Whiteout Thursday, Thunder On Friday, WIN-ter Storm Saturday

Hoop Forecast

What’s the forecast for tonight (Thursday, December 16), Friday night and Saturday night in Scobey.

That would be whiteout conditions and a projected low temperature of minus-4 degrees for Thursday night, thunder and a low of minus- 14 Friday and WINterlike

conditions with a low of 4 above on Saturday.

Noooooo!

Not the weather forecast — everybody knows there’s snow on the ground and it’s cold at night — but the basketball forecast for what could be a historic moment in Montana boys’ basketball, which has been around since 1911.

The Scobey boys take a 54-game game winning streak into tonight’s season opener against fellow District 3Cer Frazer Bearcubs, a lengthy run beginning on Friday, March 8, 2019 in a loser-out game at the State C Tournament at Metra-Park Arena in Billings. The MHSA boys’ record for most consecutive victories is 56 held by the Missoula Sentinel Spartans, accumulated between 1962 and 1965.

Attempting to put a halt to it at 54 will be the likes of 2020-21 Bearcub starters Keein Ackerman, Blue Fettig, John Hotomanie and Jonathan Jackson. In addition, Joseph Beston, Ty Fourstar, Jarvis Goodbird, Anthony Jackson and Travis Long will do what they can for head coach Myron Jackson to defeat the Spartans.

Expect the Bearcubs (02, 99-132, 49.5-66.0) to be ...