Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving sent a personal video message wishing them good luck.
“I am supporting you, all of the nations around you are supporting you and we all want to see you do well. … Let’s go get this, go get one,” Irving said.
The Wildcats didn’t let Kyrie down.
Following consecutive third-place finishes the last two seasons, Lapwai returned to the top of the mountain for the 11th time with an 82-60 win over Riverstone in the 1A Division I State Champion game Friday at the Ford Idaho Center. It was their first championship since 2018.
“It really gave us a bunch of fuel,” junior Kross Taylor said. “With those two third-place trophies, we said, ‘We don’t want them anymore. We want the first place trophy.’”