The El Dorado Springs Bulldogs will head out on the road to challenge the Butler Bears at 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday. Both teams come into the match bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
El Dorado Springs had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 7.5 points), and they went ahead and made it three on Thursday. They claimed a resounding 68-41 victory over Warsaw on the road. Given El Dorado Springs' advantage in MaxPreps' Missouri basketball rankings (they are ranked 208th, while the Wildcats are ranked 481st), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Butler didn't have too much trouble with the Cardinals at home last Saturday as they won 59-44.
El Dorado Springs' win bumped their record up to 12-9. As for Butler, they are on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four games, which provided a nice bump to their 11-6 record this season.
El Dorado Springs strolled past the Bears when the teams last played back in February of 2023 by a score of 75-56. Does El Dorado Springs have another victory up their sleeve, or will the Bears turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
