Basketball Game Preview: Ponder Lions vs. Valley View Eagles

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Previous Games

12/31/24 - Away	61-35 W
01/26/24 - Away	64-23 W
01/02/24 - Home	73-20 W
01/27/23 - Home	64-19 W
01/03/23 - Away	57-23 W
+ 4 more games

Ponder has gone 9-0 against Valley View recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Friday. The Ponder Lions will welcome the Valley View Eagles at 7:30 p.m. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Ponder has four straight victories, Valley View has nine straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the court.

Ponder will head into Tuesday's match hoping to keep the good times rolling: they proved they can win big on Friday (they won by 26) and on Tuesday they proved they can win the close ones too. They skirted past Whitesboro 54-52.

Meanwhile, Valley View came up short against Callisburg on Tuesday and fell 47-38.

Ponder has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won ten of their last 11 games, which provided a massive bump to their 17-10 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 58.7 points per game. As for Valley View, their defeat dropped their record down to 10-15.

Ponder took their win against Valley View when the teams last played back in December of 2024 by a conclusive 61-35. Will Ponder repeat their success, or does Valley View have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.