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Fifty years ago this month, Milan High (enrollment 162) won Indiana's state basketball championship, inspiring the 1986 hit Hoosiers. But screening The Milan Miracle--an ESPN Classic documentary, including interviews with actual participants and the ancient game film-is a reality check:
The plot. Hollywood: The Hickory Huskers are Cinderella, a one-year wonder in 1952.
Milan: The Indians had lost in the 1953 state semifinal, to South Bend Central.
The coach. Hollywood: Gone Hackman is coarse, hard-luck, middle-age Norman Dale. Milan: Marvin Wood was a 26-year-old family man, untempted by Barbara Hershey. Game day, Hollywood: Hickory is awe-struck upon arrival at Butler Fieldhouse; a member of the supporting cast pipes up, "Let's win this'n for all the small ...