Danville coach Jayme Comer said he and athletic director Aimee Harvey submitted a letter to the IHSAA on Monday, listing the school’s grievances with the finish of the game. IHSAA commissioner Paul Neidig confirmed Tuesday the IHSAA has received the email.

I have read multiple accounts of Shawn Kemp pulling down 1300+ rebounds during his time at Concord (1985-88,) but I have never been able to track down an exact total. Has anyone ever run across this? Still hunting..



Most Career Rebounds
(B) 1638 George McGinnis - Indy Washington 1966-69
(B) 1616 Kent Benson - New Castle 1970-73
(B) 1521 Jerry Schellenberg - Floyd Central 1970-73
(B) 1504 Wayne Bright - Bell Union/Fillmore 1963-66
(B) 1374 Deshaun Thomas - Luers 2006-09
(B) 1358 Mike Erwin - South Spencer 1969-72
(B) 1254 Caleb Furst - FW Blackhawk 2018-21
(B) 1237 Dan Palombizio - MC Rogers 1978-81
(B) 1218 Curt Gilstrap - Orleans 1971-74
(B) 1145 Jake Moynihan - Seton Catholic 2018-21

North Judson's Frasure would've likely been an Indiana All-Star most years, but she was a victim of an incredibly deep class her senior year. Still her stat totals were ridiculous.

Most Career Steals
(G) 580 Heather Gonser - Owen Valley 2006-09
(G) 553 Sydney Freeman - Central Noble 2016-19
(G) 518 Kristen Spolyar - Lebanon 2013-16
(G) 592 Lilliann Frasure - North Judson 2018-21
(G) 497 Kinnitra Johnson - New Albany 1996-99
(G) 487 Tyasha Harris - Heritage Christian 2013-16
(G) 476 Carrie Mount - Bedford North Lawrence 1988-91* (Does not include Frosh total)
(G) 476 Kaleigh Hensley - Wabash 2008-11
(G) 475 Skylar Diggins - SB Washington 2006-09
(G) 465 Annie Thomas - Southwestern(S) 2013-14
(G) 458 Sara Nord - Jeffersonville 1997-00

Anybody else remember this one? As it's looking more and more like White-McCarty is coming home to Indiana to lead the Fever, here's a look back at arguably her best game ever at Seeger.

Article clipped from Journal and Courier

Clipping found in Journal and Courier published in Lafayette, Indiana on 1/10/1995.

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Path clear for Stephanie White? Bluder from Iowa?

Report Suggests Christie Sides' Days as Indiana Fever Coach Could Be Numbered​

A compelling new report makes it seem like the Fever may have found a replacement for head coach Christie Sides.

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Report Suggests Christie Sides' Days as Indiana Fever Coach Could Be Numbered

Indiana Fever second-year head coach Christie Sides was the subject of much conversation this season. When the Fever started the 2024 WNBA season (fresh off of

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JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. -- Arguably the most heated rivalry in all of Hoosierland comes by it honestly. There's enough venom among old foes New Albany and Jeffersonville that historians will swear vinegar, not river water, spans the stretch of the Ohio between the two historic river towns. ...And incidents like this 17 timeout game in 1948 helped build such genuine emotion between the two heavyweights...

Memorabilia displayed in Jeffersonville's Nachand Fieldhouse, host of 1948 Sectional

First year head coach Ed Denton had guided the Red Devils to a lackluster 8-8 regular season record. Red Devil boosters, just as today, held much high expectations for their fighting five, and pressure within the community was nearing a boiling point.

New Albany on the other hand was enjoying high times that season. Second year mentor Gordon Raney had the Bulldogs barking at 15-3 and drawing much statewide attention as they entered the sectional as heavy favorites. - A fact that further ignited emotions among the Jeffersonville faithful. As a matter of record, NA took their regular season meeting with Jeff, 41-31, and the Bulldogs had actually climbed all the way to #2 in the state rankings earlier in the season.


The first round of Sectional went somewhat as expected for the 16 team field:


Jeffersonville 107, New Middletown 23

Laconia 45, Mauckport 24

Scribner 38, Borden 33

Henryville 58, New Amsterdam 26

New Albany 62, Georgetown 16

Corydon 50, Charlestown 36

Silver Creek 69, Elizabeth 29

Lanesville 63, Taylor 35

Photo of Jeffersonville vs. New Albany Sectional title game tip

The second round played out as well with much fanfare, but few upsets.

Jeffersonville 73, Laconia 39

Henryville 43, Scribner 41

New Albany 57, Corydon 28

Silver Creek 68, Lanesville 41



This is where it gets interesting.

In those days the final four was all played on a Saturday. Jeff was to play Henryville in the morning game, and New Albany was pitted against Silver Creek upon the completion of the first contest. The winners then would meet that evening for the title.

Now enter the third player in our story: The Henryville Hornets.

The Hornets were enjoying a fine season of their own, tallying a 16-4 regular season record. However, the majority of their docket of games had been played against smaller conference schools, and when the reality hit the hardwood, the Hornets were far out-manned by the Red Devils. It was apparent early on as Jeff established a commanding lead that would never be in doubt.

