state, Indiana schools became much larger and the urban schools that had the most success in the tournament increased their domination of the tournament. No school with an enrollment less than five times that of Milan's ever won the tournament again under the one-class system that was replaced with a multi-class tournament in 1997. The smallest school to win the state tournament after Milan was Plymouth in 1982, led by future NBA star and coach Scott Skiles. Milan's enrollment is now over twice as large as it was in 1954. Thirty-three years later, the film Hoosiers, a fictionalized account based on Milan's 1952–54 seasons, opened to positive reviews, renewing interest in the team and its legacy. The film combined game play from both the 1952–53 and 1953–54 seasons, merging the 1953 quarter-final opponent, the South Bend Bears, with the scoring pattern from the 1954 championship win against Muncie Central. The 2010 run of Butler—a university team that to this day plays its home games in the same building that hosted Milan's historic victory—to the Final Four led to countless comparisons with both the 1954 Milan team and its cinematic alter ego of Hickory High. The Bulldogs stunned perennial power Michigan State 52–50 in the national semifinal to make it to the National Title Game, where they lost to Duke 61–59. (Butler forward Gordon Hayward narrowly missed a last-second half court shot that would have won the game, and the national championship, for Butler.) Appropriately, the Milan team, all but one of whom were alive at the time of the tournament, attended the Final Four (held just up the road at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis) as guests of Indiana governor Mitch Daniels. Team roster Ray Craft Kenny Delap William "Bill" Jordan Gene White Bobby Plump Ken Wendelman Bob Wichman Ron Truitt Glenn Butte Bob Engel Rollin Cutter Roger Schroder Fred Busching (manager) Marvin Wood (Head Coach) References Guffey, Greg, The Greatest Basketball Story Ever Told: The Milan Miracle Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993 Ibid., The Golden Age of Indiana High School Basketball Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006 Higgins, Will, 50th Anniversary Of The Milan Miracle Indianapolis Star, February 15, 2004 External links Milan ’54 Hoosiers Museum Basketball teams in Indiana High school basketball teams in the United States High school sports in Indiana Ripley County, Indiana 1953–54 in American basketball