If anyone in America knows what a miracle basketball team looks like, it is the man who hit the last shot that won tiny Milan High School the Indiana state championship in 1954.
If anyone in America knows what a miracle basketball team looks like, it is the man who hit the last shot that won tiny Milan High School the Indiana state championship in 1954, which inspired the movie “Hoosiers.”
“My impression would be that they’re not thinking, ‘Oh, my goodness, we’re here, what the hell is gonna happen to us?’ ” Plump said. “They’re playing just like they played during the season. And, you know, strange things can happen. The Peacocks will feel the same love from the Wells Fargo Center that Plump and his Milan Indians felt at Butler Fieldhouse .
Plump, now 85, has owned Plump’s Last Shot, a renowned Indianapolis sports bar known for its breaded tenderloin sandwich, since 1995. His Last Shot, a jump shot from 16-to-17 feet out with three seconds left gave Milan — population 1,150 — the 32-30 victory over Muncie Central that remains the stuff of legend in Indiana. “How big of an upset? Well, it was big enough that 40,000 people came to Milan the next day,” Plump recalled, “and Milan’s a town of 1,100.
“They estimated between 30 [thousand] and 40,000 people came to Milan that day and they came from five different states. We were a bunch of naive kids. You know what we thought? ‘Hey, look what happens when you win a state tournament!’ We thought that happened everywhere. Well, it didn’t. “Guess who took the ball out of bounds? I did,” Plump said. “But you know what? Ray got it back to me and it worked all right.”
“We may not have had the best talent up and down the line, but we had the best team in the tournament,” Plump said. “Saint Peter’s probably got those same type things. A good team will often beat great talent, that’s why Saint Peter’s is there. Further than that, Marvin Wood didn’t have an ego so big that he forced everything down our throat. If he didn’t know the answer, he sought the answer.”
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