Basketball Game Preview: Windermere Prep Lakers vs. Windermere Wolverines

The Windermere Prep Lakers will take on the Windermere Wolverines at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both teams are coming into the game red-hot, with Windermere Prep sitting on three straight wins and Windermere on five.

Windermere Prep will head into Friday's matchup hoping to keep the good times rolling: they proved they can win big on Tuesday (they won by 40) and on Friday they proved they can win the close ones too. They came out on top in a nail-biter against Lake Highland Prep, sneaking past 50-47. For those keeping track at home, that's the closest victory the Lakers have posted since November 20, 2024.

Meanwhile, Windermere and Evans (ranked 72nd and 93rd in the MaxPreps national rankings respectively) squared off in a high-profile contest on Friday. Windermere sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 70-67 win over Evans.

Windermere's victory was their eighth straight on the road dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 16-3. As for Windermere Prep, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five games, which provided a nice bump to their 11-7 record this season.

Windermere Prep came out on top in a nail-biter against Windermere in their previous meeting back in January of 2024, sneaking past 85-82. Does Windermere Prep have another victory up their sleeve, or will Windermere turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.