It would be the championship which completes the set for lifelong friends Jenna O’Hea and Kath MacLeod.

The Dandenong Rangers basketballers’ 20-year friendship and uncanny on-court understanding has netted club and state titles – even a silver medal for Australia at the world under-20 championships.

But never a WNBL title – something they can achieve on Sunday when the Rangers’ remarkable season turnaround is tested in the grand final against defending champions Bulleen Boomers at Melbourne’s State Netball Centre.

National team star O’Hea used to play for Bulleen, but defected to the Rangers to team with great mate MacLeod and relive their days as youngsters at south-east Melbourne suburban club Nunawading Spectres.

Eight weeks ago, they were mates headed for early holidays as the Rangers looked set to miss the finals altogether.

Instead the team has clicked into timely gear, winning eight matches in a row and upsetting the regular season’s best side Adelaide Lightning in the preliminary final last weekend.

“For us to win a championship would mean so much considering how much we’ve gone through together,” O’Hea said.

“We have a great chemistry together, we read each other better than I think most players who play together because we’ve been playing together for so long.

“It’s just great to be back playing with her.”

Dandenong coach Mark Wright has even designed plays around the duo’s understanding.

For big-match specialist O’Hea, taking on the team she won a championship with last season would appear to add another layer of pressure.

She swears it matters little.

“The Bulleen team is very different to the team I won the championship with last year.

“Only four remain so it’s not as if I’m going up against all the players I battled with so hard to win that championship with.

“Once you get on court, it’s just another opposition down the other end. It’s not as if I’m going to be thinking about a championship with Bulleen when I’m playing with Dandenong.”

Point guard MacLeod’s showdown with Bulleen opposite number Sam Richards is pivotal – Richards overcoming a calf injury which kept her out of the major semi-final.

The Boomers also boast the imposing inside game of O’Hea’s Opals teammate Liz Cambage, with Rangers’ import Krista Phillips having the job of containing her.

O’Hea has no regrets about her switch to Dandenong regardless of the result.

But she says it would be a fitting way for her new club to cap off an against-the-odds run to the final.

“It was time for some new challenges and it’s been extremely challenging,” O’Hea said.

“We were down and out seven or eight weeks ago, we pulled together. and so far we’ve achieved a lot of great things.

“We’ve got one more game to achieve the ultimate.”