Basketball Preview: Navajo Prep Eagles vs. Tohatchi Cougars
Navajo Prep is 10-0 against the Cougars since January of 2020, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Tuesday. The Navajo Prep Eagles will head out on the road to challenge the Tohatchi Cougars at 7:00 p.m. Navajo Prep is coming into the matchup hot, having won their last seven games.
Navajo Prep stacked an 11th blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Thursday. They really took it to Newcomb for the full four quarters, racking up a 81-21 victory at home. Navajo Prep pushed the score to 70-16 by the end of the third, a deficit the Skyhawks had no chance of recovering from.
Orion King and Xavier Nez were among the main playmakers for Navajo Prep as the former scored 16 points along with eight rebounds and the latter scored 16 points along with five steals. Nez has been hot recently, having posted two or more steals the last seven times he's played. Another player making a difference was Jude Thomas, who scored 12 points along with five assists and three steals.
Meanwhile, even though Zuni scored an imposing 68 points on Thursday, Tohatchi still came out on top. Tohatchi took their matchup against the Thunderbirds 80-68.
Navajo Prep is on a roll lately: they've won eight of their last nine games, which provided a nice bump to their 13-4 record this season. As for Tohatchi, their win was their fifth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 13-6.
Everything came up roses for Navajo Prep against the Cougars in their previous matchup back in January as the team secured a 99-49 win. One of the biggest obstacles the team faced in that game was Tohatchi's Talan Long, who almost dropped a double-double on 16 points and nine rebounds. Now that he's got a second chance to win this matchup, will Navajo Prep still be able to contain Long? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
