The Italy Gladiators will square off against the Mildred Eagles at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
On Friday, Italy opened the new year with a less-than-successful 59-50 loss to Clifton. While losing is never fun, the Gladiators can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 915th, while the Cubs are ranked 419th).
Meanwhile, Mildred had already won five in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 12.6 points) and they went ahead and made it six on Friday. They took their match with ease, bagging a 73-32 victory over the Jaguars.
Mildred has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won seven of their last eight games, which provided a nice bump to their 9-7 record this season. The wins came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 54.5 points per game. As for Italy, their defeat dropped their record down to 14-7.
Italy couldn't quite finish off Mildred in their previous matchup back in December of 2019 and fell 64-62. Can Italy avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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