Smoky Mountain hasn't had much luck against Pisgah recently, but that could start to change on Tuesday. The Smoky Mountain Mustangs will face off against the Pisgah Bears at 6:00 p.m. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, both will really light up the scoreboard.
Smoky Mountain got their first taste of in-conference action this week and they started things off strong. They came out on top against East Henderson by a score of 58-50 on Friday.
Meanwhile, Pisgah had already won seven in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 24.9 points) and they went ahead and made it eight on Saturday. They snuck past the Cougars with a 55-51 win. Given the Bears' advantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina basketball rankings (they are ranked 33rd, while the Cougars are ranked 96th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Pisgah pushed their record up to 15-2 with the victory, which was their sixth straight on the road. As for Smoky Mountain, their win bumped their record up to 4-12.
Smoky Mountain was dealt a bruising 70-23 loss at the hands of Pisgah when the teams last played back in December of 2024. That contest was all but decided by halftime, at which point Smoky Mountain was down 42-12.
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