Basketball Game Preview: Greenhills Gryphons vs. Lutheran Warriors

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Previous 6 Games

02/29/24 - Home	33-44 L
12/05/23 - Away	24-44 L
01/07/22 - Away	58-23 W
02/22/19 - Home	50-25 W
02/22/18 - Away	20-25 L
02/23/17 - Neutral	43-36 W

Greenhills and Lutheran are an even 3-3 against one another since February of 2017, but not for long. The Greenhills Gryphons will face off against the Lutheran Warriors at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Greenhills has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the contest with three straight losses, while Lutheran will come in with 15 straight wins.

Greenhills came into this matchup off a tough 33-point defeat on Monday. This time they kept things ultra-competitive, but unfortunately the final result was the same. They fell just short of Onsted by a score of 53-50 on Tuesday. While losing is never fun, the Gryphons can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Michigan basketball rankings (they are ranked 492nd, while the Wildcats are ranked 186th).

Meanwhile, you're bound to get a positive result if you outscore your opponent every quarter, and that's exactly how it played out for Lutheran on Tuesday. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that they blew Central Academy out of the water with a 57-22 final score. The Warriors have made a habit of sweeping their opponents off the court, having now won nine games by 23 points or more this season.

Greenhills better focus on containing Lillian Fremder and Becky Reddeman as the pair were huge in Lutheran's win. Fremder dropped a double-double with 12 points and 11 assists, while Reddeman en route to 18 points along with eight rebounds and six steals. Reddeman is on a roll when it comes to steals, as she's now grabbed two or more in each of the last 42 games she's played dating back to last season. The team also got some help courtesy of Mackenzie Bohn, who posted 11 points and six boards.

Lutheran smashed the offensive glass and finished the game with 12 offensive boards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now pulled down at least 12 offensive rebounds in five consecutive matches.

Lutheran pushed their record up to 18-3 with the victory, which was their ninth straight at home. The wins came thanks in part to their defensive effort, having only surrendered 20.4 points over those games. As for Greenhills, their loss dropped their record down to 7-13.

Greenhills came up short against Lutheran when the teams last played back in February of 2024, falling 44-33. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Fremder, who dropped a double-double with 15 points and ten rebounds. Now that Greenhills knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.