Basketball Game Preview: Hattiesburg Tigers vs. Pearl River Central Blue Devils

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Previous Games

01/28/25 - Away	51-29 W
01/10/25 - Home	51-28 W
01/30/24 - Home	49-25 W
01/12/24 - Away	40-26 W
02/12/21 - Away	36-23 W
+ 5 more games

Hattiesburg has gone 10-0 against Pearl River Central recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Monday. The Hattiesburg Tigers will be playing in front of their home fans against the Pearl River Central Blue Devils at 7:00 p.m. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Hattiesburg has three straight wins, Pearl River Central has five straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the court.

Hattiesburg will head into Friday's game hoping to keep the good times rolling: they proved they can win big on Thursday (they won by 23) and on Friday they proved they can win the close ones too. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past Jim Hill 52-49.

Meanwhile, Pearl River Central came up short against St. Patrick on Thursday and fell 36-26. While losing is never fun, the Blue Devils can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Mississippi basketball rankings (they are ranked 212th, while the Fighting Irish are ranked 58th).

Pearl River Central's loss dropped their record down to 5-17. As for Hattiesburg, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won seven of their last eight contests, which provided a massive bump to their 15-10 record this season.

Hattiesburg took their win against Pearl River Central in their previous matchup on Tuesday by a conclusive 51-29. Will Hattiesburg repeat their success, or does Pearl River Central have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.