Basketball Recap: Alliance Takes a Loss

Alliance was the 49-47 winner over McCook when they last played one another back in February of 2018, but their luck changed this time around. The Alliance Bulldogs took a 42-31 hit to the loss column at the hands of the McCook Bison on Saturday. While losing is never fun, the Bulldogs can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Nebraska basketball rankings (they are ranked 227th, while the Bison are ranked 76th).

Macey Seebohm

Points (Career)

02/08/25 @ McCook	24
12/14/24 vs Hot Springs	22
01/30/24 vs Chadron	22
01/21/25 @ Gordon-Rushville	20
01/17/25 @ Chadron	19

When it comes to explaining why Alliance lost, don't look at Macey Seebohm. Despite the final result, she went 8 of 19 en route to 24 points in addition to eight steals and seven boards. The dominant performance gave Seebohm a new career-high in points.

This is the second loss in a row for Alliance and nudges their season record down to 3-18. As for McCook, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 14-7.

Coming up, Alliance will be playing in front of their home fans against Lexington at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. As for McCook, they are taking a road trip to square off against Gering at 5:30 p.m. on Friday. Gering is on a five-game streak of home wins, McCook a four-game streak of away wins -- so someone will have to leave a streak behind on the court.