Basketball Game Preview: Morton Panthers vs. Northeast Jones Tigers

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Previous 5 Games

01/10/25 - Home	55-12 W
01/09/25 - Home	55-12 W
02/08/24 - Home	36-27 W
01/30/24 - Home	43-33 W
01/12/24 - Away	41-32 W

Morton has gone 5-0 against Northeast Jones recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Tuesday. A feisty cat fight is on tap when the Morton Panthers face off against the Northeast Jones Tigers at 6:00 p.m. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Morton has nine straight victories, Northeast Jones has 12 straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the court.

If Morton beats Northeast Jones with 38 points on Tuesday, it's going to be the squad's new lucky number: they've won their past two contests with that exact score. Morton came out on top against Forest by a score of 38-27 on Thursday. Given the Panthers' advantage in MaxPreps' Mississippi basketball rankings (they are ranked 22nd, while the Bearcats are ranked 118th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.

Meanwhile, Northeast Jones played a tough game on Monday in which they were outscored in every quarter. They had to suffer through a 53-15 loss at the hands of Quitman. The Tigers were down 50-11 at the end of the third quarter, which was just too much to recover from.

Northeast Jones' loss dropped their record down to 2-20. As for Morton, they are on a roll lately: they've won 13 of their last 14 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 18-5 record this season.

Everything came up roses for Morton against Northeast Jones in their previous meeting on January 10th, as the team secured a 55-12 win. In that contest, Morton amassed a halftime lead of 37-6, an impressive feat they'll look to repeat on Tuesday.