Basketball Game Preview: Cardinal Newman Cardinals vs. Montgomery Vikings

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01/26/24 - Away	67-24 W
01/10/24 - Away	60-36 W
02/11/23 - Away	77-34 W
01/24/23 - Home	67-40 W
01/06/23 - Home	58-25 W
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Cardinal Newman has gone 10-0 against Montgomery recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Thursday. The Cardinal Newman Cardinals will head out to challenge the Montgomery Vikings at 7:30 p.m. Cardinal Newman is coming into the game hot, having won their last seven games.

Last Tuesday, Cardinal Newman strolled past Maria Carrillo with points to spare, taking the game 54-37. Given the Cardinals' advantage in MaxPreps' California basketball rankings (they are ranked 38th, while the Pumas are ranked 229th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.

Meanwhile, Montgomery had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 12.7 points) and they went ahead and made it four on Tuesday. They took down the Cougars 50-32. The Vikings pushed the score to 41-16 by the end of the third, a deficit the Cougars cut but never quite recovered from.

Montgomery pushed their record up to 11-5 with the win, which was their fifth straight on the road. As for Cardinal Newman, they have also been performing incredibly well recently as they've won ten of their last 11 matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 14-3 record this season.

Everything came up roses for Cardinal Newman against Montgomery when the teams last played back in January of 2024, as the team secured a 67-24 victory. In that contest, Cardinal Newman amassed a halftime lead of 40-18, an impressive feat they'll look to repeat on Thursday.