INDIANAPOLIS – It starts under framed photos and posters and newspaper clippings about basketball in Indiana. We’re sitting around a table at Plump’s Last Shot, the restaurant owned by Bobby Plump himself, hero of the 1954 Milan Miracle. That’s where it starts.
Where it goes from here? We’ll just have to see, starting with the name. One idea is the “Hoosier Basketball Trail,” and that’s as good as any, but like everything else … we’ll see.
We’re talking about Indiana tourism and Indiana basketball, and wondering why they can’t be the same thing. The idea is to connect the places that have helped make Indiana the country’s premier basketball state – Assembly Hall, Mackey Arena, Hinkle Fieldhouse, the Milan Museum, the Hoosier Gym in Knightstown, Crispus Attucks Museum, the list goes on – and turn that collection into a destination for people who were coming to the state anyway.