Kilian Brown sported a black and blue St. Francis boys basketball jersey when he recently saluted his coach.

Brown just as easily could have been wearing one of the Spartans’ “In Ward We Trust” spirit T-shirts, as he makes no secret about his fandom of second-year coach Bob Ward.

On the surface, Ward
is easy to like because he’s the one who summons Brown from the bench. Still, Brown credits their interactions from last season – before
the junior forward from
Geneva even played for Ward – for his biggest inspiration.