Basketball Game Preview: Evansville Harrison Warriors vs. Henderson County Colonels

The Evansville Harrison Warriors will head out to challenge the Henderson County Colonels at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.

Evansville Harrison is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They came out on top in a nail-biter against Park Tudor on Saturday, sneaking past 66-63. Given the Warriors' advantage in MaxPreps' Indiana basketball rankings (they are ranked 65th, while the Panthers are ranked 205th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.

Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Evansville Harrison to victory, but perhaps none more so than Shane Sims, who went 9 for 14 on his way to 22 points in addition to six boards and five assists. The matchup was Sims' fourth in a row with at least ten points. The team also got some help courtesy of Brooks Thomas, who went 7 of 9 on his way to 18 points and six boards.

Sims wasn't the only one working in the assists department: Evansville Harrison was working as a unit and finished the game with 17 assists. The team's really been improving in that area: they've now improved their assist total in three consecutive games.

Meanwhile, Henderson County was fully in charge on Saturday, breezing past Murray 89-45. The Colonels have made a habit of sweeping their opponents off the court, having now won five contests by 24 points or more this season.

Henderson County pushed their record up to 7-2 with the victory, which was their fifth straight at home. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 69.8 points per game. As for Evansville Harrison, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matches, which provided a nice bump to their 5-2 record this season.

Evansville Harrison ended up a good deal behind Henderson County in their previous matchup back in January of 2020, losing 69-51. Can Evansville Harrison avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.