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Star-filled roster for Team Indiana at Saturday’s Prep Ball Stars Midwest Challenge
IHSAA boys basketball highlights: Greenfield-Central 60, Mt. Vernon 55
UConn recruit Braylon Mullins and Greenfield-Central got best of Purdue commit Luke Ertel and Mt. Vernon in a Saturday night HHC basketball showdown.
Seven Indiana All-Stars, including Mr. Basketball Braylon Mullins of Greenfield-Central, will headline the 7th annual Prep Ball Stars Midwest Challenge on Saturday at Farmers Bank Fieldhouse in Lebanon.
If that was not enough talent, Team Indiana will also have top-100 players Jalen Haralson (Notre Dame) and Trent Sisley (Indiana) on the roster.
“I’m excited for this event as I have been for any of the seven,” said event founder and organizer Tony Leach. “This will be the first time Trent Sisley, Jalen Haralson and Braylon Mullins (UConn) will play together. On paper, it’s a ‘dream team’ for Team Indiana.”
The event, which features senior all-star teams from Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, will be played at the 1,500-seat main court at Farmers Bank Fieldhouse. Team Michigan will play Team Illinois at 11 a.m., followed by Team Indiana vs. Team Wisconsin at 12:30 p.m. There will be a senior girls showcase game at 2 p.m. as Indiana will play Illinois, followed by the boys consolation at 3:30 p.m., and the championship at 5 p.m.
All four Mr. Basketball finalists – Mullins, Jeffersonville’s Tre Singleton (Northwestern), Lawrence North’s Azavier Robinson (Butler) and Crispus Attucks’ Dezmon Briscoe (Kent State) – will participate. Other Indiana All-Stars are Cathedral’s Brady Koehler (Notre Dame), Fishers’ Justin Kirby (Miami of Ohio) and Ben Davis’ Mark Zachery IV (Notre Dame football). Other players on the roster are Jett Turner of Tindley (Alabama A&M), Zionsville’s Maguire Mitchell (IU Indy), South Bend St. Joseph’s Chase Konieczny (Florida Gulf Coast), Anderson’s Damien King (Tennessee-Martin) and Crispus Attucks’ Chris Hurt (IU-South Bend).
Haralson, who played his final two high school seasons at La Lumiere, and Sisley, who attended Montverde Academy (Fla.) as a senior, are the two prep school players on the 14-member roster.
General admission tickets are $18 in advance and $20 at the door.
Team Wisconsin’s roster includes Iowa State recruit Jamarion Batemon, Alabama recruit Amari Allen and Canisius recruit Javonte Edwards.
“You aren’t going to Iowa State or Alabama if you can’t play,” Leach said. “Team Wisconsin is coming with a good group.”
Headliners for Team Michigan are Markus Blackwell (Eastern Illinois), Leroy Blyden (Toledo) and Keshawn Fisher (Detroit). Parker Lepla is a 6-8 UIndy commit. Team Illinois’ roster has E.J. Mosley (Purdue Fort Wayne), E.J. Horton (North Texas) and Ross Robertson (Northern Michigan).
The Indiana girls’ roster will be headlined by Lawrence Central standout Jaylah Lampley (Mississippi State), along with Pendleton Heights’ Kaycie Warfel (Taylor), Lawrence North’s Kya Hurt (Illinois State) and Jamaya Thomas (Northern Kentucky), Warsaw’s Brooke Winchester (Ball State), South Knox’s Ella Bobe (Southern Indiana), Greensburg’s Leah West (Belmont) and Columbia City’s Addison Baxter (Butler).
The Team Illinois girls will have Nora Ezike (Stanford), Diann Jackson (Buffalo) and Cyra Conwell (Northern Illinois) among its top players.
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PLAINFIELD, Ind. (WISH) — Suspects fled a Plainfield bank after it was robbed Tuesday afternoon, police say.
Plainfield Police Department was called at 2:10 p.m. Tuesday to the robbery of a bank in progress at Chase Bank, 807 Southfield Drive. That’s southwest of the intersection of Quaker Boulevard and Stafford Road/East County Road 450 South in the Hendricks County town.
Deputy Chief Ryan Salisbury of the Plainfield Police Department said detectives were working on the case.
The police department posted on social media on Tuesday night that no one was hurt in the robbery, and the suspects, who were not in custody, fled prior to the arrival of first responders.
INDIANAPOLIS — Sophie Cunningham wants to emphasize she’s perfectly happy with the Indiana Fever. She just wishes she could be locked down longer.
Cunningham, who signed a one-year, $665,000 deal with the Indiana Fever for 2026, said on her podcast, “Show Me Something,” on Tuesday night that she was frustrated with the free agency process in the condensed offseason.
