Agree that Hoosiers is way better than A Christmas Story...but Breaking Away is much better than both. And while Hoosiers was nominated for 2 AAs and Christmas Story none...Breaking Away won the Oscar for Best Screenplay, and was nominated for 4 others. Also won a Golden Globe for best comedy. Filmed and set in Bloomington.
Edit: And Breaking Away has a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.
So I went home, and as luck would have it, my mother-in-law and father-in-law from Indiana were visiting. I gave them the criteria, and before I could finish, my wife and father-in-law cut me off with Hoosiers, but then my mother-in-law threw out Breaking Away and my wife changed her vote. So official count was Breaking Away 2, Hoosiers 1.
But then I asked them a hypothetical... "had you not lived in Bloomington when they filmed the movie," (which they did), "would you still have said Breaking Away?" My mother-in-law said probably not, but my wife stuck with Breaking Away. My father-in-law stood his ground with Hoosiers because he couldn't vote for Blues Brothers.
So not even the native Indianans can decide where they stand on this one.