After the game, Shinichi Inoue, longtime head coach for the Oka Gakuen High School girls basketball team, said that his team was "still weak."
The team may not have received enough compliments from its boss. But it will bring another championship banner back to Nagoya, and that's all that mattered.
Oka Gakuen completed a three-peat in the 45th All-Japan High School Tournament with a 72-67 championship-game victory over Chiba Prefecture's Showa Gakuin High School at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Sunday.
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