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Here are 2026 IHSA boys basketball postseason storylines to watch in Kendall County · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Here are twenty twenty six IHSA boys basketball postseason storylines
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  Speaker 1: to watch in Kendall County. Written by Joshua wells Arsen.
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  Speaker 1: This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Everlett. The boys basketball postseason is set
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  Speaker 1: to tip off this coming week with regional games in
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  Speaker 1: all four classes. Here are storylines to watch in Kendall County.
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  Speaker 1: Yorkfield Christian won three straight regional titles the schools first
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  Speaker 1: from twenty nineteen twenty twenty two, culminating in the program's
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  Speaker 1: Class one A state championship in twenty twenty two. In
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  Speaker 1: three seasons since then, though the Mustangs have not made
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  Speaker 1: it out of a regional. Does that change In Class
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  Speaker 1: two A, Yorkfield Christian is moving up a class for
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  Speaker 1: this postseason. The Mustangs are a number one seed in
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  Speaker 1: a subsectional of the Seneca Sectional ship sixty three miles
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  Speaker 1: away for a regional at Beecher next week. Should seeds hold,
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  Speaker 1: they could face twenty four to five Bishop McNamara playing
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  Speaker 1: for retiring coach Adrian Provost in a sectional final. The
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  Speaker 1: path and Yorkville Christians personnel seems to set up for
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  Speaker 1: a run. SIU Edwardsville recruit Jaden Riley is one of
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  Speaker 1: the state's best guards, who scored his two thousand point
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  Speaker 1: in a Mustang uniform this season. Junior Trey Alford, who
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  Speaker 1: scored his one thousandth point, is a talented running mate.
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville Christian, as it usually does, has tested itself with
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  Speaker 1: a schedule full of strong larger schools looming in a
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  Speaker 1: potential supersectional matchup in Pontiac Is Class two. A number
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  Speaker 1: one ranked two topless Nuco Valley twenty nine to one
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  Speaker 1: has emerged as one of the state's best teams, winners
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  Speaker 1: of twenty seven in a row, behind Illinois recruit Mason
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  Speaker 1: Martin and Cole Kelly, arguably the best player in Illinois
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  Speaker 1: sophomore class. The only team to beat Nukua would be
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  Speaker 1: Oswego East nineteen eleven seventy four sixty five back on
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  Speaker 1: November twenty eighth, the day after Thanksgiving. The game was
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  Speaker 1: full of spectacular individual efforts, with De Paul recruit Mason
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  Speaker 1: Lockett scoring thirty nine points to top Kelly's thirty and
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  Speaker 1: Martin's twenty two. Could a rematch happen next Friday? Oswego
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  Speaker 1: East first has to get past a first round matchup
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  Speaker 1: with downers Grove North on Wednesday. If the Wolves do,
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  Speaker 1: the Stars are aligned for a rematch of Stars on
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  Speaker 1: the south side of Naperville. Oswego twenty two nine has
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  Speaker 1: been one of the hottest teams around fourteen to two
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  Speaker 1: Since January third, Ethan Vall and Coe swept the Oswego
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  Speaker 1: Crosstown Series for the first time in a decade with
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  Speaker 1: two riveting overtime wins. Oswego's twenty two wins are the
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  Speaker 1: program's most in thirteen years. If can they get a
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  Speaker 1: third crack at bowling Brook, The Raiders, led by super
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  Speaker 1: sophomore Brady Pettigrew, handled Oswego fairly easily in sweeping the
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  Speaker 1: season series eighty two fifty four and eighty three sixty.
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  Speaker 1: Bowling Brook is the sectional host and is sectional headlined
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  Speaker 1: by number one ranked Bennet, but Oswego is regional host
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  Speaker 1: gunning for its first regional title in a decade. The
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  Speaker 1: Panthers must first get past Plainfield East, who they beat
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  Speaker 1: in double overtime in January, for a third shot at
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  Speaker 1: bowling Brook. Plain O, which is put together an eighteen
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  Speaker 1: twelve season to finish third in the Kishwaukie River Conference
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  Speaker 1: will need a full tank of gas in the bus.
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  Speaker 1: Next week, the Reapers are headed two hours west for
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  Speaker 1: a regional at Geneseo and draw the regional host Maple
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  Speaker 1: Leafs in a semi final. Like Oswego and Oswego East,
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  Speaker 1: a reward for a semifinal win as a date with
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  Speaker 1: one of the state's best teams. That would be No.
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  Speaker 1: One ranked Kankake twenty five to one, led by Mister
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  Speaker 1: Basketball candidate Lincoln Williams and Indiana State recruit e J. Hazlitt. Yorkville,
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  Speaker 1: seeded thirteenth in the bowling Brook Sectional, plays fourth seeded
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  Speaker 1: and regional host Naperville North in a regional semifinal Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Sandwich seeded seventh a subsectional of the Class two A
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  Speaker 1: Mendota Sectional hosts ten seeded Stillman Valley Monday. Newark seeded
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  Speaker 1: third in a subsectional of the Class one Amboy Sectional
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  Speaker 1: hosts fourteenth seeded Del Moy Monday,