The Jonesboro Hurricane are taking a road trip to challenge the Central Tigers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Jonesboro is coming into the match hot, having won their last seven games.
Jonesboro is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Arkansas' top teams: Conway, who was ranked 16th at the time (Jonesboro was ranked second). Jonesboro snuck past Conway with a 46-41 win on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Central). They walked away with a 72-63 victory over Little Rock Southwest on Tuesday.
Central is also on a roll lately: they've won seven of their last eight games, which provided a nice bump to their 10-8 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 59.6 points per game. As for Jonesboro, they pushed their record up to 20-1 with the win, which was their fifth straight on the road.
Jonesboro suffered a grim 62-40 defeat to Central in their previous matchup back in February of 2024. Can Jonesboro avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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