The Bradley-Bourbonnais Boilermakers will take on the Minooka Indians at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Bradley-Bourbonnais has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the matchup with four straight defeats, while Minooka will come in with seven straight wins.
Last Thursday, Bradley-Bourbonnais lost to Oak Lawn at home by a 61-44 margin. While losing is never fun, the Boilermakers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Illinois basketball rankings (they are ranked 412th, while the Spartans are ranked 171st).
Meanwhile, a well-balanced attack led Minooka over Oswego in every quarter on their way to victory on Tuesday. Given that consistent dominance, it should come as no surprise that Minooka blew Oswego out of the water with a 79-44 final score. The Indians pushed the score to 59-34 by the end of the third, a deficit the Panthers had little chance of recovering from.
Minooka's victory was their fourth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 20-10. The wins came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 64.8 points over those games. As for Bradley-Bourbonnais, their loss dropped their record down to 4-22.
Things could have been worse for Bradley-Bourbonnais, but things could have been a whole lot better as they took a 54-37 loss to Minooka when the teams last played back in February of 2020. Can Bradley-Bourbonnais avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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