"I'm sure (Tallman) said, 'We're going to keep the boys under wraps.'". titlist. Forward Bruce Benbow added 10 points But after falling behind by five, the Bearcats actually rallied back against such tactics and took a lead. For his three-year career, Jones scored 1,029 points for an average of 13.2 per game. Moore scored 61 points in the Bearcats two final four wins. Jack Moore The 5-9 Moore was a catalyst for Muncie Centrals 1978 state championship as a senior, averaging 21.7 points per game to earn first-team all-state and Indiana All-Star honors. View the Muncie Central Varsity Boys Basketball team schedule on sblivesports.com and scorebooklive.com Crispus Attucks in the title game. The story of the Milan Miracle and Bobby Plumps game winning shot will long be remembered in the Hoosier state. Wingate in 1913 and 1914. South Bend Central committed a turnover with 15 seconds Your email address will not be published. Plump held the ball amidst more noise than youll hear in the wildest fast breaking game, for four minutes and 14 seconds and then called time. Note: The contents of this page have not been reviewed or endorsed by the Indiana Pacers. Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors. He signed with Cincinnati out of high school and averaged 9.8 points and 5.2 rebounds over three seasons. Whitsell led Evansville Reitz with 14 points. INDIANAPOLIS | Crispus Attucks claimed its third state Echelbarger watched that game on television at home, all alone. Please try again. state championship with an unblemished record. Harris, Daniel ( Sr.) Gore, Antonio ( Sr.) Mcnabb, Brady ( Jr.) Serf, Isaiah ( Sr.) Strong, Zion ( Sr.) Young, Princeton ( Sr.) Strange, LJ ( So.) The following year, as a senior, Dinwiddie was averaging 19 points and 15 rebounds a game but was among four players and a student manager kicked off the team following a hazing incident on a bus in late January. When Bobby had taken the ball, he hadnt dribbledyet, and someone said he traveled, said Birge. final four games of the tournament tied the record of Crispus Logansport then beat This article is the copyright of Referee Enterprises, Inc., and may not be republished in whole or in part online, in print or in any capacity without expressed written permission from Referee. The Tigers' 97 points and the two finalists' combined score of The tournament has often featured future NCAA and National Basketball Association (NBA) players. "He got kind of nervous and then he said, What do you want? I said, I want to foul you on your last shot. with 25 and 15 points, respectively. when guard Charlie Mock hit a shot with five seconds remaining to In the same article Flowers told the nwitimes com: Yes, they slowed the ball on us and we were a running team. I knew nothing about their history," recalled Plump, who has a restaurant in Indianapolis called Plump's Last Shot. "We were just a bunch of naive kids having fun playing basketball. Jefferson. The Milan Indians upset victory is stillheralded as the greatest sports story in Indianahistory. And Birge feels proud to have been a part of it. OVERALL 15-8 0.65 Win % CONFERENCE 5-3 3rdNorth Central. in the past. Attucks, led by sophomore guard and future. Crispus Attucks (26-5) had five players score in double figures Post a Video. Rolf scored 1,239 career points during his three-year varsity career, leading Muncie Central in scoring and rebounding as a junior and senior. A new high school on the south side of the city was opening soon, and would dilute the local basketball talent. All rights reserved. Use of this website (including any and all parts and components) constitutes your acceptance of these, New England bishop takes tongue-in-cheek shot at Tom Brady. The three-year letterman was All-Big Eight Conference as a junior and senior, averaging 13.8 points as a junior and 18.5 points as a senior. Wells No. That held true for decades, as Central won state championships in the Twenties, Thirties, Fifties, Sixties, Seventies and Eighties eight in all, matched only by Marion among state schools. His hiring was controversial, coming on the heels of Superintendent Willard Green's firing of coach Herman "Snort" Grinstead, who had ordered new uniforms without authorization. Charley Mazurek, Hartford Bulkeley. INDIANAPOLIS | South Bend Central held off two-time defending And it was different. INDIANAPOLIS | Muncie Central repeated as state champion to Central had become a basketball powerhouse by the 1950s. To prepare for the rigors of tournament play, Milan scheduled several games against larger, more prestigious schools, including a tournament at Frankfort, where they would suffer their first loss of the season, a 4947 nail-biter against the hosts. Leavell was drafted in the fifth round (104thoverall) by the Houston Rockets in the 1979 draft. We figured wed run on Milan. 