, but you’ve got to work This town of about 350 people had Marion buried him behind the at it. You don’t want to get tangled six filling stations when he was a evergreens in his back yard. “Tucker up with me in H-O-R-S-E. Mm- boy. In those days U.S. 40 – it’s jogged with me. Did everything with hmm.” called Main Street in downtown me,” Marion says. “No, I can’t do In a town time seems to have Lewisville – was the main east-west that again.” forgotten, Lewisville remembers thoroughfare in this part of Indiana. Marion still jogs most days, jogs Marion Pierce. Strangers stop by his They built I-70 in the 1960s just on that track right below his house, house, just as I did, just to see the north of Lewisville, just 4 miles the one ringing the high school’s man who scored all those points. away, the difference between softball field. Tri High is building a They see him out at the local pizza economic life and death. There are new field, but for now the Titans still place or in New Castle and talk no gas stations in Lewisville play on Lewisville’s old field. His about 1961. Marion is telling me anymore. See that antique shop on granddaughter played softball last that he took Sandy to La Hacienda Main Street? Used to be Peyton’s year. Marion would get on that on Indianapolis' east side a while Corner Store, where everybody went riding mower and cut his grass on back, and it happened there, too! He after games to relive the action over the hill above, while he watched throws back that big head of his, and a milkshake and tenderloin. “You Karly playing below. Today, Tri he just laughs. He’s happiest at just about couldn’t get in,” he says. High is playing Cowan, a small home anyway, with three kids, eight “Mm-hmm.” Nearly everywhere we school near Muncie. The Titans are grandchildren and two great- go, Marion is pointing out a home he on the field warming up as we drive grandchildren – toddlers he and owns. He owns 14 rental properties past. Marion Pierce stops his truck Sandy are baby-sitting the day I in all, including most of several behind the third-base dugout and show up. When it gets a little blocks near the old baseball field calls out: “Hey Brian!” Yeah? warmer, Marion will take Sandy and where he hit .392 as a senior first “Come here!” Out of the dugout some of the kids out to Lake baseman. pops Brian Peggs, the Tri High Cumberland. They water ski and go coach. He has a team to prepare, but tubing on his 25-foot Baja. IHSBHS 2017 FALL ISSUE Page 8 Yeah, life’s been good to Marion THE CROSSROADS OF sinking his basketball claws into his Pierce. He was passed on the HOOSIER HYSTERIA son. My first memories are hurling a IHSAA scoring list in 1990 by by Mark Titus tiny plastic ball toward a Little Tikes Bedford North Lawrence’s Damon Editor’s Note: This article was basket in our driveway as my dad Bailey (3,134), and he never became penned by Mark Titus, a staff writer shot on a full-sized hoop. If his the college player that everyone else for the online sports publishing bedtime stories weren’t about former on that list did, but he’s OK with organization “The Ringer.” It’s Kentucky star scoring 47 that. Three of the top 10 scorers in quite nostalgic, reflecting the same points on him in high school, or how state history played at IU, one at general sentiments that many of our all of those mammoth gyms he Purdue, one at , one at Ohio senior IHSBHS members still played in were always packed to the State. Two went to Butler. One to express. rafters, they were about Pete Xavier. Maravich or . The doctor And then there’s Marion Pierce, who It was a few months before my who delivered me didn’t hand a son left junior college as a sophomore 10th birthday in 1997 when my dad to a father as much as he handed a and never went back. After an hour and I went to the Indiana high school giant of marble to a basketball- with the state’s mystery scoring state basketball finals at the RCA crazed maniac eager to sculpt. machine, I try to ask him something. Dome in downtown Indianapolis. I As I got older, Friday nights in the Those names on the scoring list, I tell was too young to know much of winter began to follow a familiar him. Your name is different from anything at the time, but this I knew script: My dad would come home the rest. If you had to do it over for certain: I loved basketball. I from work and leave his ’92 Buick again … my voice trails off. Marion mean, I looooooved it, to the point Century running in the driveway so Pierce rescues me. “You know how that I judged my third-grade that he wouldn’t have to warm it people will say there’s always classmates based solely on their back up later. He’d shove whatever something in your life you’d like to basketball ability. It consumed my meat and potatoes my mom had change?” he asks. “Well, I don’t every thought. made for dinner into his mouth know what that would be. I I guess I never really had a choice. before we’d jump into the car and wouldn’t change a thing, mm-hmm.” My dad went to high school in the drive through one snow-covered 1970s in Logansport—a small Rust cornfield after another, the monotony IHSAA's All-time boys basketball Belt city that’s 90 minutes north of broken only by three-room churches, scoring leaders: