Aguascalientes at Lobos Plateados
CHIHUAHUA (Interstat) — The Aguascalientes Panteras will visit Lobos Plateados on Thursday in a matchup of teams with contrasting season records. Aguascalientes is 18-19, while Lobos Plateados is 7-2 and will be the home team.
Lobos Plateados enters after splitting the last two meetings against the Panteras. Aguascalientes won the most recent game 88-80, while Lobos Plateados took the prior matchup 111-100 in overtime. Both of those games were played in Aguascalientes, and the teams will meet again with Aguascalientes as the visitor.
Shaun Willett is a player to watch for Aguascalientes. In the latest meeting against Lobos Plateados, Willett had 21 points, five rebounds, two assists and one block. In the prior meeting, he scored 23 points and added seven rebounds, two assists and one block. Willett also had 16 points and nine rebounds against Diablos Rojos, 16 points and 12 rebounds against Dorados, and 25 points and 13 rebounds in a game against Dorados. He added 25 points and 15 rebounds at Freseros, 12 points and seven rebounds in another game against Diablos Rojos, and nine points and seven rebounds at Freseros.
Shaquille Johnson is the player to watch for Lobos Plateados. He scored 30 points and grabbed eight rebounds in the latest meeting against Aguascalientes. In the prior meeting, Johnson had 22 points and two rebounds. He also scored 23 points with six rebounds against Freseros and 35 points with six rebounds against Correcaminos in recent action. Johnson added 14 points and two rebounds against Freseros, eight points with nine assists at Cancun El Calor, eight points with five rebounds and three assists in another game at Cancun El Calor, 12 points and six rebounds at Correcaminos, 16 points and five rebounds against Mineros, and 15 points and two rebounds against Zacatecas.
Aguascalientes’s most recent result was the 88-80 home win over Lobos Plateados. Mikyle McIntosh added 18 points and four rebounds in that game, and A. Curbelo had 13 points and four assists. Lobos Plateados’s most recent result was the same 88-80 road loss, with Eric Washington scoring 16 points and Tekele Cotton adding 15.
The Panteras carry an 18-19 record into the game, and Lobos Plateados is 7-2. Aguascalientes will be the visiting team, and its nickname is the Panteras. Lobos Plateados will be the home team.
Interstat’s ELO system projects Lobos Plateados with a 67.1 percent probability to win. Lobos Plateados has been installed as a 3.5-point pregame favorite, and the over/under for the game is 170.5.