Basketball Recap: Young Men's Leadership Academy's Luck Takes a Turn for the Worse on Tuesday

Young Men's Leadership Academy

Previous 5 Games

01/14/25 @ Village Tech	25-32
01/10/25 @ A Plus Academy	49-35
01/07/25 vs Inspired Vision	66-0
01/03/25 @ Gateway Charter Academy	51-47
12/28/24 vs Turner	57-60

After a string of three wins, Young Men's Leadership Academy's good fortune finally ran out on Tuesday. They fell 32-25 to the Village Tech Viper Squid. While losing is never fun, Young Men's Leadership Academy can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 882nd, while Village Tech is ranked 341st).

Bryson Gaines was his usual excellent self, dropping a double-double on 18 points and 14 boards for Village Tech. Those 14 rebounds gave Gaines a new career-high. Another player making a difference was Isaiah Thomas, who posted nine points.

Young Men's Leadership Academy's defeat dropped their record down to 12-9. As for Village Tech, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 18-4 record this season.

Young Men's Leadership Academy has already played their next contest (against Life Oak Cliff), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing. Village Tech wasted no time getting back out on the court and has already played their next game, a 60-58 loss against Trinity Leadership on the 17th.