Spending Time With Billy Shepherd

Thursday, February 25 2010

Below is Jon Teitel's interview of Billy Shepherd, one of the greatest players in the history of Butler University and Indiana state basketball. 

Jon Teitel: You played at Carmel High School for your father: what was it like to play for your dad, and what did you learn from him?

Billy Shepherd: If you play for your dad in high school and, it usually works out well. At the time it was a small high school that had not experienced much winning, so it was a neat time to play there and have the community rally around us.

Teitel: In 1968 you scored 70 points in a game vs. Brownsburg, and you were selected as Indiana's Mr. Basketball: what are your memories of the 70-point game, and what did it mean to you to win such an outstanding individual honor?

Shepherd: The 70-PT game really put me on the map. Back then we did not really make a college choice until our senior year, so it put my name among the most elite...
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