The fifth best story of the school year at Central was a wild men’s basketball conference tournament game, when the Dutch defeated Loras on the road 97-95 in overtime. The sixth-seeded Dutch were back in the conference tournament after a down season the year prior, and came into the game as an underdog against the #3-seed Duhawks.

Central bolted to a surprising 47-37 halftime lead and was up by as many as 14 points. But Loras regained the lead in the second half and was on top 89-86 in the final minute of regulation before Flinn connected on a critical game-tying and-one with 36 seconds remaining. Loras turned the ball over in the closing seconds and Adam Flinn missed an off-balance 3-point try as the buzzer sounded to send the game into overtime. Flinn, who had already topped 1,000 career points earlier in the second half, drove the ball to the hoop and delivered two more with just two seconds remaining to seal the victory.

The Dutch, still playing without two injured starters, endured two health-related shutdowns during the abbreviated season.