Indianapolis and is every bit of what cemeteries with fewer than 20 1. Damon Bailey, Bedford North you’d picture a small Rust Belt city headstones, and barns with basketball Lawrence (1990); 3,134 to be like. It’s easy to be drawn to rims affixed to their sides. We’d 2. Marion Pierce, Lewisville (1961); the chapters in Indiana basketball arrive at a high school somewhere in 3,019 lore that tell stories of tiny farm central Indiana—usually the one 3. Deshaun Thomas, FW Bishop towns or mention the great players where my dad was the athletic Luers (2010); 3,018 who came from cities such as director—and I’d watch perfectly 4. Brody Boyd, Union – Dugger Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and Gary. ordinary 17-year-old kids transform (2000); 2,632 But make no mistake: The small into superheroes. 5. Rick Mount, Lebanon manufacturing cities like Logansport, After a high school game ended, (1966); 2,595 New Castle, Marion, Kokomo, my dad would get the game ball from 6. Trevon Bluiett, Park Tudor Anderson, Richmond, and Muncie the refs so that I could shoot around (2014); 2,568 are where Hoosier Hysteria reached after all of the fans, players, and 7. Cooper Neese, Cloverdale (2017); its apex, especially during the ’60s, coaches had left. Then, with my 2,496 ’70s, and ’80s. By 1985, seven of the audience consisting of janitors, I’d 8. Billy Shepherd, Carmel (1968); eight schools in my dad’s high school recreate the plays I saw that night 2,465 conference (North Central while dreaming of someday creating 9. Alan Henderson, Brebeuf Jesuit Conference) played in gyms that held highlights of my very own. On the (1991); 2,419 more than 6,500 people, while the drive home, we’d throw on Bob 10. James Blackmon Jr., Marion smallest gym in the NCC had a Lovell’s Indiana high school (2014); 2,387 capacity of nearly 6,000. basketball radio show as background Like so many Hoosier fathers noise, talk about the game we’d just before him, my dad wasted no time watched, and formulate a plan to IHSBHS 2017 FALL ISSUE Page 9 persuade my mom to buy us a pizza basketball team that even made the assumed the role of the orchestra when we got back. This was what I Sweet 16 of the state tournament. members on the Titanic, continuing knew for as long as I can remember. The 1996–97 team lost to Muncie to lead the “We believe” chant either Basketball wasn’t just a big part of Southside High School by 27 points out of habit or because they really my life—it was essentially the only earlier in the season, suggesting that were crazy enough to believe a part, and high school basketball was Delta wasn’t even the best team in its miracle was imminent. I was the epicenter of my childhood world. own city. In its second game of the captivated. The game itself no longer And now I was going to my first state state tournament, it required a made mattered. My attention was squarely finals game, one that represented the with one second focused on these lunatics from end of an era. remaining to squeak past Wapahani Muncie who didn’t seem to notice High School, a team it had previously that their team was getting its ass “As everyone knows, Indiana is lost to by 18. That January, Delta kicked. divided into two parts: 1. Basketball. head coach Paul Keller benched three I later learned that so much of this 2. All That Other Stuff.”—James of his starters (two of whom had passion stemmed from the fact that Alexander Thom scored more than 1,000 points in the ’97 title game was the final one in their respective careers) because the which Indiana would crown a single The 1997 Indiana state team was doing so poorly. In high school boys’ basketball state championship was, by almost any February, Delta’s sixth man broke his champion. The Indiana High School measure, a bad basketball game. arm and was forced to play in a soft Athletic Association was set to Bloomington North High School, cast for the remainder of the season. institute a class system based on ranked no. 1 in the state and fronted Delta averaged 12.5 turnovers a enrollment the following season, by Kueth Duany (who would go on game, started a who was 6- bringing an end to an 87-year to captain the 2002–03 national foot-1, and had to erase deficits of 16 tradition that was, for my money, the champion Syracuse team), led and 14 points just to get to the state best high school athletic tournament unranked Delta High School 7–0 at championship. in the world. Delta would compete the end of the first quarter and in class 3A (the second-largest class), cruised to an easy 75–54 win. It’s meaning the chance to beat a school only by re-watching the game on twice its size, in this setting, with the YouTube that I can report Delta’s entire state watching would never entire roster. Tom McKinney, come again. This game—win or Bloomington North’s coach, kept a lose—was the culmination of a pen wedged behind his ear, and Cinderella run that would forever be Delta’s best player was a kid named the last of its kind. Patrick “Petie” Jackson. He had an The cheers from Delta’s fan base Anthony Mason haircut and would I’d admittedly be laying the weren’t solely for this one basketball go on to break Kansas point guard romanticism on a little bit thick if I game that