Basketball Game Preview: Lausanne Collegiate Lynx vs. Harding Academy Lions

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01/14/25 - Away	63-65 L
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01/09/24 - Home	53-47 W
01/20/23 - Home	52-22 W
12/06/22 - Away	73-51 W
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Lausanne Collegiate has gone 8-2 against Harding Academy recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Friday. The Lausanne Collegiate Lynx will be playing at home against the Harding Academy Lions at 7:30 p.m. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.

Lausanne Collegiate is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They really took it to First Assembly Christian for the full four quarters, racking up a 79-44 win. The matchup was all but wrapped up at the end of the third, by which point the Lynx had established a 31 point advantage.

Lausanne Collegiate found their leader in freshman Zuri Mcclure, who posted 31 points. That makes it three consecutive games in which Mcclure has scored at least a third of Lausanne Collegiate's points. Patrick Thompson was another key player, putting up 12 points.

Meanwhile, Harding Academy had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 13.5 points) and they went ahead and made it five on Friday. They breezed by the Crusaders to the tune of 70-24. The Lions have made a habit of sweeping their opponents off the court, having now won seven contests by 24 points or more this season.

Harding Academy pushed their record up to 16-3 with the victory, which was their tenth straight at home. As for Lausanne Collegiate, their win bumped their record up to 10-12.

Lausanne Collegiate couldn't quite finish off Harding Academy in their previous meeting two weeks ago and fell 65-63. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Harding Academy's Chazaiah Curry, who dropped a double-double on 23 points and 11 boards. Now that Lausanne Collegiate knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.