He had 30 pts, 14 rebounds and 10 blocks. To me the blocks was what got me off my seat. I hope IU can get him. He plays for Kokomo in case it wasn't known.
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Flory Bidunga with a Triple Double to win the Sectional against Lafayette Jeff.
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I haven't seen anything about either , I just wonder about players like this and its a different era. Did anybody know anything about Ted Kitchel before he got to IU? Just one example
It was a different era. No YouTube. No Email. No recruiting websites. Most HS games were not televised. Whatever scouting services there were would have been getting info out in the mail on paper or maybe by fax. Schools mostly recruited within driving distance. Other than Kitchel and Jim Roberson, everyone on Kitchel's freshman year team was from Indiana, Ohio, or Illinois.
As an out of state Hoosier I appreciate YouTube and ihsaatv.org because I get to see different players. Booker and Bidunga are different players indeed.
What ? Kitchel was from Indiana just west of Kokomo. Jim Thomas was from Fla
I'm over any projects..
That was the word on Duncomb..And it was true..
I have seen them both . The kid from Kokomo is a pure center, and gets up and down the floor ala Cody Zeller. I went and saw Kokomo vs Richmond. Long armed, hustles, quick jumper he is better than Booker.
IU website says he's from Galveston TX.
Ted Kitchel - Men's Basketball - Indiana University Athletics
Ted Kitchel (30) F - Career Stats Year G GS Min FGM FGA FG% 3PM 3PA 3P% FTM FTA FT% Off Def Reb A Stl BS TO Pts Avg 78-79 1 - - 0 2 .000 - - - 0 0 - - - 0 0 ...
That's what I looked at, I didn't assume it was wrong.
As Kitchel once explained in a broadcast, he grew up near Bennetts Switch and Waupecong.
Those are near Galveston, Ind.
Yes Lewis Cass. I used to drive by there a lot when I was in the Air Force.
Ah, that's where Galveston came from. So the IU site is wrong.
North of Galveston is Walton. Nice little restaurant called The Dog Shed.
Not sure he’s better, two different types of players. Booker is a year older and lot more skilled than Bidunga and is a more perimeter oriented player. Bidunga bigger and more physical. No reason why IU shouldn’t be recruiting both.
He’s a sophomore in high school…not sure project is the word you’re looking for.
Really, Ted said that? Bennetts Switch isn't too far away but Wawpecong is farther away than Kokomo.
Maybe he was going for strange sounding towns. He should have went with Deacon, Young America and Deer Creek!!
RMK did!! 😁
Lewis Cass had one hell of a team when Ted was a senior. A small little school that had THREE players that went to D1. Ted, of course, his cousin John for went to PU and Ben Golden that went to ISU. There was a very real possibility that they could have won the state even though it was still just one class IF they wouldn't have had to play Marion on their home court. IIRC, it was an OT loss for Cass on some questionable officiating!
I knew they were good but didnt know the whole story Lewis cass is a tiny school, been thru there and never understood how a school could incorporate over county lines. I hated marion so bad watching finals as a kid and then Jay Edwards shows up at IU
Maybe he moved as a kid. I could say I grew up near Cumberland and Moscow, if I want to be coy...
Not sure anyone knew those names? Throw in Bunker Hill and the Strawtown Pike in and the names there a book worthy! Converse if you keep going east . The Blue Ball mennonite church is somewhere off 18 east of 31 or maybe 218 but east.
Nope, He grew up just down the road. His family were farmers.
Of course Ted was way before that. His coach, IIRC Brian something, IMO did Ted a great favor. You would think that a 6'8 kid would basically never leave the lane especially back then but Ted was outside A LOT which I really think helped him get to IU and be successful because he could shoot. I remember RMK coming to see Ted play and the commotion it caused. He would try and just slip in - good luck with that!!
Basil was a good, maybe even great high school coach but the biggest asshole I have ever met. Despise that man to this day.
I've been by the Blue Ball church many times. I'd always point it out to the kids when we drove by.
During the Anderson game at Kokomo this yr, Basil was sitting with the Anderson folks. I wasn't sure why he was doing that at Kokomo. Basil was a force when we lived in Kokomo. People talked about him often.
