Basketball Game Preview: DeWitt Panthers vs. Belleville Tigers

A feisty cat fight will be fought as DeWitt Panthers challenge Belleville Tigers at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.

Belleville will be up against a hot DeWitt squad: the team just extended their winning streak to 24. DeWitt put the hurt on Coldwater with a sharp 41-18 victory on Wednesday. Given the Panthers' advantage in MaxPreps' Michigan basketball rankings (they are ranked 11th, while the Cardinals are ranked 79th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.

Meanwhile, Belleville came tearing into Wednesday's contest with ten straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 40.1 points), and they left with even more momentum. They took their matchup with ease, bagging a 65-35 win over the Eagles.

Belleville's victory bumped their record up to 25-1. As for DeWitt, their win bumped their record up to an identical 25-1.