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Kirby Melrose

Cougars

Golden Wildcats

The Melrose (Memphis, TN) varsity basketball team won Friday's home conference game against Kirby (Memphis, TN) by a score of 69-67.

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Final
Kirby	-	-	-	-	67
Melrose	-	-	-	-	69

Final score provided by D. Terrell.

Recap
Box Score
Matchup

Game Stats

Kirby (23-24)

Kirby has not entered stats for this game.

Melrose (23-24)

Melrose

Shooting

#	Athlete Name	Pts	FGM	FGA	FG%	AFG%
	Team Totals	69	26	68	38	42
0	Sadat Muhammad (Sr)	17	8	17	47	50
1	D. Sanders Jr (Sr)	15	7	15	47	47
2	Joe Williams (Sr)	0	0	1	0	0
5	Taveon Stitmon (Fr)	11	3	11	27	36
11	William Carver (Sr)	8	3	10	30	30
13	Jayden Banks (Jr)	0	0	2	0	0
20	Deshawn Plummer (Sr)	10	3	3	100	100

Melrose

#	Athlete Name	Pts	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	2FGM	2FGA	2FG%
	Team Totals	69	5	24	21	12	17	71	21	44	48
0	Sadat Muhammad (Sr)	17	1	3	33				7	14	50
1	D. Sanders Jr (Sr)	15				1	2	50	7	15	47
2	Joe Williams (Sr)	0							0	1	0
5	Taveon Stitmon (Fr)	11	2	8	25	3	4	75	1	3	33
11	William Carver (Sr)	8	0	6	0	2	3	67	3	4	75
13	Jayden Banks (Jr)	0	0	1	0				0	1	0
20	Deshawn Plummer (Sr)	10				4	6	67	3	3	100

Melrose

Totals

#	Athlete Name	Pts	OReb	DReb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO
	Team Totals	69	21	21	42	15	15	10	13
0	Sadat Muhammad (Sr)	17		2	2	2	5		6
1	D. Sanders Jr (Sr)	15	8	10	18	1	3	6	1
2	Joe Williams (Sr)	0	4		4				1
5	Taveon Stitmon (Fr)	11	1	1	2	2	2	2
11	William Carver (Sr)	8	2	2	4	5	4		3
13	Jayden Banks (Jr)	0	1		1	1
20	Deshawn Plummer (Sr)	10	4	2	6			1
30	Demario Brooks (Jr)		1	1	2			1

Melrose

Misc Totals

#	Athlete Name	Ast:TO	Stl:TO
	Team Totals	1.15	1.15
0	Sadat Muhammad (Sr)	0.33	0.83
1	D. Sanders Jr (Sr)	1.00	3.00
11	William Carver (Sr)	1.67	1.33

Game Story

Tennessee High School Basketball - Melrose nudges Kirby

January 5, 2024: Memphis, TN 38114

In Friday's league outing, the Melrose Golden Wildcats (Memphis, TN) basketball squad edged the visiting Kirby Cougars (Memphis, TN), by a count of 69-67.

The Golden Wildcats (14-5) will now prepare for their outing against Power Center Academy (Memphis, TN). The Knights go into the 3A District 16 outing with a 9-4 record.

The Cougars now hold a 5-8 record. They play next when they travel to Power Center Academy for a 3A District 16 outing on Tuesday, January 9.

Rankings & Records

Kirby (23-24)

TN	Class
195	44

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	PF	PA
6-16	1-7	4-7	1-7	1-2	.273	.125	1,333	1,476

Melrose (23-24)

TN	Class
64	12

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	PF	PA
20-11	5-4	9-2	5-5	6-4	.645	.556	1,943	1,967

Team Scoring Averages

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	OT1	Final
Kirby	10.8	15.8	17.7	15.7	-	60.6
Melrose	14.3	15.7	16.0	19.4	14.0	62.7

Head-to-Head

Melrose won on 1/5/2024

1/5 @ 7:30p Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final

Kirby - - - - 67
Melrose - - - - 69

The Kirby (Memphis, TN) varsity basketball team lost Friday's away conference game against Melrose (Memphis, TN) by a score of 69-67.
Box score
Kirby won on 2/7/2024

2/7 @ 7:30p Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final

Melrose - - - - 62
Kirby - - - - 70

The Melrose (Memphis, TN) varsity basketball team lost Wednesday's away conference game against Kirby (Memphis, TN) by a score of 70-62.
Box score

2/7 @ 7:30p	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Final
Melrose	-	-	-	-	62
Kirby	-	-	-	-	70

Team Stat Comparison

Kirby		Melrose
-	Points Per Game	62.3
-	Rebounds Per Game	34.7
-	Assists Per Game	11.7
-	Steals Per Game	10.0
-	Blocks Per Game	3.3

Team Leaders

Kirby		Melrose	National Avg.
-	Points Per Game	#1 Devin Sanders Jr17.1	4.9
-	Rebounds Per Game	#1 Devin Sanders Jr14.6	2.6
-	Assists Per Game	#11 William Carver3.5	1.0
-	Steals Per Game	#11 William Carver2.7	0.8
-	Blocks Per Game	#1 Devin Sanders Jr2.3	0.3

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Kirby	0-9		Melrose	4-7

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
11/28/23	Kirby	Southwind	(L) 64-41	11/14/23	Melrose	Southwind	(L) 63-37
12/5/23	Kirby	Collierville	(L) 82-46	11/18/23	Melrose	Collierville	(L) 68-48
1/9/24	Kirby	Power Center Academy	(L) 68-57	1/12/24	Power Center Academy	Melrose	(W) 68-66
1/26/24	Power Center Academy	Kirby	(L) 68-66	1/30/24	Power Center Academy	Melrose	(W) 54-43
2/12/24	Kirby	Power Center Academy	(L) 66-58
1/12/24	Kirby	Ridgeway	(L) 74-61	12/22/23	Ridgeway	Melrose	(L) 63-54
1/30/24	Ridgeway	Kirby	(L) 89-78	1/24/24	Ridgeway	Melrose	(L) 74-61
				2/2/24	Melrose	Ridgeway	(L) 79-63
				2/16/24	Melrose	Ridgeway	(L) 78-54
1/24/24	Kirby	Hamilton	(L) 60-57	1/29/24	Melrose	Hamilton	(W) 70-67
2/2/24	Hamilton	Kirby	(L) 73-68	2/6/24	Hamilton	Melrose	(L) 72-63
				2/13/24	Hamilton	Melrose	(W) 66-63

Record Breakdown

Kirby (23-24)		Melrose (23-24)
6-16	Overall	20-11
1-8	League	5-5
5-6	Non-League	7-3
1-1	Head to Head	1-1
0-9	Common Opponent	4-7
4-7	Home	9-2
1-7	Away	5-5
1-2	Neutral	6-4
0-0	Playoff	0-0
6-15	In-State	18-11
0-1	Out-of-State	2-0