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After three days of IHSA Class 3A and Class 4A girls basketball action, here are some things we know that we didn’t know before.

There is way too big of a gap between the top teams and the second-tier teams in high school girls basketball. Actually, it’s the exact same way in college, but we aren’t talking college here.

Along comes Monday night, a first-ever victory for Lakes High’s girls basketball team after 84 consecutive losses. And just how did the Eagles celebrate on the court after the game?

They’re not the biggest. They’re not the best. But no team in our area this season has brought more smiles to this tired ol’ face than the Lake Forest High’s girls basketball team.

Besides us over here in this tiny corner of the world?

Just a reminder to the girls playing varsity basketball at Warren High in Gurnee. An overtime loss and a pedestrian-like six-point win over a conference opponent do NOT signal the start of the end of the world

This area’s four best prep girls basketball teams – Warren, Waukegan, Grant and Mundelein – are a combined 13-0 so far in holiday tourney action.

Now that the Eagles of Lakes High in Lake Villa have set the state record for consecutive defeats (73) by a prep girls basketball team, it’s time for the Eagles to start a new kind of streak. A winning streak.