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Season on Thursday, October 15, 2026

Kansas City Wildcats
(5-1)
at
Salt Lake City Night Hawks
(3-3)
Series Snapshot

Kansas City Wildcats leads the season series 1-0.

Salt Lake City Night Hawks leads the all-time series 101-53.

Predicted Score
KC 105
SLC 101
Season Series
Date Type Matchup Result
Thu 8/27 Season SLC at KC 106 - 124
Four Factors & Advanced Metrics
Team eFG% TO Rate Off Reb% FT Rate Pts/Poss Poss/Gm
Kansas City Wildcats 55.39% 7.10% 31.56% 14.43% 1.17 102.90
Salt Lake City Night Hawks 56.89% 9.42% 35.27% 14.12% 1.16 108.09
Projected Matchups
KC Player PPG RPG APG Rating Pos Edge Pos Rating PPG RPG APG SLC Player
Phillip Anello 30.7 4.5 7.7 AP+ PG <- PG AP 27.8 5.2 7.2 Hayden Bond
Nicholas Blackmon 15.5 5.7 3.5 AP SG <- SG AP- 27.0 5.7 3.8 Trevor Doherty
David McCoin 20.2 6.7 2.5 AP- SF -> SF AP 19.8 7.8 2.8 Cole Bell
Jack Brown 7.7 6.5 3.0 AP PF <--- PF Exc 12.8 6.7 3.5 Isaiah Conroy
Kenneth McGriff 8.3 8.7 2.3 AP C <--- C Exc- 7.3 12.5 2.5 Benjamin Ruff
Cameron Foy 5.8 1.8 4.7 Exc+ bPG <- bPG Exc+ 4.3 2.0 3.3 John Lloyd
John Ekman 4.5 2.7 1.7 AP- bSG <- bSG Exc+ 8.5 1.7 0.8 Martin Atkins
Zachary Brickle 9.3 3.7 1.7 Exc+ bSF <- bSF Exc 7.0 1.8 1.0 David Skinner
Uziel Lee 14.5 4.2 0.2 Exc+ bPF -> bPF Exc+ 6.0 1.0 0.5 Caleb Nance
Michael Wiggins 3.5 3.0 1.7 Exc+ bC -> bC AP- 2.7 4.2 0.3 Ricardo Mason
Ratings key: Poor, Fair, Avg, Good, Exc, and AP reflect the legacy SimHoops overall player scale used in the original advanced game preview.