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Willow Holy Cross

Lions

Tigers

The Holy Cross (New Orleans, LA) varsity basketball team won Tuesday's home non-conference game against Willow (New Orleans, LA) by a score of 49-31.

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Final
Willow	9	4	10	8	31
Holy Cross	12	15	13	9	49

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Game Stats

Willow (11-12)

Willow

Scoring/Shooting: Points, Field Goals, and Three-Pointers

#	Athlete Name	Pts	FGM	FGA	FG%	3FGM	3FGA	3FG%
	Team Totals	31	13	36	36	3	13	23
1	Jermaine Long (So)	9	4	17	24	1	6	17
4	Jordan Smith (So)	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
10	Rickey Theyard (Jr)	8	4	7	57	0	0	0
20	Justin Haab (Sr)	5	2	4	50	1	3	33
24	Davon Spencer (So)	2	1	2	50	0	1	0
33	Bruce Murray (Fr)	7	2	5	40	1	3	33

Willow

Scoring/Shooting: Two-Pointers and Free Throws

#	Athlete Name	2FGM	2FGA	2FG%	FTM	FTA	FT%
	Team Totals	10	23	43	2	3	67
1	Jermaine Long (So)	3	11	27	0	1	0
4	Jordan Smith (So)	0	1	0	0	0	0
10	Rickey Theyard (Jr)	4	7	57	0	0	0
20	Justin Haab (Sr)	1	1	100	0	0	0
24	Davon Spencer (So)	1	1	100	0	0	0
33	Bruce Murray (Fr)	1	2	50	2	2	100

Willow

Rebounds, Assists, Steals and Turnovers

#	Athlete Name	Def Reb	Tot Reb	Asst	Stls	TO
	Team Totals	16	16	7	6	7
1	Jermaine Long (So)	4	4	2	3	0
4	Jordan Smith (So)	2	2	0	0	2
10	Rickey Theyard (Jr)	3	3	0	2	2
20	Justin Haab (Sr)	4	4	1	0	0
24	Davon Spencer (So)	0	0	0	0	2
33	Bruce Murray (Fr)	3	3	4	1	1

Willow

Blocks, Deflections, Charges, and Fouls

#	Athlete Name	Blk Shts	Chr
	Team Totals	3	1
1	Jermaine Long (So)	1	0
10	Rickey Theyard (Jr)	1	0
33	Bruce Murray (Fr)	1	1

Holy Cross (11-12)

Holy Cross has not entered stats for this game.

Game Story

Louisiana High School Basketball - Holy Cross over Lusher

January 3, 2012: New Orleans, LA 70117

Fans at Tuesday's non-league challenge between the Holy Cross Tigers (New Orleans, LA) and the visiting Lusher Lions (New Orleans, LA), saw Holy Cross's basketball squad knock off Lusher by a score of 49-31.

With the victory, Holy Cross improves its record to 15-4 on the campaign. The Tigers travel to Jesuit (New Orleans, LA) to battle the Bluejays in a non-league challenge on Friday, January 6. The Bluejays come into the challenge with a record of 6-9. Jesuit lost 68-56 in their recent non-league challenge against Canisius (Buffalo, NY)

Next up, the Lions battle the Newman Greenies (New Orleans, LA) in a non-league challenge, on Friday, January 6. Lusher will attempt to improve on its 6-11 season record. The Greenies come into the challenge with a 12-6 record after their 56-54 non-league loss to Metairie Park Country Day (Metairie, LA).

Rankings & Records

Willow (11-12)

National	LA	Class
11,310	210	41

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	PF	PA
11-18	3-5	3-8	6-6	2-4	.379	.375	1,268	1,384

Holy Cross (11-12)

National	LA	Class
1,740	30	13

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	PF	PA
24-10	7-3	14-6	5-2	5-2	.706	.700	1,897	1,664

Team Scoring Averages

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	OT1	Final
Willow	10.0	11.9	11.2	12.5	-	43.7
Holy Cross	10.2	12.0	11.6	12.0	7.0	55.8

Team Stat Comparison

Willow		Holy Cross
41.2	Points Per Game	19.4
22.2	Rebounds Per Game	9.4
7.6	Assists Per Game	4.3
8.1	Steals Per Game	3.6
1.7	Blocks Per Game	.8

Team Leaders

Willow		Holy Cross	National Avg.
#1 Jermaine Long12.4	Points Per Game	#32 Greg White-Pittman10.8	4.9
#23 Michael Windsay7.9	Rebounds Per Game	#21 Chris Kennie6.2	2.6
#1 Jermaine Long2.5	Assists Per Game	#22 Joel Pichon3.0	1.0
#1 Jermaine Long2.3	Steals Per Game	#22 Joel Pichon2.8	.8
#23 Michael Windsay1.0	Blocks Per Game	#21 Chris Kennie.7	.3

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Willow	2-2		Holy Cross	5-1

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
11/23/11	Warren Easton	Willow	(L) 44-40	1/24/12	Warren Easton	Holy Cross	(W) 69-43
12/15/11	Willow	Warren Easton	(W) 61-56	2/10/12	Holy Cross	Warren Easton	(W) 68-54
12/6/11	Willow	Benjamin Franklin	(W) 47-32	1/20/12	Holy Cross	Benjamin Franklin	(W) 54-33
				2/7/12	Benjamin Franklin	Holy Cross	(W) 70-36
1/6/12	Willow	Newman	(L) 58-38	12/2/11	Newman	Holy Cross	(W) 58-57
				12/9/11	Holy Cross	Newman	(L) 61-42

Record Breakdown

Willow (11-12)		Holy Cross (11-12)
11-18	Overall	24-10
3-5	League	7-3
6-11	Non-League	6-3
0-1	Head to Head	1-0
2-2	Common Opponent	5-1
3-8	Home	14-6
6-6	Away	5-2
2-4	Neutral	5-2
0-0	Playoff	2-1
11-18	In-State	20-9
0-0	Out-of-State	4-1