The Cooper Jaguars will challenge the Newport Wildcats at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Both teams are coming into the matchup red-hot, with Cooper sitting on four straight victories and Newport on 23.
Even though Conner scored an imposing 61 points two weeks ago, Cooper still came out on top. Cooper walked away with a 69-61 victory over Conner. Given Cooper's advantage in MaxPreps' Kentucky basketball rankings (they are ranked 14th, while Conner is ranked 96th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Newport can now show off 12 landslide victories after their most recent contest on Sunday. They blew past Lloyd Memorial 60-29 on the road. Newport pushed the score to 46-18 by the end of the third, a deficit Lloyd Memorial had little chance of recovering from.
Newport's win was the result of several impressive offensive performances. One of the most notable came from Tay Kinney, who scored 13 points along with six rebounds and five assists. Kinney has been hot recently, having posted two or more steals the last seven times he's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Jabari Covington, who scored 14 points along with eight rebounds.
Cooper has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 12 of their last 13 games, which provided a nice bump to their 21-8 record this season. As for Newport, their win bumped their record up to 31-3.
Cooper came up short against Newport in their previous matchup back in February, falling 48-42. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Kinney, who scored 28 points along with seven rebounds and two steals. Now that Cooper knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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