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He played in nineteen varsity games as a freshman, totaling 30 points, and averaged 18.1 for the 13–9 Trojans as a sophomore. He averaged 27.3 as a junior and 37.2 as a senior for teams that went 12–10 and 23–6. He was indeed Mr. Basketball in 1983, finishing with 1,078 points, one off the single-season state record set by Carmel’s Dave Shepherd in 1969–70. Alford was 286 of 304 on free throws for .944, which would have led the NBA or NCAA that year.

In the next-to-last game of his high school career, he scored fifty-seven points— one off a state postseason record that has stood since 1915—at the Hinkle Fieldhouse semistate in Indianapolis. New Castle beat Broad Ripple 79–64 but lost to eventual state champion Connersville 70–57 that night, despite Alford’s thirtyeight points. So he scored ninety-five points in one day. He was eighty-two of eighty-three on free throws in seven sectional, regional, and semistate games.

He and Tanya missed prom so he could play in the Dapper Dan Roundball Classic at Pittsburgh. Alford scored just four points, but he said, “The basketball game still was better.”