The End Of The Road

Menser finishes with 22 points. He is the finest player on the floor. He and his teammates are only a slightly larger gene pool away from a trip to the semistate. Thus it occurs to someone to ask, as someone asked last year, whether a school like New Castle shouldn't pick on someone its own size.

"Right now it hurts real bad," says Menser. "It's the second year this has happened. But do you think class basketball could match the atmosphere here tonight? I guarantee you, when I look back at it. I'll rather have gone out right here, this way. This is what it's all about. And they're killing it."

That's the word from Batesville. They're killing it. Hoosier Hysteria is at-need.