Sacramento State Hornets (11-12, 5-5 Big Sky) at Portland State Vikings (5-17, 1-9 Big Sky)<\/p>\n
Portland, Oregon; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Sacramento State visits Portland State after Natalie Picton scored 22 points in Sacramento State’s 72-64 loss to the Weber State Wildcats.<\/p>\n
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The Vikings have gone 4-6 at home. Portland State has a 4-13 record in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n
The Hornets are 5-5 in conference play. Sacramento State ranks third in the Big Sky giving up 60.0 points while holding opponents to 37.9% shooting.<\/p>\n
Portland State’s average of 4.2 made 3-pointers per game is 1.4 fewer made shots on average than the 5.6 per game Sacramento State allows. Sacramento State’s 40.7% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.8 percentage points lower than Portland State has allowed to its opponents (43.5%).<\/p>\n
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The Vikings and Hornets face off Saturday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Laynee Torres-Kahapea is averaging 7.4 points for the Vikings. Kyleigh Brown is averaging 17.5 points and 3.0 rebounds while shooting 44.7% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Rubi Gray is shooting 32.9% from beyond the arc with 2.2 made 3-pointers per game for the Hornets, while averaging 14.7 points. Picton is averaging 13.7 points and 2.5 steals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Vikings: 1-9, averaging 61.5 points, 30.4 rebounds, 10.6 assists, 5.5 steals and 2.7 blocks per game while shooting 39.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 75.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Hornets: 5-5, averaging 57.3 points, 32.9 rebounds, 10.2 assists, 9.4 steals and 2.0 blocks per game while shooting 37.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 60.2 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":"Sacramento State Hornets (11-12, 5-5 Big Sky) at Portland State Vikings (5-17, 1-9 Big Sky) Portland, Oregon; Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[545,130,80289,29613,121,123,122,5481,26877,62853],"class_list":{"0":"post-166573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-oregon","9":"tag-portland","10":"tag-portland-state","11":"tag-portland-state-vikings","12":"tag-sacramento","13":"tag-sacramento-headlines","14":"tag-sacramento-news","15":"tag-sacramento-state","16":"tag-the-hornets","17":"tag-weber-state-wildcats"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166573","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=166573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166573\/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=166573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}