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March Madness 2021: Hinkle Fieldhouse is 'what college basketball is meant to be.'

Six Central Indiana venues will host the 67 games for the 2021 NCAA men's basketball tournament. Perhaps the most romantic of those venues is the cathedral known as Hinkle Fieldhouse .

Address :510 W. 49th St., Indianapolis, IN 46208

Distance from downtown Indianapolis:  6 miles

Who plays there? : Butler Bulldogs

Opened : In 1928 (was the country's largest gym until 1950)

How many fans will be allowed for NCAA tournament

Hinkle Fieldhouse's capacity is 9,100, and Butler says it will allow up to the 25%-maximum capacity allowed for NCAA tournament games. That comes to 2,275 fans . Butler was one of a few programs in the country to allow fans this season and averaged 1,658 fans for 12 home games.

Who is Hinkle Fieldhouse named after?

Born Paul David Hinkle, he was called “Tony” by a University of Chicago coach who chided him for eating spaghetti and meatballs at a pregame meal. The Italian nickname stayed with him, except for the Hinkle family, who continued to call him Paul.

When he was 30, he led the Bulldogs to a 17-2 record and college basketball’s 1929 national championship, as recognized by the Veterans Athletic Association of Philadelphia. At 63, he coached in Butler’s first NCAA tournament game, a 56-55 upset of eighth-ranked Bowling Green in 1962.

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In 1965, Hinkle was enshrined in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame not as a coach, but as a contributor. He won more than 1,000 games in football, basketball and baseball from 1926-70.

Hinkle originated the orange basketball. Until the late 1950s, basketballs were dark brown. He worked with the Spalding Company to come up with a new ball, which was tested in the 1958 Final Four at Louisville, Ky., and approved by the NCAA.

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Yes, you saw it in "Hoosiers"

From 1928 to 1971, Indiana's high school state championships were played at the fieldhouse and that includes 1954 and the Milan Miracle team, the real-life inspiration for "Hoosiers." The fictional Hickory vs. South Bend Central championship game was filmed at Hinkle. And yes, the rim measures 10 feet from the floor.

NCAA tournament history

Then the largest college gym in the country, the Butler Fieldhouse hosted the 1940 East Regional, which featured Indiana. IU swept through Springfield and then Duquesne in the regional before beating Kansas in Kansas City for coach Branch McCracken's first national title with the Hoosiers.

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When was it last renovated?

In 2019, Butler spent $10.5 million on a renovation to Hinkle that allows the Bulldogs to keep up with their Big East neighbors.

What’s new: floor, lighting, scoreboards, padding, window treatments and camera system (to film practices). Lights inside Hinkle have been raised to the beams, where they were originally, athletic director Barry Collier said. That allows the scoreboard to “really pop as the central focus,” he said.

Where does Hinkle Fieldhouse rank among college basketball's best venues?

► In 2020, Hinkle was ranked No. 1 by Stadium Journey with a 4.57 rating out of 5.

"There are college basketball arenas and then there are its cathedrals. The Hinkle Fieldhouse is the latter and entering its eleventh decade the atmosphere gets only better... Hinkle is what college basketball is meant to be."

► In 2019, Tim Newcomb of  popularmechanics.com ranked Hinkle the No. 1 venue in college basketball.

"Maybe history clouds judgement, but the 1928-opened Hinkle Fieldhouse boasts one of the most spectacular stages for college basketball... A venue on the National Register of Historic Places and a National Historic Landmark uses a brick façade, window-filled design, and unique stacked seating to embrace history."

>>  Athlon  Sports polled 12 college basketball media members for their top 10 venues. Hinkle came in at No. 3 overall. Here are some of the individual votes:

>> Pat Forde, SI.com: No. 1

>> Matt Norlander, CBSSports.com: No. 3

>> Rob Dauster, Field of 68: No. 3

>> Eric Prisbell, USA TODAY: No. 4 

>> Fran Fraschilla, ESPN: No. 5

>> Jeff Goodman, ESPN: No. 5

>> Jay Bilas, ESPN: No. 6

>> Mike DeCourcy, Sporting News: No. 8

Hinkle was used as a military barracks from 1943 to 1945 during World War II.

