“It means a lot to the community,” says Chris Sacco, who was Toure’s head coach at Pleasantville. “I know it means a lot to the younger kids to be able to look at the school and say there’s somebody playing on Monday night for the national championship that went here, and recently.”

Curt Cignetti led Indiana to its maiden national championship victory, not with NIL cash but with coaching grit. The Hoosiers’ 2025 squad featured no five-star recruits and only a handful of four-stars.