Basketball Game Preview: Penn Kingsmen vs. Northridge Raiders

The Penn Kingsmen will venture away from home to challenge the Northridge Raiders at 7:45 p.m. on Wednesday. Penn is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 55.7 points per game this season.

Last Thursday, Penn was able to grind out a solid victory over Elkhart, taking the game 45-35. Given the Kingsmen's advantage in MaxPreps' Indiana basketball rankings (they are ranked 31st, while the Lions are ranked 114th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.

Penn found their leader in freshman Addison Hummel, who went 6 of 8 en route to 18 points along with five rebounds and three steals. The dominant performance gave Hummel a new career-high in points. The team also got some help courtesy of Anna Sachire, who posted ten points.

Meanwhile, Northridge unfortunately witnessed the end of their six-game winning streak on Saturday. They lost to Warsaw at home by a 60-44 margin.

Penn is on a roll lately: they've won eight of their last nine matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 14-5 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their defensive effort, having only surrendered 27.9 points per game. As for Northridge, their defeat was their first in the conference, dropping their conference record down to 3-1 and their overall record down to 16-3.

Penn and Northridge were neck-and-neck when the teams last played two weeks ago, but Penn came up empty-handed after a 54-53 loss. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Northridge's Lily Scholl, who went 12 of 17 on her way to 27 points and six rebounds. Now that Penn knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.