Love the annual Indiana

The Good Brand is at it again.

Homefield Apparel — an Indiana-based company that licenses collegiate sports logos and sells everything from T-shirts and hats to stickers and pennants — has come through on a long-term promise.

On July 12, 2021, the Homefield Twitter account — which often takes on a sentient voice — sent out a message that read: "One day we’re gonna launch an Indiana v. Kentucky High School All-Stars line and it’ll be so sick."

On Wednesday morning, that moment finally arrived.

Homefield released three long-awaited T-shirts celebrating the annual high school basketball series between the Indiana All-Stars and the Kentucky All-Stars.

Two of the shirts are specific to the Indiana All-Stars and the Kentucky All-Stars, and each is priced at $34.

The Indiana All-Stars shirt is a white shirt that features "INDIANA" and the number "1" across the chest in blue with two red stars above the state name.

The Kentucky All-Stars shirt is a blue shirt that features a script "KENTUCKY" and the number "1" across the chest in white with two white stars below the state name.

According to the Homefield shirt description, the Kentucky shirt is designed as a recreation of the 1976 Mr. Basketball jersey. Darrell Griffith, who played at Louisville Male High School and collegiately at Louisville, was Mr. Basketball that year.

The number "1" on both shirts is a reference to the No. 1 jersey typically worn by the Mr. Basketball and Miss Basketball for each team.

The final shirt available at Homefield is a ringer-style shirt with a 1960s-design for the annual Indiana-Kentucky All-Star Games. With a colorful basketball in the center and the state names "INDIANA" and "KENTUCKY" in a circular pattern around it, the retro-style shirt is priced at $38.

In addition to these three newly released shirts honoring the annual high school basketball series, Homefield has the licenses and sells merchandise for dozens of colleges nationwide and several local schools, including Indiana, Kentucky, Louisville and Western Kentucky.

This year's Indiana vs. Kentucky All-Stars series will take place later this week.

The girls-boys basketball doubleheaders will occur Friday at the Sportscenter in Owensboro and Saturday at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

Tickets for the games can be purchased at kentuckybasketballcoaches.org

Indiana leads the all-time boys’ series against the Kentucky All-Stars 102-44. The Hoosiers swept last year's games 101-81 and 104-77 to run their winning streak to seven games in a series that dates to 1940.

This year's Kentucky Mr. Basketball, UK freshman Reed Sheppard, won't be participating in either of the two games against the Indiana All-Stars due to obligations as part of his enrollment process at UK.

Indiana also leads the girls’ series, 52-40. This series dates back to 1976. The teams split their games in 2022.

Kentucky Miss Basketball and Murray State signee Haven Ford plans to attempt to play despite her obligations to the Rowan County High School softball team, which plays in the Softball State Tournament semifinals on Friday and possibly the finals on Saturday.

Last weekend, the junior all-stars representing each state faced off against one another.

Kentucky men's basketball recruiting target and class of 2024 standout Travis Perry (Lyon County) scored 24 points as the Kentucky Junior All-Stars beat the Indiana Junior All-Stars, 106-92, at Jeffersonville High School in Jeffersonville, Indiana.

In the girls’ game, Purdue commit Jordyn Poole of R. Nelson Snider High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana, recorded a double-double with 19 points and 10 rebounds as Indiana beat Kentucky, 79-69.

Girls-boys basketball all-star doubleheaders

Friday, June 9: At Sportscenter in Owensboro, 6:30 p.m. EDT

Saturday, June 10: At Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, 5 p.m. EDT

Tickets: kentuckybasketballcoaches.org