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Sacramento State Hornets<\/a> (9-14, 5-6 Big Sky) at Northern Colorado Bears<\/a> (15-10, 5-7 Big Sky)<\/p>\n

Greeley, Colorado; Thursday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Sacramento State visits Northern Colorado after Prophet Johnson<\/a> scored 28 points in Sacramento State’s 74-73 loss to the Portland State Vikings.<\/p>\n

The Bears have gone 7-3 in home games. Northern Colorado is 2-2 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n

The Hornets are 5-6 against Big Sky opponents. Sacramento State averages 11.0 turnovers per game and is 5-8 when turning the ball over less than opponents.<\/p>\n

Northern Colorado averages 10.0 made 3-pointers per game, 1.3 more made shots than the 8.7 per game Sacramento State gives up. Sacramento State’s 42.3% shooting percentage from the field this season is 2.8 percentage points lower than Northern Colorado has allowed to its opponents (45.1%).<\/p>\n

The matchup Thursday is the first meeting this season between the two teams in conference play.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Zack Bloch averages 3.0 made 3-pointers per game for the Bears, scoring 12.2 points while shooting 45.0% from beyond the arc. Quinn Denker<\/a> is shooting 45.7% and averaging 18.7 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Johnson is shooting 48.3% and averaging 18.6 points for the Hornets. Mikey Williams<\/a> is averaging 14.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Bears: 5-5, averaging 78.5 points, 31.9 rebounds, 15.7 assists, 4.4 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 48.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 76.0 points per game.<\/p>\n

Hornets: 5-5, averaging 81.6 points, 30.3 rebounds, 14.5 assists, 7.8 steals and 2.9 blocks per game while shooting 44.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 83.3 points.<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento State Hornets (9-14, 5-6 Big Sky) at Northern Colorado Bears (15-10, 5-7 Big Sky) Greeley, Colorado; Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3369,4213,80631,82835,26875,69903,26880,82836,121,123,122,17685],"class_list":{"0":"post-173287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-california-golden-bears","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-event_preview","11":"tag-mercer-bears","12":"tag-mikey-williams","13":"tag-northern-colorado-bears","14":"tag-prophet-johnson","15":"tag-quinn-denker","16":"tag-sacramento","17":"tag-sacramento-headlines","18":"tag-sacramento-news","19":"tag-sacramento-state-hornets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173287","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=173287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}