Jeff Washburn, a Lafayette native and 1976 Purdue graduate, covered Indiana high school basketball for the Lafayette Journal & Courier for more than twenty years, reporting on every Indiana state finals from 1976 through 1994. He is now in his nineteenth season covering the Purdue sports beat for AP and the FW Journal Gazette.
It is often said that while Dr. James Naismith invented basketball in Massachusetts, the sport was raised and ultimately came of age in the high schools of Indiana, the state where politics, religion, and sweet corn fall in line behind the game played with the round orange ball....
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