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Column: Tour of historic Hinkle Fieldhouse

In 1921, 22-year-old Paul D. “Tony” Hinkle, a two-time basketball All-American at the University of Chicago, became assistant basketball coach at Butler University, then in Irvington.   In 1924, Butler won the AAU national tournament as Butler was planning a move to its current location. Butler hired Indianapolis architect Fermor Spencer Cannon to design a facility worthy of a national champion. Hinkle became head basketball coach in 1926, and construction of the brick and stone arena at the corner of Boulevard Place and 49th Street began in 1927.

When completed a year later, Butler Fieldhouse, engineered so all 15,000 fans had an unobstructed court view, was the largest basketball arena in the United States, a rank it maintained until 1950. In the inaugural game on March 7, 1928, the Hinkle-led Bulldogs defeated top-ranked Notre Dame in overtime. In 1929, Butler again defeated Notre Dame and won its second national basketball championship. During World War II, the fieldhouse was a barracks. In 1966, with Hinkle serving as both head basketball and head football coach, Butler’s trustees renamed the building “Hinkle Fieldhouse.”

Until 1972, Hinkle Fieldhouse hosted the IHSAA boys basketball finals, the oldest such tournament in the U.S., including the 1954 game in which Milan defeated Muncie Central. The state championship scenes in the movie “Hoosiers,” inspired by that famous game, were filmed in the fieldhouse. In the 1935 Butler Relays, Jesse Owens set an indoor record in the 60-yard dash in the fieldhouse, which has hosted six presidents and several religious leaders, including Billy Graham.

Hinkle Fieldhouse, named a National Historic Landmark in 1987, inspired the exterior of what is now Gainbridge Fieldhouse. A $36.2 million renovation completed in 2014 added 4,500 chair seats and a new scoreboard. It is open for self-guided tours on weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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The ncaa tournament is back at hinkle fieldhouse, forever a part of hoosier history.

More than 60 years have passed, but a basketball goal still hangs on the side of the beat-up building in the grassy alleyway behind the old Schroder’s Store in Pierceville, Indiana.

Hoops could be found fastened just about anywhere in the basketball-crazed state in 1954, but the one in rural Pierceville, located just 3.6 miles west of the tiny town of Milan, still remains one of the most famous.

The makeshift court is a small part of the David-and-Goliath story about Milan, which has now become one of the most famous in sports history.

“Every time I talk about it, I should really start with ‘Once upon a time,’ because it’s almost like a fairy tale, but it actually happened,” Roger Schroder said.

Schroder, 85, was a senior on the 1954 Milan High School basketball team of legend. His parents are the ones that owned the Pierceville business, which was a grocery store, service station and post office all wrapped in one. At the time, Pierceville had approximately 45 residents.

The storybook tale goes that Milan (enrollment 161) won the single-class Indiana High School Boys Basketball Tournament against Muncie Central High School (enrollment 1,662) in front of 14,000 fans at Butler Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on March 20, 1954.

The final play saw senior Bobby Plump hold onto the ball for 4 minutes, 13 seconds before dribbling and knocking down a jump shot with three seconds remaining to win the game, 32-30, for the Indians. After the win, more than 40,000 people caravanned to Milan to congratulate a group that would become world famous.

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Later dubbed the “Milan Miracle,” the story of the Indians was again immortalized by the 1986 film “Hoosiers,” which was based on the Indians’ story. Members of the '54 team know one of the sites for the tournament well. Hinkle Fieldhouse, as it is now known, hosted the high school boys basketball championship games from 1928 to 1971. The Fieldhouse was the largest in the country from 1928 until 1950, as it could hold 15,000 fans.

In 1940, the second year of the NCAA tournament, Indiana beat Duquesne in the Eastern Regional Finals at Butler Fieldhouse on the way to its first national championship. This week, 81 years later, the NCAA tournament will return to the building that Milan helped make famous.

