Down in Kentucky Elliot County (31-2) plays today in the second round of the Kentucky State Basketball Championships against Shelby Valley (31-4). Why is this a bid deal? Because Kentucky basketball championships are run the same way the old Indiana tournament was held. Every school, regardless of size plays in one tournament. And Elliot County only has 325 students in the entire school, placing them 211th out of 279 schools in the state.

It was 1954 when the Milan Miracle took place, Bobby Plump making the last-second shot that beat Muncie Central, and became the signature small-school triumph in Indiana high school basketball history. Three decades later, they filmed "Hoosiers," and the legend went nationwide.

Indiana has since forfeited any chance to replicate the Milan Miracle, shamefully scrapping its single-class state tournament in favor of four champions from four classifications. That leaves Kentucky and Delaware as the only remaining states to play an all-comers tournament that crowns a single champion -- and Delaware doesn't do it like Kentucky, which every March brings 16 regional winners to the state's cathedral of basketball, Rupp Arena in Lexington.

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And in a state notorious for illegal recruiting, this is an organic power. The nucleus of this team grew up playing together and turning down whispered offers to leave for more attention at bigger schools. They've been nurtured for years by a taciturn old coach until they're now poised to defy the long odds against how far a small school can go.

So this weekend, while you are following along with March Madness be sure to check in with the March Madness taking place down in Kentucky. You just might witness history.