Basketball Game Preview: Franklin Learning Center Bobcats vs. Motivation Jaguars

A feisty cat fight is on tap when the Franklin Learning Center Bobcats challenge the Motivation Jaguars at 3:15 p.m. on Thursday... Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.

Motivation will be up against a hot Franklin Learning Center team: the squad just extended their winning streak to nine. Franklin Learning Center blew past Parkway West 72-41 on Tuesday. The high-flying offensive performance was a huge turnaround for the Bobcats considering their two-point performance the match before.

Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Motivation). They breezed by Philadelphia Military Academy to the tune of 82-52 on Tuesday. Winning may never get old, but the Jaguars sure are getting used to it with their fourth in a row.

Franklin Learning Center better keep an eye on Chace White. He was instrumental in Motivation's win, going 8 of 19 en route to 24 points along with six steals and five assists. White's afternoon made it 13 games in a row in which he has scored at least ten points. The team also got some help courtesy of Daimir Wesby-Pannell, who dropped a double-double on 14 points and ten boards.

Franklin Learning Center pushed their record up to 12-1 with the victory, which was their eighth straight at home. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 65.5 points per game. As for Motivation, they are on a roll lately: they've won seven of their last eight contests, which provided a massive bump to their 12-6-1 record this season.

Franklin Learning Center couldn't quite finish off Motivation when the teams last played back in March of 2021 and fell 63-61. Can Franklin Learning Center avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.