Westfield’s Buchanan, Noblesville’s Fine, Fishers’ Garner chosen for senior honors
The REPORTER
Three Hamilton County boys basketball players are among the 15 seniors and 15 underclass boys’ basketball players that have earned IBCA/Franciscan Health “Supreme 15” All-State honors for 2023-24, it was announced Friday.
The IBCA also named Large School All-State teams (15 seniors, 15 underclass) and Small School All-State teams (15 seniors, 15 underclass).
The “Supreme 15” is the top honor awarded, and players were voted to that group without regard to school size. The Large School and Small School all-state teams are secondary accolades — the Large School group including players from Class 3A and Class 4A schools and the Small School group including players from Class A and Class 2A schools. Players who make the Supreme 15 are not considered for Large School or Small School honors.
In addition, 90 more seniors and 90 more underclass players were selected honorable mention all-state. The honorable mention laurels are awarded without regard to school size. In total, 270 players — 135 seniors and 135 underclass players — were recognized on the 2024 IBCA boys’ basketball All-State teams.
Westfield’s Trey Buchanan, Noblesville’s Aaron Fine and Fishers’ Keenan Garner were among the players voted to the 2024 IBCA/Franciscan Health Supreme 15 Senior boys’ team. The other players are, listed alphabetically: Isaac Andrews, Wapahani; Jack Benter, Brownstown Central; Flory Bidunga, Kokomo; Kobi Bowles, Lawrence North; Micah Davis, Franklin Community; Evan Haywood, Brebeuf Jesuit; Jevon Lewis, Fort Wayne Wayne; Malachi McNair, Evansville Harrison; Tyler Parrish, Chesterton; Ron Rutland III, Indianapolis Attucks; Jacob Smith, Lake Central; and K.J. Windham, Ben Davis.
Those voted to the 2024 IBCA/Franciscan Health Supreme 15 Underclass boys’ team are, listed alphabetically: Dezmon Briscoe, Indianapolis Attucks; Julius Gizzi, New Palestine; Damien King, Anderson; Brady Koehler, Indianapolis Cathedral; Chase Konieczny, South Bend St. Joseph; Braylon Mullins, Greenfield-Central; Dominique Murphy, East Chicago Central; Kellen Pickett, Fort Wayne Blackhawk Christian; Steven Reynolds, South Bend Washington; Azavier Robinson, Lawrence North; Tre Singleton, Jeffersonville; Trent Sisley, Heritage Hills; Jack Smiley, Valparaiso; Jaymen Townsend, Marion; and Mark Zackery IV, Ben Davis.
Westfield’s Nic Book, Guerin Catholic’s Robert Sorensen and Noblesville’s Hunter Walston were all named to the Senior Large School All-State team. Guerin Catholic junior Bryson Cardinal, Carmel junior Alex Couto and Fishers junior JonAnthony Hall were both named to the Underclass Large School All-State team.
Hamilton Southeastern’s Donovan Hamilton and Fishers’ Taden Metzger were both named as Senior Honorable Mention. Noblesville sophomore Justin Curry and Carmel sophomore Evan Harrell were both named Underclass Honorable Mention.
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.
Franciscan Health Sports Medicine is making a financial contribution to the IBCA Scholarship Fund as the presenting partner of the IBCA All-State Teams. As part of the partnership, Franciscan Health Sports Medicine will provide plaques to Supreme 15 honorees and certificates to players receiving Large School All-State, Small School All-State or Honorable Mention All-State recognition. Those items will be made available to each recipient’s coach during April, allowing his coach to present the award to each player prior to the end of the 2023-24 academic year.
The IBCA thanks Franciscan Health Sports Medicine for being a partner in this annual project.