While the game has changed since their time on the court, the Milan men know just how impactful the sport could be for those teams competing in the NCAA tournament this year. High school boys basketball has a massive following in Indiana, although its peak was before school districts started consolidating and the Indiana High School Athletic Association changed the tournament to a multi-class format in 1997.

“It was the only way that a small town in Indiana could have any kind of recognition,” Plump said. “Towns were farming communities. It ended up being that if you won a sectional in the state of Indiana, everyone in the state knew about it. Just like with the NCAA, where everyone does their brackets, everyone in the state of Indiana did the brackets for the state tournament. In the '50s, they would have a TV program listing the drawings, and it was one of the best-watched programs.”

At its peak, in 1990, the state finals had more than 40,000 fans in attendance. That year saw a boost due to the popularity of Bedford North Lawrence phenom Damon Bailey, who still holds the state scoring record with 3,134 points.

Currently, Indiana boasts 14 of the 16 largest high school gyms in the nation. Seymour’s Lloyd E. Scott Gymnasium, which is 51 miles west of Milan, is the biggest, with a capacity of 8,228.

The Milan players, now all in their 80s, said they all watch a significant amount of college basketball, and that it’s special to them the tournament will be in Indiana.

“Years ago, the man who invented basketball (Dr. James Naismith) made a statement in a speech here. He said he invented the sport in Massachusetts, but it really belongs to Indiana,” former Milan forward Gene White, 85, said. “I think that’s a meaning that caught on in Indiana.”

Plump and fellow teammate Ray Craft, 84, who led the Indians with 14 points in the game against Muncie Central in '54, both played for former coach Tony Hinkle at Butler after graduating high school. Rollin Cutter, 82, a sophomore on Milan's state championship team, also went on to play at Butler for four years.

“It’s a special place for me,” Plump said of the Fieldhouse. “The players from these schools that are coming in are going to find that the floor at Butler will be very, very friendly to them. It’s the same floor that was laid down in 1928 when they opened the fieldhouse.”

Craft didn’t just play on the Fieldhouse floor in high school and college -- he also acted there. He had a minor role in “Hoosiers” during the state final scene, which was filmed in Hinkle.

All of the team members said the biggest difference between the movie and real-life event was that Milan coach Marvin Wood was widely respected in the community, unlike Gene Hackman’s character in the film. Wood, a Butler alum, had also taken Milan to the Final Four in 1953 prior to winning the title. Basketball is much bigger than the sport itself -- and the players from Milan know that. They have met every year since they won the state title to celebrate the life-changing tournament run that happened 67 years ago.

“Coach Wood told Plump and a couple of the other guys that this was a very, very special thing,” Schroder said. “He said we might not realize it, but that we want to stay together. He organized the first reunion, which I think was at his house. To begin with, we did it at Easter because guys would go back to Milan to visit their families. We also originally had it during the week of the finals of the high school tournament. As the years have gone past, we have taken turns hosting.”

Schroder said plans for this year’s reunion are underway, and that a trip to visit Coach Wood’s wife, Mary Lou, 92, in Mishawaka, Indiana is going to be arranged.

Plump said he sometimes thinks about how their lives would’ve been different had they not won that state title all those years ago. Growing up, his mother died when he was 3 years old, leaving his father to raise six kids on his own.

“We never had running water at my house ever,” Plump said. “We never had electricity until I was 13, and never had TV until '54. We had a radio, but had a windmill that would charge it, and we would have to swap out the batteries. Most of us were like that. There was only one of us that could’ve possibly paid for a college education.”

Plump estimated that nine of the 10 players on Milan’s roster went on to attend college, and that more students from the school started pursuing higher education after seeing what the players had accomplished.

These days, there’s a museum dedicated to the team called the Milan 1954 Museum. The museum, which houses hundreds of different items associated with the team, recently sent out invitations to all the teams in the NCAA tournament to stop by once their run comes to an end.

Craft, Plump, Schroder and White all said that they will be rooting for underdog teams, in addition to supporting programs representing Indiana, and that they expect a few upsets to happen once the tournament kicks off on Thursday, when Hoosier Hysteria meets March Madness.

