FARMINGTON – OK, the Super Bowl taught us all something.

We learned that 18-0 doesn’t mean much. We discovered that if the media and the rest of a league continually showers the mighty monolith with betters, bests, greater-thans and other random platitudes, there’s a remote chance the giant will believe it and possibly be adversely affected by it.

Surely it doesn’t look like New England Patriots psychology, Jedi mind tricks or any other skullduggery will bother the Bangor High School boys’ basketball team, but this would be a fine time for the rest of Eastern Class A to start trying.

Bangor looked eminently untouchable – by any team in the state now, and yes, possibly ever – in mauling Mt. Blue, 82-48, and completing a spotless Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference regular season Friday night.

To say the actual margin wasn’t really that close would meet with raucous laughter from anybody watching objectively.

Bangor led 26-8, 49-21 and 67-31 at the quarter checkpoints before lifting a size 18 sneaker off the accelerator.

The Rams hit 28 of their first 36 shots, including 12 in a row from Sam Martin’s inside bucket with 5:45 remaining in the second period to Lee Suvlu’s traditional 3-point play with 6:45 left in the third.

“I don’t think we expect it. We just came out on fire. Nothing else to it,” said Bangor senior Jon McAllian, headed to the University of Maine next year on a full basketball scholarship. “That’s probably our best shooting game this season.”

Eleven seniors saw time for Bangor, and the only hint of equality came in the fourth quarter when the Rams trotted out their third team against a Mt. Blue hodgepodge that included multiple starters.

McAllian and Ryan Weston shared top honors with 17 points each. Weston rolled up a baker’s dozen of that during a first-quarter clinic along the baseline. McAllian notched 11 in the second period, knocking down three straight 3-pointers.

Suvlu added 13 points. Nathan Frazier was the 13th different Ram to score when he nailed a 3-pointer in the waning seconds.

“That’s what is really special about this team, I think, is that at any time we have a bunch of guys who can step up and play well,” Weston said.

“And we’re so big that there are mismatches all over the place. We just try to look for them and get it to the guy with the biggest mismatch.”

All this against a Mt. Blue team that thumped Skowhegan 24 hours earlier.

Heck, the Cougars (12-6) won 75 percent of their games against everybody else this season. They’re expected to earn a spot in next Saturday’s No. 4 vs. No. 5 quarterfinal game at Augusta Civic Center when the final Heal Points are released Sunday. Win that one against Cony, and Mt. Blue likely would run into Bangor again in the semis.

“They’re a good team, obviously. They’re undefeated and they’re beating everybody to a pulp,” said Mt. Blue coach Jim Bessey. “We tried man-to-man, and that didn’t work very well. We tried zone, and that worked less well. I don’t have any great answers for that right now. We have some things left that we may try and do.”

Sophomore Jordan Hoyt led the Cougars with 13 points. Joe Gilbert, the only senior starter to return from last year’s group that lost a heartbreaker to Bangor in the regional semifinals, added 11.

Bangor will get a pre-tourney sparring session against the team that provided two of its rare challenges during the regular season when it faces Edward Little on Monday in the KVAC championship game at Cony High School.

“That lets us know where we’re at. It really tests us,” said Weston. “(EL is) a very good team, and we’re not taking anything for granted. They’re always with us. They’re very feisty and very athletic.”