Northern Colorado Bears (7-3) at Lamar Cardinals (5-4, 1-0 Southland)
Beaumont, Texas; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Lamar plays Northern Colorado after NJ Weems scored 21 points in Lamar's 73-67 loss to the Texas Tech Red Raiders.
The Cardinals have gone 3-0 in home games. Lamar averages 70.2 points and has outscored opponents by 8.5 points per game.
The Bears are 2-2 on the road. Northern Colorado averages 76.3 points while outscoring opponents by 19.1 points per game.
Lamar's average of 4.4 made 3-pointers per game this season is only 0.9 fewer made shots on average than the 5.3 per game Northern Colorado gives up. Northern Colorado has shot at a 49.5% rate from the field this season, 9.4 percentage points greater than the 40.1% shooting opponents of Lamar have averaged.
TOP PERFORMERS: Sabria Dean is shooting 40.0% and averaging 12.4 points for the Cardinals.
Aniah Hall is averaging 12.1 points and 5.7 rebounds for the Bears.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
