FALL 2027

There’s a reason Indiana is known for basketball.

It's where legends like Oscar, Larry, and Wooden, learned the game. It's home to most of the world's largest high school gyms, where crowds of more than 7,000 filled small-town gyms. It's where tiny Milan shocked the nation in 1954, and 40,000 fans packed an NFL arena to watch a high school title game in 1990. Indiana kept its legendary winner-take-all state tournament long after other states divided theirs into multi-classes.

But the game that built the legacy has changed.

School consolidation. Class basketball. AAU. Program transfers. Social media. Year-round competition. A new era has transformed the relationship between schools, their communities, and their players.

Culture changes. Traditions endure. And the next chapter of an American sports institution is still being written.

This is Indiana.

This is the State of The Game.