Later that year, as Bailey was entering Bedford North Lawrence High School (BNL) and Feinstein's book was being published, the acclaimed basketball movie Hoosiers was released.
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Bailey went on to become Indiana's all-time high school leading scorer and would earn All-America honors playing for the Indiana Hoosiers.
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Bailey was a four-year starter for Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers from 1990-1994.
Dugger is one of the teams that plays against Hickory High in the motion picture Hoosiers.
Another former coach was Keith Smart, who is famous for his shot that won the 1987 NCAA National Championship for the Indiana Hoosiers basketball team.
Gene White was one of the original members of the 1954 Milan, Indiana championship basketball team that inspired the film Hoosiers.
It is also the fictitious Indiana high school featured in the 1986 movie Hoosiers.
The film Hoosiers, loosely based on that event, used Hinkle Fieldhouse and the memorable voices of original announcers Hilliard Gates and Tom Carnegie in filming the climactic game of the popular movie.
Milan's run in the 1953-54 season inspired the movie Hoosiers.
Ivan Renko was a fictitious Yugoslav basketball player created by Bobby Knight when he was the head coach for the Indiana University Hoosiers.
His father, Harold Leckrone M.M. '57, was the high school band teacher, but never pressured his son to follow in his professional footsteps, which included a contribution to the score of the 1986 film Hoosiers.
In 1985, New Richmond was turned into Hickory, Indiana for the filming of the motion picture Hoosiers, starring Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, and Dennis Hopper.
Scenes from the movie Hoosiers were shot in the old Nineveh Elementary School, which was renamed "Hickory High School" for the film.
He is best known for his role in the 1986 film Hoosiers where he played the character of team captain Buddy Walker.
In his senior year, the Alford-led 1986-87 Hoosiers won Indiana's fifth national championship against Syracuse in the 1987 NCAA tournament.
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As a junior, Alford and the 1985-86 Hoosiers were profiled in a best-selling book A Season on the Brink.
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Alford embodied the "David versus Goliath" image of Indiana basketball popularized in the hit movie Hoosiers (released in 1986 while Alford was at Indiana).
Hoosiers was Hollar's first and last acting role; he used his earnings to pay for dental school and today works as a dentist in Warsaw, Indiana, his hometown.
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Steve Hollar (born c. 1966) is an American actor known for his role as Rade Butcher in the 1986 film Hoosiers starring Gene Hackman.
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Hollar was actually playing college basketball in 1986 for DePauw University at the time of the filming of Hoosiers.
Terhune is one of the teams that plays against Hickory High in the motion picture Hoosiers.
1986 film Hoosiers, where he portrayed the PA announcer at the championship game held at historic Hinkle Fieldhouse on the campus of Butler University.
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The Hoosiers were so dominant that four starters - Scott May, Steve Green, Kent Benson and Quinn Buckner - would make the five-man All-Big Ten team.
Scott played for the Hoosiers during their undefeated 1975-76 NCAA Championship season.
The Hoosiers made their first road trip of the year to play Elson's former team, the WKU Hilltoppers in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Gene White, basketball player for the 1954 state champion Milan Indians (inspiration for the movie Hoosiers)
The Historic Hoosier Gym, located in Knightstown, Indiana, is most famous for being the central location for the 1986 basketball movie Hoosiers, starring Gene Hackman and Dennis Hopper.
Before his time with the Hoosiers, he had played professionally for the East Saginaw Grays of the Northwestern League in 1883.
A native of Indiana, Leckrone received his bachelor and masters of music at Butler University where he played basketball his freshman year, backing up Bobby Plump, who was the real life hero on whom the character Jimmy Chitwood in the movie Hoosiers was based.
With May's injury keeping him to 7 minutes of play, the No. 1 Hoosiers lost to Kentucky 92-90 in the Mideast Regional.
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In his last two seasons with the school, 1974-75 and 1975-76, the Hoosiers were undefeated in the regular season and won 37-consecutive Big Ten games.
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The Hoosiers were so dominant that four starters - May, Steve Green, Kent Benson and Quinn Buckner - would make the five-man All-Big Ten team.
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The 1974-75 Hoosiers swept the entire Big Ten by an average of 22.8 points per game.
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The following season, 1975–76, the Hoosiers went the entire season and 1976 NCAA tournament without a single loss, beating Michigan 86–68 in the title game.
Wooley co-starred as Cletus, the principal in the Gene Hackman film, Hoosiers.
Baseball Hall of Fame member Amos Rusie made his big league debut with the 1889 Hoosiers.