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Season on Friday, June 5, 2026

Knoxville Wampus Cats
(3-4)
at
Syracuse River Rats
(4-3)
Series Snapshot

Syracuse River Rats leads the season series 1-0.

Knoxville Wampus Cats leads the all-time series 79-68.

Predicted Score
KNX 100
SYR 106
Season Series
Date Type Matchup Result
Mon 4/27 Season SYR at KNX 113 - 92
Four Factors & Advanced Metrics
Team eFG% TO Rate Off Reb% FT Rate Pts/Poss Poss/Gm
Knoxville Wampus Cats 47.33% 12.39% 30.41% 19.18% 0.96 107.21
Syracuse River Rats 49.13% 11.52% 31.78% 17.97% 1.01 103.60
Projected Matchups
KNX Player PPG RPG APG Rating Pos Edge Pos Rating PPG RPG APG SYR Player
Samuel Metcalfe 13.0 4.1 7.6 Exc- PG <- PG Exc- 22.0 3.3 5.7 Richard Ayala
Tyler Lewandowski 7.6 1.4 0.6 Avg- SG --> SG Avg+ 17.4 4.9 1.4 Christopher Harris
Elvis Hammond 15.1 4.7 3.3 Avg SF <-- SF Avg- 6.7 6.7 2.4 Evan Sartin
Davion Philhower 13.1 9.0 1.6 Good PF <--- PF Avg- 9.0 7.3 1.9 Nicholas Wallace
Dante Clark 16.0 11.1 1.4 Good C -> C Good+ 14.7 9.7 1.3 Jose Goodman
Zachary Hollis 10.4 1.6 3.3 Avg+ bPG -> bPG Good- 7.6 2.0 3.0 Shawn Dunn
Dominic Davis 11.0 3.5 3.0 Fair- bSG ---> bSG Avg 5.5 1.8 2.7 Jake Harris
Peter Jenifer 4.7 2.9 0.6 Fair bSF ---> bSF Avg+ 9.0 3.0 0.4 Jarius Kushner
Travis Hanley 6.4 3.7 0.4 Avg+ bPF -> bPF Avg+ 6.4 5.3 0.4 Rahul Ferdinand
Alexander Schmidt 5.4 5.3 0.6 Avg+ bC -> bC Avg+ 4.7 4.6 0.9 Jim Davis
Ratings key: Poor, Fair, Avg, Good, Exc, and AP reflect the legacy SimHoops overall player scale used in the original advanced game preview.