Class B boys: Arnett's win an emotional one of Tyler Tune, father

Then again, you don't win a high school state title every day.

Arnett and the Tunes did just that Saturday night, beating Coyle 71-60 and staking their claim as the best in Class B.

“That's all I wanted through my high school career was to win one with my dad,” Tyler said.

On a day when winning a state championship was sweet regardless of the circumstances, this one was just a little more sugary.

It started out sour. Arnett found itself in a 21-point hole early in the second quarter. Everything that Coyle did was working. Working the ball inside. Shooting from deep. Getting out in transition. Arnett had no answer for any of it.

Worse, Tune wasn't scoring.

The 6-foot-2 junior is Arnett's leading scorer, pouring in nearly 27 points a game, but in the first half, he missed jumpers and layups and even free throws. He had eight points at halftime, but if Arnett was going to make a game of it, the Wildcats needed more.

In the second half, he gave it to them.

Tune scored 31 points after halftime, and most of them came when he had four fouls. He picked up his fourth midway through the third quarter, a scary flashback to last year's title game when Arnett got in foul trouble, never recovered and got blown out by Forgan.

“You've got to stay in there,” the father told the son. “If they score, they score.”

Tyler never picked up another foul, but he didn't exactly pack it in defensively. He took two charges after picking up No. 4.

Had those calls gone the other way, it's safe to say this game would've gone the other way. How else to weigh how important Tune was?