Heading into Friday night’s faculty challenge against the girls varsity basketball team, both sides were talking some serious smack. Senior guard Lily Hobbs boldly predicted a 100-0 victory on the team’s Instagram account. Her teammate and fellow senior Sam Cowles told her dad, math teacher and PALS adviser Richard Cowles, that she was planning to dunk over him. Not to be outdone, the elder Cowles added blueberries to his pre-game smoothie declaring that each one represented a rebound he intended to grab during the game. The most frequent trash-talker, according to Hobbs, was varsity head coach-turned-nemesis Carly Kehn, and her commentary posted on the aforementioned Instagram account bears that assessment out. “I think we have a size advantage,” Kehn boasted to the Internet. “I think we know their game plan. I may or may not know their offense and their defense.” Initially, this reporter thought Kehn had lost her mind. The two-time defending District 24-5A champs and 2024 bi-di...