“I just think (visitors) need to realize how the people of Indiana view basketball: high school, college and pro,” Craft said. “I don’t know that they will get the same feel with the pandemic, because there may be limitations on attendance, but basketball is just so deep-rooted in Indiana. If they go out in the neighborhoods, they will see different basketball goals everywhere.”

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Everything You Need to Know for Gameday at Hinkle Fieldhouse

Hinkle Fieldhouse personifies college basketball. This 90+ year-old basketball cathedral has stood the test of time as the home for Butler sports. It may be truly incredible, but just like Norman Dale proved, Hinkle's rims are the exact same measurements as anywhere else. This is your complete guide to gameday at Hinkle Fieldhouse.

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The arena opened as Butler Fieldhouse in 1928 as the largest basketball arena in the United States until 1950. It was renamed Hinkle Fieldhouse in 1966 in honor of longtime coach Paul Hinkle. The fieldhouse is truly basketball royalty, as fans have been making their way to this bucket list arena for close to a century. Its classic splendor, character, and atmosphere have remained unchanged since its opening. Capacity is just over 9,100 fans today, although it was about 15,000 when it originally opened. There have been countless historic games and moments here that are forever engrained in basketball lore.

Photo taken pre-pandemic by Butler Sports.

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Hinkle Fieldhouse is iconic not only for its design but for the magical moments it has produced over the last 90 years. The Butler Bulldogs basketball teams call Hinkle home , with the men's team winning the Horizon League title here in 2010. It served as host to the Indiana High School Boys Basketball Tournament Championships from 1928 to 1971. Arguably the most memorable was when tiny Milan High School became the ultimate cinderella by beating Muncie Central High School in the 1954 men's championship. The "Milan Miracle" inspired the movie Hoosiers . Six U.S. Presidents have made their visit to Hinkle. All-star basketball games for the NBA and ABA have taken place at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with the first USA-USSR basketball game . It was also a host of the 2021 NCAA Tournament that took place entirely in Indiana.

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Indiana Alumni Team 'Assembly Ball' Announces Final Roster For The Basketball Tournament

Jack ankony | jul 16, 2024.

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Assembly Ball, Indiana basketball's alumni team, announced its final roster on Tuesday before it begins The Basketball Tournament on Friday at Hinkle Fieldhouse.

The Basketball Tournament is a 64-team, single-elimination tournament that offers a $1 million prize to the winner.

No. 1 seed Assembly Ball will play The Cru, a Valparaiso Alumni team on Friday at 8:00 p.m. ET on the Big Ten Network. If Assembly Ball advances to the second round, they will face the winner of Men of Mackey, a Purdue Alumni team, and Fort Wayne Champs on Sunday at 8:00 p.m. ET on FS1. The Butler Regional championship game is July 23 at 7 p.m. ET on FS1.

The winner of the Butler Regional will play the winner of the Pittsburgh Regional in the quarterfinals on July 29 or 30, with the official game date, time, and location to be determined. The semifinals and $1 million winner-take-all championship game will be Aug. 2 and Aug. 4 in Philadelphia, Pa. at the Daskalakis Athletic Center. 

Here's the full Assembly Ball roster.

• Miller Kopp (Indiana, 2021-23)
• Race Thompson (Indiana, 2018-2023)
• DeVonte Green (Indiana, 2016-20)
• Juwan Morgan (Indiana, 2015-19)
• Noah Vonleh (Indiana, 2013-14)
• Troy Williams (Indiana, 2013-16)
• Yogi Ferrell (Indiana, 2012-16)
• Jordan Hulls (Indiana, 2009-13)
• Julian Gamble (Miami, 2008-13)
• Rion Brown (Miami, 2010-14)
• Kristian Doolittle (Oklahoma, 2016-20)
• Keith Hornsby (UNC-Asheville, LSU, 2011-16)
• Tyrell Terry (Stanford, 2019-20)
• Dakota Quinn (Samford, 2015-16)

The team will be coached by Adam Ross, who coached former Hoosier Will Sheehey at Sagemont High School in Florida. Assistant coaches include Isaac Green, who's currently a video and player development analyst for the Indiana men's basketball program, and Jared Callanan, who played at Iowa Wesleyan College.

