{"id":145804,"date":"2026-01-31T22:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/145804\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T22:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:51:10","slug":"plano-west-takes-a-loss-how-to-watch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/145804\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano West Takes a Loss + How To Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/plano\/plano-west-wolves\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Plano West<\/a> lost to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/allen\/allen-eagles\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Allen<\/a> back in December of 2025 and unfortunately they wound up with the same result  on Friday. The Wolves took  a  67-62 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Eagles. While losing is never fun, the Wolves can&#8217;t take it too hard given the team&#8217;s big disadvantage  in MaxPreps&#8217; Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 96th, while the Eagles are ranked 16th).<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\"> Allen got their  win on the backs of several key players, but it was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/allen\/allen-eagles\/athletes\/nehemiah-lawrence\/?careerid=norgt32fhv2cc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Nehemiah Lawrence<\/a> out in front who  posted 16 points and three  steals. Another player making a difference was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/tx\/allen\/allen-eagles\/athletes\/giovanni-watt\/?careerid=aq40lofnc1pj3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Giovanni Watt<\/a>, who  went 5-for-9  to rack up 15  points and six  boards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\">Plano West&#8217;s defeat dropped their record down to 19-9. As for Allen, they are  on a roll lately: they&#8217;ve  won 11 of their last 12 matchups. That&#8217;s provided a nice bump to their 17-4 record  this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\"> We&#8217;ve got plenty of inter-district action coming up soon. Plano West will  challenge  rival McKinney  at 2:30  p.m.  on Saturday. Meanwhile, Allen is set to  take on  their familiar foe Princeton  at 11:30  a.m.  on Saturday.<\/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":"Plano West lost to Allen back in December of 2025 and unfortunately they wound up with the same&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-145804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}