As someone who went to Lewis Cass (lived 1 mile west of Blue Ball church and parents still live there) and still resides in that school district, I want to set some things straight. Not sure why Ted would mention growing up near Bennetts switch or wawpecong. Neither of those towns are or ever were in Cass school disctrict. Ted grew up In Galveston. Blue Ball church changed it's name about 2 years ago 
although everyone still calls it Blue ball church. Also, someone mentioned it being Mennonite which is not the case. Jon kitchel still lives in the area and was the boys basketball coach for several years until about 3 years ago.
although everyone still calls it Blue ball church. Also, someone mentioned it being Mennonite which is not the case. Jon kitchel still lives in the area and was the boys basketball coach for several years until about 3 years ago.
My son played at a basketball tournament recently at North Miami high school, in Denver, IN. In between games, I had to go find a gas station to fill up. That journey took me from Denver to Mexico. I've seen signs for years off 31 for Mexico, IN. Having now driven through a few of those towns east of 31, in that area...I hope the small towns near there, that are west of 31, like where Lewis Cass is, are nicer towns. Because I felt depressed for hours just having driven through those places.
I've heard other people say the same thing about Mawbey bein an asshole. When he was the coach at Kokomo, he was Knight in Bloomington/Keady in West Lafayette level popular there (even had his own tv show on the local station! Can't remember if it was on Saturday or Sunday mornings). When I was growing up in Kokomo, you didn't say anything bad about him public, at least not around Wildkats fans.
And then, from what I know, when he left Kokomo he became a pariah. Didn't hear many good words about him then!! 😁
I remember seeing something about him taking a job as an adviser/mentor to the Anderson coach this year.
Yeah, I think some people at Kokomo felt screwed when he took the Lewis Cass job, but there were some people, my barber for one, who still had nothing but praise for him.
I can absolutely GUARANTEE that he did not have a kid play for him because unless he was a star BM treated them like crap. I really never heard any parent say anything nice about him outside of the fact that he won. For some that is all that matters.
I believe that the Anderson coach is from Kokomo and played for Basil there.....Basil is there as a consultant of some type.
Not sure why I thought Menno but for sure remember the sign and yeah it was West not East of 31.As someone who went to Lewis Cass (lived 1 mile west of Blue Ball church and parents still live there) and still resides in that school district, I want to set some things straight. Not sure why Ted would mention growing up near Bennetts switch or wawpecong. Neither of those towns are or ever were in Cass school disctrict. Ted grew up In Galveston. Blue Ball church changed it's name about 2 years ago
Galveston, Texas? OMG . . . who was the intern that effed that up?!?IU website says he's from Galveston TX.
Ted Kitchel - Men's Basketball - Indiana University Athletics
Ted Kitchel (30) F - Career Stats Year G GS Min FGM FGA FG% 3PM 3PA 3P% FTM FTA FT% Off Def Reb A Stl BS TO Pts Avg 78-79 1 - - 0 2 .000 - - - 0 0 - - - 0 0 ...iuhoosiers.com
That's what I looked at, I didn't assume it was wrong.
So, was Glen Campbell singing about the Lewis Cass Kings back in the day?? 🤣
Yep - Marion beat them 58-55 in OT in the Regional Championship after beating Norwell in OT 63-61 in the morning round. Then Marion lost in the semistate to Anderson in 2 OT, 84-77. The Indians lost 76-74 to Elkhart Central in the semistate final, who then lost 89-85 to eventual champ Muncie Central. Central, of course, beat Terre Haute South in OT 65-64, with South's Richard Wilson hitting halfcourt shots at the end of regulation and OT.
That was a wild 3 weeks. As some of you may remember (I was a freshman in high school), the national coal strike in 1978 had postponed the IHSAA tournament until April 1st. Starting on that Saturday, the regional, semistate and State Finals were played in the month of April, concluding on April 15th. Amazing that coming thru that Marion Regional and going all the way to the championship ther were that many OT or close games.
A-10s buzzing the farmers out in their combines in Cass Clinton Carroll counties....
