MUNCIE, Ind. — Nine of the top 10 largest high school gyms in the United States are in Indiana, and 13 of the top 15. There’s truly nothing quite like Indiana’s love affair with high school hoops.
The Hoosier Hysteria phenomenon has been alive and well throughout this season’s state tournament. Fans have waited in line for hours to fill some of the state’s largest gyms – New Castle, Seymour, Washington, Marion – the past couple weeks to see which teams would wind up at Bankers Life Fieldhouse to play for a state championship.
But if you take a look at the list of the largest high school gyms in the country, one of them is different from the rest.