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By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER The Blue Knights basketball team just missed the Class LL tournament by two games, finishing the regular season with a 6-14 record, 5-9 in the CCC West (sixth) and 6-12 in the CCC, but fans haven’t forgotten the late rally that brought the 0-7 team to the brink of a postseason berth. After stepping into the head coaching gig for his first season, Blue Knights coach John Cessario said that he learned a lot about his team and the challenging schedule. “I learned that the CCC is an extremely competitive conference and I learned that there isn’t a night off,” Cessario said. “I think that there’s a learning curve about everything that you do everyday. First-year blues definitely set in, meaning that you need some experience within the system we tried to put in. And that’s tough to do in year one.” After starting the 2014-15 season by losing their first seven games, the Knights showed signs of resiliency, bouncing back to win six of the next 10 games, including a three-game winning streak. “I saw a lot of perseverance, considering that we started the season 1-9,” he said. “We went into Bulkeley and won at […]