It's hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact the Morehead Panthers can now relate to. They lost to the Wildcats on the road by a decisive 81-65 margin on Tuesday. While losing is never fun, Morehead can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina basketball rankings (they are ranked 218th, while West Stokes is ranked 100th).
Despite the loss, Morehead still got an impressive performance from Makel Smith, who scored 33 points. That was a full 50.8% of Morehead's points, marking the third time in a row he's earned more than a third of the team's points. The team also got some help courtesy of Jordan Chandler, who scored nine points along with eight assists and five rebounds.
Morehead dropped their record down to 13-13 with that loss, which was their fifth straight on the road. As for West Stokes, they are on a roll lately: they've won seven of their last nine games, which provided a nice bump to their 20-7 record this season.
Morehead does not have any more games scheduled as of now. As for West Stokes, they will head out on the road to challenge Patton at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. One thing working in West Stokes' favor is that they have posted big point totals in their last ten games.
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