MONTVALE, NJ: Surprise! RUNt Wins It All

What more is there to say? It wasn’t a matter of if, but rather when. Well, the Summer Season is done and the champs have finally been crowned.

RUNt took down the Dream Team 65-59 in a contest that wasn’t nearly as close as the final score indicated. Perhaps RUNt was as surprised as everyone else that the Dream Team appeared ready to play at the outset. The champs started the game with a quick deficit, but it didn’t take long after that for them to settle in. They stepped on the gas and never looked back.

While the Dream Team appeared to have a solid defensive game plan -at least in the first half- it didn’t matter. You can’t beat these guys with a lackluster offense. The Dreamers missed easy opportunities and threw it away too many times. Once their deficit ballooned to nearly 20, it was over.

Oddly enough, both teams shot it fairly poorly from the field (39% for RUNt and 35% for Dream Team). But that’s most likely a reflection of what happened at the end of the game after the outcome had been decided and the Dreamers poured in the final points of the contest.

With a rather easy march to the title, is RUNt now in prime position to repeat in the fall? Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. It will surely be much harder to make a new prediction with more teams and players returning that were absent this past campaign. And oh yeah, we’ve got Old School coming back. In a Montvale UHoops first, we will have two former champs playing in the same season.

So RUNt, hopefully you won’t be able to bore us anymore. Get ready for a new season filled with tons of (or hopefully at least a little) unpredictability! It’s about time.