(Indianapolis) — All season long, St. Joe’s basketball team was “seeing red”.

Head coach Eric Gaff prominently displayed the red ribbon and runner-up medal in the window of the coach’s office of the locker room. It wasn’t placed there proudly. Instead, it was a reminder of the pain of finishing second in last year’s state finals.

Now, it can come down. The team with blue in their colors now has blue ribbons to match.

St. Joseph claimed South Bend’s first boys high school basketball state championship in 31 years, as the Huskies held off Crispus Attucks, 56-52, to win the Class 3A title her at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.  It’s the school’s first boys basketball title in its fourth trek to the State Finals.

Chase Konieczny, St. Joe’s all-time leading scorer, rammed home the final two points of his career on a rebound dunk with 53 seconds left to give the Huskies a 52-50 lead.

After Attucks missed a field goal, a held ball gave St. Joe possession. Brashaun Woods and Nick Shrewsberry calmly sank two free throws each down the stretch and a raucous celebration ensued.

Woods, who finished with eight points, was also named the Arthur L. Trester Mental Attitude Award recipient.

The junior Shrewsberry and sophomore Elijah King tied for team-high scoring honors, each tallying 16 points. Koniecnzy endured a bad shooting night, but still came up with 10 points and 11 rebounds in his final high school game. He passed Concord legend Shawn Kemp on the all-time Indiana high school scoring list, finishing his career with 2138 points, tied for 44th all-time.

The entire St. Joe team had a bad shooting night, hitting jyst 39 percent from the field and a mere 3-o-f20 from 3-point range. Part of that was due to Attuck’s athletic big man Dezmon Briscoe, who blocked five shots while scoring 17 points with 11 rebounds.

Briscoe led the Tigers on a second-half comeback after St. Joe took a 35-24 lead in the third quarter. A pair of Briscoe free throws early in the 4th brought Attucks within two at 43-41.

That’s when Shrewsberry went on a spree, nailing a dunk and a three-pointer in a 7-0 Huskie run, putting St. Joe up 50-41 with 3:04 left.

Attucks then scored the next nine points. Kayden English’s two free throws with 1:14 remaining knotted the game at 50, setting the stage for the dramatics.

The team will stay in Indianapolis tonight. A celebration will be held at the school sometime next week.