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2 Point Games Twin Lakes @ Rensselaer Tipton @ Tippecanoe Valley Hamilton Heights @ Northwestern West Lafayette @ Central Catholic Western @ Benton Central Logansport @ Tech Fountain Central @ Covington Bremen @ Triton Greenwood Christian @ Edinburgh Guerin @ Brebeuf

Central Catholic @ Hamilton Heights Northwestern @ Benton Central Rensselaer @ Western Twin Lakes @ Tippecanoe Valley West Lafayette @ Tipton North Newton @ Lake Station Merrillville @ Crown Point Pioneer @ LaVille Louisville Trinity @ Center Grove Lewis Cass @ Peru

1. Merrillville @ Crown Point 2. Franklin @ Perry Meridian 3. Decatur Central @ Whiteland 4. Chesterton @ Michigan City 5. Wawasee @ Goshen 6. DeKalb @ New Haven 7. Yorktown @ New Palestine 8. Lafayette Central Catholic @ Hamilton Heights 9. Forest Park @ Tell City 10. Triton Central @ Indianapolis Lutheran 11. Cloverdale @ Brown County

2 Point Games Benton Central @ Seeger Eastern @ Northwestern Elwood @ Tipton Central Catholic @ Guerin McCutcheon @ West Lafayette North Montgomery @ Hamilton Heights Rensselaer @ North Newton Twin Lakes @ Delphi Western Boone @ Western Scecina @ Speedway

1. Cathedral @ Brownsburg 2. Homestead @ Noblesville 3. Roncalli @ Franklin Central 4. Harrison @ Plainfield 5. LaPorte @ Lowell 6. Evansville Mater Dei @ Castle 7. Culver Academy @ Mishawaka Marian 8. Franklin County @ Connersville 9. Brownstown Central @ Charlestown 10. Owen Valley @ South Putnam 11. North Decatur @ Eastern Hancock

1. FW Carroll @ Hamilton Southeastern 2. Lawrence North @ Avon 4. Warsaw @ Michigan City 5. New Palestine @ Westfield 5. Chesterton @ Hobart 6. Leo @ Kokomo 7. Jasper @ Evansville Memorial 8. Western @ Tri-West 9. FW Concordia @ Indianapolis Scecina 10. Perry Central @ Tell City 11. Tecumseh @ South Spencer

Benton Central @ Delphi Kankakee Valley @ Rensselaer Lapel @ Hamilton Heights Northwestern @ Twin Lakes Seeger @ Central Catholic South Adams vs Tipton West Lafayette @ Harrison Western @ Tri-West West Central @ Caston Frontier @ Clinton Prairie

Do not agree at all with Brownsburg not being here. Swap Cathedral and Carroll forsure. Fishers and Westfield, Jeff and Crown Point deserve to be flipped as well. Penn maybe a little high too. Brownsburg is 60-17 the past 7 seasons. They deserve a spot over 9-12 without question

I cannot say that I saw this one coming. I think Logansport is a solid fit for the HC competitively. They obviously have a strong tradition of basketball and the Berry Bowl is one of the coolest basketball arenas in the state. Baseball has always been solid and football has really made a turnaround within the past few years. This is devastating to the NCC as they would be down to 6 schools: Lafayette Jeff, Kokomo, Anderson, Muncie Central, Richmond and Marion - extremely spread out as well. The NCC is now in dire need of adding a couple schools fast as the loss of either Kokomo or Jeff could threaten the conferences existence. I, for one, am happy that Logansport is going this direction. They clearly were not happy/comfortable with Harrison and McCutcheon getting the boot and the NCC gets what they deserve with a longtime member electing to try and go elsewhere.

Just saw on Twitter that Logansport has applied to be a member of the Hoosier Conference. Would be a solid addition to the HC and a big loss to what is left of the NCC

Agreed. I'm just speaking with logic and what Jeff should do. Would not be surprised if Harrison and McCutcheon didn't want anything to do with Jeff after all of this. Such a shame.

