The Alcoa Tornadoes will head out on the road to challenge the McMinn County Cherokees at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Alcoa knows how to get points on the board -- the squad has finished with 55 points or more in their past 20 matchups -- so hopefully McMinn County likes a good challenge.
Alcoa is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Tennessee's top teams: Oak Ridge, who was ranked 19th at the time (Alcoa was ranked 18th). Alcoa fell just short of Oak Ridge by a score of 88-85 on Friday. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game on Tuesday (77), the Tornadoes still had to take the loss.
Meanwhile, McMinn County waltzed into their contest on Friday with two straight wins... but they left with three. They walked away with a 53-41 victory over the Blue Raiders.
Alcoa's loss dropped their record down to 18-5. As for McMinn County, their win bumped their record up to 14-10.
Alcoa came out on top in a nail-biter against McMinn County when the teams last played back in January of 2021, sneaking past 82-80. The rematch might be a little tougher for Alcoa since the team won't have the home-court advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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