The Austin College and Career Academy Tigers's road trip will continue as they head out to face the Willows Academy Eagles at 7:30 p.m. on February 20th. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
It can be hard to translate regular season success to the playoffs, but Austin College and Career Academy had no problem doing just that on Thursday. They blew past the Eagles 49-24. Austin College and Career Academy pushed the score to 35-14 by the end of the third, a deficit Chicago Military Academy had little chance of recovering from.
Meanwhile, Willows Academy had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 33.3 points), and they went ahead and made it four on Thursday. They breezed by Woodlands Academy on the road to the tune of 67-40. Given Willows Academy's advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois basketball rankings (they are ranked 239th, while Woodlands Academy is ranked 539th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Austin College and Career Academy's win bumped their record up to 11-2. As for Willows Academy, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won nine of their last ten matches, which provided a nice bump to their 28-5 record this season.
Austin College and Career Academy took a serious blow against Willows Academy in their previous meeting back in February of 2020, falling 57-29. Can Austin College and Career Academy avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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