Levelland is 2-8 against Estacado since January of 2020 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. The Levelland Lobos will challenge the Estacado Matadors at 7:30 p.m.
Levelland fought the good fight in their overtime contest against Lake View on Tuesday but wound up with a less-than-desirable result. They fell 61-53 to the Chiefs.
Meanwhile, Estacado had already won seven in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 31.9 points) and they went ahead and made it eight on Tuesday. They blew past the Steers 77-20. Given the Matadors' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 75th, while the Steers are ranked 983rd), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Estacado is also on a roll lately: they've won ten of their last 11 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 21-6 record this season. The wins came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 75.8 points per game. As for Levelland, they now have a losing record at 14-15.
Levelland was dealt a bruising 104-58 defeat at the hands of Estacado when the teams last played back in February of 2024. Can Levelland avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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