Basketball Game Preview: Malvern Prep Friars vs. Delbarton Green Wave

The Malvern Prep Friars will take on the Delbarton Green Wave in a holiday battle at at 4:00 p.m. on Monday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.

Malvern Prep is probably headed into the contest with a chip on their shoulder considering Archbishop Wood just ended the team's four-game winning streak on Saturday. They took a 78-74 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Vikings. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Thursday (72), the Friars still had to take the loss.

Meanwhile, it's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 88-56, which was the final score in Delbarton's tilt against Rutgers Prep on Saturday. The loss was the Green Wave's first of the season.

Having lost for the first time this season, Delbarton fell to 2-1. As for Malvern Prep, their defeat dropped their record down to 6-3.