The Cookeville Cavaliers will square off against the LaVergne Wolverines at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Both teams are coming into the match red-hot, with Cookeville sitting on five straight victories and LaVergne on 14.
Last Saturday, Cookeville earned a 66-54 win over Oakland. Given the Cavaliers' advantage in MaxPreps' Tennessee basketball rankings (they are ranked 109th, while the Patriots are ranked 221st), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, it can be hard to translate regular season success to the playoffs, but LaVergne had no problem doing just that on Saturday. They had just enough and edged out Rockvale 40-38. The 40-point effort marked the Wolverines' lowest-scoring game of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
LaVergne's victory was their seventh straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 19-7. As for Cookeville, their win bumped their record up to 14-10.
Cookeville came up short against LaVergne when the teams last played back in February, falling 49-45. Can Cookeville avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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