2021 Indiana High School Basketball State Tournament: Purdue Commits Win State Titles
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What a run for Caleb Furst and Trey Kaufman-Renn. Both were robbed of a chance to repeat as state champions for their respective schools in 2020, but they remained undaunted. Despite losing a shot at a second title in their junior seasons they got the repeat anyway by both winning state championships today in Indianapolis. Here is the recap from the day at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
Class A
Barr-Reeve 64, Kouts 48
Barr-Reeve was able to finish the deal this year, winning their second state championship and first since 2015. Bellarmine bound Curt Hopf closed out his Barr-Reeve career with a monster game of 23 points and 19 rebounds. Hagen Knepp added a double-double as well for Barr-Reeve with 16 points and 10 rebounds. Cole and Cale Wireman combined for 36 points for Kouts, but Barr-Reeve pushed out to a 12-point le
The Kouts Mustangs placed 2nd in 1A State Final on Saturday with a final score of 64-48.
INDIANAPOLISÂ â Kouts coach Kevin Duzan had to get something off his chest while sitting in-between his team s leaders, Cole and Cale Wireman, in a postgame press conference Saturday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
The senior twins scored 21 points and 15 points, respectively, in the Mustangs first state final appearance, which ended in a 64-48 loss to Barr-Reeve. As disappointing as it was for them not be crowned Class A state champions, Duzan wanted to make sure his star seniors received their proper credit.
Kouts, making its first state final appearance, had its chances against Barr-Reeve in the Class A state championship Saturday morning at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. After the Mustangs missed all six of their 3-point attempts in the first half, senior twins Cale and Cole Wireman jump-started the team in the third quarter.
Cale opened the period with a corner 3 in front of Kouts bench, and a few moments later Cole drained back-to-back 3-pointers to keep the Mustangs within striking distance. It just came to the fact that we had to just start shooting the ball and not think about it, Cale said. Once we hit two or three (shots) I thought, Well, we just need to keep shooting and keep in rhythm and we could easily win this game.
BOURBON â Kouts saw a different defense in Saturday s night Class A Triton Regional.
The host Trojans employed a triangle and two on the Mustangs top scorers, Cole and Cale Wireman. We just had to get our guys organized and get other guys to shoot the ball, Kouts coach Kevin Duzan said.
After trailing 12-9 after the first quarter, the No. 3 Mustangs outscored the Trojans 21-7 before halftime and pulled away for a 56-42 win and their third title in program history.
Kouts (28-2) won previous crowns in 1998 and 2001.
The Wireman brothers accounted for 48 points in the semifinal win over Fremont, but combined for only 17 in the nightcap.
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