“Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory entered their tilt with Roncalli on Friday with four consecutive wins but they’ll enter their next game with five. They walked away with a 60-48 victory over the Royals.” -from MaxPreps.com’s InfoSentience AI recap of Feb. 12 Brebeuf-Roncalli game The above clunker of a lead paragraph is worth quoting for two reasons: 1. It demonstrates that AI, while wonderful at making almost-believable videos of cats riding snowboards, is not quite ready for sports writing. 2. It’s also an apt metaphor for the rather robotic and impersonal way that Brebeuf’s boys basketball team smothered Roncalli , outscoring the home team 16-3 in the fourth quarter to capture their fifth straight, and biggest, win of the season. The Braves scored the final nine points in a game that to that point had been as back-and-forth as a southside square dance, with margins of one point at the end of each of the first three quarters. Roncalli led 11-10 after one, Brebeuf 25-24 at halftime, and Roncalli 45-44 after three. It was like a domestic cat that catches a mouse in the garage, plays with it for a half hour but gets bored, so it pounces and snaps its neck. (A simile you’ll never read from an AI recap, so you’re welcome.) The fourth quarter was all Brebeuf, firing on all cylinders. A Chase Edmundson three-pointer got the lead back for the visitors, followed by two Chace Ford baskets, the second of which a putback of brother Austin’s miss after Chace had literally fought off four Roncalli players for the offensive rebound. Man’s game. Roncalli’s Connor Kesler got a bucket at the 2:48 mark, the last of ten points on the night for the Rebels’ top scorer. That made it 51-48 Brebeuf, but nobody in the building could have predicted that it would be Roncalli’s final score. Nobody except the kids in Allen Glunt’s huddle, that is. Brebeuf limited Roncalli to one-shot possessions the rest of the way, and they missed all of them, and- more importantly- rebounded none of them. Even more impressive was that Brebeuf made nine of ten free throws down the stretch. That’ s not a typo; it’s a team improving one of its weaknesses. “A Great finish,” said coach Allen Glunt following the game. “We were wearing people out,” the Brebeuf coach remarked about his team’s closing kick. Chace Ford led four players in double figures with 14, followed by Dylan Logan with 12, Austin Ford with 11 and Malachi Lesnet’s 11. The game had to fight for air in the busy Brebeuf sports weekend, with girls basketball regionals, swimming state finals, and the news of Brebeuf’s 2027 move to the Hoosier Heritage Conference, but don’t lose sight of the fact that this team is not only peaking at the optimum time in the season, but also starting to overcome some of the things that have held them back in their more frustrating losses. Brebeuf takes its five-game winning streak and shiny new 3A state ranking (#18 and rising) to Heritage Christian Tuesday night for the last of four straight road games. Come cheer on your Braves as they hopefully keep MaxPreps’ AI engine hard at work creating thrilling prose like, “Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory came into their matchup with Heritage Christian with five consecutive wins, but they’ll enter the next game with six.” Go Braves!