was going very, very Aaron Miles’s ankles en route to likened Delta to the 1954 Milan High poorly; they were for the three weeks making Ball State’s game-winning state champion team that of magic that led to that point, and layup in the 2001 Maui Invitational. inspired Hoosiers, even though Delta the 87 years of underdog stories that In truth, I can remember only a single used the same came before. They were a thing about that ’97 title game: “We locker room during its state declaration that a blowout loss could believe.” tournament run that Hickory High do nothing to soil a memory that That was Delta’s rallying cry used in the movie. Regardless, the would last a lifetime. throughout its state tournament run, point remains: The Delta Eagles had and one I heard fans yell a few no business playing in the 1997 state “An Indiana player has the hundred times that day in late March. championship. And yet there they enthusiasm of an evangelist, the See, Delta was and still is a rural were, fueled by thousands of fans discipline of a monk, and the heart of school, surrounded by cornfields on from east central Indiana who a warrior who never loses the the outskirts of Muncie, with an believed. honesty and character of a small enrollment under 1,000. In its 30 As the game wore on and boy.”— years of existence to that point, Delta Bloomington North sustained its had never produced a boys’ dominance, Delta’s cheerleaders IHSBHS 2017 FALL ISSUE Page 10 It’s hard to articulate to people pervasive presence there in the Hysteria is about celebrating the from outside Indiana what Hoosier 1920s. For the most part, we underdog. Hysteria really is. The simple answer Hoosiers are simple folks who work Just think about the Indiana is that it’s a term used to describe the our asses off, earn what we get, and basketball stories you know. Aside love affair people in the state have are among the nicest people you’ll from Bob Knight’s three national with basketball. But it’s not enough ever meet. But the same could be titles at IU, virtually every notable to understand the what. Far more said about much of the thing that has happened with a important is the why. Basketball took populace. The list of things that set basketball team from the state could hold in Indiana shortly after its Indiana apart includes, regrettably, a be framed as an underdog story: invention at the turn of the 20th lot of bullshit. But the shining Milan in 1954; Larry Bird and century, primarily because of the beacon of hope at the top of that list Indiana State in 1979; Purdue’s state’s farming culture. With so is basketball. Final Four run as a no. 6 seed in many young Hoosier men busy And that’s the important 1980; Indiana’s run to the national planting crops in the spring, distinction: Basketball isn’t just title game as a no. 5 seed in 2002; fertilizing them in the summer, and something we love. It’s intertwined Christian Watford’s shot to upset top- harvesting them in the fall, baseball with our identity. It’s the ace up our ranked Kentucky in 2011; Butler’s and football couldn’t catch on in sleeve when anyone tries to put us back-to-back national title game Indiana as they did in states where down. The Indianapolis 500 is great, appearances, the first of which manufacturing was king: Ohio, but it’s really a race that belongs to included ’s near- , and . But the world and happens to take place miss that came inches away from basketball checked every box that in Indiana. Basketball is our one true going down as the greatest shot in Hoosiers needed out of a sport. It export. It’s the thing that Hoosiers sports history; Notre Dame snapping was played during the winter, the one can point to and say, “We may not UCLA’s 88-game winning streak in season in which farmers had a bring much to the table, but we bring 1974 and coming a shot away from significant amount of free time. It this. And goddammit, we couldn’t ending Kentucky’s perfect season in was played indoors, giving thousands be more proud.” the 2015 Elite Eight; Ball State’s run of Hoosiers an activity that didn’t It’s pretentious, I know, but it to the 1990 Sweet 16, where the involve trekking out into the harsh should also be noted that basketball 12th-seeded Cardinals gave eventual winter weather. And most itself is different in Indiana. Or at national champion UNLV its only importantly, unlike football and least, that’s what Hoosiers would like tournament scare in a 69–67 loss; baseball, it could be played with just to believe. We like to think that ours ’s Pacers taking part in a handful of people, meaning even is a form of basketball in which the “Hicks vs. Knicks” rivalry from tiny farm schools could put together fundamentals, teamwork, and effort the ’90s, almost derailing Michael a team. Over time, basketball in supersede size and athleticism. We Jordan’s Bulls dynasty in the 1998 Indiana developed from a curious like to think our players are perfectly Eastern Conference finals, and going oddity to a convenient distraction to a crafted and can’t be found anywhere up against Shaq and Kobe in the passionate pastime to a full-blown else in the world. Whether basketball 2000 NBA Finals. obsession, until it finally became the in Indiana really is akin