The 1954 Milan High School Indians won the Indiana High School Boys Basketball Tournament championship in 1954.[1]
With an enrollment of only 161, Milan was the smallest school ever to win a single-class state basketball title in Indiana, beating the team from the much larger Muncie Central High School in a classic competition known as the Milan Miracle. The team and town are the inspiration for the 1986 film Hoosiers. The team finished its regular season 19–2 and sported a 28–2 overall record.[2][3]
- ^ Greg Guffey, The Greatest Basketball Story Ever Told: The Milan Miracle (Indiana University Press, 1993).
- ^ "Five years after Indiana carved up its basketball - 12.02.02 - SI Vault". Archived from the original on April 1, 2010. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
- ^ Although Milan’s championship is now the most well-known example of a small high school winning a single class state basketball tournament, other small schools in different states have had similar accomplishments. For example, Melrose High School, a school with an enrollment of only 66, won the 1937 Iowa boys' basketball championship.