Basketball Game Preview: Banning Broncos vs. Desert Hot Springs Golden Eagles

The Banning Broncos will challenge the Desert Hot Springs Golden Eagles at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.

Desert Hot Springs will be up against a hot Banning team: the squad just extended their winning streak to three. Banning put the hurt on Cathedral City with a sharp 67-46 win on Tuesday. The Broncos have made a habit of sweeping their opponents off the court, having now won eight games by 20 points or more this season.

Meanwhile, Desert Hot Springs had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 24 points) and they went ahead and made it three on Tuesday. They took their match with ease, bagging a 64-26 victory over the RAMS. With the Golden Eagles ahead 42-10 at the half, the contest was all but over already.

Desert Hot Springs has been performing well recently as they've won four of their last five games, which provided a nice bump to their 5-9 record this season. The wins came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 67.4 points per game. As for Banning, their win was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 12-6.

Banning and Desert Hot Springs were neck-and-neck when the teams last played last Tuesday, but Banning came up empty-handed after a 55-54 loss. Can Banning avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.