The Brand Known as Indiana Basketball Loses One of Its Biggest Cheerleaders

You wouldn’t know it looking at the Twitter account for Hoosier Basketball magazine, which counts just a few hundred followers. But the annual print publication, now in its 47th year, is an Indiana institution. On Sunday, the man who built it into an institution, Garry Donna, passed away at the age of 73.

Here’s how Indianapolis Star high school basketball reporter Kyle Neddenriep frames the legacy of Donna, who purchased the magazine for $2,600 in 1970 from Tom Keating, a one-time Star columnist who had put out just a single issue:

The magazine came along at the perfect time.