The Alief Taylor Lions will head out on the road to square off against the Strake Jesuit Fighting Crusaders at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday.
Alief Taylor is headed into the contest having just suffered their closest loss since February 10, 2024 on Saturday. They fell just short of Foster by a score of 43-40. While losing is never fun, the Lions can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 726th, while the Falcons are ranked 248th).
Meanwhile, Strake Jesuit had already won nine in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 14 points) and they went ahead and made it ten on Saturday. They secured a 61-55 W over the Chargers.
Strake Jesuit pushed their record up to 21-9 with the win, which was their seventh straight on the road. As for Alief Taylor, their defeat dropped their record down to 10-18.
Alief Taylor came up short against Strake Jesuit when the teams last played back in January, falling 49-37. Can Alief Taylor avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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