Last winter’s Streator Bulldogs boys basketball team posted a 24-9 record, won the Illinois Central Eight Conference championship outright and held a late lead in a Class 3A regional championship game. It was also an almost entirely senior group that accomplished those things on the court come gamedays.

This season the Bulldogs are reloading with a handful of young men who played secondary or tertiary roles on that team bolstered by a large junior group that won 20 games itself at the JV level in 2024-25.

It’s their time now.

“We’ve had two really, really deep and talented senior classes two years in a row that achieved a lot, won 47 games the last two years,” said Beau Doty, Streator’s 17th-year coach who with 261 wins is second in terms of career wins at the school behind only the m

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