Green Bay Phoenix (11-5, 6-0 Horizon) at Oakland Golden Grizzlies (4-11, 1-4 Horizon)<\/p>\n
Auburn Hills, Michigan; Thursday, 6:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Oakland hosts Green Bay after Makenzie Luehring scored 20 points in Oakland’s 81-58 loss to the Youngstown State Penguins.<\/p>\n
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The Golden Grizzlies have gone 2-2 at home. Oakland has a 3-6 record against opponents above .500.<\/p>\n
The Phoenix are 6-0 in conference games. Green Bay is 2-0 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
Oakland is shooting 38.3% from the field this season, 1.0 percentage point higher than the 37.3% Green Bay allows to opponents. Green Bay has shot at a 44.5% rate from the field this season, 1.2 percentage points below the 45.7% shooting opponents of Oakland have averaged.<\/p>\n
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The matchup Thursday is the first meeting this season for the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Layla Gold is shooting 27.0% from beyond the arc with 1.1 made 3-pointers per game for the Golden Grizzlies, while averaging nine points and 5.3 rebounds. Angie Smith is averaging 10.2 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Meghan Schultz is averaging 12.7 points for the Phoenix. Jenna Guyer is averaging 14.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Golden Grizzlies: 2-8, averaging 58.0 points, 28.8 rebounds, 11.4 assists, 5.5 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 37.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 75.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
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Phoenix: 6-4, averaging 66.1 points, 29.1 rebounds, 16.3 assists, 7.3 steals and 2.4 blocks per game while shooting 44.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 60.7 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":"Green Bay Phoenix (11-5, 6-0 Horizon) at Oakland Golden Grizzlies (4-11, 1-4 Horizon) Auburn Hills, Michigan; Thursday, 6:30…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[51687,64627,143,26157,145,144,36228,62094],"class_list":["post-123458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-green-bay","tag-green-bay-phoenix","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-golden-grizzlies","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-the-phoenix","tag-youngstown-state-penguins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}