There was a faint familiarity for Gabe Cupps when he first walked down the hallways of the Schottenstein Center as an Ohio State Buckeye.
The 2022 Ohio Mr. Basketball is back in his home state after spending his high school career at Centerville High School in Dayton. He saw 26 minutes of action as a freshman for Indiana in Value City Arena in February 2024, then returned on the Hoosiers’ bench while injured this past January.
Cupps’ loose ties to Jerome Schottenstein’s namesake date back to his childhood, when he and his father Brook, Centerville’s head coach, would watch Ohio high school state tournaments there.