Morton hasn't had much luck against Plains recently, but that could start to change on Tuesday. The Morton Indians will challenge the Plains Cowboys at 7:30 p.m. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Morton is headed into the contest after thoroughly thrashing Smyer: they outscored them in every quarter. Morton put the hurt on Smyer with a sharp 66-43 win on Friday. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Indians.
Meanwhile, Plains had already won ten in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 24.1 points) and they went ahead and made it 11 on Friday. Everything went their way against the Roughnecks as they made off with a 67-43 victory. Given the Cowboys' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 331st, while the Roughnecks are ranked 1213th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Morton has also been performing well recently as they've won three of their last four matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 8-8 record this season. The wins came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 52.3 points per game. As for Plains, they pushed their record up to 22-2 with the win, which was their fourth straight on the road.
Morton ended up a good deal behind Plains in their previous meeting on January 3rd, losing 52-37. Can Morton avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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