Jason Reuter has been to 13 state tournaments in his time at Bradley Central High School with the boys’ and girls’ basketball programs, but there are two firsts he has witnessed with the Bearettes this season.
Senior Sloan Carpenter has excelled at running the show at point guard. She epitomizes what makes Bradley Central so dangerous with her stellar defense as well as excellent ball control and facilitating ability. The Johnson University signee has 114 assists compared to just 23 turnovers, good for a 4.96-1 assist to turnover ratio, while averaging 2.8 steals per game.
Carpenter — who started in the state tournament as a freshman — will look to help lead Bradley Central to its seventh TSSAA state championship this weekend at MTSU’s Murphy Center in the Class 4A BlueCross Basketball championships.
“I have never had a point guard who turned the ball over less than Sloan Carpenter,” Reuter said. “She has extremely quick feet and hands, is hard to press and gets to where she wants to go on the court. She is very unselfish too. She is exactly what we need to run the show. We would not be 32-1 without her.”
The Bearettes are loaded with four different players averaging double-figure scoring per game in senior Hannah Jones (11.2 ppg), sophomores Harmonie Ware (12.8), Avary Brewer (11.4) and freshman Kimora Fields (16.9).