Basketball Game Preview: Evergreen Cougars vs. Wheat Ridge Farmers

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Previous Games

01/31/24 - Away	58-44 W
02/01/23 - Home	68-41 W
01/05/22 - Away	70-51 W
02/24/21 - Away	56-54 W
02/08/21 - Home	55-41 W
+ 5 more games

Evergreen is 8-2 against Wheat Ridge since February of 2018 and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Wednesday. The Evergreen Cougars will welcome the Wheat Ridge Farmers at 7:00 p.m. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.

Wheat Ridge will be up against a hot Evergreen squad: the team just extended their winning streak to three. Evergreen sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 55-53 victory over Golden on Friday.

Meanwhile, you can't lose the game if you win every quarter, and that was precisely Wheat Ridge's strategy against Greeley West on Saturday. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that Wheat Ridge blew Greeley West out of the water with a 76-22 final score. With the Farmers ahead 44-11 at the half, the match was all but over already.

Wheat Ridge is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four games, which provided a massive bump to their 8-7 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 74.8 points per game. As for Evergreen, they pushed their record up to 12-3 with the win, which was their sixth straight at home dating back to last season.

Evergreen strolled past Wheat Ridge when the teams last played back in January of 2024 by a score of 58-44. Does Evergreen have another victory up their sleeve, or will Wheat Ridge turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.