DALLAS, TX – For the second time in three seasons, the Potawatomi Fire finished the regular season undefeated. The Fire finished the 2026 regular season 18-0 after beating the Dallas Stampede 135-106 on Saturday afternoon.
“I thought we played well today, especially in the second half,” said Fire head coach Mark Dannhoff. “I thought we were a little sloppy in the first half, but I felt like we cleaned things up and played our brand of basketball in the second half.”
Chuck Guy recorded his third triple-double of the season finishing with 29 points, 11 rebounds, and 13 assists. Guy also finished with seven steals as he continues to make his case for an unprecedented third straight TBL MVP award.
Isaiah Wade, who is in the mix for TBL’s 6th Man of the Year award, recorded his sixth double-double of year finishing with 17 points and 19 rebounds.
Willie Warren led the Fire in scoring on Saturday finishing with a season-high 34 points on 15-24 shooting. Warren also finished with two rebounds, three assists, and two steals.
Off the bench, Jahmal McMurray scored a season-high 27 points, including going 6-10 from behind the three-point line.
Rounding out the players who scored in double-digits, Ricardo Artis II finished with 11 points, seven rebounds, and four steals while Jay Hedgeman finished with 10 points and five rebounds.
A full box score is available here.
“I thought we did some things today and I like where we are going into the playoffs,” said Dannhoff. “But, it’s a new season and it doesn’t matter what our regular season record is now. All that matters is getting read to face a really good ADS Sentinels team.”
Up next, the Fire begin postseason play in the Central Conference Finals against the ADS Sentinels. The Fire will host the Sentinels in the best of three series at FireLake Arena. Game is scheduled for Thursday, May 28th at 7 PM. Game 2 is set for Friday, May 29th at 7 PM and Game 3, if necessary, will be played on Sunday, May 31st at 3 PM.
Tickets to the Central Conference Finals are available at potawatomifire.com/tickets or by calling the FireLake Arena Box office at (405) 273-1637.
You can watch a live stream of the game at tbltv.tv or listen live on KGFF Radio (100.9 FM/1450 AM).
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ABOUT THE POTAWATOMI FIRE
The Potawatomi Fire are the first professional basketball team owned by a Native American tribe (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) in Oklahoma. The Fire compete in the Central Conference of The Basketball League (TBL), a men’s professional basketball league, with roughly 40 teams across the U.S. and Canada. The Fire play their home games at FireLake Arena in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
Through their first four years, the Fire have established themselves as the premier franchise in TBL. Along with winning the TBL championship in 2023, 2024 and 2025, the Fire organization was named the 2022 winner of the Jim Koch Award as TBL’s Best Ran Business. The dance team of the Fire, the Fire Girls, were named TBL’s Best Dance Team in 2022 and 2025. The Fire Girls were also named the Central Conference Best Dance Team in 2023 and 2024.