Boys Basketball Records

Team Records

Team Record for the Season	Record	Year
Best Season Winning Percentage	33-0 (100%)	2022-23
Most Wins in a Season	33 games	2022-23
Consecutive Wins	33 games	2022-23
Most Points Scored in a Quarter	35 vs. Warren Central 35 vs. Zionsville	1972 2005
Most Points Scored in a Game	107 vs. Decatur Central	1973
Most Points Scored in a Season	2592	1995
Biggest Winning Margin	56 vs. Arlington	2012
Best Season Offensive Average	78.5	1995
Best Season Defensive Average	48.9	2012
Best Field Goal Percentage in a Game	.679 vs. Manual	1981
Best Field Goal Percentage in a Season	.552	1995
Best Free Throw Percentage in a Game	100% vs. Lawrence North	1992
Best Free Throw Percentage in a Season	73.5%	2017
Most Free Throws Made in a Game	34 vs. Warren Central 34 vs. Columbus North	1986 1990
Most Free Throws Made in a Season	438	1995
Most Rebounds in a Game	54 vs. Ritter	1987
Most Rebounds in a Season	1247	1995
Most Assists in a Game	32 vs. Franklin Central	1984
Most Assists in a Season	651	1995
Most Steals/ Recoveries in a Game	37 vs. Plainfield	1992
Most Steals/ Recoveries in a Season	574	1993

Season Records

Rebounds

Name	Year	Record
Zane Doughty	2022	319
Courtney James	1995	314
James Patterson	1995	312
Zane Doughty	2023	184
Mike Taylor	1970	282
Brian Kistler	1980	272
Damon Parks	1993	271
Brian Kistler	1979	264
Damon Parks	1992	260
James Patterson	1994	238
Aaron Patterson	2000	232

Steals

Name	Year	Record
William Ware	1985	100
Bernard McGuire	1988	99
Scott George	1993	85
Kenny Davis	1988	76
William Ware	1984	70
Don Mallory	1994	68
Henry Williams	1988	67
Antuan Harney	1992	65
Scott George	1992	65
Sheridan Sharp	2023	64

Field Goals Made

Name	Year	Record
William Ware	1985	243
Henry Williams	1988	236
Randy Wittman	1978	233
Vernon Evans	1970	229
Damon Frierson	1995	226
Courtney James	1995	215
James Patterson	1995	209
Antiwan Easley	1991	195
Bernard McGuire	1988	195
Brian Kistler	1980	188

Free Throws Made

Name	Year	Record
William Ware	1985	151
Damon Frierson	1995	140
Brian Kistler	1980	119
Vernon Evans	1970	117
Tony Wills	2013	113
Brennan Gillis	2014	112
Zane Doughty	2023	103
Mike Brooks	1992	99
Byron Jones	1991	94
Dan Helm	1971	94
Henry Williams	1988	92
Randy Wittman	1978	92

Best Free Throw Percentage

Name	Year	Record
Mike Brooks	1992	90.0%
Pete Marshall	1977	85.5%
Tom Orner	1974	84.9%
Nick Washington	1998	84.4%
Eric Ford	2001	84.4%
Scott George	1992	83.7%
Jim Stanka	1972	83.7%
Henry Williams	1986	82.8%
Bill Cook	1979	82.1%

Best Field Goal Percentage

Name	Year	Record
James Patterson	1995	69.9%
Courtney James	1995	69.8%
Damon Parks	1992	68.0%
Zach Stone	1998	66.2%
Damon Parks	1993	65.6%
Carl Hardy	1990	65.0%
Aaron Patterson	2000	64.5%
James Patterson	1994	64.4%
Virgil Akers	1997	62.7%
Don Carlisle	1996	62.3%
Terry Ingram	1995	62.2%

Assists

Name	Year	Record
Tom Downard	1982	224
Sheridan Sharp	2023	191
Kenny Davis	1988	188
Tom Downward	1981	173
Lonnie Eversole	1979	157
Don Mallory	1994	151
Don Mallory	1993	149
Bryon Harris	1984	145
Mike Krauss	1980	144
Jason Clemens	2002	132

Total Points

Name	Year	Record
Damon Frierson	1995	661
William Ware	1985	637
Henry Williams	1988	605
Vernon Evans	1970	575
Randy Wittman	1978	558
Courtney James	1995	520
Antiwan Easley	1991	506
Stanley Burrell	2003	498
Brian Kistler	1980	495
Brandon Cole	2002	493

