re: #181 HappyWarrior

I’m surprised football isn’t bigger in Indiana honestly. Surprised that basketball took off the way it did. Basketball, it’s my understanding was popular first in the cities.

Indiana - despite the Pacers, who have sucked ass for as long as I can remember - is one of the centers of basketball primarily because of its colleges. Purdue and Indiana have had immensely successful basketball programs since the colleges were founded. Valparaiso University, a little-regarded university on the fringes of the NCAA, took the college basketball world by storm with their miracle season to the Sweet Sixteen when I was in high school. (I got to meet Bryce Drew, one of the stars of that team, as a senior.) It’s just always been that way.