A smattering of interesting articles to tide you over between the holidays:

The Evansville Courier-Press recently ran a couple of great articles about the days before such luxuries as dressing rooms and showers and concession stands and 84-by-50 floors became commonplace. Check out Odd-sized gyms were once commonplace in high school hoops and Gyms once truly multi-purpose.

Also appearing in the Evansville paper is a nice write-up on Lloyd Bateman, Indiana high school basketball's first 2,000-point scorer. Bateman played for Plainville, which is just up the road from Winless Watch's base of operations. "Big Lloyd," as he was called, is getting a long-overdue induction into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame. Before consolidation into North Daviess High School, Plainville had a charming old nickname alluded to in the headline of the story about Bateman: He was a man among the Midgets.

Dead Horse Watch: This is the 10th year for class basketball in the state of Indiana; previously, the tournament was a single-class affair. Marking a full decade of the four-class tournament, the Terre Haute Tribune-Star solicited the opinions of a few local coaches regarding the 10 years that have passed: Opinions still mixed on multi-class hoops.

Hebron High School has just the third female head coach of a boys' varsity basketball team in state history. The story of Brenda Drook can be found in the Indianapolis Star article Coaching Crossover.