Basketball Game Preview: Mountain Pine Red Devils vs. Bismarck Lions

The Mountain Pine Red Devils and the Bismarck Lions will round out the year against one another at at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday. One thing working in Mountain Pine's favor is that they have posted at least 55 points in their last four matches.

Mountain Pine is probably headed into the game with a chip on their shoulder considering Bismarck just ended the team's three-game winning streak last Friday. They took a 78-74 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Lions. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game last Tuesday (64), the Red Devils still had to take the loss.

Bismarck has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won eight of their last nine contests, which provided a nice bump to their 10-3 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 54.0 points per game. As for Mountain Pine, their defeat dropped their record down to 8-3.