to cigars Hell, Indiana loves underdogs so thing that lies at the heart of Hoosier from Cuba or wine from the south of much that when our teams aren’t in Hysteria: a point of pride. France is irrelevant. To Hoosiers, that role, it’s almost as if we find new There’s no denying that Indiana there’s basketball, and then there’s ways to screw things up. The 1974– isn’t the first state that comes to mind Indiana Basketball. That, I suppose, 75 Hoosiers were undefeated until when thinking about the best is why Delta fans chanting “We ’s broken arm preceded an America has to offer. The obesity believe” in 1997 has stuck so vividly Elite Eight loss to the same Kentucky and pollution statistics are awful, the in my mind. That entire scene—an team that IU had beaten by 24 points archaic alcohol laws are worse, and undersized and undermanned earlier that year. The 1990–91, venturing too far from Indianapolis is Cinderella with a community 1992–93, and 2012–13 Hoosiers to discover what true boredom looks cheering it on—was quintessential were arguably the best teams in the like. Indiana was recently named the Indiana Basketball. If words can’t country during those respective meth capital of the country, which properly define what Hoosier seasons, yet each also failed to reach would probably be the state’s biggest Hysteria is, those two hours can-- the Final Four. had six disgrace if not for the KKK’s because above all else Hoosier 25-win seasons in his 25-year IHSBHS 2017 FALL ISSUE Page 11 coaching tenure at Purdue yet he and some of the most historic and since. Put more succinctly, there are never made a Final Four, and only iconic gyms in the state are on their kids all over Indiana who will play in one of those six campaigns resulted deathbeds. The reasons are plenty, high school games this week having in a trip to the Elite Eight. The 2005 and people all over the state will never lived in a world where the Pacers were favorites to win the East gladly say which they believe are Hoosiers were in the Final Four. And and maybe even the NBA Finals most at fault: AAU culture, the there are parents of those kids who before The Malice at the Palace set internet, the rise of football following have never lived in a world where the franchise back a decade. And the success of the Peyton Manning– Purdue or Notre Dame have played Butler hasn’t done much since the era Colts, Title IX, the economy and in a Final Four. college basketball world started job market, and the emergence of all For anyone brainwashed on the treating it as more than a tournament sorts of entertainment alternatives. religion that is basketball in Indiana, darling. It’s like any time an Indiana But every one of these discussions that’s jarring. For everyone else, it team starts shedding its underdog circles back to the advent of class should explain the current psyche of label, the universe steps in to correct basketball. fans across the state pretty well. This its mistake. Isn’t it a little curious If nothing else, that 1997 state title is why so many IU and Purdue fans how a state that prides itself on its game was a clear turning point in the jumped on the Butler bandwagon in rich basketball history always seems Indiana basketball history books. 2010 and 2011. There was more at to be an underdog? If Indiana The installation of the class system stake than just loyalty to a particular Basketball really is one of the isn’t directly responsible for school. Butler represented the world’s most prestigious brands, why everything that followed, of course, Indiana Basketball brand. At a has it been almost 30 years since the but the landscape of basketball in the certain point, we’ve grown so state last produced a basketball state has unquestionably changed desperate to relive the magic of juggernaut? since. Knight was fired from IU in Hoosier Hysteria that we’re willing 2000. Keady retired from Purdue in to embrace anything that slightly “A Hoosier talks about basketball for 2005. On two separate occasions resembles it. That explains how the an hour after he is dead and has (2005 and 2014), no team from the –era Boilermakers stopped breathing.”—Kurt Vonnegut state participated in the NCAA have given more job tournament, an occurrence that security than he probably deserves. The 2016–17 Indiana high school hadn’t previously happened since It’s also why IU fans stormed the boys’ basketball season officially 1972, when the tournament fielded court against Kentucky in 2011, why began (last fall), marking the start of only 25 teams. During the final 19 the loss to Syracuse in the 2013 the 20th season of class basketball in years of the one-class system, 14 of Sweet 16 felt like the death of a loved the state. Depending on who you the 21 Mr. (there were one, and why Indiana’s win over ask, this signifies either the 20th two ties) chose in-state schools for third-ranked Kansas in the season anniversary of the biggest mistake an college. Only nine of the last 19 Mr. opener last November 11 has left Indiana governing body has ever Basketballs stayed in Indiana, and Hoosier fans delirious. It’s like made or two decades of pride and joy only one (Purdue’s ) Tywin Lannister says on Game of for small communities that otherwise