Basketball Game Preview: Jennings County Panthers vs. Carmel Greyhounds

The Jennings County Panthers will wrap up 2024 with a road trip to face off against the Carmel Greyhounds at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. Jennings County is coming into the match hot, having won their last four games.

Last Thursday, Jennings County didn't have too much trouble with Madison as they won 64-45. The Panthers pushed the score to 51-29 by the end of the third, a deficit the Cubs cut but never quite recovered from.

Meanwhile, Carmel hadn't done well against North Central recently (they were 1-8 in their previous nine matchups), but they didn't let the past get in their way on Friday. Carmel secured a 49-45 W over North Central. Given the Greyhounds' advantage in MaxPreps' Indiana basketball rankings (they are ranked 69th, while the Panthers are ranked 205th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.

Jennings County is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 7-5 record this season. The wins came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 56.9 points per game. As for Carmel, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 6-5.