Trailing by seven points with four minutes left in regulation, Wheaton Warrenville South stayed true to perhaps what the Tigers do best: hustle, grind defensively and showcase a team trust that the game wasn’t over.

Braylen Meredith bobbed up and down in the middle of a mass of Wheaton Warrenville South students, a tournament plaque waving in the air.This was a hard-earned win worth celebrating.

In a world where self-promotion on social media platforms is rife, the Wheaton Warrenville South boys basketball team is a little different. In the words of coach Mike Healy, his squad is “pre-Twitter days.”

Tyler Fawcett started off strong and finished strong on Saturday night.In between, from the middle of the first quarter to the four-minute mark of the fourth quarter, Fawcett struggled to find the bottom of the net.But Fawcett made his points count, sparking Wheaton Warrenville South to a grind-it-out 40-28 win over Lake Park in DuKane Conference action in Roselle.

After yielding 14 points in the first quarter Thursday night, Wheaton Warrenville South was on pace to give up 50 points for the first time all season. Things sure changed quickly. Allowing only eight made field goals the rest of the way, the visiting Tigers ran away to a 67-36 DuKane Conference win over a strong Batavia squad.

To get an entire team to completely buy in defensively is special, and Wheaton Warrenville South is living proof of that. Holding their seventh opponent to fewer than 35 points, the Tigers continued their unbeaten start to the season with a 49-30 win over Wheaton North Friday.

Pick an adjective to describe Wheaton Warrenville South’s basketball team defense — relentless, tenacious, workmanlike. They all apply.

Wheaton Warrenville South is unbeaten for a few reasons, but the biggest one is the Tigers’ ferocious defense. In Wednesday night’s DuKane Conference boys basketball matchup against visiting Geneva, the 7-0 Tigers held Geneva to 14 first-half points and then topped that effort by blanking the visitors in the third quarter on their way to a 46-30 victory, their second in as many conference tries this year.

St. Charles North missed its first 13 shots until Max Love finally put one in the basket with 2:07 left in the first half Friday.

Wheaton Warrenville South’s boys basketball team shot down Fremd 54-33 Friday in the final round of pool play at the Fenton Thanksgiving Tournament in Bensenville.

Wheaton Warrenville South’s Tyler Fawcett scored 14 of his game-high 17 points in the first half as he and the Tigers got the better of Timothy Christian star Ben VanderWal in a 54-35 victory Wednesday at Fenton’s Chuck Mitchell Tournament.

Here’s a look at the boys basketball season in the DuKane