Christian Watford, who played at Indiana from 2009-13, will serve as the team's GM, along with AJ Mahar, who played at Bryant University.

According to a TBT news release, Miller Kopp, currently playing with the Oklahoma City Thunder at Las Vegas Summer League, will join Assembly Ball following the conclusion of the event. The Thunder have games scheduled for Wednesday and Friday, and they could play games through Monday if they advance to the championship game.

While over half of Assembly Ball's roster is made up of former Hoosiers, it also features six players from different college programs.

Two players were teammates under coach Jim Larrañaga at Miami, Julian Gamble and Rion Brown. Gamble is a 6-foot-10 forward who started 52 games across his four-year career with the Hurricanes and averaged a career-high 6.5 points, 4.9 rebounds and 1.8 blocks per game as a senior in 2012-13. He has played professional basketball in Europe since 2013, winning the Italian League championship in 2021 and leading the German League in blocks in 2018.

Brown, a 6-foot-6 guard, made the All-ACC third team in 2013-14 and averaged15.5 points per game. He has played professional basketball in Europe since 2014, winning the Slovenian and Finnish League championships and being named a Greek League All-Star.

Doolittle, a 6-foot-7 forward, started 92 games at Oklahoma across his four-year career. As a senior in 2019-20, he averaged 15.8 points per game, shot 37.5% from 3-point range and was named to the All-Big 12 first team. Since 2020, he has played in the NBA G-League and professional leagues in Puerto Rico, Israel, Japan and Australia.

Hornsby, a 6-foot-4 guard, began his career at UNC Asheville before transferring to LSU. He started 52 games at LSU under coach Johnny Jones from 2014-16, averaging 13.1 points per game and shooting 40.1% from 3-point range. Hornsby was a three-time G-League All-Star following his college career, and then he went on to play the last five seasons in Europe.

Terry played just one season at Stanford before becoming the 31st overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft by the Dallas Mavericks. A 6-foot-1 guard, he averaged 14.6 points per game for Stanford and made the Pac-12 All-Freshman team. But he ended up playing just 13 games in the NBA and 29 in the G-League before announcing his retirement in December 2022 due to mental health reasons.

Quinn, a 6-foot-9 forward, played 27 games off the bench for Samford in 2015-16 and averaged 2.6 points per game. He later transferred to Division II program Kentucky Wesleyan and NAIA program MidAmerica Nazarene. Quinn spent the last three seasons playing professionally in Europe.

As for the former Hoosiers, Hulls, a Bloomington, Ind. native, played for coach Tom Crean from 2009-13. He averaged 9.8 points per game over 135 career appearances spanning four seasons. Hulls shot an impressive 44.2% from 3-point range as a Hoosier, including a career-high 49.3% as a junior. He helped the Hoosiers win the 2013 Big Ten regular season title and earn a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

Hulls went on to play professional basketball in Europe from 2013-22 before returning to Indiana to become the team and recruiting coordinator for head coach Mike Woodson's staff.

Vonleh was one-and-done at Indiana after winning Big Ten Freshman of the Year in 2013-14. The 6-foot-10 forward averaged 11.3 points, 9.0 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game while shooting 52.3% from the field and 48.5% from 3-point range.

After one season under Crean, Vonleh became the No. 9 pick in the 2014 NBA Draft by the Charlotte Hornets. Vonleh missed most of his rookie season with sports hernia surgery, and he was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers following the season. He played for the Hornets, Blazers, Bulls, Knicks, Timberwolves, Nuggets, Nets and Celtics from 2014-23, starting 172 games and appearing in 362. Vonleh averaged 4.7 points and 4.9 rebounds per game in his NBA career and most recently played for the Shanghai Sharks.

Ferrell was one of the top point guards in program history while playing under Crean from 2012-16. He helped the Hoosiers win two Big Ten titles, first as a freshman in 2013 and again as a senior in 2016. He was named to the All-Big Ten first team during both his junior and senior seasons, and he was part of two teams that reached the Sweet 16.

