Northeast Indiana’s best pure shooters to watch next season

The best shooters in Northeast Indiana are the players who force a defense to tilt before a dribble even starts. In a game shaped by spacing, quick decisions and the threat of the open three, the line has become a pressure valve and an equalizer, and this region’s next wave of returners is built around that reality.

Outside the Huddle’s summer preseason lists have already leaned into that broader shift, and this one zeroes in on the players most likely to bend a close game with one clean catch-and-shoot possession. The ranking below is built on more than raw scoring, with volume, efficiency and the way each shooter changes help defense all weighing into the order.

1. Selking

Selking is the standard for shot volume in the area right now. He led Northeast Indiana last season with 87 made three-pointers, a pace that worked out to 3.6 makes per game, and that kind of nightly pressure is exactly what turns a shooter into a game-plan problem. When a player is that productive from deep, defenders cannot afford to stunt late or lose track of him in transition, because every extra step of space can become three points.

That matters even more next season because his reputation already travels beyond the area. Selking enters the year as one of the most feared shooters in northeast Indiana, and maybe anywhere in the state, which is the kind of label that changes how opponents help off teammates and how coaches build their scouting reports. A scorer can beat you in stretches; a pure shooter like Selking can shrink a defense for 32 minutes.

2. Grace Scharlach

Grace Scharlach brings a different kind of shooting threat, one that comes with touch, timing and the kind of guard skill that lets the shot show up in the middle of live action. The Fremont point guard, a 5-foot-5 member of the 2027 class who also plays club basketball for Always 100 Lockdown, already shot 38 percent from three as a freshman and was the only freshman in the Northeast Corner Conference to earn all-conference honors that season.

That profile matters because it shows a shooter who is already built to survive the physical side of high school basketball. Scharlach later picked up NECC girls Player of the Year honors and was part of Fremont’s run to the Class 1A state title game against Borden at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, a stage that only sharpens what coaches already know: she can make defenses honor the perimeter while still creating the kind of guard pressure that opens the floor for everyone else. For a young point guard, that blend of efficiency and poise is what separates a promising scorer from a player opponents have to locate on every possession.

The bigger picture is simple. Indiana high school basketball has lived with the three-point line for 31 seasons, and the best shooters now shape games in ways that go well beyond box-score points. Selking forces teams to chase volume; Scharlach forces them to respect accuracy and timing. That combination is how close games tilt before the final minute, and it is why both returners belong near the top of any preseason shooter list in Northeast Indiana.