SYCAMORE – Just minutes after Cornerstone Christian Academy lost in the championship game of the Association of Christian Schools International basketball boys basketball state finals last season, Michael Jorgensen, Thomas Johnson and their teammates gathered together.

With almost every key contributor coming back, they wanted to set the tone immediately for the 2012-13 season.

Cornerstone won its first 19 games of the season and its 25-4 record in the regular season gave Cornerstone a first-round bye in the ACSI state tournament. It defeated Westlake and Kankakee Trinity in its first two games, before edging Collinsville, 65-59, to win the first boys basketball state title in school history.