MIDDLETOWN, Ind. — Doubt is an unfamiliar feeling for Shenandoah boys basketball, but one the team feels from the basketball community this season.
The Raiders never won less than 20 games in any of head coach Dave McCollough's previous six years at the helm. The only time they didn't win a sectional title was in his first season, marking five straight trophies, and a 2019 regional championship, entering 2021-22.
Yet McCollough and his players know opponents now smell blood in the water. Six players graduated last spring, five of whom averaged double-digit points. The program has not endured a roster shuffle like this in McCollough's tenure, but the outside doubt has bonded an almost entirely new group together.