Albertville is 0-10 against Huntsville since January of 2022 but things could change on Saturday. The Albertville Aggies will take on the Huntsville Panthers at 6:00 p.m. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
If Albertville beats Huntsville with 64 points on Saturday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two matchups with that exact score. Albertville beat Sparkman on Thursday by the very same score they won with in their prior game: 64-41. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Aggies.
Meanwhile, Huntsville had already won 12 in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 27.3 points) and they went ahead and made it 13 on Thursday. They took their contest with ease, bagging a 66-30 win over the Tigers. Given the Panthers' advantage in MaxPreps' Alabama basketball rankings (they are ranked second, while the Tigers are ranked 77th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Huntsville pushed their record up to 30-1 with the victory, which was their 15th straight at home dating back to last season. The wins came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 72.7 points over those games. As for Albertville, their win bumped their record up to 22-10.
Albertville took a serious blow against Huntsville when the teams last played back in January, falling 72-38. That game was all but decided by halftime, at which point Albertville was down 37-17.
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