Indiana is the basketball state.
Sure, others will claim that title, but this state’s gyms are larger than everyone else’s because we care more. Lines around the school to watch the latest star, coaches from across the country heading here and all eyes on the high school tournaments.
We’re proud to have produced names like Larry Bird, George McGinnis, Eric Gordon, Rick Mount, Brad Stevens, Mike Woodson, Matt Painter and literally countless others. If there’s basketball around the country on a big stage, someone from here probably has a hand in it.
This can be said of FAU’s Dusty May, coach of the breakout star Owls who stole the spotlight in last year’s March Madness run to the Final Four.