Class of '66 Old Fart

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.

Rooths with 25 pts. in a 66-64 Georgetown Prep win over Landon School.

Lawrence North advanced in the city tournament with a 60-48 win over North Central. Gunn 21 pts. and 7 reb. Possible IU target Joey Brown of North Central had 9 pts; 6 reb; 3 asst.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana Track & Field wrapped its first day of hosting of the Gladstein Invitational on Friday night. Day one was highlighted by senior Ben Veatch's first career sub-4 mile. KEY MOMENTS • In the last event of the night on the oval, Ben Veatch laid down a time of 3:59.73 for the first sub-4 mile for the Hoosiers this season. He also picked up the win in the event. • The Hoosiers swept the top three spots in the men's 60m. Rikkoi Brathwaite led the way with a time of 6.56 and then was followed by Antonio Laidler (6.73) and Kenny Benton (6.81). Laidler's 6.73 was a personal best. • JaiQuan Earls rounded out the quartet in the 60m finals by placing eighth and garnering a time of 6.98. • Indiana also took the top three spots in the fast section of the 400m. Lauren Thomas picked up the victory in a time of 55.70 while Maria Anderson was second with a time of 55.93. Elizabeth Stanhope took bronze and captured a time of 58.17. • Ana Barrott won the fast section of the 3000m, posting a time of 9:42.19. • Taylor Jarosinski won her first collegiate event as she cleared a height of 3.70m (12' 1.5") in the pole vault. On the men's side, Ryan Lipe notched the win with a clearance of 5.25m 17' 2.75") to complete the Hoosier sweep of the event. • Olivia Gee raced for the first time in the cream & crimson and put up a time of 9.14 in the 60m hurdle prelim. • Adam Stouf competed in his first meet for IU on Friday night. He collected a mark of 17.35m (56' 11.25") to finish fourth in the weight throw. NOTABLES • Tyler Sierks was the runner-up in the pole vault after clocking a personal record of 5.05m (16' 6.75") • Tristan Forsythe saw a fourth place finish in the 3000m with a personal best time of 8.14.59. Austin Haskett and Gabriel Sanchez also saw personal records in the event with a time of 8:15.10 and 8:19.37, respectively. • Mariah Wehrle returned for her second meet of the season where she saw a personal best in the mile with a time of 4:59.84. • Rounding out the list of personal records was Jayden Ulrich who heaved a mark of 19.31m (63' 4.25") in the weight throw and was the runner-up. • The Hoosiers also took two through seven in the mile. Arjun Jha led the rest of the field with second place finish and a time of 4:05.55. He was followed by Jake Gebhardt in third, Camden Marshall in third, Dustin Horter in fourth, Keelan Grant in sixth, and Ben Miller in seventh.

Jeremy Foumena is 6'11" 230 lbs. native of Quebec, Canada. Played '20-'21 for Central Pointe Christian Academy in Kissimmee, FL. Didn't see anything for him on 247 or Rivals. In the Prospective Insight article in the link above he indicates he played AAU ball last summer for Georgia Stars, the same AAU program of '23 Coen Carr. Nov '21 Article @Jfoumena1 @Orangevilleprep

I know it's a little early for a Sunday game thread but just saw this and wanted to make sure it gets out. IU will wear retro uniforms of the 1987 NCAA Champions against Michigan on Sunday, per release. Live Stats Radio

I know a lot of people don't care for Hoosier Hysterics and they're a little overbearing for me as well. But this took some effort and is just too good not to post.

I was surprised they didn't deliberately rough him up a little in the early part of the game solely to get under his skin and cause him to lose focus.

Worried about a letdown after last night's big win. Woody's Wonders 68 Juwon't Win 60

From Indiana Swim/Dive: The reigning Olympic Champion in the 400m Free is a Hoosier! Welcome to #IUSD, Ahmed

This is freaky. The IU managers beat the PUke managers by the identical score of 68-65.

Robbie Eggers @RobbieEggers Let’s face it - Purdue lost the moment they attempted to put a commercial out there that said “this is our state.” When you have to try to convince people you're important - you're not!

SIAP. Hard to keep track

Who did it better?

How could you not want to be a part of IU basketball after what he experienced last night. Come on Miro, give us a big "joo" before you head back home. (BTW that's yes in Finnish)

+/- minutes for tonight's game. Jordan Geronimo +17 Trey Galloway +15 Rob Phinisee +15 Tamar Bates +11 Everyone else was in the negatives.

From Dustin Dopirak: Woodson says Phinisee told him to give him the ball. Said they had a new out of bounds play that worked out.

@jakai_newton -- We lit #Hoosiers @Mcswain_Jr21 -- Yeah!!! ROB @ChefBoyArGreen -- Yea Rob!!! @juwanmorgan -- HOLLA AT ME!!! @CodyZeller -- So much maturity from TJD! Sits the whole game then comes back get the last stop, rebound, and sealed it with 2 big free throws!