Did I Just Crack John Hughes' Code?

The name of Anthony Michael Hall's character in the John Hughes classic Sixteen Candles is Ted Farmer. John Hughes is famously from Illinois, and I say famously only because his bread & butter was in carefully recreating his own high school, Glenbrook North High School, for all of his movies including Sixteen Candles.

"But Xmastime", you say in the voice of Craig “Ironhead” Heyward from those soap commercials (RIP), “why are you so brilliantly - and sexily, may we respectfully add - telling us all this stuff?"

Sigh. Because, faithful readers, BECAUSE look who just happens to be sitting at #39 on the all-time Illinois high school basketball career scoring list:

2,420 - Ted Farmer, Valier, 1955-58

Hmmmm...had Hughes been aware of Farmer, who was about 10 years older? Was Hughes a huge high school basketball fan, leading him to name Hall's character after him? Had he unwittingly put the two together without even realizing it, a lá Paul McCartney only later realizing he'd passed a gravestone with the name Eleanor Rigby on it a gazillion times in his youth? Or was it all just coincidence? 🤔🤷‍♂️