fun fact: The 2013 PM team… the Ihsaa did not score the first round at the state tournament that year. This was the first year going back to the individual tournament to determine the team state champion. They would have scored 14 more points for their 7 Friday night wins, plus whatever bonus they earned in those 7 matches. So, that team technically was the record holder for most points scored until the 2022 CP team blew it out of the water.
Most Points Scored
178 Crown Point, 2022
112 Evansville Mater Dei, 2021
109.5 Warren Central, 2016
108 Indianapolis Cathedral, 2018
105 Brownsburg, 2022
102.5 Perry Meridian, 2013
102 Indianapolis Cathedral, 2020
A lot of great wrestling teams and awesome wrestlers have taken the mat over the years in Indiana. It’s a very hard tournament to win, especially under the IHSAA format. Comparing teams and eras is impossible, but that’s what makes it fun to think about. The duals tournament was awesome, but it had its challenges - making weight during the middle of the week, wrestling a lot during the postseason, it was not seeded so some areas had tougher paths than others. The individual tournament is awesome too, but it has its challenges - no wrestlebacks, luck of the draw, and some programs have tougher paths than others to get their guys downtown and on the podium.
We have made much improvement with the classed duals tournament, the new travel rules, and our individual tournament is still the greatest spectacle in high school sport.
When I was coaching at Roncalli during Covid I spent a lot of time on finding accurate statistics and researching information on the history of the program… What isn’t talked about enough is how hard our state tournament used to be and how difficult it was to win back in the 60s, 70s, 80s… we took less athletes from each round of the state tournament and medaled less wrestlers. Some years there was even like a repechage format at state. Crazy stuff.