Basketball Game Preview: Pleasant Plains Cardinals vs. Carlinville Cavaliers

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Previous 3 Games

11/25/24 - Away	54-34 W
11/20/23 - Home	53-23 W
11/21/22 - Away	54-26 W

Pleasant Plains has gone a perfect 3-0 against Carlinville recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Tuesday. The Pleasant Plains Cardinals will take on the Carlinville Cavaliers at 7:30 p.m. Pleasant Plains is coming into the match hot, having won their last four games.

Pleasant Plains is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Thursday. They came out on top against Sacred Heart-Griffin by a score of 38-26. Given the Cardinals' advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois basketball rankings (they are ranked 37th, while the Cyclones are ranked 177th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.

Meanwhile, Carlinville had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 16.5 points) and they went ahead and made it three on Thursday. They came within five points of losing the streak, but they secured a 45-40 W against the Hiltoppers.

Carlinville pushed their record up to 25-5 with the victory, which was their ninth straight at home. The wins came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 59.3 points over those games. As for Pleasant Plains, their win bumped their record up to 25-6.

Everything went Pleasant Plains' way against Carlinville in their previous meeting back in November of 2024, as Pleasant Plains made off with a 54-34 victory. Will Pleasant Plains repeat their success, or does Carlinville have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.