On January 29 of 1974, Indiana basketball greats Jack Butcher and Larry Bird played what is remembered as one of the greatest regular season games in Indiana basketball history
On a late-January day in southwest Indiana, Jack Butcher and his Loogootee Lions boarded their team bus.
The bus was bound for one of Loogootee's chief rivals, Springs Valley High School, a conference foe with a starting forward who with each passing game was solidifying his place in Indiana mythos: Larry Bird.
In the previous three meetings between the teams, Jack Butcher's group had fared well against Jim Jones' team.