Memphis Tigers (6-7, 1-0 AAC) at Rice Owls (6-8, 0-1 AAC)<\/p>\n
Houston; Saturday, 3 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Rice hosts Memphis looking to continue its three-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n
The Owls have gone 5-2 at home. Rice is sixth in the AAC with 10.9 offensive rebounds per game led by Jimmy Oladokun Jr. averaging 2.7.<\/p>\n
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The Tigers are 1-0 in AAC play. Memphis is eighth in the AAC scoring 74.0 points per game and is shooting 42.8%.<\/p>\n
Rice is shooting 41.5% from the field this season, 0.5 percentage points higher than the 41.0% Memphis allows to opponents. Memphis has shot at a 42.8% clip from the field this season, 1.3 percentage points fewer than the 44.1% shooting opponents of Rice have averaged.<\/p>\n
The Owls and Tigers match up Saturday for the first time in AAC play this season.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Nick Anderson is averaging 13.9 points for the Owls. Trae Broadnax is averaging 12.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Dug McDaniel is shooting 35.5% from beyond the arc with 1.7 made 3-pointers per game for the Tigers, while averaging 14.2 points, 5.2 assists and 2.2 steals. Zachary Davis is averaging 8.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Owls: 4-6, averaging 72.6 points, 33.1 rebounds, 12.0 assists, 7.6 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 40.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 78.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
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Tigers: 5-5, averaging 73.1 points, 35.0 rebounds, 13.4 assists, 9.3 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 42.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 71.0 points.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memphis Tigers (6-7, 1-0 AAC) at Rice Owls (6-8, 0-1 AAC) Houston; Saturday, 3 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,166847,84,938,1211,393,394,62223,166846,85558],"class_list":["post-394070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dug-mcdaniel","tag-health","tag-memphis","tag-memphis-tigers","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-nick-anderson","tag-rice-owls","tag-the-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}