Talk about your bad timing.

The Collinsville Kahoks were getting on a roll when senior guard Kayla Murphy sustained a knee injury in the late going against Granite City on Tuesday night.

The Kahoks were headed to their fifth straight win when Murphy went down.

“She came down on the baseline at the end of the game and went up for a layup and came down funny,’’ Kahoks coach Lori Billy said. “Her knee popped. We’re trying to decide if it’s a meniscus, an ACL, a sprain or what. It hurts us.’’

Murphy, the Kahoks’ second-leading scorer with an average of 11.7 points per game is out indefinitely as her team awaits word  on the extent of her injury.

“We were on a five-game winning streak and thought we were going in the right direction,’’ Billy said after the Kahoks fell 65-42 to the Belleville East Lancers on Thursday night. “We came out tonight with a lot of plans and purpose and it just didn’t play out for us.

Murphy sat next to Billy on the Kahoks’ bench dressed in a sweatshirt and sweat pants.

The Kahoks, 8-4 overall and 3-3 in the Southwestern Conference, will be going through an adjustment period as they play Edwardsville (Jan. 9) and Belleville West (Jan. 12) next week before competing in the Carbondale Invitational the following week.

— Steve Korte