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| 01/17/25 - Home | 64-67 L |
| 02/02/24 - Home | 33-45 L |
| 12/15/23 - Away | 63-53 W |
| 02/03/23 - Away | 68-56 W |
| 01/06/23 - Home | 54-42 W |
| + 5 more games |
Freeman is 8-2 against J.R. Tucker since January of 2020 and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Friday. The Freeman Mavericks will face off against the J.R. Tucker Tigers at 7:00 p.m. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Freeman will head into Tuesday's match hoping to keep the good times rolling: they had to skate by with only a three-point margin when they last took the court, which might have inspired the 30-point drubbing they dealt Hermitage on Tuesday. Freeman blew past Hermitage 60-30. The win was all the more spectacular given the Mavericks' disadvantage in MaxPreps' Virginia basketball rankings (they are ranked 146th, while the Panthers are ranked 50th).
Meanwhile, J.R. Tucker came tearing into Tuesday's contest with five straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 10.4 points) and they left with even more momentum. They claimed a resounding 72-40 victory over Maggie Walker. 72 seems to be a good number for the Tigers as the team scooped up a win with the same number of points in their previous game.
J.R. Tucker's victory was their fifth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 17-2. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 63.0 points per game. As for Freeman, the win got them back to even at 9-9.
Freeman couldn't quite finish off J.R. Tucker in their previous matchup back in January and fell 67-64. Can Freeman avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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