Indiana State Basketball Championship 1954

On a cold march night in butler fieldhouse the indians of tiny milan high school enrollment 162 defeated the mighty muncie central bearcats enrollment 1662 to win the state championship and.

Indiana state basketball championship 1954. Muncie some 66 years later the 1954 state championship game between milan and muncie central remains one of the most enthralling games in indiana basketball history. Of all the legends of indiana high school basketball one of the most enduring is the story of the 1954 state championship game in which tiny milan high school won on a last second shot by bobby. Milan who had an enrollment. Muncie central high school set an all time.

M ilan high school enrollment 161 defeated the favored bearcats of muncie central 32 30 to win the 1954 indiana state basketball championship. In the regional in rushville milan easily dispatched their hosts before avenging a late season. Footage of the final seconds of the 1954 basketball state championship raw footage of milan high school defeating muncie central high school in the 1954 high school basketball state championship. Basketball in 1954 the award bestowed upon indianas most outstanding senior basketball player as voted on by the press.

No school its size had ever won the state title before that march 20 game and no school that small ever would again. Plump was selected indianas coveted mr. Bobby gene plump born september 9 1936 is a member of the milan high school basketball team that won the indiana high school athletic association ihsaa state tournament in 1954. Plumps shot with three seconds left cemented the milan indians place in indiana basketball history.

The muncie central bearcats won their sixth state basketball championship by turning back terre haute south in an overwhelming overtime score of 65 64.