The Alliance Aviators are taking a road trip to challenge the Louisville Leopards at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday. Keep an eye on the score for this one: both posted some lofty point totals in their previous games.
On Friday, Alliance strolled past Minerva with points to spare, taking the game 55-40. Given the Aviators' advantage in MaxPreps' Ohio basketball rankings (they are ranked 137th, while the Lions are ranked 397th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Louisville entered their tilt with Richmond Heights on Friday with six consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with seven. They sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 64-62 win over the Spartans.
Alliance is also on a roll lately: they've won seven of their last eight games, which provided a nice bump to their 11-5 record this season. As for Louisville, they pushed their record up to 12-4 with the victory, which was their fifth straight at home.
Alliance was dealt a bruising 74-32 defeat at the hands of Louisville when the teams last played back in December of 2023. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Louisville's Brayden Gross, who dropped a double-double on 21 points and 15 boards. Now that Alliance knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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