Wingate was even more successful, winning the County basketball title in 1932 when they beat New Richmond and again in 1935 and 1936.  The gold and blue had won sectionals in 1917, 1918, 1922, 1925, and 1931.  As all Hoosier basketball fans know, Wingate became the fir...

In the fall of 1953, eighteen seniors, nine New Richmond Cardinals and nine Wingate Spartans entered the doors of a new school and became the Coal Creek Central Bearcats. They joined twenty juniors, sixteen sophomores, and thirty freshmen to continue a proud athletic t...

Bowers won their only basketball sectional in 1927. The first team outside of Crawfordsville and Wingate to win the Crawfordsville Sectional.

Even though Bowers Basketball ended in 1955, the Blackshirts had a proud run from the early days of Montgomery County basketba...

When a graduate of the golden era of Montgomery County basketball thinks of Alamo High School, two families come to mind. The first families of Alamo basketball were the Melvins and the Bowermans. Tom Bowerman starred for the Warriors in the early 1930s graduating in 1...

In 1957, the Montgomery County Coaches Association decided to institute some symbol of county basketball superiority that would become a “traveling trophy,” similar the Indiana-Purdue Old Oaken Bucket.  After some discussion, the coaches agreed to use a small wooden ke...