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The Millikan Rams are hoping it will be a little bit of history repeating tonight at 5pm on their home court, when they square off against the Poly Jackrabbits, a nationally-ranked power with hopes for their fourth-straight state championship this season. <\/span>Seem like a stretch? <\/span>That’s exactly what the Rams did last season in the league opener, shocking Poly on their home court with a 51-46 win, holding Poly’s All-American Jasmine Dixon to just 12 points and limiting the entire Jackrabbits squad to just 36% shooting. <\/span>Poly won their next two matchups, the first a 55-42 League rematch and the second a 66-33 CIF championship victory. <\/span>But it’s the loss, one of just two all last season for the ‘Rabbits (who finished 31-2), that’s likely stuck in their heads.<\/p>\n “They know us,” said Poly head coach Carl Buggs of Millikan. <\/span>“They know what we do well, they know what we don’t—they’re always ready.”<\/p>\n Millikan coach Lorene Morgan is a big part of that readiness—she’s done an excellent job with her squad again this season, despite graduating some top talent last year. <\/span>This year’s team features a totally revamped playing style, as coach Morgan has them scoring a lot of transition buckets and running the floor, since her team is smaller and faster than the 2007-2008 Rams. <\/span>Expect to see more of junior transfer Hilary Drinovsky in this game—at 6’4″, they’ll need her height to hang with Poly’s bigs, Monique Oliver and Thaddesia Southall. <\/p>\n Since Millikan took care of business in their first two games, as Poly did in theirs, this will be a matchup of 2-0 undefeateds. <\/span>And, in the raucous Millikan gym, it’s likely to be a matchup to remember. <\/span>“Yeah, it should be a pretty good game,” says Moragn. <\/span>Amen, coach. <\/span>Get there early if you want a seat!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People will be talking about last year’s monumental Millikan upset for a long time–tonight’s no different, as these rivals square off again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}