Basketball Recap: Midwest Central Comes Up Short

It's hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact Midwest Central can now relate to. They were just a bucket shy of victory on Wednesday and fell 52-51 to the Illini Central Cougars. The loss continues a trend for the Raiders in their matchups with the Cougars: they've now lost eight in a row.

Midwest Central's defeat dropped their record down to 9-21. As for Illini Central, the win made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 16-16.

As of now, neither Midwest Central nor Illini Central have any future games scheduled.