The men’s and women’s basketball teams at San Bernardino Valley College are close to doing something that isn’t easy to accomplish – win Foothill Conference titles the same season.

Both teams have two games remaining in the regular season and they’re in first place. Both will host Rio Hondo on Wednesday and travel to Mt. San Jacinto on Saturday.

The women (20-9, 11-1) are in first place alone, one game ahead of Antelope Valley. Coach Sue Crebbin’s team needs to win just one of its last two games because it already has the tiebreaker against Antelope having beaten that team twice.

It would be a repeat for the Wolverines but the feat is more noteworthy this season because they graduated their top six players from last year’s team. The team is led by sophomore point guard Eisha Shepperd, who should be the easy choice as conference MVP.

On the men’s side SBVC (23-8, 10-2) is tied with Mt. San Jacinto. But that issue will be decided on Saturday when they go head-to-head, assuming neither slips up on Wednesday.

Coach Quincy Brewer has just one sophomore on the squad, to go with 12 freshmen. So that team should be commended as well.

If the Wolverines do sweep titles it would be the first time a school has done so since Antelope Valley managed the feat in 2004.

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