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| 02/26/22 - Home | 55-35 W |
| 12/04/21 - Home | 43-27 W |
| 12/03/20 - Away | 54-51 W |
| 02/24/15 - Away | 50-31 W |
Millard North is 4-0 against Columbus since February of 2015 and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Tuesday. The Millard North Mustangs are taking a road trip to face off against the Columbus Discoverers at 5:30 p.m. Millard North knows how to get points on the board -- the squad has finished with 55 points or more in their past four matches -- so hopefully Columbus likes a good challenge.
If Millard North beats Columbus with 82 points on Tuesday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two contests with that exact score. Millard North simply couldn't be stopped on Saturday as they easily beat Benson 82-39. Given the Mustangs' advantage in MaxPreps' Nebraska basketball rankings (they are ranked 14th, while the Bunnies are ranked 197th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Columbus had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 23.3 points) and they went ahead and made it four on Friday. They had just enough and edged the Rockets out 40-37. The score was all tied up 20-20 at the break, but the Discoverers were the better team in the second half.
Millard North's win was their fourth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 9-2. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 71.8 points per game. As for Columbus, they are on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 8-3 record this season.
Everything went Millard North's way against Columbus when the teams last played back in February of 2022, as Millard North made off with a 55-35 victory. The rematch might be a little tougher for Millard North since the squad won't have the home-court advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
