Steve Platt was a 26-year-old husband, father and farmer and the nation's leading basketball scorer for two seasons at Huntington University. Take a trip into our archives with one of our most popular stories.
When the rooster finally crowed, Steve Platt was already dressed in overalls out among the livestock, hauling feed to the cattle and hogs on his 500-acre farm.
He was also a married father and farmer who was 26 years old, everything a college hoops player traditionally was not.Platt, now 73, still holds Indiana's college scoring record, 3,700 points. He also remains on the top 20 all-time list of collegiate scorers at any level, including NCAA Division I. A writer for the magazine came out to Platt's farm his senior season in 1974 to do a big spread on the basketball-playing farmer who was a marvelous shot.
When Platt was 6 or 7, Darl snuck the leaves out of the dining room table and took them outside. He nailed them together into a makeshift backboard and hung it on the side of the barn. His mom Clanedia was flabbergasted. Then she saw how much Platt adored that goal. "We just didn't know any better," Peggy said this week, with a laugh."Who has another baby when your husband is a junior in college?"
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