Local players honored by IBCA
Mar. 22—Three local boys basketball players were honored by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association on Friday when they released their all-state teams,
Only 270 players from around the state were honored by the association.
Zionsville junior Maguire Mitchell made the Underclassmen Large School All-State team.
Mitchell averaged 20.9 points a game for the Eagles this past year, which was 37th best in the state. He also averaged 5.1 points and 2.5 rebounds.
He broke the 30-point plateau twice, including a career-best 32 in a win over Brebeuf in January.
Lebanon's Kaden Lark and Zionsville's Drew Snively were named to the Underclassmen honorable mention all-state.
Lark averaged 20.9 points a game, 35th best in the state.
He also averaged 4.6 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 2.7 steals a game for the Tigers. He had a career-best 38 points against Speedway.
Snively averaged 17.8 points and 4.0 rebounds. He shot 54% from the field and 40% from 3.
He twice hit his career high of 27 points this year, against Harrison and Warren Central.
The IBCA/Franciscan Health All-State teams are selected through a process organized by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association and presented by Franciscan Health Sports Medicine.
All IBCA-member head coaches have the opportunity to nominate players. A panel of 22 IBCA coaches — 16 from the current regional areas plus six district representatives (two each from IHSAA Districts 1, 2 and 3) and the committee chairman — then meet to review the nominations, vote and finalize the selections. The committee chairman, former West Lafayette coach David Wood, presided over the meeting but did not vote.
Those on the IBCA boys' all-state committee for 2024 included Chris Benedict of Whitko and Alaa Mroueh of East Chicago Central from District 1, Daniel Cox of New Castle and Tyler Scherer of McCutcheon from District 2 and Kyle Simpson (for J.R. Holmes) of Bloomington South and Fonso White of Floyd Central from District 3.
Completing the voting panel were Mike Hackett of Munster, Ryan Osborn of Carmel, Chris Hawkins of Indianapolis Attucks and Nathan Fleenor of Evansville Harrison in Class 4A; Aaron Wolfe of NorthWood, Matt Kostoff of Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger, Bobby Allen of Guerin Catholic and Gene Miiller of Washington in Class 3A; Kent Chezem of North Judson, Matt Luce of Wapahani, Mark James of Triton Central and David Benter of Brownstown Central in Class 2A; and Kevin Krieger of Morgan Township, Cory Dunn of Rossville, Remus Woods of Indianapolis Lutheran and Josh Thompson of Barr-Reeve in Class A.
Will Willems is the Sports Editor of the Lebanon Reporter. Follow him on Twitter @Will_Willems.
