That boys’ basketball game that was suspended a week ago tonight due to a medical emergency in the stands, was completed Tuesday evening. The remaining approximate 6 minutes between East Central’s Trojans and the South Dearborn Knights were played last just as if the game hadn’t stopped, and South Dearborn wound up prevailing over East Central, 72-56. The score had been 56-41 in favor of the Knights when the game was suspended. The person who fell ill last week was reached right away and given CPR by a South Dearborn athletic trainer, and was revived, taken out of the gym on a stretcher conscious and talking. They were said late last week to be doing well.
In the full game you heard on WRBI last night, Jac-Cen-Del’s girls defeated South Ripley, 49-37. Other scores included Batesville beating South Decatur 54-27, Franklin County prevailing over South Dearborn 58-30, and Greensburg topping New Palestine 45-35. North Decatur belted Hauser 55-18, Oldenburg Academy had no trouble with Milan 53-30, and Shelbyville knocked off East Central, 30-21.
In the men’s college game, Purdue’s Boilermakers have gone on a bit of a tear since getting embarrassed with a loss to Nebraska that knocked them out of being the country’s Number 1 squad. It’s like they have something to prove. Last night, the second-ranked Boilers proved it again, blasting the Michigan Wolverines at Mackey, 99-67, Lance Jones topping Purdue with 24 points. Their other victims the last couple weeks have included Iowa, Penn State, and IU’s Hoosiers.
Other action last night– Butler clubbed Georgetown by a similar margin, 90-66… Nebraska topped Ohio State in Lincoln, 83-69… and Ball State’s Cards blew Buffalo away in New York state, 87-59.
In NBA play at Gainbridge, the Denver Nuggets got by the Pacers, 114-109.
Some off-season football news for a true legend of the game… former Bengals quarterback Kenny Anderson, the most accurate NFL passer of his generation, will add another line to his resume next month, when he gets enshrined in the National Quarterback Club Hall of Fame. Anderson will be joined for that Arizona ceremony by fellow greats Rodney Peete and Bernie Kosar February 23rd, a week after Kenny turns 75. In 2002 and 2019 respectively, Carson Palmer and Joe Burrow had both gotten the college version of the Quarterback Club honor when they also won the Heisman Trophy, then got drafted Number 1 by Cincinnati.