Hoops help put the heart in this piece of the heartland.
A satellite dish covers an old backboard in the middle of a bean field in Pulaski County, Ind.
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Sitting squarely at the center of downtown Indianapolis, the Soldiers and Sailors Monument is a 284-foot-tall limestone and bronze edifice erected from 1888-1901 to honor Hoosier veterans.
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Michael Goreman watches past and current members of the New Castle High School basketball team play in the school's field house. The facility at University of New Mexico coach Steve Alford's alma mater is dug into the ground and seats nearly 10,000 people. Goreman, whose wife went to school with Alford, watched him play in the same gym.
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Rows of corn fade into the distance outside Rushville, Ind.
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Megan Clements hands a bill to a customer at the Steve Alford All-American Inn in New Castle, Ind. Photos, memorabilia and other Steve Alford trinkets fill the lobby of the roadside resting place owned by a close friend of Alford's.
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Campers cheer during a shooting competition at the Steve Alford Basketball Camp at Franklin College in Franklin, Ind. Alford's June camp drew more than 400 youngsters in this basketball-loving community.
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Indiana men's basketball star Steve Alford cuts down the nets after the Hoosiers defeated Syracuse to win the 1987 national championship. Alford's All-American career as a player with the Hoosiers leaves a legacy he might not be able to duplicate as coach of the Lobos.
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Roo Standeford (left) shoots over Jonathan Deater at Standeford's home in Shelby County, Ind. The 14-year-olds had just returned from a June basketball camp put on by Steve Alford, the University of New Mexico men's basketball coach who's still an Indiana icon more than two decades after establishing himself as a high school legend.
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