Having just played yesterday, the Marked Tree Indians will head out on the road to face off against the Sloan-Hendrix Greyhounds at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Marked Tree can't be too worried about heading out to take on Sloan-Hendrix: they just beat Maynard at home, who had been dominant on their own court up to that point. Marked Tree took their game on Monday with ease, bagging a 48-20 victory over Maynard. Winning may never get old, but the Indians sure are getting used to it with their third in a row.
Meanwhile, Sloan-Hendrix had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 29 points) and they went ahead and made it five on Saturday. They claimed a resounding 57-25 win over the Bobcats. Given the Greyhounds' advantage in MaxPreps' Arkansas basketball rankings (they are ranked 22nd, while the Bobcats are ranked 188th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Sloan-Hendrix's victory was their fifth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 28-3. They've dominated over that stretch too, winning by an average of 27.2 points. As for Marked Tree, their win bumped their record up to 20-5.
Marked Tree came out on top in a nail-biter against Sloan-Hendrix when the teams last played back in December of 2022, sneaking past 43-40. Will Marked Tree repeat their success, or does Sloan-Hendrix have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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