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BRAZIL — The Western Indiana Conference crossover championship battle lived up to its billing on Friday evening as Cloverdale rallied to take a 68-65 win over Northview in double overtime. The Clovers were able to overcome a six-point deficit in the final 1:14 of regulation to force overtime and then outlasted the Knights in the second extra session to earn the win...

The pairings for the 44th girls state tournament will be revealed online at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. The two‐hour program will be hosted by Bob Lovell of Indiana Sports Talk, and will stream exclusively on the IHSAA’s video portal at IHSAAtv.org and via affiliates of the IHSAA Champions Radio Network.  ...

CLINTON — A 57-46 victory over the South Vermillion Wildcats Friday night earned the Greencastle Tiger Cubs their 11th win in 12 games. Ranked 12th in Class 3A, the Tiger Cubs rode a 27-point effort by sophomore guard Brody Whitaker to their eighth straight win in a non-conference boys’ high school basketball game at South Vermillion...

Championship Class 2A No. 12 Cloverdale 68, Northview 65 (2OT) Third place Owen Valley 51, Class 3A No. 18 Greencastle 32 Fifth place South Putnam 56, Indian Creek 49 (OT) Seventh place North Putnam 48, Cascade 45 Ninth place Sullivan 56, Brown County 50...

For three quarters on Friday night, the host South Putnam Eagles couldn’t seem to handle the Indian Creek Braves’ physical play in girls’ high school basketball. South trailed by eight-to-twelve points most of the game, but rallied with a big fourth quarter to force overtime and then defeat the Braves 56-49 to pick up fifth place in the Western Indiana Conference standings...

BAINBRIDGE — In an exciting seventh-place Western Indiana Conference girls’ basketball crossover game Friday night, the North Putnam Cougars beat the Cascade Cadets, 48-45. It was also Senior Night for four Cougars. From the get-go it was clear it was going to be a game of runs as the Cougars (12-9, 3-2 WIC West) scored on four straight unanswered possessions to take a 7-2 lead. Freshman Brie Miller had four of those points on what would become a dominant night from Cougar post players...

Tod Windlan saw it coming. His Greencastle Tiger Cubs had not practiced well this week, and a very ominous sign on Friday night gave him concern. “When you’ve got kids asking you before the game if they’re going to have practice on Saturday, that kind of sets the tone to the whole thing,” he said...

Impending bad weather on Saturday has resulted in the following schedule changes: -- South Putnam's boys' varsity basketball JV-V home games with Monrovia have been postponed to Wed., Jan. 30. -- The WIC middle school basketball tournaments scheduled for Saturday have been postponed. Reschedule is TBD...

CLOVERDALE — Many times, coaches will try to build on a previous win over a team when meeting that team for the second time in a season. Cloverdale’s Matthew Langdon isn’t really taking that approach tonight, as his Clovers travel to Brazil to meet Northview in the Western Indiana Conference girls’ basketball championship game...

CLOVERDALE — Cloverdale and North Putnam did not exactly put on a long-range shooting exhibition in their boys’ basketball game on Thursday night. The teams combined to hit just 2 of 34 shots from 3-point range, but in the end Cloverdale was able to capitalize on several more free throw opportunities to record a 48-40 win...

Indiana State will host defending Missouri Valley Conference champion Loyola (Chicago) at 2 p.m. today, on a special day honoring the 1979 NCAA runnerup team. Larry Bird and all members of the team will be present at today's festivities. The game will be telecast on ESPNU...

CRAWFORDSVILLE — DePauw entered its men’s basketball game at rival Wabash on Wednesday night as the North Coast Athletic Conference’s top 3-point shooting team and 27th in the nation (40.1%), while the 14th-ranked Little Giants came in with the league’s best defense against the long ball and eighth in the country (27.5%)...

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- Jordan Barnes posted 15 points and pulled down 11 rebounds as the Sycamores fell 69-64 to Northern Iowa on Wednesday night. The Sycamores dropped to 10-7, 2-3 MVC while Northern Iowa improved to 8-10, 3-2 MVC. The loss ended a three-game winning streak for the Sycamores against UNI. Barnes posted his first career double-double with 15 points and a career-high 11 rebounds. Cooper Neese came off the bench to score a career-high 13 points and had a look at three with eight seconds remaining which glanced off the rim.

VINCENNES – My nomadic ventures to basketball gyms near and far hit a fever pitch earlier this month when I went to five college games in a seven-day period at three different schools. My wife and I went to Indiana University on a Thursday night to see the Hoosiers play Illinois, returning to the site of our first date 18 years earlier...

With the final night of divisional play coming up Friday in the Western Indiana Conference, the girls’ championship basketball game pairings have already been set with the boys’ divisional winners still up in the air. Cloverdale will travel to Northview on Jan. 18 for the conference championship, setting up a rematch of the volleyball championship match played in the fall...

The Shakespearean tragedy-type situation involving Greencastle Community Schools, coach Craig Jordan and star Tiger Cub runner Emma Wilson remains in limbo with no immediate end in sight. Last month, GCSC placed Jordan on “administrative leave” for unspecified reasons...

Greencastle hosted and swept Cloverdale in first-round Putnam County tournament boys’ basketball action on Monday night. The Tiger Cubs won the 7th-grade game 35-34 and the 8th-grade game 29-27 in overtime. Seventh grade The first half was evenly played, as the entire game was...

The “Misfits” 16U fastpitch softball team, with several players from Putnam County, concluded its fall season by winning a tournament at Bicknell last month. The championship game was tied at 1-1 in the bottom of the sixth inning when South Putnam’s Brionna Egold hit a walkoff triple to score fellow Eagle Gracie Nees from first base for a 2-1 victory...