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* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Coach Dale has settled for a job at rinky-dink Hickory because he was run out of college basketball for punching one of his players.
* [[David Versus Goliath]]: [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]]. Quoted verbatim, in fact: "... and David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and flung it, and it struck the Philistine in the head, and he fell to the ground. Amen."
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* [[Everytown, America]]
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Count how many shots Jimmy Chitwood takes, and how many of them he makes, over the course of the movie.
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* [[Underdogs Never Lose]]
* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: Inspired by the Milan Indians team that won the Indiana high school basketball championship in 1954. However, much was changed and fictionalized for the movie, starting with the name of the town. The real coach was 26 years old and in his second season with the team. And the real championship was not so shocking: Milan made the semifinals the year before.
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