BRAIDWOOD — It seems odd that, until last Friday, Seneca hadn't won an Interstate Eight Conference boys basketball tournament championship, but then the sample size is small.

The 2013 tournament was only the seventh held by the conference, and during that time, the conference has consisted of 12 teams instead of the eight it had for many years, giving the Fighting Irish added competition.

Seneca has fielded teams that you would have thought were capable of winning one during those six fruitless years, but it's not as though either of its state-qualifying teams of the past decade got the chance to play in one. Mark Aubry's teams never got the chance to play in a conference tournament. Nor did Garrett Callahan — whose jersey number (33) will be retired by Seneca next Saturday, by the way.