Ferrell averaged at least 16.3 points per game in each of his final three seasons as a Hoosier, and he shot 39.9% from 3-point range across his four-year career. An Indianapolis native, Ferrell graduated as Indiana's all-time assists leader with 633.

Following his career with the Hoosiers, Ferrell went undrafted but signed with the Brooklyn Nets. He spent five seasons in the NBA with the Nets, Dallas Mavericks, Sacramento Kings, Cleveland Cavaliers and Los Angeles Clippers. Ferrell finished tied for eighth in NBA Rookie of the Year voting in 2016-17, and he averaged a career-high 10.2 points per game the following season. After his NBA career, Ferrell has played professionally in Greece, Slovenia, China and Montenegro.

Green wore the cream and crimson under Crean for one season and former head coach Archie Miller for three. The 6-foot-3 guard started 31 games and played in 120 during his Indiana career as a 37.7% 3-point shooter.

As a senior in 2019-20, Green averaged a career-high 10.8 points. He scored a career-high 30 points in win over Florida State in the Big Ten-ACC Challenge that year, and made a career-high 8 3-pointers in a loss to Ohio State in the 2019 Big Ten Tournament during his junior season.

Green most recently for the Norrköping Dolphins in Sweden, where he won the 2023 Swedish League championship and was named Finals MVP. He also played professionally in Hungary and Greece following his Indiana career.

Morgan played at Indiana from 2015-19 under Crean and Miller. The 6-foot-8 forward helped Indiana win the Big Ten regular season title and reach the Sweet 16 as a freshman in 2015-16. He averaged over 15 points and seven rebounds during his junior and senior seasons under Miller.

Morgan is one of three players – along with Trayce Jackson-Davis and Steve Downing – to record a triple-double in Indiana men's basketball history. He did so on Dec. 22, 2018 against Jacksonville, totaling 10 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists on 5-for-5 shooting.

After four seasons as a Hoosier, Morgan signed with the Utah Jazz as an undrafted free agent. He played 52 games in the NBA with the Jazz, Boston Celtics and Toronto Raptors and also played for their G-League affiliates. Now he plays for BC Zenit Saint Petersburg in Russia.

Williams was teammates with Morgan during the 2015-16 season. The 6-foot-7 wing averaged 13.3 points and 5.8 rebounds per game that year, and he scored 13 points in the Hoosiers' win over Kentucky in the 2016 NCAA Tournament Round of 32. Williams played all three seasons under Crean from 2013-16, starting 94 total games. He scored a career-high 23 points three times, against Georgetown, Ohio State and Maryland.

Following his Indiana career, Williams signed with the Memphis Grizzlies as an undrafted free agent. He spent three seasons in the NBA and played 72 total games with 17 starts for the Grizzlies, Houston Rockets, New York Knicks and Sacramento Kings. In 2024, he played for the Taiwan Beer.

Kopp played two seasons with the Hoosiers from 2021-23 under coach Mike Woodson after beginning his career with three seasons at Northwestern. He helped Indiana reach the NCAA Tournament twice and go as far as the Round of 32 in 2023.

Kopp averaged 8.1 points per game and shot 44.4% from 3-point range as a senior in 2023-24. Following his Indiana career, he joined the Oklahoma City Thunder's G-Leauge affiliate, the OKC Blue, and helped them win the G-League Finals. Kopp averaged 8.3 points and shot 34.9% from 3-point range this season.

Kopp was teammates with Thompson for two seasons from 2021-23. A 6-foot-8 forward, Thompson started 91 games and appeared in 130 across during his Indiana career, playing for Miller and Woodson. He averaged career-highs with 11.1 points and 7.5 rebounds in 2021-22 and helped the Hoosiers reach the NCAA Tournament in his final two seasons.

Thompson was preparing to play in the 2023 NBA Summer League with the New York Knicks, but he suffered a right tibia plateau fracture and was unable to play. He attended many Indiana games during the 2023-24 season during his recovery, and The Basketball Tournament will be Indiana fans' first chance to see Thompson play since his injury.

