re: #189 thedopefishlives

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.

Ah so it started out at the colleges? I see. Isn’t Butler in Indiana too? And Larry Bird of course went to Indiana State and I think took them to the championship against Magic’s MSU Spartans.