{"id":162901,"date":"2026-02-04T02:16:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/162901\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T02:16:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:16:29","slug":"luehring-leads-oakland-against-northern-kentucky-after-20-point-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/162901\/","title":{"rendered":"Luehring leads Oakland against Northern Kentucky after 20-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland Golden Grizzlies (8-14, 5-7 Horizon) at Northern Kentucky Norse (10-14, 7-6 Horizon)<\/p>\n<p>Highland Heights, Kentucky; Tuesday, 6 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Oakland plays Northern Kentucky after Makenzie Luehring scored 20 points in Oakland\u2019s 72-60 loss to the Youngstown State Penguins.<\/p>\n<p>The Norse have gone 5-5 in home games. Northern Kentucky averages 16.1 turnovers per game and is 5-4 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Grizzlies are 5-7 in conference matchups. Oakland ranks ninth in the Horizon giving up 71.4 points while holding opponents to 45.3% shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Kentucky\u2019s average of 7.3 made 3-pointers per game this season is just 0.1 more made shots on average than the 7.2 per game Oakland allows. Oakland averages 6.6 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.4 fewer makes per game than Northern Kentucky gives up.<\/p>\n<p>The Norse and Golden Grizzlies meet Tuesday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Karina Bystry is scoring 14.5 points per game and averaging 3.9 rebounds for the Norse. Taysha Rushton is averaging 2.2 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Luehring is averaging 12.5 points and 3.5 assists for the Golden Grizzlies. Layla Gold is averaging 11.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Norse: 7-3, averaging 73.5 points, 36.8 rebounds, 12.7 assists, 7.6 steals and 3.1 blocks per game while shooting 38.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 66.3 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Golden Grizzlies: 5-5, averaging 65.7 points, 30.8 rebounds, 12.4 assists, 5.2 steals and 3.1 blocks per game while shooting 40.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 69.3 points.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland Golden Grizzlies (8-14, 5-7 Horizon) at Northern Kentucky Norse (10-14, 7-6 Horizon) Highland Heights, Kentucky; Tuesday, 6&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-162901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162901","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=162901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}