The Jonesboro Hurricane will venture away from home to challenge the Whitehaven Tigers at 7:00 p.m. on Monday.
Jonesboro is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Arkansas' top teams: Bryant, who was ranked sixth at the time (Jonesboro was ranked third). Jonesboro took a 68-50 bruising from Bryant on Friday. The matchup was a 30-30 toss-up at halftime, but the Hurricane couldn't quite close it out.
Meanwhile, Whitehaven came tearing into Friday's game with 13 straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 13.3 points) and they left with even more momentum. They came out on top against the Falcons by a score of 59-50. That's two games straight that the Tigers have won by exactly nine points.
Jonesboro's defeat was their first in the conference, dropping their conference record down to 7-1 and their overall record down to 22-2. As for Whitehaven, their victory was their sixth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 22-3.
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