Miscellaneous basketball history notes
Since December or so we have taken a look at some of the outstanding players and teams of the long and storied history of Montgomery County basketball. As the high school and college basketball season concludes, so will these basketball related columns. This final installment is a little bit of this and a little bit of that as we wrap up the basketball history column. Oh, don’t worry, I know there are a lot of players, coaches and teams I didn’t get to highlight this year, bu
Athenians’ success unexpected in 1957-58
Basketball can be a funny game. Many times, the unexpected can happen. That’s exactly what happened for the Crawfordsville Athenians basketball team in the 1957-58 season. The Athenians enjoyed a great season the year prior in 1956-57 and advanced all the way to the regional final before their season came to an end with a 66-57 loss to Greencastle. That team featured seven seniors, including four who were the team’s top scorers. With the loss of that many seniors, not much wa
Darlington repeated its undefeated season in 1969-70
Last week we talked about Darlington’s 1968-69 undefeated season, and in that article I said that was the last team to go undefeated. I got a little ahead of myself as I knew this week’s column would also be about an undefeated Darlington team — this one in 1969-70. That’s right, Darlington had back-to-back undefeated seasons and some of you were kind enough to remind me that the 1969 team was not the last team to finish the regular season without a loss. At least now I know
