The Lone Oak Buffaloes will challenge the Mount Vernon Tigers at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Lone Oak has three straight victories, Mount Vernon has 20 straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the court.
Lone Oak will bounce into Tuesday's game after beating Commerce, who they had gone 0-9 against in their nine prior meetings. Lone Oak came out on top in a nail-biter against Commerce on Friday, sneaking past 52-50. The win was all the more spectacular given the Buffaloes' disadvantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 716th, while the Tigers are ranked 242nd).
Meanwhile, it's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 70-14, which was the final score in Mount Vernon's tilt against Chisum on Friday. The matchup marked the Tigers' lowest-scoring contest so far this season.
Lone Oak has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 17-12 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 56.7 points per game. As for Mount Vernon, their loss dropped their record down to 0-19.
Everything came up roses for Lone Oak against Mount Vernon in their previous meeting on January 3rd, as the squad secured a 65-37 victory. Will Lone Oak repeat their success, or does Mount Vernon have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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