Above All Else, Damon Bailey Was a Winner

What if in 1990, the day after Bedford North Lawrence won the state high school basketball championship at the RCA Dome before 41,000 people and a national television audience, someone had asked you to predict what Damon Bailey would be doing 26 years later.

Would you have thought he'd be a former NBA star? A Naismith Hall of Famer? Head coach at Indiana University? Mayor of Bedford? Governor of the state of Indiana?

Each of those guesses would have seemed more believable than what has turned out to be the truth: assistant women's basketball coach at Butler University.

It might not be what anyone expected, Bailey included, but the point of this story, and his story, is that it's all good. He's…