Basketball Game Preview: King's Ridge Christian Tigers vs. Mount Vernon Mustangs

The King's Ridge Christian Tigers will head out on the road to face off against the Mount Vernon Mustangs at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.

King's Ridge Christian took a loss when they played away from home on January 3rd, but their home fans gave them all the motivation they needed on Tuesday. They breezed by Mount Pisgah Christian to the tune of 83-51. Given the Tigers' advantage in MaxPreps' Georgia basketball rankings (they are ranked 199th, while the Patriots are ranked 494th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.

Zeplin Kidd and Charles Bryant were among the main playmakers for King's Ridge Christian as the former went 13 of 18 en route to 31 points and five rebounds and the latter went 8 for 9 on his way to 20 points. Those 31 points gave Kidd a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Robert Neal, who posted nine points.

Meanwhile, Mount Vernon had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 18 points) and they went ahead and made it three on Saturday. They came out on top against the Tigers by a score of 71-63.

Mount Vernon is also on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matchups, which provided a massive bump to their 10-8 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 67.0 points per game. As for King's Ridge Christian, they now have a winning record of 8-7.

King's Ridge Christian was dealt a bruising 74-44 defeat at the hands of Mount Vernon in their previous meeting back in December of 2023. Can King's Ridge Christian avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.