has stayed since 2012. Over the past Thrones: “Any man who must say ‘I would’ve lacked the chance to 19 seasons, the 10 Division I college am the king’ is no true king.” experience a state title. No matter programs in Indiana have combined Hoosiers have been forced to remind which side a person falls on, all for 17 Sweet 16 berths, six Elite the rest of the country who the Hoosiers who are old enough to Eights, three Final Fours, and zero basketball king is with increasing remember the 1990s can agree on national titles. For comparison, over frequency over the last two decades, one thing: Indiana high school that same span Duke has 15 Sweet 16 to the point that many of us are really basketball is drastically different berths, seven Elite Eights, five Final just trying to remind ourselves. from what it used to be. Fours, and three national titles. The If I were alarmist, this is where I’d Pacers, who were perpetually in “They took basketball away from the make the case that Hoosier Hysteria NBA championship contention near whole state of Indiana and gave it to is dying. And honestly, part of me the turn of the millennium, blew up the individual communities.”—Paul worries that it is. Anecdotally, the foundation of their franchise Keller, coach of Delta’s 1997 state attendance for high school games has when Miller retired in 2005. They’ve runner-up, on class basketball been steadily declining for decades, won 50 games in a season just once IHSBHS 2017 FALL ISSUE Page 12 I recently noticed that my beard is graying. Not enough to panic just yet, but enough to make an indestructible man in his 20s suddenly feel vulnerable; enough to pause and think about exactly what that gray represents. Maybe it’s revisionist history to look back almost 20 years ago to when my dad took me to my first state finals and claims that Indiana Basketball was better then. Maybe certain negative aspects were always there and maybe I just didn’t notice them until I got older. That, after all, is how nostalgia works: You hold onto the great memories and let everything that was less than perfect fade away. Even if the one-class high school system would’ve stuck around, things likely wouldn’t be all that different than It’s a belief in an idea that’s so strong RECORD BOOK ON WW II they are today. it permeates every aspect of its HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Still, when I close my eyes, those followers’ existence. It’s a way of NOW AVAILABLE Friday nights in the winter are there life and a reverence of something “Indiana High School Basketball in vivid detail. I remember bigger than self, with places of History; Team Rosters and Season worshipping guys like Damon worship that hold entire town Recaps for the World War II years Frierson, Eric Riggs, and Chad populations, and gods who wear 1941-42 through 1944-45” has been Jobe—names that mean nothing to jerseys and red sweaters and comb- developed and organized to offer you but may as well have been overs. readers an inside look at historical Jordan, Magic, and Bird to 7-year-old As a new Indiana high school Indiana basketball records related to me. I remember having the same basketball season tips off, the part of a specific era, the WW II years. This conversation with my dad every time me that’s graying worries that it period was the precursor to what is we’d consider moving to a new doesn’t mean as much as it used to. I now popularly referred to as house: “Where would we put a don’t know if Hoosier kids are still Indiana’s golden age of basketball. basketball hoop?” I remember raised to have an unhealthy obsession The author is Cliff Johnson, spending countless summer nights in with basketball. I don’t know if the Boxscore Editor. See page 13. my backyard trying to get as many college teams throughout the state The content of this 852-page book shots up as I could before the sun will ever return to their previous is comprehensive. It consists of went down, and then staying out for a levels of prominence. I don’t know team rosters of all the Indiana few more hours since shooting in the if the magic of Hoosier Hysteria can schools for all four WW II years, a dark was better than doing anything ever be recaptured, or if it was running account of all AP poll else. I remember the popcorn, the forever lost after the 1997 state rankings during each season; and an cheerleaders, the bands, the warmth championship. But that’s life: You independent tabulation of all state of a packed gym on a freezing get older, you move onto what’s tournament results for those years. Indiana night, the long drives with next, and you hope the generation The book price is $48 plus my dad to dots on a map I’ll never behind you cares just as much about shipping and handling, and can be visit again. That’s the Indiana I will the things that mattered most to you, ordered from Rowland Press at 199 always love, and the Indiana I’d give even though you know they can’t. N. 9th St., Noblesville, IN 46060, anything to go back to. All you can really do is keep the phone (317) 773-1829, or the Indiana Is Hoosier Hysteria dying? It can’t faith. And if you’re asking the Basketball Hall of Fame, One HOF die. 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