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By RICHARD TORRES
VYPE High School Sports
Magazine, Central Indiana

It all started with Crawfordsville versus Lebanon at Players to Watch: Barr-Reeve Vikings – Trey
Assembly Hall in Bloomington a century ago. Since, it has Hughes (6-1, Sr., G): 17.3 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 4.8 apg; Christian
become legend and a way of life in Indiana. High school Duncheon (6-3, Sr., C): 13.1 ppg, 5.3 rpg, 1.1 apg; Ashton
boys basketball has captured our imaginations, made us Wagler (6-2, So., F): 9.1 ppg, 2.1 rpg, 1.1 apg. Bowman
cheer and rejoice. Today, we applaud a magical milestone Academy Eagles – Christopher Bond (6-4, Sr., F): 18.0 ppg,
in hoops history. 12.0 rpg, 2.0 apg; Tyrae Robinson (6-2, Sr., G): 15.0 ppg,
Happy 100th anniversary Hoosier Hysteria! 2.0 rpg, 2.0 apg; DeJuan Marrero (6-5, So., F/C): 14.6 ppg,
Today, the spotlight belongs to you, the legends of 12.0 rpg, 2.0 apg.
yesterday and the four champions yet to be inducted into
your exclusive fraternity of basketball immortals.
But who, you ask? Will it be the high-scoring Class A Class 2A Championship
Bowman Academy Eagles, the surprising Class 2A Park Park Tudor (15-10) vs. Wheeler (26-1)
Tudor Eagles, the surging 2A Wheeler Bearcats or the 3A Ranked second in the AP polls, Wheeler has won 22
Gary Wallace Hornets? consecutive games since losing on Dec. 17, 2009. Today
Is it Class A Barr-Reeve’s turn to break though after two will mark the first time a Wheeler team will vie for a state
runner-up finishes in tournament’s past? Will it be 4A North championship in any sport. Meanwhile, unranked Park
Central or Warsaw at night’s end? Is it going to be another Tudor clawed back from a 9-10 regular-season record to
perfect day for 3A Washington, who has yet to lose at the play in the school’s first boys basketball State Finals. With
State Finals? another victory, Park Tudor would become the first state
We’ll find out soon enough. Happy 100th anniversary champion with 10 or more losses.
Hoosier Hysteria! Thank you for the memories … past and
present. Fast Facts
- Park Tudor head coach Ed Schilling is a former assistant
Class A Championship coach with the New Jersey Nets, the University of Mem-
Barr-Reeve (24-3) vs. Bowman Academy (23-1) phis and the University of Massachusetts. He was head
No team has been more dominating this season than coach at Wright State for six seasons (1997-2002).
top-ranked Bowman Academy. The Eagles led the state in - The second-ranked Wheeler Bearcats led the state in mar-
scoring (84.5 ppg) and scored 86 points or more in five of gin of victory (24.4 ppg) this season and have defeated
its six state tournament games. On two occasions, Bowman state tournament foes by an average of 16.1 ppg.
topped 100 points en route to its first trip to the State Finals. - Park Tudor assistant coach April McDivitt-Foster was the
Barr-Reeve, ranked second in the AP polls, is playing in its 1999 Miss Basketball award winner at Connersville High
third State Finals. They were runner-ups in 2002 and 2007. School.

Fast Facts Players to Watch: Park Tudor Panthers – Kevin Ferrell
- Bowman Academy is in only its second year of state (5-11, So., G): 23.0 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 4.3 apg; J.B. Rapp (6-2,
tournament eligibility. So., G): 10.5 ppg, 1.6 rpg; Reggie Nesbit (6-4, Sr., F): 5.5
- Barr-Reeve head coach Bryan Hughes has amassed a ppg, 6.1 rpg. Wheeler Bearcats – Andrew Rudakas (6-5,
career record of 413-173 in 25 seasons. Sr., F): 16.4 ppg, 8.3 rpg, 1.3 apg; Najee Bailey (6-3, Jr.,
- Bowman Academy head coach Marvin Rea was named G): 13.0 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 1.8 apg; Petar Todorovic (6-5, Sr., G):
the Arthur L. Trester Award recipient in 1987 as a player 12.6 ppg, 4.4 rpg, 2.8 apg; Aleksa Kojcinovic (6-7, Jr., C):
for Gary Roosevelt. 8.5 ppg, 7.2 rpg, 1.3 apg.