The Indiana Basketball Coaches Association announced the 2019 Indiana Junior All-Star teams Wednesday. (Pictured: D'Andre Davis)
The junior team is always interesting as the coaches select the teams. It is an entirely different process for the senior team. Each year, there are major omissions. With the expansion to 24 players last year, it's hard to omit many players but it still happens.
The Junior All-Stars will play two games against the Kentucky Junior All-Stars, the first tentatively on June 1 at a Kentucky site to be announced and the second on June 3 at Jeffersonville High School. The Junior All-Stars also will play one game against the Indiana All-Star senior boys on June 5. The June 5 game also will be at a site to be announced.
All three games will be doubleheaders with the 2019 Indiana girls Junior All-Stars, who were chosen and announced in late February.
The players listed as Core Group players will play in all three games. The players in the Blue Group will play on the June 1 game against Kentucky. The Players in the White Group will play in the June 3 game against Kentucky. The players in the Red Group will play in the June 5 game against the Indiana seniors.
The Indiana senior All-Stars will play the Kentucky senior All-Stars on June 7 at Bellarmine University's Knights Hall in Louisville. The Indiana senior All-Stars will play Kentucky's seniors again on June 8 in Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Those home-and-home events also will be girls-boys doubleheaders.
The Junior All-Star team is determined by the 20-member Indiana Basketball Coaches Association all-state panel in conjunction with its selection of the IBCA/Subway Underclass All-State Team. The selection process allows all IBCA-member head coaches to nominate players through the IBCA all-state process. Representatives from 16 regional areas from across the state, district representatives from the IHSAA districts (one each from District 1, District 2 and District 3) and the committee chair then meet to review the nominations, vote and finalize the selections.
The Indiana Basketball Coaches Association announced the 2019 Indiana Junior All-Star teams Wednesday. (Pictured: D'Andre Davis)