Class of '66 Old Fart

Here's Cupps' stat line for yesterday's game. 19 pts. on 4-9 FG; 0-3 on 3s; 11-12 FT; 7 reb; 5 asst; 2 stl; 0 blk; 1 TO. He's human after all -- he had a TO. If you have watched the 4th Q of yesterday's game, take note of how calm and collected he played in the face of some pressure defense from SVSM.

Michigan's Brandon Johns (undisclosed) is expected to be a game-time decision for today's game against Indiana, per a school spokesman. Johns traveled with the team to Bloomington. Averaged 5.2 PPG.

In an 86-62 win Henna had 17 pts. on 6-15 FG; 3-9 on 3s; 2-2 FT; 8 reb; 5 asst; 1 stl; 1 blk; 4 TO in 32 minutes of play.

Frederica 71-32 win over Pinewood Christian. I had Jobe with 14p 7r 5a 0s 1b 2t. Midway thru the 3rd Q he went up for a rebound and a Pinewood player grabbed his arm and pulled him down. It was a hard fall and he hit his head but he did get up and stayed in the game.

https://scorebooklive.com/ohio/2022/01/22/gabe-cupps-tom-house-lead-centerville-on-a-late-run-after-st-vincent-st-mary-loses-ramar-pryor-to-injury/

Bloomington North 67 Terre Haute South 44. Roberts 17p 9r.

Pace Academy (17-4) over Galloway (11-7) 67-60. Tiller started out like a house afire scoring 5 points and grabbing 2 reb. in the first 3.5 min., but at that point picked up his second foul and spent the rest of the 1st Q and the first 2 min. of the 2nd on the bench. When he returned, he was overly passive trying to avoid a 3rd foul and never seemed to regain any rhythm. He finished the night with 11 pts. on 4-8 FG; 0-1 on 3s; 3-8 FT; 5 reb; 0 asst; 0 stl; 1 blk; 3 TO.

Lawrence North beaten 55-46 by Homestead. Gunn 32 pts.

Interesting contrast in FT styles. Remember Steve Alford's very deliberate routine; Cupps gets the ball from the ref, takes 1 dribble and shoots but he makes 85% of them.

I don't know how long the YouTube will be available but at the very least try to watch the 4th Q. Centerville led 23-22 at the half and trailed 40-35 after 3 but ended up winning 52-46. Cupps went 6-6 FT in the 4thQ and finished with 19 pts, the games high point scorer. I've only watched the 2nd half but he scored 12 of his 19 in the 2nd half going 8-8 FT and grabbed 5 reb. He did not commit a TO in the second half. His full stat line should be available in the morning.

Game played earlier today Fayette County 61-45 over Mount Zion. Banks 10p 3a 3s

Indiana Track & Field returned to the Gladstein Field House on Saturday to wrap up hosting the Gladstein Invitational. The Hoosiers saw a total of nine event victories to close out the weekend. KEY MOMENTS • Shaton Vaughn, Micah Camble, and Kenny Benton kicked off the second day of competition with a sweep of the men's 600m. Vaughn won it in a personal best time of 1:20.45 while Camble came in second and saw a time of 1:20.59. Benton also saw a personal record of 1:21.08 as he finished in third. • The sweeps kept on coming as Hannah Stoffel, Kelly Mindak, and Maria Anderson finished as the top three in the 800m fast section. Stoffel picked up a time of 2:09.87 to lead the field while Mindak clocked a 2:11.25 for the runner-up spot. Maria Anderson placed third with a time of 2:11.54. • Morgan Snow won the 200m fast section in a time of 24.95. • The men's 4x800m consisting of Dustin Horter, Gabriel Sanchez, Keelan Grant, and Ben Miller combined for a time of 7:45.14 to take the victory. • Indiana saw a sweep of the 4x400m relay to conclude the track events on Saturday afternoon. The women's squad combined for a time of 3:46.44 and on the men's side, Vaughn, Benton, Parker Raymond, and Camble saw a time of 3:13.24. • Mahogany Jenkins returned on Saturday morning to compete in the women's high jump where she took the victory with a clearance of 1.77m (5' 9.75"). • Maddy Pollard secured her first win of the season as she saw a mark of 16.39m (53' 9.25") in the shot put. • On the men's side of the shot put, Adam Strouf saw his first victory with the Hoosiers. Strouf heaved a throw of 16.94m (55' 7"). NOTABLES • Reece Proctor captured a personal record in the 800m after clocking a time of 1:54.15. • The Hoosiers collected nine wins on the second day of the Gladstein Invitational. • Dom Day and Crase Bergman made their season debuts in the long jump. Day leaped a mark of 7.19m (23' 7.25") for second and Bergman collected a jump of 6.54m (21' 5.5") for eighth.

