NEW CASTLE, Ind. – Eighteen men have been named to the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame’s 2025 Silver Anniversary Team, based on outstanding accomplishments as a senior basketball player 25 years ago.
Bloomington North's Jared Jeffries
The team includes 11 members named to the 2000 Indiana All-Star squad. Seven other all-state players are included to recognize the top of Indiana’s high school class of 2000.
2000 Indiana All-Stars include Mr. Basketball Jared Jeffries, Michael Bennett, Brett Buscher, Steve Drabyn Jr, John Hamilton Jr., Andre Owens, Austin Parkinson, Shane Power, Zach Randolph, John Standeford and Aaron Thomas.
The remaining seven, named to various all-state teams are Braden Bushman, Ron Dokes, Mark Drake, Adam Mark, Mickey McGill, Bryant Northern, and Corey Seegers.2025 Men’s Silver Anniversary Team members will be honored at the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame’s 63rd Men’s Awards Banquet on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.
A midday reception, free and open to the public, will be held at the Hall of Fame Museum in New Castle. The evening banquet will take place at the Primo Banquet Hall, which is located on the southside of Indianapolis.
Brett Buscher totaled 1,365 points (15.9) and 594 rebounds (6.9) over four varsity seasons, one year at Whiting and the last three at Chesterton while playing for his father, coach Bob Buscher. He averaged 21.1 points, 7.5 rebounds and 2.3 assists as a senior, earning a spot on the 2000 Indiana All-Stars as well as being a McDonald’s All-American nominee, AP first-team All-State, IBCA first-team All-State, 2000 Louisville Courier-Journal first-team All-State and IBCA honorable mention Academic All-State.The 6-8 forward also was a 1999 Junior All-Star, 1999 IBCA first-team Underclass All-State, 1998 IBCA honorable mention Underclass All-State, two-time Northwest Indiana Times first-team All-Area, two-time NWI Times honorable mention All-Area, two-time first-team all-Duneland Conference, 1997 honorable mention all-Lake 10 Conference, two-time team MVP and three-time team captain. He scored a career-high and school-record 40 points against LaPorte at Conseco Fieldhouse on Dec. 22, 1999.Buscher went on to Purdue, where he scored 674 points (5.6) and grabbed 388 rebounds (3.2) while helping the Boilermakers to a four-year record of 66-58. He led Purdue in field goal accuracy as a junior (.526, 70-of-133) and tallied career highs of 21 points at Akron on Dec. 27, 2000, and 10 rebounds on two occasions. He won the Purdue “Courage Award” as a sophomore and played for Gene Keady-coached teams that earned a spot in the 2003 NCAA Tournament, won the 2003 Great Alaska Shootout and played in the 2001 and 2004 National Invitation Tournaments.Buscher earned a bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership and supervision from Purdue in 2004, a master’s degree in kinesiology from IUPUI in 2019 and a transition to teaching degree from Indiana Wesleyan University in 2021. After college, he played professionally in Germany in 2004-05 and has served as an assistant coach at Indianapolis North Central (2018-20) and at Wayzata High School in Plymouth, Minn. (2021-22). Since 2022, he has been a teacher for Anoka-Hennepin Schools in Minnesota. His hobbies include reading, traveling and staying fit.
Bloomington North's Jared Jeffries
The team includes 11 members named to the 2000 Indiana All-Star squad. Seven other all-state players are included to recognize the top of Indiana’s high school class of 2000.
2000 Indiana All-Stars include Mr. Basketball Jared Jeffries, Michael Bennett, Brett Buscher, Steve Drabyn Jr, John Hamilton Jr., Andre Owens, Austin Parkinson, Shane Power, Zach Randolph, John Standeford and Aaron Thomas.
The remaining seven, named to various all-state teams are Braden Bushman, Ron Dokes, Mark Drake, Adam Mark, Mickey McGill, Bryant Northern, and Corey Seegers.2025 Men’s Silver Anniversary Team members will be honored at the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame’s 63rd Men’s Awards Banquet on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.
A midday reception, free and open to the public, will be held at the Hall of Fame Museum in New Castle. The evening banquet will take place at the Primo Banquet Hall, which is located on the southside of Indianapolis.
Brett Buscher totaled 1,365 points (15.9) and 594 rebounds (6.9) over four varsity seasons, one year at Whiting and the last three at Chesterton while playing for his father, coach Bob Buscher. He averaged 21.1 points, 7.5 rebounds and 2.3 assists as a senior, earning a spot on the 2000 Indiana All-Stars as well as being a McDonald’s All-American nominee, AP first-team All-State, IBCA first-team All-State, 2000 Louisville Courier-Journal first-team All-State and IBCA honorable mention Academic All-State.The 6-8 forward also was a 1999 Junior All-Star, 1999 IBCA first-team Underclass All-State, 1998 IBCA honorable mention Underclass All-State, two-time Northwest Indiana Times first-team All-Area, two-time NWI Times honorable mention All-Area, two-time first-team all-Duneland Conference, 1997 honorable mention all-Lake 10 Conference, two-time team MVP and three-time team captain. He scored a career-high and school-record 40 points against LaPorte at Conseco Fieldhouse on Dec. 22, 1999.Buscher went on to Purdue, where he scored 674 points (5.6) and grabbed 388 rebounds (3.2) while helping the Boilermakers to a four-year record of 66-58. He led Purdue in field goal accuracy as a junior (.526, 70-of-133) and tallied career highs of 21 points at Akron on Dec. 27, 2000, and 10 rebounds on two occasions. He won the Purdue “Courage Award” as a sophomore and played for Gene Keady-coached teams that earned a spot in the 2003 NCAA Tournament, won the 2003 Great Alaska Shootout and played in the 2001 and 2004 National Invitation Tournaments.Buscher earned a bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership and supervision from Purdue in 2004, a master’s degree in kinesiology from IUPUI in 2019 and a transition to teaching degree from Indiana Wesleyan University in 2021. After college, he played professionally in Germany in 2004-05 and has served as an assistant coach at Indianapolis North Central (2018-20) and at Wayzata High School in Plymouth, Minn. (2021-22). Since 2022, he has been a teacher for Anoka-Hennepin Schools in Minnesota. His hobbies include reading, traveling and staying fit.
