Ellery Minch
Staff report
HANCOCK COUNTY — Seven Hancock County high school basketball players have been invited to participate in the 21st Indiana Basketball Coaches Association/IHSAA Top 100 Underclass Showcase.
The IBCA released its list of boys basketball and girls basketball invitees Friday.
The girls showcase will be June 15 at Ben Davis High School. The boys showcase is scheduled for June 17 at Brownsburg High School.
Staged by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association with support from the Indiana High School Athletic Association and presented by Ballogy, the Underclass Showcase events are designed to give exposure to approximately 240 of the top basketball prospects from across the state (120 boys, 120 girls) to colleges across the state and nation.
Greenfield-Central’s Chaney Brown and Mt. Vernon’s Ellery Minch and Kanyonrae Kenny have been selected for the girls workout. Greenfield-Central’s Braylon Mullins, Mt. Vernon’s Luke Ertel and Julien Smith and New Palestine’s Ben Slagley have been invited for the boys showcase.
The 2023 Girls’ Showcase will be conducted in one session. It will begin at 12:30 p.m. and run until about 4:30 p.m. The 2023 Boys’ Showcase will be conducted in two sessions — the first session starting at 10:00 a.m. and running until about 1:45 p.m. and the second session starting at 2:00 p.m. and running until about 5:45 p.m.
Both Showcase events are being held during the NCAA’s “scholastic viewing period,” which allows coaches from NCAA Division I programs to attend in person.
Greenfield-Central boys basketball head coach Luke Meredith will be one of the coaches for the sessions in Brownsburg.
The Showcase events are open to the public. Admission is $5 per person per day for spectators. IBCA-member coaches will be admitted at no charge by showing their IBCA membership card.
The girls agenda includes 30-minute scrimmage sessions scheduled from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Session 1 for the boys will have scrimmages from 11:42 a.m. until 1:12 p.m. The second session scrimmages will run from 3:42 p.m. to 5:12 p.m.
Ertel and Slagley are in Session 1. Mullins and Smith are in Session 2.
Six of the seven county players participating were either freshmen or sophomores last season.
Only Minch, the Hancock County Player of the Year and a selection for the inaugural Futures Games this summer, will be a senior in 2023-24. Her teammate Kenny, and Greenfield-Central’s Brown are rising juniors.
For the boys, Mullins and Slagley just completed their sophomore seasons. Ertel and Smith were freshmen for the 2022-23 campaign.
Like Minch for the girls, Mullins will play in the inaugural Futures Games, which are part of the Indiana-Kentucky All-Star Series.