She shook her head vehemently when her co-host West Wilson asked if the contract was better than she thought it would be, then said in part, “It’s tough because I came off an injury … I’m not even going to lie to you, that’s a little, kind of, frustrating.”
Fans on social media largely took that as she did not get interest from other teams, she didn’t want to return to the Fever, or she was unhappy with the salary she got.
She shut those thoughts down on social media Monday night, then expounded on her frustrations with local media at Fever training camp on Tuesday morning.
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“I think Twitter kind of blew up last night about a comment I made on my podcast. But that wasn’t what I meant at all,” Cunningham said. “I think if you listen to the full clip, you really understand that I just wanted to be somewhere for more than one year. I’m almost 30 years old. I want to have a home. I want to get established. And I would love to get established in a place like Indiana.”
The Fever prioritized as much financial flexibility as possible this offseason because of the new EPIC clause, which allows both Aliyah Boston and Caitlin Clark to renegotiate their fourth-year salaries up to the max with an extension. Boston’s salary was bumped to $1 million in 2025, and she will make the supermax from 2027-29. Clark is eligible to negotiate up to the max in 2027, and both Clark and Boston could be making the supermax starting in 2028.
Only Lexie Hull and Monique Billings got major multi-year deals with the Fever out of free agency. Hull signed for $765,000 in 2026 and $803,250 in 2027, per Her Hoop Stats, while Billings got $800,000 for both 2026 and 2027. Damiris Dantas is the only other player that got a multi-year deal out of free agency, but that was for the minimum cap hit of $277,500.
Kelsey Mitchell signed a one-year, $1.4 million supermax, Cunningham returned on a one-year deal, and Myisha Hines-Allen and Tyasha Harris each signed one-year deals.
Cunningham added that she got multi-year offers from other teams, but chose to stay with Indiana on a one-year deal.
She wanted to return to Indiana, she said, because of friendships she created with her teammates and the potential they showed, even after six separate season-ending injuries on the roster. She is also closer to her hometown of Columbia, Missouri.
“When you find a group of girls who really make you fall in love with basketball games and you enjoy it, you enjoy them, not only on the court, but off the court, like, you want to hold on to that,” Cunningham said. “ … it was never about the money, it was just about the years, because I wanted to be with them. And God forbid a girl loves her teammates, you know what I mean?”
Cunningham is also coming off a major knee injury after she tore her MCL in August 2025. She was ruled out for the rest of the 2025 season and got surgery in Indianapolis, then had a six-month rehab process before she was cleared in February.
Since then, she has been ramping back up as much as possible, including playing one-on-one, three-on-three, plyometrics, and everything she does to get ready for a regular season.
Still, she said, she’ll need to actually play to get back into full basketball shape.
“Basketball shape is just different,” Cunningham said. “You can run as many suicides as you want, you can get your butt kicked however you want, but until you’re out here playing, you’re never fully going to be in game shape until you’re playing games.”
Chloe Peterson is the Indiana Fever beat reporter for IndyStar. Reach her at chloe.peterson@indystar.com or follow her on X at @chloepeterson67. Get IndyStar’s Indiana Fever and Caitlin Clark coverage sent directly to your inbox with our Caitlin Clark Fever newsletter. Subscribe to IndyStar TV: Fever for in-depth analysis, behind-the-scenes coverage and more.
CLOVERDALE, Ind. (WKRC) – Authorities in Indiana found a semi trailer loaded up with hundreds of pounds of suspected cocaine.
According to a statement issued by the Indiana State Police (ISP), 27-year-old Harmandeep Singh of Bakersfield, California was taken into custody after nearly 400 pounds of suspected cocaine were reportedly found in the trailer of a commercial truck.
Per the statement, an ISP trooper seized the suspected cocaine during a traffic stop on Interstate 70 in Putnam County, authorities said.
The stop occurred Tuesday morning near the 37-mile marker, just east of Cloverdale, after a commercial motor vehicle was observed exceeding the posted speed limit.
Police said Singh displayed several indicators of possible criminal activity during the encounter. After obtaining consent to search the vehicle, troopers discovered multiple duffel bags and cardboard boxes in the trailer containing approximately 392 pounds (178 kilograms) of suspected cocaine.
Authorities estimated the street value of the drugs at about $9 million.
Singh was taken into custody and taken to the Putnam County Jail, where he is being held on a $30,000 cash bond.
He faces the following preliminary charges, per the post:
- Possession of a narcotic drug
Formal charges will be determined by the Putnam County prosecutor.
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Indiana State Police said drug interdiction remains a priority, with troopers focusing on major highways to disrupt the flow of illegal narcotics into the state.
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