HARTFORD CITY, Ind. — At first, there was disappointment. Then, there was devastation.
When the boys basketball state tournament was postponed and later canceled, it was a gut punch for the Blackford boys basketball team — which won its first sectional title since 1991 — along with 63 other teams across the state.
Before schools across the country began shutting down in response COVID-19 pandemic, Luke Brown remembers thanking a line of Blackford fans that wrapped around the school the morning of Tuesday, March 10. All of them arrived four hours before a limited number of regional basketball tickets went on sale.