3rd T20I. There must have been enough to go around, though, because Central won titles again in 1978 and '79, becoming the first state school to win back-to-back titles twice. B. He scored more than 40 points once and more than 30 five times that season, but was overshadowed by future Hall of Famer Rick Barry. Lee Brennan, Bristol The tournament's terminology was adjusted in 1957 when the IHSAA He was killed in a private plane crash in Iowa in 1984 while returning from watching Central play in the sectional. Central 64-62. consecutive year, leading the way. Davis averaged 13.6 points and 9.7 rebounds for the Atlanta Hawks in 1969-70. That led to the peculiar 4-minute stretch of Plump holding the ball with his team down two points and necessitated the iconic shot he eventually took. With four starters returning from the semifinalists, Milan was considered a lock to win both the Ripley County tournament and the sectional. INDIANAPOLIS | Fort Wayne South spoiled Crawfordsville's return Lafayette Semifinal, which would be officially named the Lafayette And so the Bearcat faithful were under this pall, a hangover from the game and the retellings that so often came up. He said he grew close with members of that Milan team, including Plump, and still talks to them. Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. March 6, 2018 M ilan High School, enrollment 161, defeated the favored Bearcats of Muncie Central, 32-30, to win the 1954 Indiana state basketball championship. Birge and Todd called only fivepersonal fouls on Milan and 11against Muncie during the game. Thompson went on to play several years professionally overseas. lead Milan to a 60-48 win over Terre Haute Gerstmeyer with a trip Madison in 1949, to lift the Tigers to their second consecutive These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads. The team's bus stopped on the outskirts of Muncie on the way home from Indianapolis and the players and coaches piled onto a fire truck. Forward Pat Klein led the Giants with a game-high 22 And it was sincere.. Forward Stanford Patton added 19 points for Crispus behind Harrold's 19 points. Thats the part in the Hoosiers movie where fictiondissolves into fact, according to Birge. Even in the Eighties, he and his father had to do what fathers and sons had been doing for decades: get to the game before the Bearkittens junior varsity team took the court so they could be sure of having a seat for the varsity game. But that brought new challenges. Jim Davis Davis helped Muncie Central to the 1960 state finals as a senior, scoring 545 career points at Muncie Central. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". Wells blossomed as a star at Ball State, where he was twice named the Mid-American Conference Player of the Year, as a sophomore and senior. Many would have regarded him as the second-best player to come out of an Indiana high school at that time, surpassed only by Oscar Robertson. 1954 MILAN TEAM Season Record 28-2 Championship Game Played March 20, . He followed Bonham to Cincinnati, where he broke Robertson's freshman scoring record and had three games of more than 50 points. Four of them were voted Mr. Basketball and many more than that earned all-state honors. finals. He averaged 4.4 points and 3.3 rebounds over four seasons. The bigger schools dont play the little schoolsanymore. The event moved to "Hutch" in 1949, and has been . "When Milan won, I called over to talk to my parents and all of the adults there were crying like babies. One of them is that Bearcats fans can't stand going to a gym and looking at South Side's championship banner when they would have eight of their own in the gym in which they should be playing. INDIANAPOLIS | Muncie Central won its third state championship when guard Charlie Mock hit a shot with five seconds remaining to carry the Bearcats over Evansville Reitz 60-58 at Butler. Lafayette Semifinal. He ended up working at the school as a teacher from 1960-68, and he saw the program in the years after the Milan Miracle. He later played on two NBA championship teams with the Boston Celtics and was a member of the original Pacers team in 1967-68. runner-up Lafayette Jefferson in the championship game of the About 14,500 was for Milan and 1,000 for Muncie. who limited all of Lafayette Jefferson's players to single-digit four players named to the all-state team. Referee, the worlds original sports officiating magazine, educates, challenges and inspires officials at all levels. 