Points Averaged

Name	Year	Record
Vernon Evans	1970	25.00
Randy Wittman	1978	23.25
Antiwan Easley	1991	22.00
William Ware	1985	21.97
Brian Kistler	1980	21.52
Henry Williams	1988	20.86
Stanley Burrell	2003	20.80
Tom Orner	1974	20.68
Brandon Cole	2002	20.50
Mike Taylor	1970	20.11

Highest Single Game Scoring

Names	Year	Record
Vernon Evans	1970	55
Antiwan Easley	1991	46
Aaron Henry	2017	45
Dawand Jones	2019	40
Vernon Evans	1970	39
Jalen Windham	2019	37
Jonk Burns	1989	37
Terry Hay	1975	36
Ray Starnes	1963	36
Damon Frierson	1995	35
Randy Wittman	1978	35
Vernon Evans	1970	35
Brennan Gillis	2014	35

3-Point Field Goals

Name	Year	Record
Scott George	1993	88
Jalen Newsom	2017	72
Scott George	1992	70
Damon Frierson	1995	69
Eric Ford	2002	68
Reece Peacock	1994	67
Brandon Cole	2002	57
Clay Butler	2023	56
CJ Hill	2000	53
KJ Windham	2023	52

Greatest Moments in BD History

Ben Davis upset the Washington Continentals in 1965. Washington went on to win the 1965 State Championship. Bill Keller, a member of the Washington team later played in the ABA for the Indiana Pacers.
1978 Randy Whittman becomes the first Ben Davis Basketball player to be named to the Indiana All-Star Team.
1981 BD vs. Washington
1984 BD wins the Hall of Fame Classic
1988 BD wins first Regional Championship
March 21, 1992 Ben Davis upsets #1 Anderson at the Hinkle Semi State. The #11 ranked Giants upset the #1 ranked Anderson Indians in the morning Hinkle Semi State Game before a standing room only crowd 96 to 87. Many have called this game one of the all time great shootouts in Hinkle Field house history. The Giants shot 53% from the field including 10 of 19 from 3-point range. Mike Brooks had 32 points and Scott George added 30 for the Giants.
March 13,1993. Ben Davis becomes the first team since Shortridge, 25 years ago to win back to back Hinkle Regional Championships. The giants defeated #11 State ranked Franklin Central 48-43 in the morning game and then defeated #14 ranked Lawrence North 58-54 for the Championship.
March 20, 1993 Hinkle Semi-state. For the second year in a row the 26-2, #5 ranked Giants upset 26-2, #1 ranked Anderson 71-62 to win the school's first ever Hinkle Semi State Championship and earn a first ever trip to the Final 4.
January 10, 1994. For the first time in the school's history, the Ben Davis Giants are ranked #1 by the Associated Press and Coaches Poll.
March 1, 1994 the #5 ranked 20-2 Giants Defeat #4 ranked 20-1 Brebeuf in a standing room only crowd first game of the 1994 Sectional. Brebeuf ended their 1994 season 20-2. Both losses were to Ben Davis.
March 19, 1994 Ben Davis upset #2 ranked Muncie Central 60-49 to win back to back Hinkle Semi States and a return trip to the final 4. Crispus Attucks is the only other Indianapolis team to accomplish this feat.
January 1995. The Giants become the first school in 40 years to three-peat as Marion County Champions. (1993, 1994, and 1995). Only three other teams accomplished this feat in the 79-year history of the Marion County Tournament.
March 11, 1995. It was billed by the media as the game of the Century. Those that saw it will never forget it. For the first time in a long time people had to be turned away at Hinkle Field House. #1 ranked, 26-1, Ben Davis squared off against the #5 ranked 24-1 Washington Continentals before a standing room only crowd. Ahmed Bellamy hit a buzzer beating 3 pointer to seal a 77-75 victory.
March 11, 1995. At the Hinkle Regional after defeating Washington in the morning game the Giants took on #14, 23-2, Cathedral. Up for grabs for the Giants were a record 4^th straight Hinkle Regional Championship. It took two overtimes to accomplish this feat. James Patterson sealed the 67-65 victory in the second overtime with a buzzer beating put-back.
January 1992-December 1996 Ben Davis Giants win 64 straight games against Marion County Schools.
1995 State Finals RCA Dome. For the 3^rd straight year the Giants earned a trip to the Dome and another Final Four appearance. After defeating Jeffersonville 82-62, the #1 Giants took on #2 state ranked Merrillville. This is one of the few times in IHSAA history that #1 played #2 for the State Championship. The third time was the charm as the Giants defeated Merrillville 58-57 for the school's first ever State Championship. The Giants finished the season with a 32-1 record. The best won-loss record of any State Champion since 1923.
April 1995. Damon Frierson was selected Mr. Basketball. James Patterson and Courtney James were also selected to the all-star team.
March 9, 1996 Hinkle Regional. The Giants won their fifth straight Hinkle Regional by coming from 9 behind with four minutes to go to defeat #3 ranked Franklin Central, 62-59 in overtime. The Giants then defeated Lawrence North that evening 42-37 to set the record.
