Crispus Attucks Beats Bishop Chatard 66-62, Advances to Face Cathedral

INDIANAPOLIS — Crispus Attucks used timely scoring and home-court energy to stave off Bishop Chatard’s run and post a 66-62 semifinal victory that sent the Tigers into the Class 3A sectional championship against Cathedral. The game was played Friday night and, per the game recaps and highlight packa"

MaxPreps lists the result as Friday, Mar 6, 2026, reporting Indianapolis Crispus Attucks beat Indianapolis Bishop Chatard 66-62 in the 2025-26 IHSAA Class 3A Boys Basketball State Tournament S26. The MaxPreps game page carries the tournament listing and a string of preview and recap entries from Mar 1 through Mar 4, and shows a Feb 28 stats update for Attucks vs Ben Davis, but the excerpted page does not include an individual box score or player totals for the 66-62 semifinal.

An earlier matchup between the schools appears in Indianapolis Star coverage and describes a separate City tournament game that ended differently. "The scene was set for Crispus Attucks," the Star wrote, and described a Thursday City quarterfinal at Bishop Chatard that was tighter and played on the road for Attucks. "Attucks was up 46-33 early in the fourth quarter, with every basket seemingly knocking some life out of Chatard. All it had to do was hold steady and cruise. If only it was that easy."

The Star’s detailed late-game sequence names Chatard guard Sylvester Williams and Attucks’ Ron Rutland in the final possession drama: "Behind back-to-back banked 3-pointers, a press that kept the Class 3A No. 5 Trojans around all night and some miraculous breaks, the Tigers saw their lead shrink to one with 4.3 seconds to play." The account continues with the foul on Rutland, two missed free throws, an offensive rebound, another pair of missed free throws, another foul and a final made free throw that left Attucks with a two-point margin. That sequence concluded with Chatard’s final heave missing as Attucks held on for a 61-59 win to advance into Saturday's City tournament semifinals at Tech. At the time of that City game the Star listed Bishop Chatard at 13-1 and Attucks at 9-7, and scheduled Attucks to face Cathedral (11-4) at 6 p.m. in the City semis, followed by Tindley (9-4) vs Tech (14-2).

The two accounts appear to describe separate games: the MaxPreps and the local semifinal recap point to a home-court 66-62 Class 3A sectional semifinal win on Friday, Mar 6 that advances Attucks to the sectional championship against Cathedral, while the Indianapolis Star describes a prior City quarterfinal at Bishop Chatard that ended 61-59. Both sources name Cathedral as the Tigers’ next opponent in their respective brackets, but the tournament contexts differ in the available reporting.

What remains unreported in the MaxPreps excerpt and the truncated local recap are individual scoring totals, rebound and assist numbers, coach comments and the official box score for the 66-62 game. With the sectional semifinal win recorded as Mar 6, Crispus Attucks advances to face Cathedral in the Class 3A sectional championship.