Recently, we unveiled our plan to name area programs’ top five players of the 21st century, which sits at 25 seasons in both football and basketball.
Reminder, this is based on high school career performance ONLY. This is by no means a definitive list and, if anything, is encouraging debate on potential omissions to this list.
Through exhaustive research, reaching out to former coaches and players and our own personal opinion, here is the OTH Quarter Century Team for Homestead boys basketball.
Note: The list is in alphabetical order
Tahj Curry
Curry was a stalwart guard at Homestead (Fort Wayne), graduating in 2016. In his senior season he put up 18.3 points, 6.8 rebounds, 4.2 assists on average and was named the News-Sentinel Player of the Year. Included in that season was a highlight reel buzzer beater of rival Carroll. As a junior, he was part of a talented team that won the Indiana 4A state championship. As a junior, Curry averaged 9.6 PPG and 5.4 APG, shooting 53.3% FG. In the 2015 4A state title game vs. Evansville Reitz, Curry scored 23 points with 6 assists, 5 rebounds, including 7 points in OT. Over his high school career, he passed 1,000 points (1,058). He earned first-team all-league, all-Northeast Indiana, and all-state honors. From there, he went on to play college ball at Ohio Dominican and later Goshen.
Grant Leiendecker
Leindecker was a senior guard in the 2005–2006 season that was a prolific shooting guard who averaged 19.9 points and 6.1 rebounds in his senior season, and had earlier years of 18.1 PPG (junior) and 15.0 PPG (sophomore). He finished with 1,145 career points and set the school record for career three-point percentage at .476. He had standout single-game performances—40 points and 7 made threes in one outing—and was a three-time first-team all-conference selection. He also earned Academic All-State honors and captained his team as a senior. He went on to Butler University to play and became Butler’s athletics director in 2024.
Fletcher Loyer
In his two seasons after transferring to Homestead from Michigan, Loyer emerged as one of the state’s premier scorers—averaging 26.9 points, 5.4 rebounds, 3.6 assists, and 2.2 steals as a senior—and etched his name into the record books with a 50-point performance vs. Marion. Over his two seasons at Homestead, he averaged 25.7 PPG, along with 5.1 boards and 4.0 assists, finishing his high school career with 2,163 total points (including earlier seasons in Michigan). He collected top honors, including 2022 Indiana Gatorade Player of the Year and runner-up for Indiana Mr. Basketball, and even won the national high school 3-point contest. From there, he moved on to Purdue.
Luke Goode
Goode was a winning catalyst and elite shooter—19.4 points, 8.3 boards, 5.0 assists as a senior—powering a 25–1 season with conference and sectional crowns while leaving as the Spartans’ No. 2 all-time scorer (1,480) and career three point make leader (232). His 41-point, 10-three Senior night against North Side cemented his rep as a premier marksman. As a junior, Goode averaged 17.6 points, 7.2 rebounds, and 3.1 assists per game He went on to play in college at Illinois before transferring to Indiana.
Caleb Swanigan
At Homestead, Swanigan was a force of nature—22.6 points and 13.7 boards per game as a senior after reclassifying up a year, powering the Spartans to their first state championship in 2015 while rewriting the school record book for both scoring (1,649 career; 704 in a season) and rebounding (1,048 career; 424 in a season). He punctuated the run with 20 points, 14 rebounds, and 6 assists in the 4A title game and earned a sweep of top honors: Indiana Mr. Basketball, McDonald’s All-American, Jordan Brand Classic, and Gatorade Indiana POY. He then chose Purdue, where he became the 2017 Big Ten Player of the Year and a consensus first-team All-American before being selected in the first round of the NBA Draft.
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