Sunday, February 3, 2013: Luke 4:21-30
Indiana’s fiery love affair with basketball began just a few years after James Naismith taught his Massachusetts gym class to toss a soccer ball into an elevated peach basket. After he got a taste of Hoosier Hysteria in 1925, Naismith wrote that basketball seemed to have its “origin in Indiana.”
We Hoosiers couldn’t agree more. Basketball is a virtual religion around here, and nowhere more so than in high school gymnasiums, where every opening tip-off gives David another chance to bring down Goliath.
You’re likely familiar with at least one Indiana upset. The acclaimed 1986 film Hoosiers is inspired by the true story of a ragtag group of Indiana farm boys from Milan High. A dramatic last-second shot was the Milan Miracle, in the game of the century. But it’s what happened the following year, in 1955, that is the upset that true legends are made of.
