The Indiana Pacers plan to highlight the 1955 Crispus Attucks Tigers, the first all-black high-school team in America to win a state championship.

The Pacers announced the next chapter in their #WeGrowBasketballHere series will center around the historic Attucks Championship team — which faced such discrimination that they could not even celebrate their unprecedented championship win in Indianapolis.

From 1950 until 1957 the Tigers had a brilliant streak of dominance becoming the 1st Indiana High School Basketball team to have a undefeated season, also capturing 6 Regional Titles, 4 Semi-States, and Back-to-Back State Championships.

This made them the First All-Black Team in the history of The United States to win a State Championship Title. Nine of those former players were later inducted into The Indiana Basketball Hall-of-Fame.

The most notable of these, Oscar “Big O” Robinson, who also was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame after a storied career, the highest individual honor a Basketball Player can achieve.

In 2017, Crispus Attucks Boys Basketball Team made a return to glory following troubling years, by capturing the Indiana State 3A Basketball Championship for the first time in over 50 years.

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