With Greenwood's exit to the new Hoosier Legends Conference, the Mid-State announced today the addition of Bloomington North.

This brings them back up to 8 teams:

Decatur Central
Franklin
Martinsville
Mooresville
Perry Meridian
Plainfield
Whiteland
Bloomington North

It's pretty rare to find a box score from early Indiana high school basketball that specifically speaks to FG%. Even rebounds are rarely mentioned by number, but here's one from two highly ranked teams from the 1922-23 season.

Lebanon would win this game vs. Lafayette Jeff, 37-35. The score was fairly typical for the period. However, the real story is in the table below. Each team was actually praised in the game story for hot shooting...

Lebanon was 14/78 or .180 FG%
Jefferson was 14/89 or .157 FG%

Yikes. And remember these teams were ranked as some of the the best in the state at the time. It's seldom we get a look into what these games were actually like. An game story that points out "snappy passing" is hard to interpret. It truly must have been bombs away back then. One can only image if it was two township or county schools with losing records heaving shoe shots.

Of course, he won't take it, but man the leverage he could use to get more money from Purdue...their hated rival is willing to spend more to get him!!!

And if he did take it...Wow...could you imagine that?! Yea, won't ever happen.

I am searching for any tangible details like a date or school so that I can research and write-up the details of an oral story I have heard a bit about. Any help would be appreciated if you can shed some further light on this. Here's what I have heard, and I honestly don't know if there is a shred of truth to any of this.

Just a really good story that I would love to uncover and bring back to life - if it actually happened..

Here's what I have heard - none of this confirmed in any way..

- Following an upset win, a group of students from an opposing school paraded to or around Franklin High School.
- They carried an effigy of a grizzly cub and/or a casket that had been fashioned in some sort to represent the death of Franklin's team
- School was placed on probation or completely banned from tourney play because of this.

I have searched IHSAA records for an account of punishments dished out, and I have found nothing that points to something of this nature.

One account has students leaving their school during the school day to parade to Franklin.

If it truly involved students leaving a school and marching to Franklin, there are only a handful that would've been close enough. (Union Twp, Hopewell??)

Hopewell won Sectional in 1952 and Union copped one in 1916 - Neither had any newspaper reports in Franklin paper regarding anything of this nature. Although I guess it wouldn't have to be Sectional.

Anybody else ever heard anything about this story?

I was doing some research to help with someone else’s project and rather than just emailing into obscurity once again, I thought I’d at least paste it here. Some fellow dorks may find it of interest

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Here's what I have for those three seasons. Hope it helps with your research and school record book!

1925 2-8
Clark 13, Whiteland 11
Center Grove 59, Whiteland 19
Whiteland 27, Edinburgh 23 OT
Edinburgh 27, Whiteland 25
Whiteland 40, Masonic Home 23
Southport 43, Whiteland 7
Hopewell 99, Whiteland 11
Union 27, Whiteland 15 (JoCo)
Southport 29, Whiteland 23
Trafalgar 29, Whiteland 21 (Sect)

1924 6-3
Whiteland 25, Greensburg 23
New Bethel 23, Whiteland 18
Whiteland 25, Edinburg 24
Whiteland 19, Greenwood 14 (JoCo)
Clark 17, Whiteland 10 (JoCo)
Whiteland 25, Edinburg 21
Whiteland 20, Nineveh 19 (Sect)
Whiteland 22, Edinburg 19 OT (Sect)
Union over Whiteland (Sect)

1923 1-9
Greensburg over Whiteland (No score, but I have confirmation GHS won)
Rushville 25, Whiteland 21
Rushville 29, Whiteland 23
Hopewell 37, Whiteland 14
Greenwood 22, Whiteland 9
Mooresville 49, Whiteland 29
Columbus 62, Whiteland 7
Greenwood 20, Whiteland 11 (JoCo)
Whiteland 35, New Bethel 12
Edinburgh 28, Whiteland 7 (Sect)

There was a home and away scheduled with Center Grove, a road date at Nineveh, and a home date with Trafalgar on the schedule that season.

However, I could never get confirmation anywhere of a score, or that they were ever played. This was not uncommon for this decade though. Games were routinely cancelled for a myriad of reasons: flu, injuries, heating issues with gyms, and even unreliable transportation. My hunch is that these fall into that category and were never played.

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I am not sure on what the positives of this will be. Seems like a very unfair rule. Franklin County has one or two school within 20 miles, where Cathedral has maybe forty within 20 miles. Ben Davis is only 15 miles away so probably more.

Some great sectional basketball games from our girls.

18 schools ended droughts of 10 or more years. Whitko easily won the prize for 50 years since no titles since 1976. Delta came next since 1993, then Columbia City and Lowell since 2000.

