Owen County Indiana is known for many different things and not the least of which is the great tradition of basketball glory that has been a corner stone of this state for as long as anyone can remember. Sure different states have their claims to fame as being the grass roots of a certain sport. Texas has football, Florida has baseball and Minnesota has hockey, but there is no denying that Indiana is the basketball state. This also has very little to do with the pro game as well. Sure NBA great Larry Bird is from French Lick, and the Indiana Pacers are a good team but the real heart of Indiana basketball comes from the people who play and coach the game at the grass roots level.

Just go to any school in the region and you will find that people everywhere have basketball nets in their driveways. This is especially true in Owen County, where even the counties official website is largely devoted to hoops and those who play the game, who here are referred to as Hoosiers. Go into any high-school and all of the athletic stars are basketball players, and even at the collegiate level Universities like the University of Indiana almost always produce a top caliber team with some of the best recruiting in the country.

So if you live and die for the game of basketball I would suggest that you make a trip to Owen County Indiana.