1954 IHSAA State Championship Milan vs Muncie Central (3-26-18) - In 1954 tiny Milan pulled off one of the all-time great basketball feats winning the Indiana High School Boys Basketball Championship. Share team highlights with fans & media. added 14. As schools consolidated throughout Indiana, the days of small-town success gradually ended. He was a bit overshadowed by high school classmate Ron Bonham, but went on to become a star at the University of Colorado. Milan was the smallest Central won its record eighth title in 1988. The talent on that Central team is best explained by what happened after high school. Thompson once introduced himself to Plump in the media room at Bankers Life and talked with him about that flashpoint in history. 1956 and 1957, respectively. Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. and center Sheddrick Mitchell added 18 for the Tigers (31-1). There are some that have eight or nine, but most have 10. Bonzi Wells The 6-5 Wells was an Indiana All-Star as a senior in 1994 after he averaged 23.5 points per game for the 24-2 Bearcats. Gujarat Titans vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, 40th Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary Series: Indian Premier League 2022 Venue: Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai In October 2011, he got a D grade national contract from the BCCI. "A lot of people are upset because that one red banner is (in the South Side gym) and think it's an eyesore," Thompson said. Ron Bonham The 6-5 Bonham averaged more than 28 points per game as a senior in 1959-60 and led No. Once a team member, a status that meant something in the community no matter how much you played, Echelbarger had to keep proving himself. Note: This article is archival in nature. He was the Mid-American Conference Freshman of the Year in 1980 after averaging 16.5 points. victory against Milan in a semifinal. Panthers' last four games of the tournament. Oscar Robertson and Co. Robertson scored 30 points, forward Willie Merriweather had 21 Sometimes portions of a community turn against a team or player that disappoints them. The highlight of his put-back dunk has drawn more than 67,000 hits on YouTube. Chandler Thompson scored 32 points in the afternoon victory over a Bedford North Lawrence team led by sophomore Damon Bailey, and 21 in the championship game win over a Concord team led by future NBA star Shawn Kemp. Beck and Plump also teamed up to campaign against multi-class basketball in the late 1990s; the 1997 tournament was the last of the single-class format. The story of Milan's thrilling run to the Indiana state title is of course the story told in Hoosiers, voted the No. 11 NBA draft pick in 1998, Wells went on to a 10-year NBA career, averaging 12.1 points and 4.6 rebounds with Portland, Memphis, Sacramento, Houston and New Orleans. Cincinnati held a commanding lead in the second half over Loyola, but became overly cautious and wound up losing in overtime. Forward Ted Server scored 15 points, Schnaitter had 12 and guard Basketball Home; . Basketball Muncie Central High School Bearcats (Basketball team) Basketball--Records Basketball players--Indiana--Muncie--Statistics: Original Date: 1975-1991: Description: Lists Muncie Central High School Bearcats boys basketball player rosters from 1975 through 1991. Basketball. Albert Maxey and Laverne Benson scored 18 points apiece to pace He was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991. I saw the zeros, so I knew it was no good," he said. Register to let other graduates of Muncie Central High School find and . You can cancel at any time. He finished his career with 1,677 points to rank second in school history. Coach Wood prepared the Indians intensely for Gerstmeyer, who, like Milan, had been in the state's Final Four the previous year and, like Milan, came into the tournament with only two losses. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. McCallum led Ball State to its first MAC championship and NCAA tournament bid as a sophomore in 1981, averaging 18.4 points per game. 1954 Milan High School Basketball Team Coach Marvin Wood had been hired two years earlier, at the age of 24, after a collegiate playing career at Butler University and a coaching stint in French Lick. some of their fans. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. Required fields are marked *. state championship with a 79-57 victory over Lafayette at Butler That happens every once in a while. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. "As a kid, you couldn't wait to become a Bearcat, wear those purple and white pinstripe pants.". They boarded a bus outside Hinkle and made the 55-mile trek home in near silence. It gathered again for a banquet 11 days following the final game that was attended by 500 people. The nucleus of that team returned for the 195354 season with expectations of tournament success unprecedented for such a small school. And while Central was a big school with roughly 1,500 students, it wasn't even the biggest in its conference. 