Elite Scholars Academy and Towers are an even 3-3 against one another since December of 2020, but not for long. The Elite Scholars Academy Royal Knights will stay at home for another game and welcome the Towers Titans at 7:30 p.m. on December 12th. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard on Tuesday.
Elite Scholars Academy struggled with threes on Saturday (Atlanta Classical Academy had six more) and sadly the final score reflected it. Elite Scholars Academy was the victim of a tough 85-64 defeat at the hands of Atlanta Classical Academy. Even though they lost, Elite Scholars Academy's still made a splash on offense and bumped their average scoring up to 50.5 points per game (they're now ranked -1th in scoring overall).
Defeat or not, Elite Scholars Academy got some senior leadership from Brian Okafor who scored 20 points along with eight rebounds and D?allo Wiley who scored 16 points. Okafor also scored 15+ points for the first time this season.
Meanwhile, it was a hard-fought contest, but Towers had to settle for a 69-66 loss against M.L. King on Saturday. While losing is never fun, Towers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Georgia basketball rankings (they are ranked 292nd, while M.L. King is ranked 121st).
Elite Scholars Academy bumped their record down to 2-6 with that defeat, which was their fourth straight at home. As for Towers, their loss dropped their record down to 5-3.
Elite Scholars Academy came out on top in a nail-biter against Towers in their previous matchup back in February, sneaking past 68-65. Will Elite Scholars Academy repeat their success, or does Towers have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
