On Saturday, March 29th, 2025 the Jeffersonville High School boys basketball team won it's 2nd State Championship when they defeated the defending state champions, the Fishers HIgh School Tigers in an overtime thriller 67-66. Here is the link to a PREVIEW of the game from the IHSAA site: https://www.ihsaa.org/media/news/class-4a-state-championship-preview-4 Here is a link to the Box Score of the game: https://www.ihsaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2024-25%20BBB%204A%20Box.pdf Here is a link to a story by Grant Shouse at Shouse Hoops: https://cheerfulgshouse6404.com/2025/03/31/shock-and-awe-jeffersonville-stuns-nationally-ranked-fishers-to-win-the-class-4a-state-finals/ Enjoy the story on the game from the Indy Star below, written by Kyle Neddenriep: INDIANAPOLIS -- At different points in Fishers’ march to 43 consecutive victories, a team would occasionally stress the Tigers, even taking leads into the fourth quarter. Every time, the Tigers knew the opponent did not believe it would win. They were right. Until Saturday night. The top-ranked Tigers, in front of a crowd of 14,483 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse full of red-clad Jeffersonville and Fishers fans for the Class 4A state championship, finally met their match. It took everything and some to end Fishers’ 43-game winning streak. Final: Jeffersonville 67, Fishers 66. In overtime. “There’s only two teams in the state that really play like that,” Jeffersonville senior Michael Cooper said. “It’s them and us. We kind of matched their intensity and picked them up full court. They had to use the same amount of energy that other teams they were beating were using. Everybody is going to get tired when you play like that.” In other words, fight fire with fire against a team with the fifth-longest winning streak in state history. Senior Tre Singleton, a 6-8 Northwestern recruit, was the main antagonist, finishing with 26 points, five rebounds and four assists to lead the sixth-ranked Red Devils (24-5). Fishers was unable to slow him down most of the night. But Singleton’s biggest play came on a pass, not a shot. It came after No. 1 Fishers took a 66-65 lead with 1:07 left in overtime on a 3-pointer from the top of the key by Millen McCartney — the first lead in the extra session for the Tigers. “I knew when he shot it, it was going in,” Fishers coach Garrett Winegar said of McCartney’s shot. “I fully expected us to get a stop. Hindsight is 20/20. Maybe you take the timeout and set the (defense), but we had the momentum.” On the next possession, Singleton backed his man down in the post, then dished off to a cutting Elijah Cheeks, whose layup gave the Red Devils a 67-66 lead with 37 seconds remaining. Winegar said the next defender over should have rotated to stop Cheeks from getting to the basket. “I knew when they collapsed on Tre, I’d get an open look,” said Cheeks, who finished with four points. Said Singleton: “I saw his man start to dig the post on me and as soon as I saw him dive with his hands up — and he did a good job of keeping his hands up — I passed it and he did a good job of catching the ball in traffic and finishing. He did all of it.” Jeffersonville then had to survive a couple of heart-in-your-throat moments in the final seconds. Jason Gardner Jr. missed a contested pull-up jumper, but the ball went out of bounds to Fishers with 9 seconds remaining. After the baseline inbounds, Singleton deflected Gardner Jr.’s jump shot, but Fishers again got the rebound and a timeout with 2.1 seconds left. “On the baseline out of bounds, we tried to get Jason downhill,” Winegar said. “Then we got the sideline out of bounds with 2.1 seconds to go and they were playing off Cooper (Zachary). So, the goal was to get it in and pitch it right back to him.” But with Zachary closely guarded after stepping in bounds, McCartney caught the ball going away from the basket and shot an off balance 3-pointer that only grazed the bottom of the backboard before it fell harmlessly to the floor. As Jeffersonville’s players jumped and celebrated on the floor, one of the few people who could understand what they were feeling — Jeffersonville coach Sherron Wilkerson — hugged his assistant coaches. In 1993, Wilkerson led the Red Devils to their only previous state championship in state history. Now, he is one of six coaches to win state as a coach and player. And only the second — joining Don Carlisle of Ben Davis two years ago — to accomplish the double at his alma mater. The emotions were clearly running through the 49-year-old Wilkerson after the game. He has not shied away from discussing the mistakes he made as a young man, including quitting the Indiana All-Stars team and being stripped of the Mr. Basketball title in 1993. “As a young man, I had some hurdles to get over,” Wilkerson said. “To be able to come back in this fashion … I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: It’s divine intervention. It’s God’s plan and I was the vessel.” This senior class, including Singleton, Cooper (15 points), P.J. Douglas (eight points, four rebounds) and Shawn Boyd (11 points on 3-for-3 shooting from the 3-point line), was the group Wilkerson believed could get it done. Wilkerson has coached other places, including Madison and Logansport, but when he came back to Jeffersonville in 2022, he knew this could be a special group. Even after they lost by 50 points to Cathedral in his first game. “This group is special for a couple of different reasons,” Wilkerson said. “But probably the most important reason is that they are Jeffersonville guys. I’ve been to Madison, been to Logansport and still consider myself part of those families. But to come back to your home family is something very special.” And memorable, considering how it happened. Jeffersonville not only never wilted, it punched back when Fishers (30-1) made a run. The Red Devils led by six points at halftime and extended to a nine-point lead late in the third quarter. But by the end of the third, McCartney’s 3-poitner cut Jeffersonville’s lead to three points. The fourth quarter was a heavyweight fight. Jeffersonville surged ahead by seven, then Fishers answered to get it back to 54-52 on a 3-pointer by Nathan Baker with 4 minutes left. Gardner Jr. drove and scored on a three-point play to give Fishers the lead, 60-58, with 1:03 left. But Cooper immediately responded, scoring in a tough left-hand finish seconds later to make it 60-all. Fishers melted the clock down, but Kirby’s guarded driving shot was off the mark and Jeffersonville got a timeout with 4.1 seconds left. After a timeout, Singleton caught the ball around midcourt and drive to the free-throw line area. His jumper bounced off the glass and nearly went in. It missed. But victory was just four more minutes away. The wait maybe made it even that much sweeter. “The game was a roller-coaster,” Cooper said. “But we dug in. And we finished it out.”