https://iuhoosiers.com/news/2022/1/22/mens-basketball-indiana-basketball-to-wear-1986-87-retro-uniforms-on-sunday-against-michigan.aspx

Game against SVSM is currently at the half with Centerville leading 23-22; Cupps 7 pts. Game being streamed at:

IU opens as a 4-point favorite vs. Michigan, o/u 134.5. Pomeroy concurs & gives the Hoosiers a 64% chance of victory. Torvik puts it at 5 & gives the Hoosiers a 72% chance of victory.

Last night Peoria Notre Dame beat Peoria Central 49-30. I scored Koch with 17 pts; 7 reb; 0 asst; 1 stl; 0 blk; 3 TO.

Centerville (13-0) keeps on rollin' with a 68-36 win over Miamisburg (8-7). Cupps had 16 pts. on 6-13 FG; 2-2 on 3s; 2-2 FT; 0 reb; 6 asst; 3 stl; 0 blk; 0 TO. Centerville with a tough game late this afternoon on the road against St. Vincent-St. Mary (10-2).

Last night on the road at Lima Shawnee (9-4) it was the Austin Parks spectacular as he singlehandedly defeated Lima Shawnee scoring 29 pts. in a 57-24 St. Mary's (6-6) win. He was 12-14 FG; 5-7 FT; 11 reb; 1 asst; 2 stl; 1 blk; 1 TO. Virtually every one of Parks' shots was either a layup or a dunk.

NHS (15-3) defeated Brookwood (8-12) 81-55. Newton 19 pts. on 5-8 FG; 1-3 on 3s; 8-9 FT; 5 reb; 3 asst; 4 stl; 0 blk; 1 TO. NHS is a fun team to watch. They play a fast paced game and aggressive defense. At times, it just looks effortless for Jakai. He's very quick with his hands and feet and has good acceleration when he drives for the basket,

Banks jumped center to open the game; tipped it to a teammate; raced to the bucket; took a lob pass and slammed it home. Game. Over. Final score Fayette County (12-8) over North Clayton (0-18) 102-53. Playing no more than 20 minutes he scored 21 pts. on 9-14 FG; 0-3 on 3s; 3-3 FT; 5 reb; 4 asst; 3 stl; 2 blk; 0 TO. There was no running clock but they did limit the 4th Q to 6 minutes.

Mount Vernon 73-45 win over Hebron Christian Acad. Scott 16 pts. on 6-10 FG; 4-8 on 3s; 0 FT; 7 reb; 2 asst; 1 stl; 0 blk; 2 TO.

John Marshall beaten by Austin 60-51 and the game synopsis indicated JM was missing several players. Meister 27 pts. on 11-16 FG; 0 3s; 5-6 FT; 9 reb; 2 asst; 1 stl; 4 blk; 5 TO. Thru 13 games averaging 22.4 ppg on 55% FG; 77% FT; 11.2 reb; 1.7 asst; 1.6 stl; 2.1 blk; 3.0 TO.

