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The outcome of Sunday’s sectional drawing for next month’s IHSAA boys’ basketball sectional tournament will play a big part in the outcome for Putnam County teams. The draw always matters, obviously, but with both tournaments involving Putnam County teams including seven teams there are even more good and bad spots to be than usual...

American Family Insurance and Intersport has announced the 24 “Fearless Dreamers” who have advanced to the quarterfinals of the American Family Insurance “#DreamFearlessly Fan Vote” for the American Family Insurance High School Slam Dunk and 3-Point Championships...

Kain Gregory is a senior at South Putnam and participates in football, basketball and track and field. ——— Banner Graphic: How important are sports to you, and what have you learned from them? Kain Gregory: “Since I was a little kid, they have been my life. ...

Three Putnam County senior girls’ basketball player have received honors recently for their outstanding play this year. Cloverdale senior Sammie Shrum was named to the All-District 1 team by the Hoosier Basketball Coaches Association. Greencastle’s Allison Stevens and South Putnam’s Alex Bratcher was each named to Hoosier Basketball Magazine’s Top 100 Senior Girls’ high school player list...

**__Greencastle (15-4) at No. 1 Bloomington South (20-0)__ **__Owen Valley (8-12) at South Putnam (4-16)__

Greencastle jumped out to leads of 13-2, 21-6 and 32-8 on Tuesday night and cruised to an 81-65 win over visiting Cascade in high school basketball action. The Cubs won their ninth straight game in improving their record to 15-4, and will put that streak on the line on Friday night at undefeated and Class 4A top-ranked Bloomington South...

Medora High School made the long trip up from Jackson County to South Putnam on a Tuesday night to play high school basketball. The Hornets struggled against the bigger, more athletic Eagles as South jumped out to an early lead and cruised to a 57-35 victory...

BAINBRIDGE — North Putnam battled back from a 10-point deficit in the second half against North Montgomery on Tuesday night and had a half-court shot for the win — but the ball got too much iron and the Cougars dropped a 45-44 heartbreaker. With fouls few and far between, the game became a physical affair...

The Associated Press Top 10 Indiana high school boys basketball teams, with first-place votes in parentheses, records, rating points and previous rankings: Class 4A Others receiving votes: Carmel 46. S. Bend Adams 25. Northridge 22. Class 3A Others receiving votes: Mississinewa 27. Ev. Bosse 22. Indpls Brebeuf 10. S. Bend Washington 9. Ft. Wayne Luers 7. Beech Grove 6. Edgewood 6...

Click here to find out how Putnam County teams did on Tuesday night.

VINCENNES — It’s not like Jalen Moore needed to start from scratch and revamp his entire game, but the former Cloverdale standout has managed to improve upon his first season of junior college basketball at Olney Central with his play this winter. Moore, who finished his Clover career as the 11th-leading scorer in Indiana high school history, averaged 19.3 points a game last year for the Blue Knights as well as 7.8 assists (to just 2.3 turnovers per game)...

South Putnam emerged as the only girls’ sectional winner among the 11 teams in the Western Indiana Conference. The maximum number of sectional titles that WIC teams could have won was five, since the three Class 2A Putnam County teams were all in the Cloverdale Sectional and five WIC teams (Brown County, Northview, West Vigo, Owen Valley and Edgewood) were all in the Owen Valley Sectional...

In terms of records, this season of girls’ basketball for Putnam County teams is behind that of last year. A year ago, all four teams won at least 13 games – even though none of them won a sectional championship. This year saw a 50-percent turnover in head coaches, the graduation of several key players such as two-time Putnam County “Player of the Year” Tori Combs and several teams toughening their schedules to prepare for state tourney competition...

CLOVERDALE — South Putnam and North Putnam captured Putnam County championships in boys’ middle school basketball on Wednesday night at Cloverdale. The Eagles bested the Cloverdale Clovers 32-16 to win the 7th grade title and North defeated South 39-28 in the 8th grade matchup...

The South Putnam Eagles swept a pair of games from the Greencastle Tiger Cubs on Monday night at Greencastle Middle School in the Putnam County boys’ middle school basketball tournament. The seventh grade Eagles advanced to the championship game with a 32-23 victory, while South’s eighth graders took care of the Tiger Cubs 36-19 in the second game...

GRANVILLE, Ohio — DePauw shot over 57 percent from the field in the first half in building a 24-point lead and the Tigers collected their 19th straight win with a 70-52 North Coast Athletic Conference victory at Denison on Wednesday night. The Tigers moved to 23-1 overall and 15-0 in the NCAC, while the Big Red dropped to 16-8 overall and 10-5 in the conference...

Third-ranked DePauw outscored Ohio Wesleyan 28-6 in the fourth quarter and clinched the outright North Coast Athletic Conference title with a 77-56 win over Ohio Wesleyan. The Tigers moved to 22-1 overall and 14-0 in the conference with their 18th straight win, while the Battling Bishops dropped to 12-11 overall and 7-7 in conference play...

CRAWFORDSVILLE — The DePauw University men’s basketball team falls 64-71 to Wabash College on Wednesday night in a physical back-and-forth battle in game two of the rivalry series. After beating Wabash in Neal Fieldhouse just a few weeks earlier, the Tigers took to the floor determined to sweep the series and move up the NCAC standings late in the season...

MIAMI (AP) — Most of the top NBA playoff contenders stayed out of the down-to-the-wire frenzy at the trade deadline. Miami and the Los Angeles Clippers beefed up instead. And a slew of other teams — including the Golden State Warriors — made moves with short-term finances and long-term ramifications in mind...