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Mark Montieth's book on the formation and groundbreaking seasons of the Pacers, "Reborn: The Pacers and the Return of Pro Basketball to Indianapolis," is available in bookstores throughout Indiana and on Amazon.com. He went on to play at Nebraska, where he was voted the Frances Pomeroy Naismith award as the nation's best player under 6-foot tall, was first-team all-conference as a senior, finished second in the nation in free throw percentage and was an Academic All-American. Echelbarger and his parents hadn't been able to get into the games at the fieldhouse to that point, but not long afterward it was announced a handful of season tickets had become available. Muncie Central Basketball Roster 2022-23 Players (11) Staff (3) Do you have a team photo? 3 Muncie Central vs. No. his team's last four games of the tournament, including 26 against Raw footage of Milan High School defeating Muncie Central High School in the 1954 high school basketball state championship, the game the movie "Hoosiers" was based on. Expectations were higher in the 19521953 season. semifinal of the Lafayette Semistate. for individual scoring in the title game set by Dee Monroe of Center Jerry "We were sitting there freezing to death," Jones recalled. Indiana boys basketball: year-by-year capsules (1950-59). BUILD-A-TEAM:Check out more historic rosters Kyle has put together. Seven of the Tigers' 12 players from the previous year had to be Muncie Central High School (Muncie, Ind.) Great teams feature great players, of course, and Muncie has produced plenty of those. I walked past her and I just stood there in front of him. [4] Milan went on to shock the state by winning the 1953 regional title and sweeping the semi-state to advance to the final four, finally bowing out in a 5637 semifinal blowout to the Bears of South Bend Central High School. Attitude. Sometimes a team finds itself on the wrong side of history. The real story of Muncie's basketball tradition - which will be honored at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on Friday when . against Roosevelt. Bonham scored a school-record 2,023 points in three seasons at Muncie Central. carry the Bearcats over Evansville Reitz 60-58 at Butler Success! Flowers was a member of the Muncie Central boys basketball team, which lost to Milan in the 1954 Indiana state championship. Crawfordsville, Indiana's first state champion in 1911, made its Delta, on the outskirts of the city, won the 3A title in 2002. It might be six decades from the time he made his mark on basketball history, but it hardly feels that way to Plump. NEW HAVEN REGISTER ALL-STATE BOYS' BASKETBALL TEAMS 1949. We won't send you spam. fellow forward Jerry Trice had 13, guard Larry McIntyre and center The people who lived through that felt it so badly. When Celina Had Just One Team. My junior high school track coach gave me the book in the spring of 1964.I referred to it frequently when I coached CYO teams in California. He averaged a team-high 24.4 points and 6.0 rebounds as a senior and finished his career with 1,666 points. Moore also won the Trester Award. game the year before, Madison earned redemption with its 67-44 Hes been talking about the shot, the team, that season since then. "He said, That tells me God was responsible for the tornado and that basketball is still king in Muncie. Hammond suffered a 45-43 defeat against Logansport in a Central fans, though, will quickly remind you all of their championships came in the single-class state tournament while Marion needed two in the multi-class tournament to pull even. game since 1913, South Bend Central survived a last-second shot to Print. It's difficult for them to understand, because they didn't grow up with it the way Echelbarger, Bonham, Jones, Moore and McCallum did. We were the bigger school, but they had been in the final four the year before and we had not, Agullana said, noting the Indians deployed a critical tactic to limit his Bearcats. Few movie-goerswill forget those last 18 seconds when Jimmy Chitwoodhit that jumper to give the title to Hickory. The "Big O" scored a game-high Muncie Central to become Richmond's leader. His college career ended with a serious knee injury six games into his senior season. Despite all the graduation losses, Central's 1961 team handed eventual state champion Kokomo its only loss of the season, at Kokomo, and won sectional and regional titles before losing to eventual runner-up Manual by three points in the semistate. He was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006. It was a great line and it was absolutely the truth.". Itwas that close.. Former Muncie Central Bearcat remembers iconic 1954 state championship game Ben Breiner bbreiner@muncie.gannett.com View Comments 0:04 0:27 Sometimes a team finds itself on the wrong side. A date for its return remains uncertain. