THE FRONT ROW WITH JASON ELLIOTT: Wednesday, January 7, 2014

Some teams get on a run heading into the postseason and never look back.

But if it works out for them, you can point to last week for the Post Falls High boys basketball team, where it all might have came together on a run to the state tournament.

THERE IS still plenty of basketball yet to be played, but you can’t ignore just what the Trojan boys team had to endure last week.

Starting the week with three games in the Coeur d’Alene Inn-vitational — a tournament they’ve gone 19-2 in since its inception seven years ago — going 2-1 this season and losing to Wilson High of Tacoma, Wash., 64-55 in the championship game on New Year’s Eve.

Right after that game, the Trojans hopped a bus to Boise to begin another three-day tournament starting the next day at CenturyLink Arena, where the team finished 3-0.

“I didn’t think the kids had to adjust too much to shooting in there,” Post Falls coach Mike McLean said of CenturyLink Arena. “It’s about like playing at Gonzaga. As far as shooting the ball, it’s similar to that and one of the reasons we go to summer camps over there.”

It showed on the first night, led by Max McCullough’s 31-point effort in an 83-62 win against Eagle on Thursday.

Wins over Pocatello (76-65) on Friday and Alta, Utah (72-67) on Saturday sent the team into a 10-day break from games with a 12-1 record.

A much deserved break for sure.

IF SOMEONE mentioned to me that the Seattle Seahawks, for all their struggles in the first two months of the season, could be right back in the same position they were a year ago, I might not have believed it.

But then, just as quickly as everything seemed was going wrong like it had for so many other defending Super Bowl champions as of late, it turned.

Seattle hasn’t lost since a November game at Kansas City, beat San Francisco and Arizona twice, as well as Philadelphia, which seemed a lock to run away with the NFC East after beating Dallas on Thanksgiving.

Don’t get me wrong, watching the Seahawks play at Carolina earlier this year might have been the ugliest game of the season, but this Saturday, Seattle will play for a spot in the NFC Championship Game.

Through it all, the wins, losses and the trade of Percy Harvin, it doesn’t seem as if the Seahawks seemed fazed by it.

As scary as it might seem, they might just be better for whatever obstacle has been put in front of them.

And they’ve cleared them, just like that prep team in Post Falls.

Jason Elliott is a sports writer for the Coeur d’Alene Press. He can be reached by telephone at 664-8176, Ext. 2020 or via email at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter at JEPressSports.