The Elmwood Park Tigers are taking a road trip to face off against the Glenbard East Rams at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Elmwood Park is coming into the contest on a three-game losing streak.
On Saturday, Elmwood Park opened the new year with a less-than-successful 58-45 defeat to West Aurora.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Glenbard East). Everything went their way against Timothy Christian on Monday as Glenbard East made off with a 74-52 win. Given the Rams' advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois basketball rankings (they are ranked 152nd, while the Trojans are ranked 444th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Glenbard East is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 7-4 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 65.4 points per game. As for Elmwood Park, their loss dropped their record down to 6-9.
Things could have been worse for Elmwood Park, but things could have been a whole lot better as they took a 72-53 loss to Glenbard East when the teams last played back in December of 2024. Can Elmwood Park avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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