His 619 points that season set a school record. The 6-8 Fleming, a '72 Indiana All-Star, averaged 22.9 points and 14.8 rebounds a game as a senior. * Albert Fleming, Michigan City Elston, 1972. He was taken in the third round of the 1973 NBA Draft (46th overall) by the Golden State Warriors. The 6-foot-9 Retseck went on to play two seasons at Auburn, where he averaged a double-double (15.7 points and 10.3 rebounds). Marquette's 21-3 record that year remains the school's best. Retseck's 1,494 points, amassed in three seasons, stood atop the school's all-time list until 2015. He was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2004. He coached at the collegiate level for 18 years, including 1982-89 at Western Michigan. He scored over 1,000 points in three seasons at IU, where he was an MVP, All-Big Ten and Naismith All-American pick. Elston won 57 games and three sectional titles during his sophomore to senior seasons.
An Indiana All-Star, the 5-foot-10 guard led the Northern Indiana Conference in scoring and was the Red Devils' top scorer (season, 540, and career, 1,319) and assists leader at the time of his graduation. * Vernon Payne, Michigan City Elston, 1964. The team, with available biographical information, is listed chronoligically: Among them, Larry Gipson played at IU while his son Tracy played for Valparaiso. The group also came across several families that could have made an all-name team, including Payne, Simmons, Kiner (four brothers, including 6-foot-4 twins), Jones, Lewis and Gipson. "He was 6-3, 6-4, and he could get his hand above the (backboard) square," Cunningham said. A major Division I recruit, Wilson was killed in a car accident between his junior and senior year. Herman 'Helicopter' Wilson was selected as an honorary captain. Save for one Marquette player, the list ranges from 1964 to 1992 graduation years. "We had about 40, 50 guys we all considered." "You always leave somebody off," Cunningham said. The 12th spot was left open for everyone to debate. The coaches opted to choose an 11-player roster comprised of four Raiders, four Red Devils and three Blazers with selections made based on what they did in high school as well as college or even the pros. McGill coached Marquette from 1976 to 1987, the longest tenure in school history. He went 89-34 in his last five seasons with four sectional and two regional titles in that span. Steinke took over at Elston in 1978 and was there up to when the schools combined. He preceded Commers, who coached Rogers until the '95 consolidation.
It was so much fun."Ĭunningham coached the Raiders during its most successful period, winning 137 games, four regionals and six sectionals in seven seasons between 19 after succeeding Bill Hahn. "We were kicking around the idea," Cunningham said. In this period of no sports, choosing all-time teams has become all the rage.Īfter the Indianapolis Star came out with a 64-team bracket of top Indiana high schools that included a roster of Michigan City Elston greats, former Rogers coaches Earl Cunningham and Rick Commers collaborated with former Elston coach Dan Steinke and former Marquette Catholic coach Dick McGill on putting together an all-Michigan City team comprised of greats from those high schools.
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