Purdue Basketball Signee Fletcher Loyer Wins National High School 3-Point Contest
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Homestead High School senior and Purdue basketball signee Fletcher Loyer won the national 3-point contest as part of the 2022 High School Slam Dunk and 3-Point Championships on Tuesday in New Orleans.
Loyer joins former guard Ryan Cline as the second Boilermaker to win the event. Cline won the event back in 2015.
🎯🎯🎯 @FletcherLoyer wins national high school 3-point contest.
— Purdue Men's Basketball (@BoilerBall) March 29, 2022
1st rd: 21-16 over Duke’s Kyle Filipowski.
Finals: 24-13 over Austin Montgomery (undecided).
Defeated Taylor McCabe (Iowa WBB) to win “Battle of Champions”.
👉🏽 2nd Boilermaker to win (@Ryan_Cline13 - 2015). pic.twitter.com/k0NqbSVLVv
Loyer was a three-time winner at the 11th annual high school dunking a 3-point shooting showcase, starting by defeating Duke signee Kyle Filipowski 21-16 and undecided recruit Austin Montgomery 24-13.
He also won the Rocket Mortgage Battle of the Champions over Iowa women's basketball commit Taylor McCave with a 19-17 victory. Loyer then teamed with Texas Tech women's basketball commit Tonie Morgan and undecided 3-star prospect Learic Davis to win the TaxAct Team Shootout.
The entire event will be aired on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET on CBS.
Loyer averaged 26.9 points, 5.4 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 2.2 steals per game last season. In two years with Homestead, he recorded 1,360 points. He is one of four players in Purdue's incoming recruiting class, alongside Braden Smith, Camden Heide and William Berg.
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D.J. Fezler is a staff writer for BoilermakersCountry.com. Hailing from The Region, he is from Cedar Lake in Northwest Indiana and has spent the last two years covering Purdue football and basketball.