When will the season end?

No one yet knows, but we will when we’re drinking our Sunday morning coffee.

If the Waimea Menehunes win tonight in a Round Two bout at Bernice Hundley Gymnasium, the season is over.

The Menehunes will be champs.

But if Kapa’a can pull out the win and stun what was a pre-determined season, a championship game will most likely take place on Saturday.

It turns out the HHSAA State Basketball Championships start next week.

Guess we have to decide which team has enough guts to go.

The beauty of tonight’s game is this: We don’t need pre-game analysis.

Everyone knows who Kapa’a has and what they can do. Everyone knows what Waimea has and what they can do.

What we don’t know – what only the players and their coaches can truly know – is which team has the guts to pull it off.

Will the Menehunes pour their hearts out on Kapa’a soil and put an end to the fiasco before the weekend?

Do the Warriors want it so bad that they can beat a normally consistent Menehune team two times in a row?

Let’s face it.

Some of these kids have been playing ball with each other for years. Each team knows the other team.

There are no secrets.

But tonight one team is going to learn something about the other that they never knew before.

And they are going to respect them for it.

It’s what brought Waimea’s football team past Castle; it’s what is unique to every athlete that stands on that podium in Salt Lake City.

It’s called desire.

And while we know both teams have played with desire at various points in this season, this particular brand of desire will have to be four quarters long and at a constant intensity level.

It’s like the ole chicken game.

Two cars are heading straight for each another. The guy that has the guts to remain in the driver’s seat will win the game.

So who will end this KIF season and send the fans’ nerves to the pit of off-season dormancy?

Well, why don’t you ask the players?