Basketball Game Preview: Presque Isle Wildcats vs. Caribou Vikings

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02/04/25 - Home	39-67 L
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01/02/24 - Home	47-54 L
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Presque Isle and Caribou are an even 5-5 against one another since February of 2020, but not for long. The Presque Isle Wildcats will challenge the Caribou Vikings at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.

Presque Isle is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Tuesday. They blew past Maranacook 62-36. Given the Wildcats' advantage in MaxPreps' Maine basketball rankings (they are ranked 14th, while the Black Bears are ranked 71st), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.

Meanwhile, Caribou had already won ten in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 26.2 points) and they went ahead and made it 11 last Tuesday. They blew past the Wildcats, posting a 67-39 victory. The Vikings have made a habit of sweeping their opponents off the court, having now won 11 matches by 22 points or more this season.

Caribou pushed their record up to 16-1 with the win, which was their fourth straight on the road. They've dominated over that stretch too, winning by an average of 25 points. As for Presque Isle, they are on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four games, which provided a nice bump to their 12-8 record this season.

Presque Isle took a serious blow against Caribou in their previous meeting last Tuesday, falling 67-39. Can Presque Isle avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.