To tell the full tale of such a story, the reader must have a bit of background. Jeff and New Albany began their wrestling match over Sectional in 1925 when NA first hosted. The Bulldogs, having bragging rights to the larger gym at the time, hosted the majority of early sectionals - the exceptions going to Jeff in 1926 and 1933.

Jeff than took over hosting honors for many, many years, with one or two exceptions.

This particular season, 1948, Jeff was hosting, but that's about all they had going for the

It was at this point that Jeff's Coach Denton began what was to earn him a spot in Hoosier hysteria folklore...and where he acquired the nickname Dirty Ed.

With the Bulldogs and Dragons waiting in the hallway for their chance on the court, and with a seemingly insurmountable lead in the waning moments of the game, Coach Denton called timeout.

Then he called another. And another. In a matter of moments his allotted timeouts were used.

Then he called one more which resulted in a technical foul. The practice then proceeded - timeout followed by technical foul. The only real break in the rhythm was the snail's pace at which the entire Jeff squad would make it's way to the huddle and then to the floor.

The crowd, officials, and New Albany coaching staff quickly sized up the situation.

Coach Denton was purposely trying to delay the start of the second game so as to limit the time the Bulldogs would have to rest before playing Jeff for the title later that evening.

Game accounts report debris of every shape and size having to be repeatedly removed from the playing floor as the process repeated itself - 17 times.

When the dust and popcorn boxes had been cleared Jeffersonville was in the championship game with a 53-41 win over Henryville. Their lead shrunk but still never in question. Reports indicate that Hornet charity tosses were pretty accurate for that era, but that Henryville couldn't convert their offensive possessions during the bizarre stretch of the contest.

A flustered New Albany had their hands full with an unfazed Silver Creek squad in the second game, but netted a 51-40 win to set up the much anticipated match-up between the two bitter rivals.

As the story goes, Jeff Coach Denton had ordered his charges directly to beds for a restful nap following their morning-turned afternoon game.

The strategy worked as much as New Albany was left with but enough time to shower, eat and collect themselves prior to the championship that night.

The Sectional title game proved a bit anti-climactic, however. A New Albany team, who on this particular year was arguably already a better basketball team, now had their flames of hatred fanned by the shady actions earlier in the day. The Bulldogs made short work of the Devils, taking the championship 53-31.

New Albany Co-captains Orval Stone and Jo Jo Dean celebrate with Coach Gordon Ramey

New Albany proved their worth by taking the Jeffersonville Regional title the following weekend by besting #1 ranked Bedford 58-44 and Seymour 39-29.

The Bulldogs had their season ended when they were martyred the following week at the Semi-finals. The Wildcats of Jasper topped them in the afternoon game 53-50.

However, it was that Sectional marathon and all the trappings that went along with it that are most remembered from that postseason. Just one more brick in a rivalry that towers to this day, and another true chapter in that wonderful folklore of Hoosier hysteria.

In doing some research for another story, I ran across a stat that seldom appears in most mid-century reporting - That of coaching changes.

The article I ran across indicated there were 235 new basketball coaches in Indiana for the 1947-48 season. I am assuming these were only boys as girls teams had pretty much been phased out at this point in Indiana history. Additionally this number is probably inflated as more than a few coaches were re-entering the profession following service in World War II.

Five teams were selected by our contestants in Week 9, with Ben Davis being the most popular pick. The Giants responded with a 30-point victory over the North Central (Indianapolis) Panthers. The largest margin of victory in this round belonged to 1A #1 North Judson in the Bluejays' 42-point win over the 1A #11 Pioneer Panthers. After eight consecutive blowout wins, 3A #4 Mississinewa had a close game in their 26-22 win over the Madison-Grant Argylls. Southmont was the only one of our teams which suffered a loss as they fell to Tri-West, 42-7.

It is time to crown our champion! Congratulations to hhsdawg, the winner of the 2024 Hickory Husker Pigskin Pick'em! He became a two-time winner this year after having won the contest in 2016. After being in a logjam tie for second place in Week 1, he fell to near the bottom of our leaderboard for six consecutive weeks. But in the shake-up that happened in Week 8, he climbed all the way to the top spot and held on to win with 328 points. Defending champion Nick Jenkinson finished second with 315 points, narrowly edging out CoachC in third with 314. ysuindy claimed fourth with 307 points, and Mr. B.A. placed fifth with 287.

Though it was not a factor in determining our final standings, the correct score for our tiebreaker this year was 150, the combined scores of 2023 5A state champion Fort Wayne Snider and their opponents in the Panthers' last four games:

Fort Wayne Snider 35, Homestead 0 (35 points)
Fort Wayne Snider 49, Fort Wayne Northrup 14 (63 points)
Fort Wayne Snider 17, Fort Wayne Dwenger 6 (23 points)
Fort Wayne Snider 21, Fort Wayne Wayne 8 (29 points)

Mr. B.A. was the closest on the tiebreaker with his prediction of 172 points.

