The Epps family knows a little something about basketball.

What it doesn't know is how to get to each other's games.

“That can become a problem,” Aaron Epps said, laughing.

Epps, 39, a Butler graduate, is in his second year as head coach of the Springdale High School boys basketball team. Springdale, 19-3 and champion of Section 1-2A, plays Sewickley Academy at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Shaler to begin the WPIAL playoffs.

Should the Dynamos win, they will play in the second round Feb. 21 — the same night Seneca Valley's girls are playing Mount Lebanon.

Dorothea Epps — Aaron's mother — is in her first season as head coach of the Raiders. Aaron got his start in coaching as an assistant on his mother's Butler girls basketball staff a number of years ago.

“Maybe I can ge my buddy (former Butler athletic director and outgoing WPIAL executive director) Tim O'Malley to schedule our games at the same venue,” Dorothea Epps said. “That would be something.”

“It was pretty cool, her and I being at the (WPIAL) pairings meeting as head coaches this year,” he said. “I bet that (mother-son) combination hasn't happened too often.”

Aaron's cousin, Billy DeShields, is a guard for the 20-2 Uniontown boys basketball team, also in the WPIAL playoffs. His sister, Krystal, is an assistant coach for his mother at Seneca Valley.

“Our family has been all about basketball for a long time,” Epps said. “This is a busy time for all of us. But it's a lot of fun.”

Hos mother agreed.

“It's a lot of running,” she said. “But I wouldn't have it any other way. It's special and it's not going to last forever.

“I've coached with my husband (Paul), Aaron and Krystal. I've had them all. We' d been truly blessed to do that as a family.”

Aaron Epps has had a particularly good time coaching at Springdale this season. The 19 wins compiled by the Dynamos — including a 13-1 section record — are the most by the program in a season in more than a decade.

Springdale had a stretch of nine consecutive losing seasons before going 10-9 in the 2016-17 campaign. Epps replaced Seth Thompson as coach at Springdale before the 2018-19 season.

The Dynamos finished 12-9 in Epps' first season, losing in the first round of the playoffs. That team had four seniors.

This year's team has no seniors on its roster.

“This team has a lot of talent, though,” Epps said. “I knew we'd be good. I didn't know we'd be this good.”

Springdale starts two juniors, two sophomores and a freshman. Demetri Fritch, a 6-foot-4 junior guard, leads the team with 24.8 points, 13 rebounds, six assists and four steals per game. Logan Dexter, a 6-2 sophomore forward, averages 16 points and 10 rebounds per contest.

Two other starters average 11 and nine points, respectively.

“We're the third highest scoring team in WPIAL 2A,” Epps said. “This team has a chance to win it all. Last year, it was nice to make the playoffs, but we knew we weren't good enough to win it all. This team is good enough.

“Coaching isn't as hard as it seems. Players make the difference. Players win games, not coaches. As a coach, you establish a foundation, a culture, and get the players to listen to you. From there, it's all them.”

His mother gives her son a little more credit.

“He's been successful wherever he's been,” she said. “Aaron is smart. He knows the game, understands it and knows how to teach it. And his players, boys and girls, know he's just trying to make them better.

“They embrace that and listen to him.”

Epps had coached girls basketball for five years at Hempfield. He guided the Spartans to the playoffs every year, getting to the WPIAL title game in 2014.

He stepped down after his fifth season.

“I took a year off and, honestly, wasn't sure if I'd coach high school again,” he said. “If I did go back, it'd be with a boys team because I'm already coaching my son's AAU team.”

Epps' son, 12-year-old Jordan, plays for the Wildcats, thus extending the family basketball tree to another generation.

“Our team was ranked No. 1 in Western Pennsylvania last year,” Epps said of the Wildcats. “We have kids on that team from all over Pittsburgh. We've already started practice for this year and that (AAU) season runs until May.

“Basketball is what we're about. I don't see that changing anytime soon.”