We’ve Got A Team!: The Story of the Duncan Brothers and the Legacy of Hoosier Hysteria

ANNIVERSARY EDITION!HOOSIER HYSTERIA PROMISED EVERYONE A CHANCE. THIS IS OUR STORY.In the mid-1980s, a small high school in southern Indiana made back-to-back runs to the Final Four in the state's legendary single-class tournament — an era when every school competed together, and nothing was hidden by enrollment or brackets. No safety net. No second division. Just one bracket that started in your county and ended at Market Square Arena.This is the story of the Southridge Raiders.We've Got A Team! follows two seasons inside Huntingburg Memorial Gym — the old yellow-brick cathedral locals call the Big Gym — and the team that filled it night after night under Coach Gary Duncan. It traces how a roster of kids from Huntingburg, Holland, and the surrounding farm country turned fundamentals, ball movement, and defense into a run that no one in Indiana saw coming. Twice.Told largely through the voices of the people who lived it, the book draws on more than fifty interviews with players, coaches, opponents, broadcasters, and community members. Game narratives are built entirely from contemporaneous sources — over 500 newspaper articles, scorebooks, broadcast transcripts, and box scores — with no hindsight, no modern stats, and no retrospective polishing. What happened on the floor is what you read.Around those games, the book opens up into something wider: a community history of Huntingburg and Holland basketball reaching back to the 1930s. Four generations of the Menke family. Four generations of the Bollings. The coaches who built the program. The fans who packed the stands. The cheerleaders who led the "We've Got A Team" chant at the 1986 Semi-State — the moment that carried the team to Indianapolis and gave this book its title.We've Got A Team! is not nostalgia. It's a record — of what it felt like to compete in packed gyms in the single-class era, to prepare for March, and to represent something larger than any individual box score. It's about discipline, trust, and the kind of belonging that doesn't expire when the lights go down.For anyone who loves Indiana basketball. For anyone who grew up in a town where Friday nights meant the gym. And for anyone who understands that some seasons never really end.Foreword by Denny Spinner, former Raiders radio voice and later mayor of Huntingburg.Todd Jochem, Ph.D. wore #40 for the Raiders on both Final Four teams. He went on to play college football, earn advanced degrees, and build a career in robotics. This is the story he's spent forty years needing to tell. Read more