Basketball Game Preview: Severance Silver Knights vs. Roosevelt Roughriders

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Previous Games

01/14/25 - Home	62-44 W
02/13/24 - Away	69-57 W
01/18/24 - Home	65-30 W
02/14/23 - Home	63-57 W
01/19/23 - Away	75-33 W
+ 2 more games

Severance has gone a perfect 7-0 against Roosevelt recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Thursday. The Severance Silver Knights will challenge the Roosevelt Roughriders at 7:00 p.m. Severance is coming into the contest hot, having won their last nine games.

Last Tuesday, Severance strolled past Thompson Valley with points to spare, taking the game 69-55. The Silver Knights pushed the score to 51-30 by the end of the third, a deficit the Eagles cut but never quite recovered from.

Blake Varney was a one-man wrecking crew for Severance as he went 6-for-15 to rack up 20 points. Another player making a difference was Christian Powell, who posted 12 points and three steals.

Meanwhile, Roosevelt hadn't done well against Mountain View recently (they were 1-8 in their previous nine matchups), but they didn't let the past get in their way on Tuesday. Roosevelt snuck past Mountain View with a 52-47 victory. The win almost wasn't to be: the Roughriders were down 31-12 in the second quarter.

Severance's victory was their fourth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 14-5. A key ingredient in that success has been their performance when it comes to three-point shooting accuracy: their three-point shooting accuracy was 39.2% in those games and 29.2% outside of them. As for Roosevelt, the win (which was their fourth in a row) raised their record to 11-8.

Severance strolled past Roosevelt when the teams last played back in January by a score of 62-44. The rematch might be a little tougher for Severance since the team won't have the home-court advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.