Nine months removed from their last game action, Skyview and Evergreen decided 32 minutes wasn’t enough to open 2025-26 boys basketball season Tuesday.

Skyview missed a potential game-winning shot at the end of regulation to send the game to overtime after Evergreen’s Hudson Nellis hit a game-tying 3-pointer. But once in the four-minute extra period, the Storm quickly regrouped and cooled down a hot-shooting Plainsmen squad to claim an 81-73 win at home.

“I was proud of our team’s mentality — I think they really had a lot of fight and focus,” Skyview coach Matt Gruhler said. “We didn’t play our best basketball all the time, but despite that our guys always believed. In every huddle, our leaders were talking about, ‘We got this. Just one stop at a time and one possession at a time.'”

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