Getting to and Playing at Hinkle Fieldhouse

Jason took his basketball team to Hinkle Fieldhouse to play in some summer basketball games hosted by Butler University. He really wanted to take his girls there to play since it has played such a significant role in Indiana High School basketball in the past.

Before I continue on to tell how the girls did I really would be leaving out some very interesting info about the day, so here goes... He drove the Batesville team bus down to Indy but on his way down there with his 10 players he noticed that the bus was making an odd noise. He stopped to investigate the noise and really didn't see anything out of the ordinary so he continued on his way. Just as he was exiting off of 65 he noticed that there was smoking coming from the bus and as he went to apply the brakes he hardly had any. I was following and was about 5-7 minutes behind him so he called and asked me to stop where they were since they were to be at Butler in about 15 minutes. When I arrived he load the Saab with the necessities and left me with our two kids and his players, but not before the girls thought they would walk the rest of the way to Butler. However, when I mentioned that Butler was still about 37 blocks away the girls decided that they would just wait with me. Thankfully a couple of parents had decided to come and watch their girls play so the first parent took 6 girls and the next parent took the kids, the last 4 players and me. It was crazy! We actually arrived before the game began. After the first game Jason and I went back to the broken down bus to meet up with the transportation director who had driven another bus down along with bringing a tow truck. This all occurred before 11 a.m. Saturday morning!

Back to how the girls did. They competed with some very talented teams like Bloomington South, Lawrence North and Seymour. They stayed with them for the most part and were pleased with the way that they played against the other teams. Jason loved being able to give the girls the opportunity to play in such a historic venue and didn't mind having to coach there either.