A 15-foot-tall bronze statue of Larry Bird has been erected at Indiana State University more than three decades after the basketball great led the school to a national championship game.
The 1,900-pound statue, tethered to steel cables, was lowered into place with a crane Monday outside the Terre Haute campus’ Hulman Center while sculptor Bill Wolfe and others watched.
Bird led Indiana State to a national championship game in 1979, although the Sycamores lost the NCAA title to Magic Johnson’s Michigan State team.