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in many postgame interviews.
Hancock actually was a freshman at
Norwood when Cincinnati’s last Mr.
Football, Edwards, was steamrolling
him in practice.
Norwood’s coach was Jim Barre,
who has Wyoming ties. Barre tutored
Hancock on how to reach media in all
counties of Ohio with votes for Mr.
Football.
Hancock and Prater were also able
to speak with Edwards.
“The one thing I would say about
Marc Edwards and Evan Prater is they
embrace every role they have with full
enthusiasm,” Hancock said. “Every
day, he’d come out in practice and
have that same enthusiasm (as Ed-
wards). I’m so happy for him. He de-
serves it.”
In the offseason, Prater made more
local headlines when he committed to
the University of Cincinnati in May.
Joining him there is older brother
Garyn Prater, who transferred from
Ohio State University.
Garyn has been injured this sea-
son, but the two have the chance to
play together again as they did when
Evan was a freshman.
Both Praters starred in football and
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
No. 1 Louisville shuts down No. 4 Michigan, 58-43
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Jordan Nwora had 22 points and 12
rebounds, and top-ranked Louisville
held No. 4 Michigan to a season-low
26% shooting mark for a 58-43 victory
Tuesday night in its first game since
returning to No. 1.
The Cardinals (8-0) shot just 37%
but their defense stifled Michigan
(7-1) as they earned a signature vic-
tory in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge one
day after claiming the top spot in the
AP Top 25 for the first time in six
years. Though second-year coach
Chris Mack has downplayed rank-
ings, the win was significant for a pro-
gram he has guided back into the na-
tional championship discussion fol-
lowing a sex scandal and the school’s
involvement in a federal corruption
investigation of college basketball.
The Cardinals also kept the Wol-
verines and first-year coach Juwan
Howard from adding another top-10
upset to the ones that helped them
enter the Top 25 and match Kansas
(1989) for the biggest jump from being
unranked in the 70-year history of the
poll.
Steven Enoch had 10 points and 10
rebounds, and Dwayne Sutton
grabbed 11 boards as Louisville topped
Michigan 48-41 in that category.
Jon Teske had 18 points and 10 re-
bounds for the Wolverines, who had
sought their first victory over a No. 1
team since beating Duke 81-73 at
home on Dec. 13, 1997.
Cowboys senior quarterback Evan Prater finishes his Wyoming High School
football career throwing for 5,699 yards and 72 touchdowns and running
for 4,124 yards and 73 scores. TONY TRIBBLE FOR THE ENQUIRER
basketball at Wyoming.
Evan Prater, who was also offered
in basketball by Wright State, finished
his career throwing for 5,699 yards
and 72 touchdowns and ran for 4,124
yards and 73 scores. Most of that
came in three seasons as he served as
NO. 10 DUKE 87, NO. 11 MICHIGAN
STATE 75: Vernon Carey Jr. had 26
points, 11 rebounds and three blocks to
help Duke dominate Michigan State.
The Blue Devils (8-1) looked like
one of the top teams in the country
and not a rebuilding one a week after
losing at home to Stephen F. Austin.
Duke guard Tre Jones scored 20
points, matched a career high with 12
assists and made three steals as part
of a defensive effort that forced 14
turnovers.
Meanwhile, the Spartans (5-3)
went into the game “a little fragile,”
according to coach Tom Izzo, and they
looked out of sync and overmatched.
Cassius Winston had 12 points on
4-of-14 shooting for Michigan State.
Xavier Tillman scored 20.
NO. 15 MEMPHIS 71, BRADLEY
56: Alex Lomax scored 17 points, Boo-
gie Ellis added 12 and Memphis over-
came a poor shooting performance to
beat Bradley.
Memphis made 36% of its shots
from the field, but the Braves (5-3)
were considerably worse. They hit
27%, going just 2 of 23 outside the 3-
point arc.
Tyler Harris and DJ Jeffries had 10
points apiece for Memphis (7-1). Pre-
cious Achiuwa had an off night scor-
ing with only six points, but he
grabbed 14 rebounds and blocked five
shots. Lomax also had three steals.
