The Cleveland Storm will face off against the Farmington Scorpions at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Cleveland is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of New Mexico's top teams: Cibola, who was ranked fifth at the time (Cleveland was ranked fourth). Cleveland came out on top against Cibola by a score of 75-66 on Tuesday. That's two games straight that the Storm have won by exactly nine points.
Meanwhile, Farmington had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 32 points) and they went ahead and made it five on Tuesday. They secured a 63-59 W over the Rams.
Farmington is also on a roll lately: they've won eight of their last ten games, which provided a nice bump to their 13-4 record this season. The wins came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 69.7 points per game. As for Cleveland, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 12-5.
Cleveland couldn't quite finish off Farmington when the teams last played back in December of 2023 and fell 61-58. Can Cleveland avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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