Other droughts ended were:Maconaquah 01, Alexandria 02, Indpls Cathedral 05, Elkhart Christian first time ever since 2005, Oldenburg 06, South Decatur 08, Hammond 2010,Floyd Central 10,Pendleton Heights (Irish) 11, Rensselaer 13,Borden 15, Warsaw 15, North Posey 15, Anderson Prep nw 2016.

Now the regional, 22 teams back from last year, 13 will be defending, 20 teams have not won a regional.

Here is the 32 games breakdown with last title and prediction ( nw = Never won

4A
Warsaw 2013 should whip South Bend Washington 24
Hammond Ctl 01 slight underdog to Valpo 24
FW Snider 23 toss up McCutcheon 11
Hamilton Southeastern 19 toss up to Homestead 24
Pendleton Heights 97 close with Lawrence North 23
Franklin Central 88 toss up with Pike 2017
East Central nw wont beat Bloom South 87
Floyd Central 10 close with Gibson Southern 24
3A
Columbia City 2000 big fav over Lowell also 2000
Culver Academy nw big fav over Highland 03
East Noble nw big dog to Norwell 24j
Maconaquah nw probably cant beat Delta mw
Indpls Cathedral shd handle Northview nw
Roncalli 16 even with Danville 24
Washington 97 will compete with Greensburg 18
Evansville Central nw toss up Corydon Central 23
2A
Eastside 79 over Andrean 24
Whitko nw toss up Bremen 2024
Rensselaer nw over Alexandria 2000
Sheridan 24 over Lewis Cass 24
Monrovia nw toss up Parke Heritage nw( but Turkey Run won 2011)
Northeastern 98 shd take Heritage Christian 17
South Knox nw big fav over Lanesville 24
North Posey 87 toss up Brownstown Ctl 24
1A
Elkhart Christian nw toss up Fremont 99
Tri County 98 even Marquette Cath 24
Monroe Ctl nw will lose to Laf Central Catholic 23
Carroll-Flora nw another tossup North Miami nw
Anderson Prep nw over Greenwood Christian 21
South Decatur nw slight dog to Oldenburg nw
Northeast Dubois 12 over North Central (F) 24
Borden nw over Vincennes Rivet 19

CROWN POINT, Ind. -- Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame Member and 1984 Miss Basketball Runner-up, Nancy Cowan is now a part of the HH Book of Indiana High School Records thanks to an 18 steal night being uncovered and confirmed from a 1983-84 game vs. Hobart!


Crown Point Bulldog Nancy Cowan

Most Steals in a Game
(G) 20 Jodie Whitaker - Austin vs. Lanesville 1982-83
(G) 20 Debbie McNeely - Scottsburg vs. Brownstown 1973-74
(G) 18 Nancy Cowan - Crown Point vs. Hobart 1983-84
(G) 18 Aniah Smith - Avon vs. TH North 2023-24
(G) 17 Kacie Juday - Tipton vs. Northwestern 2013-14
(G) 17 Kristen Spolyar - Lebanon vs. Triton Central 2015-16
(G) 16 Alec Fitts - Arlington vs. Providence Cristo Rey 2016-17
(G) 16 Jada Stansberry - Alexandria vs. Muncie Burris 2021-22
(G) 15 Kim Armand - Scottsburg vs. Silver Creek 1979-80
(G) 15 Judy Cummings - Brownsburg vs. Avon 1978-79
(G) 15 Lilliann Frasure - North Judson vs. LaVille 2019-20
(G) 15 Heather Gonser - Owen Valley vs. S. Vermillion 2006-07
(G) 15 Amanda Miller - Charlestown vs. Rock Creek 2008-09

WHITELAND, Ind. -- The Whiteland Warriors went an incredible 21/21 from the free throw line in last weekend's game vs. Seymour. The Owls were somehow able to overcome this for the win, 62-53, but the shooting exhibition was good for the 5th best team performance of all-time!


2024-25 Whiteland Warriors

Highest Free Throw Percentage for a Game (Min. 10 Attpts)
(B) 100% (26/26) Bloomington South vs. Columbus East 1997-98
(B) 100% (24/24) Greencastle vs. TH Gerstmeyer 1956-57
(B) 100% (22/22) Jeffersonville vs. Castle 2012-13
(B) 100% (22/22) Orleans vs. Borden 2013-14
(B) 100% (22/22) Winchester vs. Triton Central 1997-98
(B) 100% (21/21) Borden vs Cortland 1962-63
(B) 100% (21/21) Kankakee Valley vs. North Newton 1990-91
(B) 100% (21/21) Whiteland vs. Seymour 2024-25
(B) 100% (20/20) Greenfield-Central vs. Shelbyville 2010-11
(B) 100% (20/20) Rivet vs.Dugger 2001-02
(B) 100% (19/19) Loogootee vs. Jasper 1980-81
(B) 100% (19/19) Princeton vs. Bosse 1951-52