Ideal: Harrison, McCutcheon, Jeff, WL, Kokomo, Logansport, Lebanon, 8th spot is tough. There's no way any Indy suburbs would consider joining, so I would have to go with Crawfordsville, Frankfort or Twin Lakes. Though I think it would be extremely shocking if any of those 3 would join that conference. Crawfordsville would make the most sense to me out of those, it is relatively close to the 4 Lafayette schools. Realistic: Harrison, McCutcheon, Jeff, WL, Logansport, Lebanon. I really can't see any other schools having any interest in joining this conference, I think it would be super tough to get to 8 teams. It's pretty hard to imagine Kokomo leaving the NCC, though if Jeff were to leave, it would put Kokomo in a tough place. West Lafayette is the domino to get Jeff to consider leaving, and Jeff is the only domino that could possibly make Kokomo consider an exit as well. As far as Harrison and 6a goes, this hypothetical conference is a pretty significant step up in competition for them. Playing WL every year would be huge, and Lebanon is probably better than every NCC school outside of Jeff, Harrison and Kokomo in most major sports. Honestly having the 6 team "realistic" conference wouldn't be bad, especially for football. That gives Jeff, Harrison and WL all the very much-needed opportunity to schedule higher-quality opponents. This obviously counteracts with now having to do much more work in scheduling for other sports, but definitely doable as there are many schools across the state in a similar situation.

I’m sure Harrison and McCutcheon would have preferred to not be booted. Lebanon isn’t a bad fit given their options, but it’s going to take a few more schools to make it work. Harrison to Lebanon is a 50 minute drive. The absolute best option for the Lafayette schools would be for Jeff, Harrison, McCutcheon and West Lafayette to form a new conference where they target Kokomo, Logansport and potentially Lebanon if they wanted a 7th member. Kokomo is roughly an hour away from all the Lafayette schools and Logansport about 45-50 minutes from Lafayette. Still not ideal travel, but it beats trips to Anderson, Muncie and Richmond by far. With that being said, it seems pretty unlikely Jeff, and especially Kokomo, have any intentions of leaving the NCC. Though if West Lafayette were to leave the Hoosier Conference (possible but unlikely), it would be a huge domino falling into place for a new conference to be formed. If that doesn’t happen, it’s hard to see Jeff making any moves, and definitely not Kokomo. Harrison and McCutcheon really got put in a tough place with this move.

Mind-boggling. What an awful decision by the AD’s and principals of these schools. Jeff sits directly in between McCutcheon and Harrison, there’s no way geography could be a legitimate reason for anyone with half a brain. Complete BS. Competition wise, I have no clue why you wouldn’t want your kids competing with the best teams possible. Harrison is no doubt solid throughout most sports, but they’re far from a juggernaut. Harrison softball, men’s soccer and track all have recent state championships/appearances. McCutcheon girls volleyball has been a top 5 program in the state for many years now and just won a state title 1 or 2 years ago. As to why you wouldn’t want these schools representing your conference (especially considering the very low quality of overall sports programs for the other 5 schools besides Jeff and Kokomo) is beyond me. Shame on these principals and AD’s. Cowardly and stupid decision. The NCC inches even closer to complete irrelevance

I’m with you. The wind was strong, but was at their back if they were to kick it. I understand the choice to go for it on the 4th and goal from the 1 prior to that, down 21-20, ideally making it 28-21 with a score and 2 pt conversion.. 4 mins left. To be fair, it was roughly 3rd and 8 from the 25… not the 15, after they got ball back after a strip sack… 2 mins left… run up the middle all day. They’ve got a solid kicker, with a strong wind at their back. Slant was picked off on a diving play by the safety… amazing play. Jeff fumbled the game away at the end of the day. Would have been a 40-45 yard field goal on 4th with no gain. They couldn’t get anything going in the 2nd half, after completely dominating the first half on the ground. Props to Carroll for adjusting after the first half, and props to Jeff for being in a game no one gave them a chance in. The gap in the north is slimmer than we thought.

Jeff picked off in the red zone. Carroll likely just sealed the game

Carroll QB stripped on 3rd and long, Jeff recovers. Broncho’s ball on the Carroll 30, down by 1 3:05 left

Carroll 21 Lafayette Jeff 20 5:11 Q4 Jeff stuffed on 4th and goal from the one

Carroll 21 Lafayette Jeff 20 late 3Q Carroll capitalizes on a Jeff punt return mishap and scores on back to back drives to take the lead

Lafayette Jeff 20 Carroll 7 6:33 3Q West Lafayette 49 Knox 6 1:30 2Q Andrean 14 LCC 6 Half

Lafayette Jeff 20 Carroll 7 HALF Bronchos get ball to start the 2nd half

Lafayette Jeff 20 Carroll 7 1:43 2Q Bronchos running it at will on the Chargers. Jeff gets ball at half, Carroll really needs a score here

Lafayette Jeff 13 Carroll 7 10:20 2Q

Lafayette Jeff 7 Carroll 7 2:30 1Q

Lafayette Jeff 14 Crown Point 7 Half