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| 01/17/25 - Home | 66-71 L |
| 02/13/24 - Home | 67-63 W |
| 01/24/24 - Away | 68-60 W |
| 02/07/23 - Away | 69-63 W |
| 01/12/23 - Home | 58-64 L |
| + 5 more games |
Asheville and North Buncombe are an even 5-5 against one another since January of 2020, but not for long. The Asheville Cougars will head out to face off against the North Buncombe Black Hawks at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Keep an eye on the score for this one: the two teams posted some lofty point totals in their previous games.
Asheville is headed into Tuesday's match looking for a big change in momentum after dropping their third straight game on Friday. They lost 86-63 to McDowell. While losing is never fun, the Cougars can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina basketball rankings (they are ranked 492nd, while the Titans are ranked 89th).
Meanwhile, North Buncombe hadn't done well against Enka recently (they were 2-7 in their previous nine matchups), but they didn't let the past get in their way on Friday. North Buncombe came out on top against Enka by a score of 90-78. The Black Hawks pushed the score to 72-52 by the end of the third, a deficit the Jets cut but never quite recovered from.
The win made it two in a row for North Buncombe and bumps their season record up to 13-9. The wins came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 88.5 points over those games. As for Asheville, their defeat dropped their record down to 4-18.
Asheville came up short against North Buncombe when the teams last played back in January, falling 71-66. Can Asheville avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
