Coach Sly: Call it an end to b-ball season

Steps? Sly's not so sure.

While the traveling call on Dave Dudzinski in the waning seconds of Friday's regional title game with DeKalb will surely irk Kaneland Nation for some time, the savviest of Knights' fans should know it didn't decide the outcome.

Dudz might have soared in for a tying layup, sure, but what the Knights really needed well before that and well after was a second established scoring option. It was like that all season. Bailey, Denlinger, Colombe, et al. wore the hat at various points, but they weren't always as bankable as their 6-9 leader in the middle.

It's only urban legend that the clipboard this fox is holding contains the blueprints of the box-and-one, so don't even think that. It would have been nice to see the Knights knock off the Barbs after two earlier losses in the WSC, and if Dudzinski played the way he did in Friday's first half, who would have known after that?

Suburban Christian counterparts ACC and St. Francis fell in their own regional title games Friday, so it's officially time to trade in those sneakers for spikes. Goodbye to Dudz and GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTHH and a bumper crop of other talented seniors.

Hard to believe the run is over.