March 16, 1996 Hinkle Semi-State. The unranked Giants become the first school in the 86 year IHSAA history of the tournament to reach the Final 4 in four consecutive years by defeating Anderson 52-47.
March 23, 1996 State Finals RCA Dome. In one of the all time great finishes, the unranked Giants became only the 7th school in IHSAA history to repeat as State Champions. Jeff Poisel hit a 3 pointer at the buzzer in the 2^nd overtime to upset #12 ranked, 24-1 New Albany 57-54.
March 28, 1998. In the first year of class basketball, the unranked Giants fooled the experts when they won their 6^thregional in 7 years by defeating Mooresville 56-54.
February 10, 2001 The Giants defeat Lawrence North to go undefeated in the MIC and capture their first ever conference title.
February 7, 2002 The Giants defeat Lawrence North to run their total to 14 straight MIC wins and their second straight undefeated conference title.
March 8, 2003 Stanley Burrell hit a fade away three pointer at the buzzer to send the Giants into overtime against Brownsburg in the sectional championship game. The Giants prevailed 65-58 making Scott White the only head coach in Ben Davis history to win a sectional championship in the first season as head coach.
March 8, 2010. The Giants defeat Pike, 68-60, in the Tech Sectional to break a seven-year Sectional Championship drought. Coach Curtis Wright’s team upsets the Red Devils and then takes on eventual State Champion North Central in the Hinkle Regional. The Giants lose in a hard-fought battle.
March 7, 2013. Ben Davis senior guard Michael Beaty hits a full-court shot in an OT loss to Pike in the BD Sectional.
March 11, 2017. Ben Davis upsets #1 North Central in the Southport Regional, 47-44. The Giants dismantle Connersville, 44-21, in the night game to win their first Regional since 1998.
March 19, 2017. Senior guard Josh Brewer beats the buzzer at the Seymour Semi-State to defeat Castle, 74-71, and earn BD’s first Semi-State Championship and trip to the State Finals since 1996.
March 26, 2017. Coach Mark James becomes the second Ben Davis coach to lead his team to the State Championship Game and the second BD coach to win it all as his Giants defeat Fort Wayne North, 55-52, to win the Class 4A State Championship at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
March 9, 2019. After becoming the second first-year BD coach to win a Sectional in boys basketball, Don Carlisle leads his team to an upset of #2 Lawrence Central, 75-65, in the Southport Regional. The Giants defeat New Palestine in the evening game and win their second Regional in three years.
March. 16, 2019. In front of a sellout crowd of 7,090, the Giants defeat Center Grove, 67-61, in the Washington Semi-State. Coach Carlisle becomes the third Ben Davis coach to lead a team to the State Championship Game and the first to do it in his first season.
March 23, 2019. Making their second 4A State Championship Game appearance at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in three years, the Giants lose to #1 Carmel, 60-55. It’s the second state runner-up finish for the program.
December 30, 2022. Top-ranked Ben Davis beats #2 Penn, 65-53, and NorthWood, 60-42, to win the Raymond James Hall of Fame Classic for the second time in school history. Senior Guard Sheridan Sharp makes the All-Tourney Team, and Sophomore Guard Mark Zackery IV is named the Tournament MVP by the voters.
February 10, 2023. Ben Davis defeats Lawrence North, 62-45 to finish at 5-0 in the MIC and claim the school's third undefeated conference championship.
March 1, 2023. The Ben Davis Giants defeat the Southport Cardinals, 62-46. That win in Sectional was the Giants 27th-straight victory. This surpassed the previous record of 26-straight wins from the end of the 1994/95 season into the start of the 1995/96 season.
March 11, 2023, the top-ranked Giants defeat sixth-ranked Cathedral, 63-53, to move to 30-0 on the season and win the school's 10th Regional in front of a packed-out Southport Fieldhouse. It's only the second time the Giants have reached the 30-win plateau.
March 25, 2023. The Giants capped off their first undefeated season in school history at 33-0 with a 53-41 win over the Kokomo Wildkats at Gainbridge Fieldhouse for their fourth State Championship. At the time, it marked the most wins ever by an undefeated team in IHSAA history. The 2022/23 Giants were the 14th undefeated State Champions in IHSAA history and were only one win behind tying the 1922/23 Vincennes Alices (34-1) for the most wins all-time in IHSAA history!