The Little Chute Mustangs will face off against the Marinette Marines at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Little Chute has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the matchup with 34 straight defeats, while Marinette will come in with three straight wins.
It's never fun to lose, and it's even less fun to lose 55-26, which was the final score in Little Chute's tilt against Oconto Falls on Friday.
Meanwhile, Marinette hadn't done well against Fox Valley Lutheran recently (they were 1-8 in their previous nine matchups), but they didn't let the past get in their way on Friday. Marinette snuck past Fox Valley Lutheran with a 43-38 victory. Given the Marines' advantage in MaxPreps' Wisconsin basketball rankings (they are ranked 154th, while the Foxes are ranked 344th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Little Chute's loss dropped their record down to 0-10. As for Marinette, they are on a roll lately: they've won seven of their last eight games, which provided a nice bump to their 9-4 record this season.
Little Chute might still be hurting after the 45-22 defeat they got from Marinette in their previous meeting back in February of 2024. Can Little Chute avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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