Here are the games for Week 9 with scores, point margins, and the number of players who picked each one:

North Judson 60, Pioneer 18 (42 points, no players)
Leo 48, DeKalb 7 (41 points, 1 player)
Batesville 41, Connersville 0 (41 points, no players)
Bloomington South 42, Seymour 6 (36 points, 2 players)
Ben Davis 44, North Central (Indianapolis) 14 (30 points, 6 players)
Evansville North 35, Evansville Central 7 (28 points, 2 players)
Penn 27, South Bend St. Joseph 0 (27 points, 1 player)
Mississinewa 26, Madison-Grant 22 (4 points, no players)
Tri-West 42, Southmont 7 (-35 points, no players)

Here are the final standings:

hhsdawg - 328
Nick Jenkinson - 315
CoachC - 314
ysuindy - 307
Mr. B.A. - 287
Ed Stachulak - 276
Rob Deweese - 271
kyleajolly - 267
TheGorilla23 - 265
Quad Runner - 236
HickoryHusker - 208
Ranger20 - 149

Five of the teams on this year's list were ranked in the top ten in the IFCA preseason polls for their class, and three were receiving votes. Here is how our teams were ranked in the preseason, their records at the end of the season, and their rankings after Week 8:

Batesville: Preseason 3A #5; Record 6-3; Week 8 #9
Ben Davis: Preseason 6A #1; Record 4-5; Week 8 unranked
Bloomington South: Preseason 5A RV; Record 5-4; Week 8 RV
Evansville North: Preseason 5A RV; Record 4-5; Week 8 unranked
Leo: Preseason 4A #10; Record 7-2; Week 8 #5
Mississinewa: Preseason 3A unranked; Record 9-0; Week 8 #4
North Judson: Preseason 1A #2; Record 9-0; Week 8 #1
Penn: Preseason 6A RV; Record 7-2; Week 8 RV
Southmont: Preseason 2A #8; Record 3-6; Week 8 unranked

Ben Davis is of special note here, as it is rare to see a team that was ranked #1 in the preseason poll finish the season unranked.

Two of our teams - Mississinewa and North Judson - completed the regular season with a perfect 9-0 record. Leo's two losses were to teams currently ranked #4 and #5 in the IFCA Class 4A poll. Penn's two losses were to teams currently ranked #6 in the IFCA Class 4A poll and #7 in the IFCA Class 6A poll. North Judson recorded the largest margin of victory with a 70-point win over Culver in Week 5, and Southmont suffered the worst defeats in 35-point losses to Danville in Week 6, Lebanon in Week 8, and Tri-West in Week 9.

Your humble contest administrator is a software developer in real life, so I wrote a computer program to determine what the best possible score would be with this year's combination of teams. It also provides a ranking among all possible outcomes for each contestant who submitted a pick in every week of the contest. With a contest like this, the number of possible combinations of picks is n!, where n is the number of teams. For nine teams, that comes to 362,880. The worst possible score is -95 (none of our players were anywhere near that bad!). The best possible score is 355, with these picks:

Week 1 - Southmont (28)
Week 2 - Mississinewa (35)
Week 3 - Leo (42)
Week 4 - Penn (38)
Week 5 - Evansville North (26)
Week 6 - Bloomington South (41)
Week 7 - Batesville (49)
Week 8 - North Judson (66)
Week 9 - Ben Davis (30)

Here are the rankings for our players. Rank = numeric rank out of 362,880. Percentage Rank = Percentage of possible scores that are worse.

hhsdawg: Score = 328; Rank = 59; Percentage Rank = 99.98
Nick Jenkinson: Score = 315; Rank = 238; Percentage Rank = 99.93
CoachC: Score = 314; Rank = 264; Percentage Rank = 99.93
ysuindy: Score = 307; Rank = 499; Percentage Rank = 99.86
Mr. B.A.: Score = 287; Rank = 2075; Percentage Rank = 99.43
Ed Stachulak: Score = 276; Rank = 3840; Percentage Rank = 98.94
Rob Deweese: Score = 271; Rank = 4919; Percentage Rank = 98.64
kyleajolly: Score = 267; Rank = 5962; Percentage Rank = 98.36
TheGorilla23: Score = 265; Rank = 6543; Percentage Rank = 98.20
Quad Runner: Score = 236; Rank = 20564; Percentage Rank = 94.33
HickoryHusker: Score = 208; Rank = 47808; Percentage Rank = 86.83
Ranger20: Score = 149; Rank = 154629; Percentage Rank = 57.39

I want to thank all of our players for getting their picks in on time every week, which made my job as the contest administrator much easier. Thanks to everyone who participated this season! We hope all of you will return to compete in the 2025 Hickory Husker Pigskin Pick'em!

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Appears these six schools will form the new Hoosier Legends Conference in 2025-26
-- Beech Grove
-- Indian Creek
-- Monrovia
-- Speedway
-- Triton Central
-- Tri-West

Then in 2026-27:
-- Shelbyville will join for sure.
-- possibly Greenwood will join, too