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| Coach Reich & an IMHS player |
Indiana has produced another classic feel good
basketball story in the tradition of Milan High School, the small town that won Indiana's 1954 state basketball championship against improbable odds, a feat subsequently featured in the 1986 film,
Hoosiers. Under the leadership of Coach Nick Reich, the
Indianapolis Metropolitan High School men's basketball team won the 2011 Class A state championship. Metropolitan High is a charter school founded in 2007 to give urban students a second chance at a high school education and getting into college. The school doesn't even have its own gym. Reich was the school's social worker and used his skills, his own life experience, and a healthy dose of patience and trust to mold his players into a winning team. Check out the story and expect an eventual movie on Coach Reich and his team, the Pumas, probably to be titled
Hoosiers II.