JACK ANKONY

Jack Ankony is a Sports Illustrated/FanNation writer for HoosiersNow.com. He graduated from Indiana University's Media School with a degree in journalism. Follow on Twitter @ankony_jack.

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The Chinese Palace

There is nothing particularly Chinese about this charming building in the southern corner of the park at Oranienbaum. Built by Antonio Rinaldi between 1762 and 1768, it was the first major building project to be ordered by Catherine the Great, who planned for the building to serve as her private dacha. In fact the Empress spent only 48 days there during the 34 years of her reign. However, the building, which is currently undergoing full-scale renovation, is considered one of the finest examples of rococo in Russia, with has superbly ornate interiors featuring a range of late 18 th century styles, including Chinoiserie, a trend imported to St. Petersburg from England rather than from the East.

From the outside, the palace is a relatively simple building, single-storey except for the small central pavilion, painted in a mellow combination of ochre and yellow. The seventeen rooms inside, decorated by Rinaldi and other leading artists and craftsmen of the day, feature pink, blue and green scagliola, painted silks, and intricate stucco work. Rinaldi's parquet floors are wonderfully ornate, using several types of rare Russian and imported wood. Among the highlights of the Chinese Palace interiors are the Glass Beaded Salon, the walls of which are hung with 12 panels of richly coloured tapestries depicting exotic birds and fauna. The fine white glass beads that form the backdrop of the tapestries give the whole room a diaphanous, shimmering quality that was designed to be particularly effective in the glowing twighlight of the White Nights. The full influence of Chinoiserie is in evidence in the gaudy Large Chinese Salon, where the walls are covered with marquetry paneling of wood and walrus ivory depicting oriental landscapes, and large Chinese lanterns hanging in the corners. The room also contains an English-made billiard table with superb wood carving.

The interiors of the Chinese Palace are particularly prized because they have survived almost completely intact since Catherine's reign. Whereas most of the interiors of St. Petersburg's imperial palaces had to be completely reconstructed after the wanton destruction of the Nazi invaders, the decorations of the Chinese Palace were successfully evacuated, and re-installed in the early fifties. They are, however, in chronic need of restoration, and the process is finally underway in ernest, with several major Russian and international conservation agencies involved in the process. As yet, there is no date set for the completion of works.

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Local historian pushing for reuse of former School 86

INDIANAPOLIS — A local historian is working to help preserve a historic school building in the Butler Tarkington neighborhood. 

Butler University now owns the former School 86 as it sits directly next to Hinkle Fieldhouse.

Ed Fujawa has been studying its rich history and pushing for the building to be repurposed into something else.

The previous IPS school was built in the 1930s and purchased by the college in the late 1990s.

They leased the space to the Indiana International School until 2022.

“There’s still a lot of alumni who live around here and they have very fond memories of the school, and would like to see it, you know, have a second life,” said Fujawa.

While the building sits empty now, residents in the area believe it is still an anchor institution.

During the 1970s IPS integration lawsuit, a judge noted School 86 was the only elementary school to meet de-segregation standards.

“The neighborhood has always been very multicultural and integrated, and the school was kind of an embodiment of that,” said Fujawa.

There are no plans to tear the building down. However, he created a petition for those wanting to see the building be adapted for reuse.

So far, he’s gotten around 115 signatures.

People are also able to share their thoughts on how they would like to see the building used.

“I’ve stayed in touch with Butler President James Danko, and he’s been very responsive and assures me that they don’t have any immediate plans for the building,” said Marsh Davis, the president of Indiana Landmarks.

Indiana Landmarks is not directly involved in Fujawa’s pursuit but sees potential for the space.

The nonprofit has transformed several buildings across the state, including schools.

“Just this past Monday, a developer colleague of mine, thanks to the University, was able to tour the building to explore the possibilities for use as a residential structure,” said Davis

Butler said they’re talking with nearby residents and are partnering with the neighborhood association to host listening sessions this year.

To learn more about the history of the building, click here .

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