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Playoffs on Thursday, November 12, 2026

New Orleans Hurricanes
(31-22)
at
Cleveland Weasels
(28-25)
Series Snapshot

New Orleans Hurricanes leads the season series 3-2.

Cleveland Weasels leads the all-time series 89-80.

Predicted Score
NO 104
CLE 102
Season Series
Date Type Matchup Result
Fri 10/2 Season NO at CLE 126 - 140
Thu 10/8 Season NO at CLE 117 - 129
Fri 10/30 Season CLE at NO 101 - 114
Mon 11/9 Playoffs CLE at NO 105 - 118
Tue 11/10 Playoffs CLE at NO 104 - 120
Four Factors & Advanced Metrics
Team eFG% TO Rate Off Reb% FT Rate Pts/Poss Poss/Gm
New Orleans Hurricanes 53.28% 6.90% 35.42% 23.50% 1.18 100.62
Cleveland Weasels 49.74% 5.59% 29.25% 8.25% 1.06 98.78
Projected Matchups
NO Player PPG RPG APG Rating Pos Edge Pos Rating PPG RPG APG CLE Player
Hussein White 17.8 3.8 8.1 AP PG <-- PG AP- 12.0 2.8 5.3 Alex Donald
Sean Dominguez 17.8 3.8 2.6 AP- SG <- SG AP- 15.4 4.3 2.6 Samuel Henderson
Marcus McNally 27.7 6.6 2.2 AP+ SF <--- SF Exc+ 10.0 4.9 1.7 Kenneth Hawkins
Kalvin Colbert 11.9 8.1 2.3 AP PF -> PF AP 25.1 7.9 1.6 Taylor Mitchell
Emil Boddie 6.0 12.2 2.5 Exc+ C <- C Exc+ 4.4 7.3 1.9 Zachary Schaaf
Jalen Roberts 8.0 1.9 3.8 Exc bPG --> bPG AP- 19.9 3.4 5.1 Brandon Gant Jr
Joshua Suggs 13.8 3.2 1.6 AP bSG <--- bSG Exc 14.9 3.9 2.2 Robert Fontenot
Jacob Jones 8.5 2.4 1.4 AP- bSF --> bSF AP 7.3 5.5 1.8 Desmond Swope
Joshua Boettcher 2.3 3.6 0.7 Exc+ bPF --> bPF AP 4.3 3.9 1.0 David Carson
Dillan Walker 3.1 4.3 0.6 AP- bC <--- bC Exc 8.6 8.5 1.7 Timothy Morton
Ratings key: Poor, Fair, Avg, Good, Exc, and AP reflect the legacy SimHoops overall player scale used in the original advanced game preview.