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". A common belief around Muncie was that the 1960 teams championship game loss had been a classic case of overconfident players believing their own press clippings. Get the people who attended those games and played in that fieldhouse talking about it, and the passion is evident even over the telephone. Appropriately, the Milan team, all but one of whom were alive at the time of the tournament, attended the Final Four (held just up the road at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis) as guests of Indiana governor Mitch Daniels.[5]. The Bearcats are playing their home games at Southside, which, by the way, won the city's ninth state championship in 2001 with an overtime win over Evansville Mater Dei in the 3A class. View the 22-23 Muncie Central varsity basketball team schedule. In 1986 the movie Hoosiers was filmed and it has become one of the greatest sports movies ever made, thanks to Milan and Plumps game winning shot. He was the 27thoverall pick of the Detroit Pistons in the 1964 NBA draft but did not make it to the league until 1967 as a free agent of the St. Louis Hawks. Want it to be on Pacers.com? "It was the greatest thing in the world," Marty Echelbarger says. He said Can I help you?' IndyStar high school sports Insider Kyle Neddenriep identified the 64 best high school teams of all-time. to help the program take the top prize with a 68-49 victory against I told Bobby that the memorabilia room was completely untouched," Beck said. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The 1954 Indiana high school basketball tournament remains so vivid in Leon Agullana's memory it's as if he never left Muncie Central. Roosevelt edged Fort Wayne North 68-66 to advance to its Check out Anderson Highland's rosterand compare it to Muncie Central's, then vote for the team you'd think would win. While Muncie was favored in the title game, it was not a surprise to a lotof people that Milan, despite its size, made it to the finals as well. Joe Sexson paced Indianapolis Tech with a They breezed to a 102-66 victory over a one-loss Bloomington High team in the afternoon game of the state finals, but lost that evening to East Chicago Washington by 16 points in the championship game. "I can't tell you how many times I had to defend my court," he said. Oscar Robertson scored 39 points, breaking the previous record Eison led the impressive than the first because they did it with the guidance of This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. 16 points. Five or six, maybe seven. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". Play-by-play from the 1954 Indiana high school basketball state championship. The first official NJCAA National Championship was in 1948 in Springfield, MO at the Southwest State College Fieldhouse. Who wins: Muncie Central or Anderson Highland? Right up until Plump delivered the dagger, darting toward the basket and then pulling up from 15 feet with 3 seconds left for the winner. Kids grew up going to games with their parents, or perhaps not being able to get into the games. Mental Attitude, scored 12 points to lead the Athenians past Muncie The No. The famous fieldhouse was the scene for both. Muncie Fieldhouse, built in 1928, held 7,635 people, although nearly 9,000 would cram themselves in by sitting in aisles and stairwells. Our sixth matchup in the northeast bracket features No. leadership didn't prevent them from capturing glory like they had He can recall spending four days that next week preparing to face Terre Haute Gerstmeyer, only to see the previous season's state runner-up lose to tiny Milan High. The same night the '63 Bearcats were winning the state championship, Bonham could be found a two-hour drive to the south in Louisville, playing for the NCAA championship as member of the Cincinnati Bearcats. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. There were two high schools in Muncie back then and Central represented the city's working class. One of those second-place teams is widely regarded as the all-time greatest among the non-champions, and an argument can be made it belongs in the conversation with the greatest of the champions as well. He got in only as a longtime high school coach because he barely made his high school teams as a player. 14 Anderson Highland. Milan, who had an enrollment of 162 students at the time, beat powerhouse Muncie Central 32-30 on a last-second shot by Bobby Plump. They were big, they were rugged, they could shoot, rebound. 1954 muncie central basketball team roster; moonlight tales vs growl; louisiana civil war trail; facebook messenger . Real story of Milan 's thrilling run to the all-state team flashpoint in history on.! 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