IHSSBCA Novice

The IHSSBCA Novice is a series of tournaments hosted by IHSSBCA. The tournament uses the SCOP question set. It is held at several sites on the same day, and teams can choose which site to attend.

Students can only play in the tournament if they meet the following criteria:
• Have played fewer than 40 varsity-level matches for his or her school’s top team
• Have played fewer than 80 career matches at any level
• Have never scored more than 35 points per game at a varsity invitational tournament
• Have never scored more than 20 points per game at a national championship tournament
• Have never been named to an All-Tournament Team at a high school tournament

Results

2012

Site	# of teams	Champion	Second	Third	Fourth	High Scorer
Bloomington	14	Bloomington	Joliet Catholic	Galesburg	Glenwood	Mike Bannor (Joliet Catholic) - 58 ppg
Fenton	24	Whitney Young	Fenwick	Barrington	Homewood-Flossmoor	Anish Doshi (Barrington A) - 81 ppg
Greenville	12	Highland	Greenville	Marquette (Alton)	Southwestern	Chris Hornsey (Marquette) - 57 ppg
Keith Country Day	12	Auburn A	Metea Valley B	Auburn B	Metea Valley A	William Stites (Belvidere North A) - 76 ppg

Total Attendance: 62 teams

2013

Site	# of teams	Champion	Second	Third	Fourth	High Scorer
Auburn	16	Wheaton North A	Auburn	Wheaton North B	Boylan	Marcus Teccaro (Boylan) - 112 ppg
Bloomington	16	Bloomington	Centennial	Glenwood	Bradley Bourbonnais	Robert Peart (Bradley-Bourbonnais) - 119 ppg
Fenton	36	Barrington A	Hinsdale Central	Barrington B	IMSA	Cormac O'Halleran (York A) - 119 ppg
Greenville	10	Carbondale	O'Fallon	Greenville	Mount Vernon	Ananth Panchamukhi (Carbondale) - 72 ppg

Total Attendance: 78 teams

2014

Site	# of teams	Champion	Second	Third	Fourth	High Scorer
Auburn	12	Saint Viator	St. Charles East	Marian Central		William Jiang (Auburn) - 83 ppg
Bloomington	16	Urbana Lab	Mahomet-Seymour	Glenwood	Bloomington	Aaditya Mehta (Centennial) - 78 ppg
Fenton	24	Barrington A	IMSA A	Hinsdale Central	New Trier	Erich Remeiker (IMSA A) - 77 ppg
Galesburg	9	Macomb A	Galesburg A	Beardstown A	Geneseo	Micah Flores (Macomb A) - 50 ppg
Southwestern	12	O'Fallon	Marquette (Alton)	Routt Catholic	Southwestern	Mark Patterson (O'Fallon) - 97 ppg

Total Attendance: 73 teams

2015

Site	# of teams	Champion	Second	Third	Fourth	High Scorer
Auburn	9	Auburn A	Waubonsie Valley	Boylan	Newman C.C./Auburn B	Ethan Strombeck (Auburn A) - 148.75 ppg
Barrington	12	IMSA A	Fremd A	Loyola Academy	IMSA C	Vikas (Fremd A) - 76.67 ppg
Centennial	11	Urbana Lab	Bloomington A	Bradley-Bourbonnais A	Bradley-Bourbonnais B	Hanson Hao (Bloomington A) - 87 ppg
Fenwick	18	Sandburg	Metea Valley	WW South A	Fenwick A	Arjun Sundarajan (Metea Valley) - 108.89 ppg
Galesburg	4	Metamora	Macomb A	Galesburg	Macomb B	Anne Flintgreuber (Macomb A) - 71 ppg
Southwestern	20	Glenwood	Marquette (Alton)	Glenwood B	Springfield D	Carter Moore (Southwestern) - 77.14 ppg

Total Attendance: 74 teams

2016

Site	# of teams	Champion	Second	Third	Fourth	High Scorer
Auburn	8	Boylan	Belvidere A	Auburn A	Auburn B	Nicholas Larson (Belvidere A) - 77.14 ppg
Barrington	13	Barrington A	Benet Academy A	Fremd A	Palatine B	Abraham Holtermann (Barrington A) - 108 ppg
Centennial	4	Urbana Lab	Mattoon	Centennial	Bloomington	Fiona Ward Shaw (Bloomington) - 85 ppg
Fenton	24	Evanston	Stevenson A	Latin A	Glenbard North A	Govind Prabhakar (Stevenson A) - 90 ppg
Southwestern	20	Springfield B	Carbondale	Springfield A	O'Fallon	Aidan Fein (Springfield A) - 120 ppg

Total Attendance: 69 teams

2017

Site	# of teams	Champion	Second	Third	Fourth	High Scorer
Winnebago	8	Auburn	Belvidere North	Belvidere	United Township	Kodai Speich (Auburn) - 110 ppg
Barrington	12	Barrington A	Stevenson A	IMSA	Stevenson B	Andy Kramer (Barrington) - 76 ppg
Centennial	8	Urbana Lab A	Champaign Central	Urbana Lab B	Centennial	Jonathan Lau (University of Illinois Lab A) - 105 ppg
Fenton	24	Naperville Central A	Whitney Young	Hinsdale Central A	Hoffman Estates	Ashish Subramanian (Hoffman Estates) - 100 ppg
Southwestern	18	Carbondale	Springfield A	O'Fallon	Springfield B	Ian Kinsel (Carbondale) - 71 ppg

Total Attendance: 70 teams