{"id":189879,"date":"2026-02-23T11:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/189879\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:18:21","slug":"basketball-recap-macdonald-comes-up-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/189879\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball Recap: MacDonald Comes Up Short"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/san-jose\/macdonald-condor\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MacDonald<\/a> had lost five straight on the road, but  on Friday they dropped down to 8-15 to make it six. They came up short against  the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/san-jose\/lynbrook-vikings\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lynbrook Vikings<\/a>, falling  74-49. While losing is never fun, the Condor can&#8217;t take it too hard given the team&#8217;s big disadvantage  in MaxPreps&#8217; California basketball rankings (they are ranked 1042nd, while the Vikings are ranked 358th).<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\">As for Lynbrook, they are  on a roll lately: they&#8217;ve  won 11 of their last 12 contests. That&#8217;s provided a nice bump to their 18-5 record  this season. Those  victories came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as  they  averaged 61.6 points over those games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\"> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/san-jose\/lynbrook-vikings\/athletes\/mrinal-dwivedi\/?careerid=7cec15rrq4e55\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Mrinal Dwivedi<\/a> was  his usual excellent self,  dropping  a double-double with 30  points and 11  boards. The  matchup was  his third in a row with at least 16 points. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/san-jose\/lynbrook-vikings\/athletes\/judah-marks\/?careerid=gp8nejqqu5q77\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Judah Marks<\/a> was another key player,  going 6-for-12  to rack up 17 points and five  assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\"> MacDonald wasted no time getting back out on the court and has already played their next  game,  a  62-50  win against Santa Clara on the 17th. As for Lynbrook, they also didn&#8217;t take long to hit the court again: they&#8217;ve already played their next  contest,  a  65-45  defeat against Gunn on the 17th.<\/p>\n<p>Article generated by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/infosentience.com\/\">infoSentience<\/a> based on data entered on MaxPreps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MacDonald had lost five straight on the road, but on Friday they dropped down to 8-15 to make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-189879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-san-jose","9":"tag-san-jose-headlines","10":"tag-san-jose-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}