Basketball Game Preview: Weeping Water Indians vs. Conestoga Cougars

Weeping Water hasn't had much luck against Conestoga recently, but that could start to change on Friday. The Weeping Water Indians will take on the Conestoga Cougars in a tournament on Friday. Weeping Water will be strutting in after a win while Conestoga will be coming in after a loss.

Weeping Water is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They walked away with a 58-49 victory over Nebraska Lutheran on Friday.

Weeping Water's success was the result of a balanced attack that saw several players step up, but Landon Fulton led the charge by going 10 for 21 on his way to 27 points. With that strong performance, Fulton is now averaging an impressive 17 points per game. The team also got some help courtesy of Jerderick Brito-Diaz, who dropped a double-double on 14 points and ten rebounds.

Weeping Water was working as a unit and finished the game with 11 assists. That's the most assists they've managed all season.

Meanwhile, Conestoga came up short against Yutan on Saturday and fell 41-30. While losing is never fun, the Cougars can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Nebraska basketball rankings (they are ranked 203rd, while the Chieftains are ranked 65th).

This is the second loss in a row for Conestoga and nudges their season record down to 1-4. As for Weeping Water, they picked up their first home win, bumping their record up to 2-3.

Weeping Water was dealt a bruising 65-34 defeat at the hands of Conestoga in their previous meeting back in December of 2022. Can Weeping Water avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.