Elijah Childs led Bradley with 21
points and 14 rebounds.
backup to current Northwestern
quarterback Andrew Marty his fresh-
man year.
In addition to Edwards, who went
on to star at Notre Dame and played in
the NFL with the Cleveland Browns
and New England Patriots, the Mr.
INDIANA 80, NO. 17 FLORIDA
STATE 64: Devonte Green scored a
career-high 30 points and Trayce
Jackson-Davis added 15, leading un-
defeated Indiana past Florida State in
the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
Indiana is 8-0 for the first time
since 2012-13 and has beaten three
straight ranked opponents under
coach Archie Miller. The previous two
came last season.
Trent Forrest had 13 points as the
Seminoles’ seven-game winning
streak ended. Florida State (7-2) is 0-5
all-time against the Hoosiers.
NO. 18 BAYLOR 78, MARYLAND
EASTERN SHORE 46: Jared Butler
made six 3-pointers and scored 20
points, Devonte Bandoo added 14
points and Baylor led throughout
against winless Maryland Eastern
Shore.
The Bears (6-1) played for the first
time in nine days, since a win over
then-No. 17 Villanova for the champi-
onship at the Myrtle Beach Invita-
tional, where they won three games in
four days.
Butler hit a 3 on the first shot of the
game, putting Baylor ahead to stay in
the first 20 seconds. His layup about
4½ minutes in pushed the Bears to an
11-1 lead, and they were up 39-21 at
halftime.
Canaan Bartley had 13 points to
lead Maryland Eastern Shore (0-10),
which shot only 27% (17 of 64) while
playing its ninth road game this sea-
Football trophy has been given to
many accomplished players.
Robert Smith was a two-time win-
ner who went on to Ohio State and the
NFL after winning in the late 1980s.
Charles Woodson won in 1994,
then went to Michigan and became a
rare defensive Heisman Trophy win-
ner.
Others from Ohio State include
1995’s Andy Katzenmoyer and Mau-
rice Clarett in 2001.
Current Heisman favorite Joe Bur-
row of Athens won in 2014 before go-
ing to OSU, then LSU.
Prater makes it four with a UC con-
nection. Ben Mauk of Kenton won in
2002 then went to Wake Forest and
transferred to Brian Kelly’s Bearcats
for the 2007 season.
Akise Teague won in 2010 out of
Youngstown Ursuline and was briefly
a Bearcat, and current running back
Michael Warren II won in 2016 out of
Toledo Central Catholic.
“I was looking at the list on Wikipe-
dia the other night,” Prater said.
“Charles Woodson, Joe Burrow, Mike
Warren, Marc Edwards, just some
phenomenal football players that won
the award. It’s just an honor to know
that my name is going to be on those
pages.”
Prater is expected to sign with head
coach Luke Fickell’s Bearcats on Dec.
18.
son.
NO. 19 DAYTON 99, HOUSTON
BAPTIST 68: Obi Toppin scored 17
points and had a soaring, one-hand
slam off one of his 10 rebounds, and
Dayton celebrated its return to the
rankings by beating Houston Baptist.
The Flyers (6-1) vaulted into the
Top 25 after an impressive run at the
Maui Invitational that included drub-
bings of Georgia and Virginia Tech
followed by an overtime loss to Kan-
sas in the title game. Dayton hadn’t
been ranked in the Top 25 since Feb-
ruary 2016.
Back on the mainland, Dayton
struggled before pulling away from
the depleted Huskies (0-6), who are in
a brutal opening stretch of road
games. They’d given up 100 points in
each of their last three losses against
Texas Tech, Michigan and Houston.
Toppin finished with his third dou-
ble-double of the season in only 24
minutes. Trey Landers added 16
points and eight rebounds.
NO. 24 BUTLER 67, MISSISSIPPI
58: Kamar Baldwin scored 31 points as
Butler remained unbeaten.
Baldwin shot 11 of 16 from the field,
including 4 for 5 from 3-point range,
to lead the Bulldogs (8-0). He added
six rebounds and three assists. Jor-
dan Tucker and Bryce Nze each had
eight points for Butler, and Nze
grabbed a team-high seven rebounds.
Breein Tyree scored 22 points and
Khadim Sy added 12 for Ole Miss (5-3).