Kee boys basketball team plays to 7-15 record during 2022-2023 campaign

Following a season that graduated seven seniors and the departure of at least its top six producers in every statistical category from a 12-12 overall campaign last winter, the Kee boys basketball team knew there was going to be plenty of work to do heading into its 2022-2023 season. With just one senior and two juniors returning with their upperclassman leadership this season and mixing with a sophomore group that provided the largest class size that doubled its two elder grade levels, the Hawks meshed all of those efforts together to produce a 7-15 season record during this recently completed season, including a 6-10 mark in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play that placed the Kee boys sixth in the final nine-team UIC standings.

“We had a lack of depth and experience entering this season,” second-year Kee boys basketball coach Jeff Cota said of his relatively new group of charges this season. “We had to deal with a lot of illnesses the first couple of weeks of the season along with an ankle injury that occurred in the second half of our first game to one of our key players. I thought we really adjusted to the speed and physicality of the varsity game well as we got healthy and the season progressed.”

Five of this past season’s seven victories came in the latter half of this winter’s campaign, including four wins in the Hawks’ final seven games of the season. Those final victories included completing season sweeps of the trio of UIC teams the Kee boys finished ahead of in the final league standings, as well as a win to open Class 1A District Tournament play.

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