Basketball and Indiana go together like peas and carrots. As a born-and-raised Hoosier, some of my earliest memories are about basketball. Shooting baskets on the plastic little tikes hoop as a toddler, hitting fictitious game winning 3-pointers and watching Reggie Miller put the Indiana Pacers on his back to numerous wins in the heat of clutch performances.
It’s no secret; Hoosiers love basketball and the Pacers have been a cornerstone of Hoosier Hysteria for 50 years now. Its storied history stems from championship pedigree as a three-time ABA champion, to a staple of the NBA landscape for two decades.