The Buffalo Bison will look to defend their home court on Thursday against the Ash Grove Pirates at 6:45 p.m. Buffalo will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps Missouri Rankings (they are ranked 432nd, while Ash Grove is ranked 156th).
It's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 83-32, which was the final score in Buffalo's tilt against Versailles on Saturday. Buffalo has not had much luck with Versailles recently, as the team's come up short the last two times they've met.
Meanwhile, Ash Grove had already won five in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 23.2 points), and they went ahead and made it six on Friday. They secured a 54-49 W over Stockton.
Buffalo's defeat dropped their record down to 4-14. As for Ash Grove, they have been performing well recently as they've won nine of their last 11 matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 14-7 record this season.
Buffalo didn't have too much breathing room in their match against Ash Grove when the teams last played back in February of 2023, but they still walked away with a 52-48 victory. Does Buffalo have another victory up their sleeve, or will Ash Grove turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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