It's hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact Manhattan can now relate to. They took a 59-51 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Malta Mustangs on Thursday. While losing is never fun, the Tigers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Montana basketball rankings (they are ranked 26th, while the Mustangs are ranked fifth).
This is the second loss in a row for Manhattan and nudges their season record down to 9-9. As for Malta, the win (which was their 17th in a row) raised their record to 22-3.
Manhattan has already played their next match (against Three Forks), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing. Malta also has no score uploaded for their next game, this one against Loyola-Sacred Heart.
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