Game story -- CJ Gunn was noticeably fed up. His body language could hardly be contained. After several empty possessions and swallowed whistles, he looked to the sky and flailed his arms to his sides. As Lawrence North got into their inbounds set, Gunn demanded the ball near halfcourt, leaping over and reaching across the defender who denied him to snag the ball before pounding it on the floor on his way to the rim as everyone on the court just watched. Gunn, who finished with 20 points, justifiably looked irritated at times while Lawrence North allowed a barrage of 3-pointers and had nearly nothing go its way through the first 16 minutes of Friday night’s game against North Central. But it was moments like those — times where he and his team had enough and chose to go get what they wanted instead of waiting for things to come to them — that aided a tenacious second half effort en route to a Lawrence North 60-48 win at Class 4A No. 9 North Central. “Just hang in, they can’t keep shooting like that,” Wildcats coach Jack Keefer said he told his team at halftime. “We had a good defense on them, our plan was good. We’d have a breakdown, they’d get a 3. … They just kept playing, kept working at it, and we got a little better. We were scared, you could tell in the first quarter we were making too many errors.” North Central came out of the gates and knocked down three straight 3s to get out to an early 9-2 lead. The Panthers tallied seven 3s through the first half, with senior forward David Lloyd accounting for three of those as part of his team-high 14 points. Before Gunn’s heroics came the plays that resembled the player who entered just his fifth game this season after returning from a foot injury. Fans could see it in certain possessions. Early turnovers. Ill-advised shots. Signs of a player trying to take matters into his own hands. “He just got back from an injury and he’s trying too hard,” Keefer said of the IU recruit. “He wants to be the man. And he is the man. All he has to do is play. I didn’t take him out one second, the poor kid probably can’t walk now. … He played into the game I thought. I thought he got better as the game went on.” Flashes, like his dribble drive and a contested wing 3 near the end of the half that shaved down a double-digit lead, kept Lawrence North alive, trailing just 27-21 after two quarters. Keefer’s locker room message was well received, as Gunn and Wildcats guard Mac Brown, who wound up with a team-high 23 points, shared an explosive third quarter. Lawrence North opened the half with a 5-0 run, forcing North Central coach Kevin Gant to call a timeout. Shortly after, the Wildcats (8-3) snagged their first lead and never looked back as the Panthers (10-4) cooled off. “I think we were 7-for-14 (from 3) in the first half, and then that second half the shots weren’t falling,” Gant said. “We kind of got happy with it. … We also were trying to do a little bit too much on our own. We weren’t moving the ball. We were trying to do it off one pass or no passes, and when a team is set, every team looks like an amazing defense.” Behind stifling perimeter defense from Brown and the active hands of Gunn, Lawrence North outscored North Central in the third quarter 19-7. Brown and Gunn combined for 15 of the 19 points. When Gunn chucked up a few questionable pullup jumpers, Brown was there to regain momentum with his play on both ends. And it was Brown who erupted into an emotional frenzy when his pullup with just 1:25 remaining in the third lifted his group to a two-point lead. Not even a minute into the fourth quarter, Lawrence North led 42-34 after Brown replicated that same jumper and followed it with fierce stares and words for anyone who would turn his way. “He means a lot for us,” Gunn said of Brown. “He gets along with the team perfectly. He’s a character on and off the court, so I think he really brings that energy that we all need and he obviously makes buckets when we need them.” Two minutes later, Brown found himself limping to the bench with a calf cramp. His grimace was telling, and for those few minutes, Gunn helped keep the ship afloat. The Wildcats defense tightened up, and Gunn found himself moving as comfortably as ever. North Central had one final run to keep its fan section hopeful, cutting Lawrence North’s lead down to five with less than five minutes to play. But Brown refused to let Gunn do things on his own. The senior guard returned minutes later, coming in to knock down a huge shot from deep. If that wasn’t enough, he found himself throwing up a lob to Gunn in transition moments later to seal the deal and cap off a remarkable half between the two. Gunn and Brown were the only Wildcats to score field goals in the final quarter. Lawrence North clicked for a necessary win over a North Central group fresh off of a Marion County tournament title. But for Gunn, tonight was about more than getting back in the win column. “It means a lot,” Gunn said. “Just proving myself as a person, as a player, and proving ourselves as a team. I just had to let everybody know that we here.”

Sisley with a career high of 31 pts. on 13-15 FG and 1-2 on 3s as Heritage Hills defeaed Southridge 64-50.