Crown Point routs Hanover Central 97-54, posts third straight 20-win season

Crown Point’s varsity boys basketball team closed the 2025-26 regular season in emphatic fashion, using a dominant first half to roll past Hanover Central 97-54 on Feb. 26, 2026. The Bulldogs’ margin left no doubt about the outcome of the final tune-up before sectional play.

The win takes the Dogs’ record to 20-1. It is CP’s third straight 20-win season, according to a Crown Point High School Athletics game recap posted by Clint Swan on Feb. 26, 2026 at 11:33 PM on the site’s Basketball (Boys V) Scores page.

Both the school recap and a separate report described the first half as the deciding stretch, with Crown Point riding a big first half to a lopsided final score. The accounts use near-identical language, “dominant first half” and “big first half”, to explain how Crown Point built a lead large enough to clear the bench and run up the 97-54 final.

The Crown Point athletics post did not include a box score or individual statistics, so no player scoring totals, rebound counts, assist numbers, or halftime score were provided in the recap. Those game-level details were not available in the posted material and will need to be supplied by the school or a game box score for a full statistical accounting.

Looking ahead, Crown Point will host Hammond Central in the sectional semifinal, the school site notes, saying, “Crown Point hosts Hammond Central next Friday in the sectional semifinal.” The athletics post by Clint Swan supplied that scheduling note but did not list a specific calendar date or venue for the sectional semifinal beyond the relative “next Friday” phrasing.

The recap appears on the Crown Point High School Athletics site, which displays the “Home of the Bulldogs” branding and uses the Eventlink platform with FinalForms logos on the Basketball (Boys V) Scores page. The site also shows Hanover Central Jr-Sr High School’s logo alongside other area-school logos, confirming the opponent and local context for the Feb. 26 matchup.

With the regular season complete at 20-1 and a third consecutive 20-win campaign in the books, Crown Point shifts focus to the sectional semifinal against Hammond Central as it begins postseason play.