IBCA Top 100 showcase spots Indiana standouts, draws college coaches
Reed Dougherty, Caden Jones and Zavier Laney turned the IBCA Top 100 into a live college-board test, with Indiana, Purdue and Notre Dame watching in person.
Ben Davis High School turned into a June stock market for Indiana hoops, and the names moving up were Reed Dougherty, Caden Jones and Zavier Laney. The 24th IBCA/IHSAA Top 100 Underclass Boys Basketball Showcase gave those three a bigger stage and a full room of college evaluators, with Indiana, Notre Dame and Purdue among the staffs watching in person.
That mattered because the showcase landed inside a scholastic viewing period, which lets Division I coaches attend live instead of relying on film. The boys event ran in one session from 11:30 a.m. to 4:55 p.m. on Friday, June 12, and spectators were charged $5 a day to get in. In a setting built for evaluation, the players who looked ready for the next level did more than flash talent. They pushed themselves onto more boards, more watch lists and, for some programs, into a different part of the conversation.
Prep Hoops singled out Dougherty, Jones and Laney as stock-risers out of the event, which is exactly the kind of label that sticks when coaches are sitting courtside. Dougherty, who plays for West Vigo, Jones of Edgewood and Laney of Center Grove entered the showcase already known in Indiana circles. What changed was the size of the audience and the weight of the moment. Once they performed in front of a strong college turnout that included dozens of low- and mid-major Division I staffs and a long list of small colleges, they were no longer just names in the top-100 pool. They became prospects with a live chance to move recruiting momentum.
The broader showcase was built for exactly that kind of jump. The Indiana Basketball Coaches Association said the 2026 Top 100 Underclass Showcase series was designed to give exposure to 252 prospects statewide, including 120 boys and 132 girls. The boys’ event was the first half of that larger rollout, with the girls showcase set for Thursday, June 18, also at Ben Davis High School.
For Indiana’s rising class, the scoreboard from Friday was not points and rebounds alone. It was visibility. Dougherty, Jones and Laney left Ben Davis with the kind of lift that can change how quickly college programs move, and that is the real currency of a showcase built to separate the watched from the wanted.
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