Basketball Game Preview: Bolingbrook Raiders vs. Yorkville Foxes

By Team Reports Jan 29, 2025, 3:20am

Basketball Preview: Bolingbrook Raiders vs. Yorkville Foxes

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The Bolingbrook Raiders will head out on the road to face off against the Yorkville Foxes at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. Each of these teams will be battling to keep a three-game winning streak alive.

Bolingbrook is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They breezed by Plainfield South to the tune of 80-50 on Tuesday. The Raiders have made a habit of sweeping their opponents off the court, having now won nine matches by 23 points or more this season.

Meanwhile, you're bound to get a positive result if you outscore your opponent every quarter, and that's exactly how it played out for Yorkville on Tuesday. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that they blew Joliet Central out of the water with a 57-29 final score. The Foxes pushed the score to 41-19 by the end of the third, a deficit the Steelmen had little chance of recovering from.

Yorkville has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won nine of their last ten games, which provided a nice bump to their 17-7 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 61.5 points per game. As for Bolingbrook, their win was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 16-8.

Bolingbrook beat Yorkville 55-47 in their previous meeting back in December of 2024. The rematch might be a little tougher for Bolingbrook since the team won't have the home-court advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.

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