Missouri
Monster dunk: Noblesville’s Luke Almodovar throws one down for Southeast Missouri State
If you checked in on ESPN’s “top plays” over the weekend, perhaps you saw Noblesville’s Luke Almodovar pop up with a monster dunk against Southern Indiana. He scored 21 points in Southeast Missouri State’s 90-65 win.
The Southeast Missouri State junior leads the Redhawks (15-10) — who have won six straight games and are in second place in the Ohio Valley Conference — with a 14.6-point scoring average.
Almodovar, the grandson of 1965 Mr. Basketball Billy Keller, was a 2023 Indiana All-Star for Noblesville, scoring 936 career points and averaging in double figures for three seasons.
Almodovar, whose parents met as volleyball players at Purdue Fort Wayne in the 1990s, played his first two college seasons at NAIA St. Francis, earning all-conference honors on 20-point scoring as a sophomore.
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