The experts are smiling, rubbing their hands with glee, because the end of the line for the Brookfield Central Lady Lancers should coincidentally come right in their brand-new home gym Friday.
Brookfield Central hasn't drawn any respect from the polls and the area media this season, who now look to the Brookfield Central Sectional on Friday and Saturday to have their point driven home.
Surely, Muskego and Racine Case will meet for the title Saturday night.
The Lady Lancers couldn't get anyone to notice all year, why start now?
Having won or shared three straight Greater Metro Conference championships didn't mean a lot to these experts. Nor did going to the "Big Dance" at Madison the last two years.
The Lady Lancers certainly did not help their case when they lost to top-rated schools like Mukwonago, Nicolet, Oak Creek and Milwaukee Vincent early in the year, when coach Dan Wandrey loaded up his nonconference schedule to prepare Central for the stretch run.
This four-team sectional should be fun to watch. Here are the teams that will prevent Central from making a return trip according to those "people in the know."
Top-seeded Muskego (19-4), the state's ninth-ranked team and the favorite to win this season, opens with fourth-seeded Waterford (21-3) in a 6 p.m. game Friday. Then third-seeded Central (18-6) will follow with a matchup against third-seeded Racine Case (17-5).
The Warriors, who are led by Katie Ellerson, an Evansville recruit, who averages 16.5 points and 6.9 rebounds per game, have won 11 of 12 with only a loss to Case in that stretch, which snapped an eight-game winning streak.
Case shared the Southeast title with the Warriors, and they take a seven-game winning streak into the game against the Lady Lancers. Case also lost to Muskego, as they split their season series.
Ironically, Waterford, the squad with the best record is riding a streak of 14 wins in 16 tries, and the Lady Lancers, have won 10 of their last 11 games.
So seniors Erin Lueder, Jesse Thomas, Maggie Mattiacci, Kate Sandstrom, Lindsay Wille, Brooke Duckett, Emily Liewin and Lily Sandstrom will be stringing up their basketball shoes for the last time this weekend.
Unless, of course, they aren't listening to the experts, and have a point to prove one final time.
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